Graduate School in Nonlinear Science

Sponsored by The Danish Research Agency



 
MIDIT                              OFD                          CATS
Modelling, Nonlinear Dynamics      Optics and Fluid Dynamics    Chaos and Turbulence Studies
and Irreversible Thermodynamics    Risø National Laboratory     Niels Bohr Institute and 
Technical University of Denmark    Building 128                 Department of Chemistry
Building 321                       P.O. Box 49                  University of Copenhagen 
DK-2800 Lyngby                     DK-4000 Roskilde             DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø
Denmark                            Denmark                      Denmark


TENTATIVE PROGRAM


Tuesday, June 12, 2001 - Biological and Chemical Oscillations:
Time Activity Place
9.00-9.10 Opening by Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen,
Novo Nordisk A/S and in the board of the Technical University of Denmark		 Lecture hall, building 306
9.10-10.00 Patrik Rorsman, The bursting beta cell. From experiment to model Lecture hall, building 306
10.00-10.30 Coffee and tea break Outside lecture hall, building 306
10.30-11.20 Morten Colding-Jørgensen, Coupling between beta cells can increase insulin realease Lecture hall, building 306
11.20-11.40 Antonio J. Pons Rivero, Chemoconvection: A chemically induced hydrodynamic instability Lecture hall, building 306
11.40-12.00 Paul Diderichsen, Modelling of beta-cells Lecture hall, building 306
12.00-13.30 Lunch break Cafeteria, building 101
13.30-15.30 Computer exercise Computer cluster, building 306
15.30-16.20 Sune Danø, Quantitative modelling of glycolytic oscillations Lecture hall, building 306
16.20-16.40 Jørgen Kanters, Nonlinearities in heart rate variability Lecture hall, building 306
16.40-17.30 Niels-Henrik Holstein-Rathlou, Chaos and synchronization in nephron dynamics Lecture hall, building 306
17.30- Evening beer Outside lecture hall, building 306


Wednesday, June 13, 2001 - Nonlinear Dynamics of the Brain:
Time Activity Place
9.00-9.50 Alwyn Scott, Overview of brain dynamics Lecture hall, building 306
9.50-10.00 Presentation by Peter L. Christiansen Lecture hall, building 306
10.00-10.30 Coffee and tea break Outside lecture hall, building 306
10.30-11.20 Lars Kai Hansen, Non-linear adaptive systems Lecture hall, building 306
11.20-11.40 contributed talk Lecture hall, building 306
11.40-12.30 Erik Fransen, Cell assemblies in the neocortex Lecture hall, building 306
12.30-14.00 Lunch break Cafeteria, building 101
14.00-15.30 Poster session with coffee and tea Outside lecture hall, building 306
15.30-16.20 Hermann Haken, Synergetics of the brain Lecture hall, building 306
16.20-16.40 Mikael Djurfeldt, Neural representation of actions in the basal ganglia Lecture hall, building 306
16.40-17.30 John Hertz, Dynamics of neural circuits Lecture hall, building 306
17.30- Evening beer Outside lecture hall, building 306
19.00- Conference dinner Restaurant Fortunen


Thursday, June 14, 2001 - Nonlinear Optics:
TimeActivityPlace
9.00-9.50 Wieslaw Krolikowski, Spatial optical solitons Lecture hall, building 306
9.50-10.10 Marcus Ahles, Higher-order optical spatial vector solitons in a saturable nonlinear photorefractive medium Lecture hall, building 306
10.10-10.40 Coffee and tea break Outside lecture hall, building 306
10.40-11.30 Neil Broderick, Nonlinear periodic crystals Lecture hall, building 306
11.30-12.20 Jean Michel Nunzi, Periodic phase matching and two color holography aspects of the All Optical Poling of polymers Lecture hall, building 306
12.20-12.40 Christophe Hubert, Microstructuring of polymers using light-controlled molecular migration processes Lecture hall, building 306
12.40-14.20 Lunch break Cafeteria, building 101
14.20-16.00 Poster session with coffee and tea Outside lecture hall, building 306
16.00-16.50 Vladimir Mezentsev, Recent progress in dispersion-managed soliton fiber communications Lecture hall, building 306
16.50-17.10 Rodislav Driben, Split-step solitons in multichannel communication systems Lecture hall, building 306
17.10-17.30 Morten Bache, Spiral waves in optical second-harmonic generation Lecture hall, building 306
17.30- Evening beer Outside lecture hall, building 306


Friday, June 15, 2001 - Structures in Fluids:
TimeActivityPlace
9.00-9.50 Jens Eggers, Scaling theory of singularities Lecture hall, building 306
9.50-10.10 Lene Oddershede, Scaling phenomena in electrochemical systems Lecture hall, building 306
10.10-10.40 Coffee and tea break Outside lecture hall, building 306
10.40-11.30 L. Mahadevan, The elastic behavior of viscous fluids Lecture hall, building 306
11.30-11.50 Anders Andersen, Bathtub vortices Lecture hall, building 306
11.50-12.10 Dmitri Vainchteine, A vortex pair in a weak external flow: a singular control approach Lecture hall, building 306
12.10-14.00 Lunch break Cafeteria, building 101
14.00-14.50 Willem van de Water, Patterns of surface waves Lecture hall, building 306
14.50-15.10 Miguel A.F. Sanjuan, Chaotic advection of fluid flow and fractal structures Lecture hall, building 306
15.10-16.00 Jane Wang, Unsteady Aerodynamics of Insect Flight Lecture hall, building 306
16.00- Afternoon beer and a final look at the posters Outside lecture hall, building 306