Seminar Program





Monday, June 26

08:00 - 19:00 Registration
15:00 - 15:15 Opening
  Alexander Neiman, Arkady Pikovsky
15:15 - 16:15 Werner Ebeling
  The Role of noise in swarming dynamics
16:15 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30 MPIPKS - Colloquium:
  Roderich Moessner
  Frustration, liquidity and exotic order
19:00 Welcome banquet at the Cafeteria




Tuesday, June 27

10:00 - 11:00 Juan Parrondo
  Applications of Markov chains: From Brownian ratchets to paradoxical games
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:00 Abhijit Sen
  Coherence resonance in an autapse neuron model with time delay
16:00 - 17:00 Jose Mateos
  Searching for food using Levy flights: The case of spider monkeys in Yucatan, Mexico




Wednesday, June 28

10:00 - 11:00 Christian van den Broeck
  Jarzynski equality
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:20 Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo
  Decision via indecision: Dynamical heterogeneity in bacterial differentiation
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee Break
  Presentations of participants
16:20 - 16:40 Denis Goldobin
  Synchrony of oscillators subject to common noise
16:40 - 17:00 Pavel Popov
  Study of noise induced synchronization in complex Ginzburg-Landau equations
17:00 - 17:20 Jose Suarez Vargaz
  Phenomena around coupled oscillators - Applications to biological systems
17:20 - 17:40 Man Yi Yim
  Linear response and stochastic resonance of subdiffusive bistable fractional Fokker-Planck systems
17:40 - 18:00 Olga Moskalenko
  Relationship between generalized and noise-induced synchronization




Thursday, June 29

10:00 - 11:00 Lutz Schimansky-Geier
  Coupled particles in ratchets
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:20 Christian van den Broeck
  From Brownian motors to Brownian refrigerators
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee Break
16:20 - 17:20 Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo
  Ghost resonances in stochastic nonlinear systems




Friday, June 30

10:00 - 11:00 Benjamin Lindner (Seminarroom 1 D 1, 1st floor)
  Correlation and feedback-induced oscillations in neural networks - Analytical approach to spectral quantities
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:20 Jose Mateos (Seminarroom 3, ground floor)
  Transport and synchronization of Brownian Motors



Monday, July 3

10:00 - 11:00 Igor Khovanov
  Noise suppression of excitable waves: optimal path approach
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:20 Dmitry Luchinsky
  Path-integral approach to the reconstruction of nonlinear SDE from noisy incomplete measurements




Tuesday, July 4

10:00 - 11:00 Bernardo Spagnolo
  Interdisciplinary applications of enhancement of stability in systems with a metastable state
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:20 Alexander Dubkov
  Peculiarities of Noise-Induced Phenomena for Anomalous Diffusion




Wednesday, July 5

10:00 - 11:00 Ulrike Feudel
  Multistable systems under the influence of noise
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:00 Ghassan Dibeh
  Noisy systems in financial modeling
12:00 - 12:40 Lev Ryashko
  Noise-induced transitions and non-normality phenomena



Thursday, July 6

10:00 - 11:00 Dmitry Luchinsky
  Reconstruction of stochastic nonlinear dynamical models from trajectory measurements
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:00 Sergey Denisov
  Ratchets with cold atoms: classical and quantum regimes
12:00 - 12:40 Eugene Kogan
  Fluctuations and magnetic transition in a double exchange model
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee Break
  Presentations of participants
16:20 - 16:40 Luis Morales-Molina
  Quantum ratchets: resonance effects
16:40 - 17:00 Andrea Duggento
  Diffusion Entropy in brain activity
17:00 - 17:20 Irina Bashkirtseva
  Prediction and control of chaos via stochastic sensitivity
17:20 - 17:40 Sergey Astakhov
  Investigation of statistical properties of chaos using the method of recurrence plots
17:40 - 18:00 Rodrigue Tindjong
  A self consistent approach to the simulation of ionic motion in open ion channels




Friday, July 7

10:00 - 11:00 Frank Jülicher
  Dynamics of cellular structures
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:20 Wokyung Sung
  Dynamics of charged membranes


Monday, July 10

10:00 - 11:00 Alexander Iomin
  Effects of dissipation in fractional quantum kicked rotor
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:00 Mihai Dimian
  Analysis of noise influence on nonlinear systems with hysteresis




Tuesday, July 11

10:00 - 11:00 Arkady Pikovsky
  Coupled random walks and Lyapunov exponents
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:00 Alexander Iomin
  A toy model of fractional transport of cancer cells due to self-entrapping
12:00 - 12:40 Valentina Beato
  Effects of noise on the propagation of periodic pulses in excitable media
16:15 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30 MPIPKS - Colloquium:
  Felix von Oppen
  Molecular electronics - technology or physics?




Wednesday, July 12

10:00 - 11:00 Benjamin Lindner
  Correlations in sequences of first-passage times with applications
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:20 Brent Doiron
  Dynamic mean field theory for cortical assemblies



Thursday, July 13

10:00 - 11:00 Paul Krapivsky
  The Motion of Molecular ''Spiders''
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:00 Yury Stepanyants
  Chaotic dynamics of Ostrovsky solitons in circular resonators
12:00 - 12:40 Alexei Zaikin
  Variety of Dynamical Regimes in Noisy Relaxatory Genetic Oscillators
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee Break
  Presentations of participants
16:20 - 16:40 Jörg Mayer
  Spike and signal transmission in a thalamocortical oscillator
16:40 - 17:00 Evgeniya Pankratova
  Double-natured action of noise on the response of Hodgkin-Huxley system driven by a strong periodic forcing
17:00 - 17:20 Pawel Pasciak
  An electrophoretic asymmetrically tilting ratchet - behaviour of DNA chains in pulsed electric field
17:20 - 17:40 Anna Vasylenko
  Phase chaos in discrete Kuramoto model
17:40 - 18:00 Anna Zakharova
  Spiral chaos under the influence of white and colored noise




Friday, July 14

10:00 - 11:00 Paul Krapivsky
  Random Networks
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:00 Jorge Gonzales
  Stochastic resonance and noise-enhanced transport in soliton-bearing systems
12:00 - 12:40 Alexander Nikitin
  Asymmetric bistable systems subject to periodic and stochastic forcing: Structure of the power spectra