Workshop
Dynamics and Statistics of Complex Systems
on occasion of
Peter Grassberger's 60th anniversary

Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
Dresden, May 18-19, 2000


  Wednesday, May 17
18:00 Registration
19:00 Welcome in the institute's cafeteria
  Thursday, May 18
8:45 - 9:00 Opening by Jan-Michael Rost
9:00 - 9:45 Siegfried Großmann
  News about turbulent heat transport
9:45 - 10:30 Barbara Drossel
  Unconventional Scaling in Self-Organized Critical Systems
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 11:45 Antonio Politi
  Fractal dimensions of spatially extended systems
11:45 - 12:30 Hugues Chaté
  DP or not DP? The elusive case of spatiotemporal intermittency transitions
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 14:45 Karl-Heinz Mütter
  Gaps and magnetization plateau in low dimensional quantum spin systems
14:45 - 15:30 Itamar Procaccia
  Iterated conformal maps and fractal growth patterns
15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 Poster Session
18:30 Departure for Conference Dinner (bus transfer):
  Restaurant Luisenhof


  Friday, May 19
9:00 - 9:45 Angelo Vulpiani
  An exit time approach to the $\epsilon$ entropy
9:45 - 10:30 Dietrich Stauffer
  How to get rich fast? Percolation theory applied to stock markets
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 11:45 Predrag Cvitanovic
  Topology of Hénon-like atttractors
11:45 - 12:30 Arkadi Pikovsky
  Lyapunov exponents in disordered chaotic systems
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 14:45 Christian Elger
  Nonlinear time series analysis of the EEG: new perspectives in epilepsy research
14:45 - 15:30 Celso Grebogi
  Chaos and Complexity
  THE END



Holger Kantz
5/3/2000