Seminars During the Research Year

• 18-Oct-2000
  • Wolfgang Breymann (Olsen & Associates, Zürich, Switzerland):
    θ-time for deseasonalizing financial time series
  • Jean Pierre Nadal (CNRS, Paris, France):
    Mutual Information between Observations and parameters/between neural representations and codes
• 25-Oct-2000
  • Igor D. Chueshov (Kharkov National University, Kharkov, Ukraine):
    Determining functionals for infinite-dimensional dynamical systems/Applications to stochastic PDE, ocean modeling, boundary description in nonlinear oscillations
  • Patrick C. McGuire (University of Arizona, Tucson, USA):
    Using small (but not tiny) parameter changes to access a large number of interesting limit cycles in random neural networks
  • Rui Vilela Mendes (Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal):
    Minority in US Market Game
• 08-Nov-2000
  • Karl Kürten (Universität Wien, Wien, Austria):
    Multistability and transition to glassy structures in spatially extended systems
  • Thomas Roediger-Schluga (Austrian Research Centers Seiberdorf, Seiberdorf, Austria):
    Intervention in complex systems: The case of the Austrian VOC emission standards
• 15-Nov-2000
  • Carlos Aguirre Maeso (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain):
    Small world topologies
  • João Francisco Alves Martins (Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Setúbal, Portugal):
    Language identification of controlled systems
  • Galina Erochenkova (CNRS, Marseille, France):
    Anomalous diffusion in an irregularly packed bed
• 29-Nov-2000
  • Geert Zimmermann (Johannes Gutenberg-Universitä Mainz, Mainz, Germany):
    Dimension Reduction for the Shallow Water Equations
• 06-Dec-2000
  • Dima Volchenkov (CNRS, Marseille, France):
    Assymptotical Estimation of the Liapunov Exponent Spectrum for a Chaotic Coupled Map Lattice
  • Anis Rezgui (Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany):
    The Renormalization of Self-Intersection Local Times of Brownian Motion
• 13-Dec-2000
  • Dehbia Boukari (CNRS, Marseille, France):
    Flow over an obstacle (numerical study)
  • Sebastián Risau-Gusman (CEA, Grenoble, France):
    Statistical Mechanics of Soft Margin Classifiers
• 17-Jan-2001
  • Sandra S. Rodriguez (Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany):
    Turbulence in coupled map lattices with random nonlocal conectivity
  • Dima Volchenkov (CNRS, Marseille, France):
    The Bending Instability In The Vorticity Transport Through A Turbulent Flow. Feedback Chaos Control and Dynamical Symmetry Breaking
• 24-Jan-2001
  • Lev Pustyl'nikov (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia):
    Critical phenomena and strange attractors for some infinite dimensional physical systems
• 31-Jan-2001
  • Daniel Gandolfo (CNRS, Marseille, France):
    Ising Models on Non-Planar Graphs and NP-Completeness
• 07-Feb-2001
  • Valentin Afraimovich (IICO San Luis Potosí, Mexico):
    Directional Entropy and other characteristics of Spatio-Temporal Complexity
• 14-Feb-2001
  • Karl Kürten (University of Wien, Wien, Austria):
    Dynamical Properties and Multistability of Fractal Structures in one Dimensional Klein-Gordon Chains
• 16-Feb-2001
  • Roberto Livi (Universida degli studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy):
    Synchronization and related critical properties in CML
  • Antonio Politi (Instituto Nazionale di Ottica, Firenze, Italy):
    Stable Chaos
  • Stefano Ruffo (Universita di Firenze, Firenze, Italy):
    Systems with long range interactions
• 19-Feb-2001
  • Michal Or-Guil (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany):
    From the Dynamics of the Immune System to Pattern Formation
• 21-Feb-2001
  • Arkady Pikovsky (University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany):
    Synchronization in complex systems
• 22-Feb-2001
  • Filippo Castiglione (University of Köln, Köln, Germany):
    Microsimulation of the stock market
• 26-Feb-2001
  • Hanspeter Herzel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany):
    DNA periodicities
• 07-Mar-2001
  • Franco Celada (Advanced Biotechnology Center, Genova, Italy):
    Modeling antivirus responses
  • Jorge Carneiro (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, Portugal):
    T-cell mediated tolerance. Lessons from mathematical modeling
• 16-Mar-2001
  • Franco Celada (Advanced Biotechnology Center, Genova, Italy), Brynja Kohler (University of Utah, Utah, USA):
    On the mutations of viruses
• 25-Apr-2001
  • Per Bak (University of Copenhagen, Denmark):
    Unified Scaling Power Laws for Earthquakes
• 04-May-2001
  • Vojka Jaksic (John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA), David Ruelle (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, France):
    Entropy Production in Quantum System
• 16-May-2001
  • Stefan Reimann (Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany):
    Randomness and Invariance
• 23-May-2001
  • Andreas Wagner (University of New Mexico, USA):
    Robustness and Redundancy in large genetic networks
  • Christian Forst (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA):
    Network Genomics
  • Peter Stadler, Ivo L. Hofacker (Universität Wien, Wien, Austria):
    Some Algebra with Networks
  • Matthias Hoechsmann (Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany):
    Tree Alignments
  • Homayoun Bagheri (Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, USA):
    Sum of the control coefficents as a function of enzyme concentrations in two-step pathway
• 30-May-2001
  • Alan Lapedes (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA):
    The Geometry of Shape Space
• 06-Jun-2001
  • Eva Buchinger (Austrian Research Centers Seibersdorf, Seibersdorf, Austria):
    Social Systems and Innovation
• 12-Jun-2001
  • Josef Fröhlich (Austrian Research Centers Seibersdorf, Seibersdorf, Austria):
    Innovation and Technology Policy
  • Alda Reis (Comissão de Coordenação da Região Centro, Coimbra, Portugal):
    Some Tools for Helping Regional Innovation in Portugal
  • João E. Gata (ISEG, Lisboa, Portugal):
    Environmental Regulation and Technological Innovation with Spillovers
  • Eva Buchinger (Austrian Research Centers Seibersdorf, Seibersdorf, Austria):
    Social Systems and Innovation, Modeling without Mathematics!
