Dresden, Germany --- February 22 - 29, 1996
Scientific Organizing Committee:
Holger Kantz (Max Planck Institut for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden)
Roberto Livi (Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Bologna, Bologna)
The understanding and characterization of high dimensional chaotic dynamics is still a challenge. Spatially extended systems are the most relevant and common class of systems exhibiting such a complex behaviour. During this small workshop we intend to review the present state of knowledge and to get an overview over current research activities. We want to elaborate the most interesting and tractable issues and open problems. We hope that inspiring, maybe even controversial discussions will yield new impulses to all our work. In particular this could offer a chance to coordinate different activities or even to develop common projects.
The following topics will be addressed, among others:
Systems : PDE, coupled map lattices, cellular automata, stochastic models
Phenomena : strong disorder,space-time intermittency, synchronization, localization effects, collective behaviour
Characterization : Lyapunov analysis, dimension analysis, principal component analysis
Parallels : surface growth, percolation
The meeting consists in a seminar part (covering about half of the time), during which all participants present their current work. Special talks will be devoted to reviewing the current state of knowledge about particular aspects. The remainder of the time will be used for discussions and work. Powerful workstations will be available for spontaneous ideas about numerical simulations, and the library of the MPI for Physics of Complex Systems and the Technical University of Dresden will be open for the participants.
Participation is by invitation only and limited to about 15 persons. The seminar--part of the workshop will be open to local visitors. It will be held in the building of the Max--Planck--Institute for Physics of Complex Systems. Accomodation will be organized in a modern hotel near the historical centre of Dresden. The participants are expected to arrive on Wednesday, February 21 in the afternoon. Departure is planned for Thursday, February 29 in the afternoon. The financial, technical and administrative support of the workshop will be provided by the Max--Planck--Institute for Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden.
Preliminary list of participants:
For further information please contact:
Dr. I. Allekotte
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme
Bayreuther Str. 40, D 01187 Dresden,
Germany
Tel: +49-351-463-7672, Fax: +49-351-463-7279
e-mail: chaos@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de