ITES Nonlinear Dynamics Seminars

The nonlinear dynamics seminars take place on Monday, 3-4 in 634 S&R1.

January 29: Stephen Morris (University of Toronto)
    Icicles, washboard road and meandering syrup

February 5: Jokubas Ziburkus (University of Houston)
   Dynamics of excitatory and inhibitory neuronal interactions during seizures

February 12: Erik Sherwood (Cornell University)
   Phase Response in Bursting Neural Models

February 19: Harry Swinney (University of Texas at Austin)
    Fractal fingers and torn garbage bags

February 26: Reka Albert (Penn State University)
   Discrete dynamics modeling of gene regulatory networks

March 5: Margaret Beck (MSRI and Surrey)
    Invariant manifolds and the stability of traveling waves in scalar viscous conservation laws

March 12: Spring Break

March 19: William Brownell (Baylor College of Medicine)
    Membranes as Motors

March 26: Alla Borisyuk (University of Utah)
    Temporal and spatial coding in the olfactory system

April 2: Max Kurz (University of Houston)
    Deterministic nonlinear variations in human gait

April 9: Ricardo Azevedo (University of Houston)
    A generative bias towards mediocre complexity in artificial cell lineages

April 16: Robert Sacker (University of Southern California)
    E-coli Growth and Mutation in Batch Culture: A New Mathematical Model

April 23: Tim Lewis (University of California, Davis)
    Phase-locking in electrically coupled networks of cortical neurons

April 30: Last class day

Directions to the seminar.

For further information about the seminar you may contact one of the organizers: Kresimir Josic, Martin Golubitsky, or Gemunu Gunaratne.