  • Philippe Blanchard (Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany), Bruno Cessac (INLN Université de Nice, Valbonne, France):
    Observations on Innovation in Social Systems made by Physicists
• 13-Jun-2001
  • Arnaud Buhot (University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom):
    Strong and fragile glassy behaviour in kinetically constrained systems
  • Michael Barber (Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany):
    Noise-induced signal enhancement in heterogeneous neural networks
  • Sebastián Risau-Gusman (CEA, Grenoble, France):
    Typical properties of Soft Margin Classifiers
• 18-Jun-2001
  • Gerard Weisbuch (CNRS, Paris, France):
    Interacting Agents and Continuous Opinions Dynamics
  • Daniel Heymann (CEPAL, Buenos Aires, Argentina):
    Treatment of Expectations and Learning Processes in Macroeconomic Models
• 19-Jun-2001
  • Gerhard Hanappi (Technische Univesität Wien, Wien, Austria):
    Introduction and Survey of Different Methodological approaches
  • Thomas A. Matyas (La Trobe University, Bundoora Victoria, Australia):
    Learning Models in Human Movement
• 20-Jun-2001
  • David F. Batten (The Temaplan Group, Victoria, Australia):
    Artificial Life Approaches to Learning
• 21-Jun-2001
  • Jean Pierre Nadal (CNRS, Paris, France):
    Social Clustering (Birds with a Feather Fly Together)
  • Roberto Parazzo (Univesidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina):
    Models of Evolution with Learning: the Baldwin Effect
  • Stefania Bandini, Sra Manzoni (Università di Milano, Milano, Italy):
    A Language for Situated Multiagents Systems Based on a Reaction-Diffusion Machine
  • Markus Knoflacher (Austrian Research Centers Seibersdorf, Seibersdorf, Austria):
    Sustainability - Where in complex systems
• 20-Jul-2001
  • Rui Vilela Mendes (Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal):
    Time-frequency analysis
• 02-Aug-2001
  • Luis Vázquez (Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain):
    A Mechanical Solver for Linear Systems and Linear Programming
  • Haidar Sabbagh (University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom):
    Spiral waves and core expansion in excitable media
• 03-Aug-2001
  • Karl Kürten (Univesität Wien, Wien, Austria):
    The Role of Physical and Mathematical Stability of Regular and Irregular Orbits in Hamiltonian Lattice Models
• 07-Aug-2001
  • Wolfgang Breymann (Olsen & Associates, Zürich, Switzerland):
    Overview of Mathematic Problems for Market Modeling
  • Rui Carvalho (University College London, London, United Kingdom):
    The Linear Finance Model
  • Paulo J. da Costa Branco (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal):
    Using Immune Techniques for Anomaly Detection in Electrical systems
• 08-Aug-2001
  • Tanya Vianna de Araújo (Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestao), Rui Vilela Mendes (Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal):
    Reconstructing an Economic Space from a Market Metric
  • Alex Madon (Capital Management Advisors, Roma, Italy):
    Collecting and Processing Market Data
  • Ricardo Lima, Galina Erochenkova (CNRS, Marseille, France), Luis Vázquez (Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain):
    Fractional Calculus and Applications
  • Wolfgang Breymann (Olsen & Associates, Zürich, Switzerland):
    Overview of Mathematic Problems for Market Modeling (2nd part)
• 09-Aug-2001
  • Daniel Eckert (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Wien, Austria):
    An Impossibility Result involving Abstract Aggregate of Opinions
  • Raymond Brummelhuis (Université de Reims, Reims, France):
    Probabilistic Methods in Financial Mathematics
  • Françoise Briolle (CNRS, Marseille, France):
    Discussion about the European Project "SMART ARRAYS" Detection of Failures and reconfiguration in case of Failures
• 15-Aug-2001
  • Carlos Aguirre (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain):
    A realistic substrate for small-world networks modelling
• 22-Aug-2001
  • João Martins (Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setubal, Setubal, Portugal):
    Neural networks and logical reasoning systems. A translation table
• 29-Aug-2001
  • Tounsia Benzekri, Ricardo Lima (CNRS, Marseille, France):
    Surface Waves in the Hamiltonian Formalism