[This is the old program from WS 2009/10. The current program and contact information can be found here.]

25 September 2009, 16:00

Arik Yochelis (Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel)
Towards Biochemical Control of Physiological Self-Organization [Abstract] 

23 October 2009, 16:00

Takao Ohta (Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Japan)
Dynamics of deformable self-propelled particles [Abstract] 

30 October 2009, 16:00

Fred Wolf (Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Göttingen)
Universality and self-organization in the evolution of the visual cortex [Abstract] 

06 November 2009, 16:00

Yasuaki Kobayashi (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)
Design of multi-cluster and desynchronized states in oscillatory media by nonlinear global feedback [Abstract] 

08 January 2010, 16:00

Rudolf Friedrich (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Ratchet effect and the inverse cascade of turbulence [Abstract] CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS!

12 February 2010, 16:00

Ulrich Parlitz (Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Universität Göttingen)
Nonlinear modeling and data analysis  

Abstract:
Evaluating existing models or deriving new models using measured or observed data is a typical task in dynamical systems research. Depending on pre-knowledge about the process of interest and availability and quality of suitable time series, we shall address different cases ranging from purely data-driven black-box modeling to data assimilation and model evaluation. Approaches to be presented will include probabilistic forecasts using cluster weighted models, as well as parameter estimation and system identification techniques employing invasive and non-invasive control methods that are applied to excitable and oscillatory (chaotic) systems.