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Oscillations & Dynamic Instabilities in Chemical Systems
July 13-18, 2008
Colby College
Waterville, ME
Chair:
Anne De Wit

Vice Chair:
Oliver Steinbock

The GRC on Oscillations & Dynamic Instabilities in Chemical Systems is a Nonlinear Science Conference with a distinguished implication of chemistry. It addresses self-organization phenomena under nonequilibrium conditions such as chemical oscillations, chaos, waves, stationary and dynamic patterns in man-made and biological systems with a strong interdisciplinary approach. The conference will cover experimental, theoretical and application aspects of nonlinear chemistry. For more information, visit the Chair's web site.


Contributors

SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 11:00 pmArrival and Check-in
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmWelcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff
7:40 pm - 9:30 pmDYNAMICS OF OSCILLATORY SYSTEMS
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm Discussion Leader: Miklos Orban (Eötvös University)
7:50 pm - 8:30 pm Vladimir Vanag (Brandeis University)
"Patterns and cross-diffusion in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky system dispersed in water-in-oil microemulsion"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:20 pm Annette Taylor (Leeds University)
"Kinetics by design: pH switches, pulses and oscillators"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmCHEMO-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS
9:00 am - 9:10 am Discussion Leader: Pierre Borckmans (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
9:10 am - 9:50 am Patrick De Kepper (Centre de Recherches Paul Pascal)
"Reaction-diffusion instabilities and chemomechanical structures in pH-driven systems"
9:50 am - 10:05 am Discussion
10:05 am Coffee Break
10:40 am - 11:20 am Anna Balazs (University of Pittsburgh)
"Modeling chemo-mechanical transduction in self-oscillating gels"
11:20 am - 11:35 am Discussion
11:35 am - 12:15 pm Jonathan Howse (Sheffield University)
"Synthetic muscles: Polymer gels in oscillating chemical reactions"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmGroup Photo / Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmRECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD: SHORT TALKS I
Discussion Leader: Kenneth Showalter (West Virginia University)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm Krisztina Kurin-Csörgei (Eötvös University, Budapest)
"Oscillations in the concentration of some non-redox metal ions induced by a pH oscillator"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm Judit Horvath (Centre de Recherches Paul Pascal, Bordeaux)
"Stationary interacting front patterns in a novel reaction-diffusion system"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm Igal Berenstein (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
"Coexistence of Eckhaus and zigzag instabilities in a reaction-diffusion system"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm Sumana Dutta (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata)
"Delay and its application to chemical kinetics: A theoretical approach"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm Hitoshi Mahara (Nanotechnology Research Institute, Tsukuba)
"Entropy production in a 2D reversible Gray-Scott system"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm Martin Falcke (Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin)
"How does intracellular Ca2+ oscillate: by chance or by the clock?"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm Kazuki Iida (University of Fukui)
"Membrane pattern exhibited by a normal form of chemotactic oscillators"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm Preben G. Sørensen (University of Copenhagen)
"Functional dynamics in biological systems"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmPATTERN FORMATION
9:00 am - 9:10 am Discussion Leader: Tomohiko Yamaguchi (AIST)
9:10 am - 9:50 am Ehud Meron (Ben Gurion University)
"Linking pattern formation and biodiversity in water-limited plant communities"
9:50 am - 10:05 am Discussion
10:05 am Coffee Break
10:40 am - 11:20 am Masayasu Mimura (Meiji University)
"Pattern formation arising in transient far from equilibrium states"
11:20 am - 11:35 am Discussion
11:35 am - 12:15 pm Stephen Morris (University of Toronto)
"Order and scale selection in Columnar Joints"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmNONLINEAR CHEMICAL DYNAMICS IN SMALL-SCALE SYSTEMS
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm Discussion Leader: Irv Epstein (Brandeis University)
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm Milan Stojanovic (Columbia University)
"Is there such a thing as Molecular Behavior-Based Robotics"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm Yuichi Togashi (Osaka University)
"Molecular synchronization patterns in enzymatic reaction-diffusion systems"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmCHEMO-HYDRODYNAMIC INSTABILITIES
9:00 am - 9:10 am Discussion Leader: John Pojman (University of Southern Mississippi)
9:10 am - 9:50 am Alain Pocheau (Université de Provence, Marseille)
"Front propagation in stirred media"
9:50 am - 10:05 am Discussion
10:05 am Coffee Break
10:40 am - 11:20 am Agota Tóth (University of Szeged)
"Density fingering in miscible autocatalytic systems"
11:20 am - 11:35 am Discussion
11:35 am - 12:15 pm Andrew Belmonte (Pennsylvania State University)
"Reactive hydrodynamics of micellar systems"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:00 pmRECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD: SHORT TALKS II
Discussion Leader: Oliver Steinbock (Florida State University)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm Dominique Salin (FAST Laboratory, Paris)
"Buoyancy driven convection in autocatalytic chemical reactions in 'on a side' Hele-Shaw cells"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm Yutaka Sumino (Kyoto University)
"Autonomous blebbing of oil droplet"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm Andras Volford (Budapest University)
"Control of Liesegang type precipitation patterns by electric current"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm Iljana Miethe (Technical University of Munich)
"Spatio-temporal period-doubling and period-tripling during the electro-dissolution of Si"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm Marcus Hauser (Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg)
"Manipulating scroll rings by an external electric current"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm Mark Tinsley (West Virginia University, Morgantown)
"Population density dependent behavior of discrete chemical oscillators"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:30 pmBusiness Meeting
(Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair)
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmBIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
9:00 am - 9:10 am Discussion Leader: Stanislav Shvartsman (Princeton University)
9:10 am - 9:50 am Alain Karma (Northeastern University)
"Reaction-Diffusion Patterns of Electrical and Chemical Signals in Heart Cells and Tissue"
9:50 am - 10:05 am Discussion
10:05 am Coffee Break
10:40 am - 11:20 am Toshiyuki Nakagaki (Hokkaido University)
"Information processing in an amoeba based on nonlinear biochemical dynamics"
11:20 am - 11:35 am Discussion
11:35 am - 12:15 pm Dominique Pontier (Université de Lyon 1)
"Modelling predator-prey relationships in insular environment: reproduction sites, predation pressure and the long term survival of the prey population"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm Discussion Leader: Katharina Krischer (Technische Universität München)
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm Istvan Kiss (Saint Louis University)
"Engineering Complex Dynamical Structures in Electrochemical Systems: Clustering, Sequential Patterns, and Desynchronization"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm Harm Rotermund (Dalhousie University)
"From Metastable Pitting Corrosion to Propagating Fronts on Stainless Steel"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDepart

 
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