Friday, August 11

MS27
Towards the Understanding of Complex Dynamics in Dissipative Systems

10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Koali (Salon 5)

Pattern formation theory has been focused on finding characteristic objects such as traveling pulse and spiral waves. One recent trend is to study the interaction among them, especially, pulse interaction, like repulsion or attraction. This is due to the fact that pulses don't lose their identities and interact weakly through tails. On the other hand, annihilation of waves or self-replication dynamics is a typical example of strong interaction and they are important building blocks for complicated pattern dynamics. The speakers will provide an overview along this direction and illustrate relevancy to real biological/chemical problems.

Organizer: Yasumasa Nishiura
Research Institute for Electronic Science, Japan
10:00-10:25 Replication, Destruction, and Spatio-temporal Chaos in Dissipative Systems
Yasumasa Nishiura, Organizer
10:30-10:55 A Geometric Approach to Pulse Dynamics
Arjen Doelman, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and Tasso Kaper, Boston University, USA
11:00-11:25 Pulse Dynamics in Excitable Reaction-Diffusion Systems
Takao Ohta, Hiroshima University, Japan
11:30-11:55 Pattern Formation due to Reproduction and Motion of Bacterial Cells - Experiments and Modelling
Mitsugu Matsushita, Chuo University, Japan

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