[This is the old program from WS 2007/08. The current program and contact information can be found here.]

05 October 2007, 16:00

Atsushi Tero (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)
Traffic-adaptive networking by a real amoebae of Physarum [Abstract] 

Toshiyuki Nakagaki (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)
Amoebae anticipate periodic events [Abstract] 

12 October 2007, 16:00

Takao Ohta (Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Japan)
Turing patterns in three dimensions [Abstract] 

02 November 2007, 16:00

Karsten Kruse (Theoretische Physik, Universität des Saarlandes)
Active behavior of the cytoskeleton [Abstract] 

09 November 2007, 16:00 Haber-Villa

Peter Tass (Institut für Neurowissenschaften und Biophysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich)
Model based development of desynchronizing brain stimulation techniques [Abstract] 

30 November 2007, 16:00

Pablo Kaluza (Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG)
Evolutionary design of complex functional networks  

Abstract:
Complex biological networks are responsible for many fundamental processes in living organisms, including signal transduction and genetic expression in biological cells and signal processing in neural networks. These functional networks, a product of the evolution, are characterized by their robustness against damages, mutations and noise. Functionality and robustness are reflected in their architectures which exhibit structures different from random networks and lattices.
To design functional networks, robust against local damages and noise, and to study, how the requirements of functionality and robustness are reflected in their architecture, are the objectives of this work. Remarkable differences between architectures of the designed networks, depending on the criteria of robustness imposed during their construction, are observed. Particularly, motif distributions of these networks are different. Comparing them with real biological networks, we have found that the networks robust against deletion of links show motif distributions which are very similar to those of some neural systems and to the development transcription and signal transduction networks of biological macroorganisms.

14 December 2007, 16:00 Haber-Villa

Hans-Günther Döbereiner (Institut für Biophysik, Universität Bremen)
Dynamic Phase Transitions and Collective Modes in Cell Spreading [Abstract] 

18 January 2008, 16:00

Hiroya Nakao (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin)
Phase coherence in an ensemble of uncoupled nonlinear oscillators induced by correlated noise [Abstract] 

08 February 2008, 16:00

Stefan Luther (Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Göttingen)
Noninvasive adaptive multisite pacing of the heart [Abstract] 

22 February 2008, 16:00

Wolffram Schröer (Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie, Universität Bremen)
Criticality and corresponding states in ionic systems [Abstract]