GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE

Oscillations and Dynamic Instabilities in Chemical Systems

Salve Regina College, Newport, RI

July 1-5, 1991

K. Showalter, Chairperson

J. L. Hudson and R. Kapral, Co-Vice Chairpersons

Sunday

                        Reception

Monday

                        Morning:   Temporal Behavior

                                    Discussion Leader:   A. Zhabotinsky

                                    E. Wasserman, "Comments from an Industrial Perspective"

                                    R. J. Field, "Interpretations of Aperiodicity in the BZ Reaction"

                                    M. Schell, "Electrochemical Instabilities:  Experiments and  Theory"

                        Evening:   Spatial Behavior

                                    Discussion Leader:   K. Kustin

                                    P. De Kepper, "Experimental Study of Turing-Like Chemical

                                    Patterns"

                                    H. L. Swinney, "Observation of Transitions in Chemical Spatial

                                    Patterns"

                                    J. P. LaPlante, "Instabilities in Coupled CSTR's"

Tuesday

                        Morning:   Modeling of Spatiotemporal Behavior

                                    Discussion Leader:   A. Mikhailov

                                    J. J. Tyson, "Wave Propagation in Excitable Media"

                                    A. T. Winfree, "Vortex Dynamics:  A Survey in Parameter Space"

                                    D. Barkley, "Spatiotemporal Patterns in Excitable Media"

                        Evening:   Brief Glimpses of Recent Developments

                                    Discussion Leader:   E. Koros

                                    Organizer:   R. Larter, Department of Chemistry

                                                Indiana-Purdue University, Indianapolis

Wednesday

                        Morning:   Thermodynamic and Stochastic Theory

                                    Discussion Leader:   W. Horsthemke

                                    J. Ross, "Thermodynamics, Relative Stability, and Experiments"

                                    K. Hunt, "Thermodynamics and Stochastic Theory of Multiple

                                    Steady State Systems"

                                    G. Nicolis, "Chemical Chaos and Self-Organization:  A Master

                                    Equation Description"

                        Evening:   Biological Systems

                                    Discussion Leader:   B. Hess

                                    I. R. Epstein, "The Crustacean Stomatogastric Ganglion:  A Simple

                                    Oscillatory Neural Network"

                                    J. D. Murray, "Complex Pattern Formation in Embryology and the

                                    Formulation of Morphogenetic Laws"

Thursday

                        Morning:   Gas Phase and Heterogeneous Systems

                                    Discussion Leader:   P. Gray

                                    S. K. Scott, "Oscillations and Chaos in the Gas Phase Oxidation of

                                    Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide"

                                    L. Schmidt, "Spatial Patterns in Catalytic Oscillators"

                                    A. Arneodo, "Spatiotemporal Chaos in Diffusion Limited Growth

                                    Phenomena"

                        Evening:   Membranes and Electric Fields

                                    Discussion Leader:   A. Goldbeter

                                    R. Larter, "Potential Oscillations in a Lipid Membrane"

                                    R. D. Austumian, "Frequency Response of Catalytic Reactions in

                                    an Oscillating Field"

                                    (Business meeting and fireworks)

Friday

                        Morning:   Mechanisms – From Micro to Macro

                                    Discussion Leader:   J. F. Griffiths

                                    R. Kapral, "Reactive Lattice Gas Automata"

                                    Z. Noszticzius, "Modeling the BZ Reaction with the Radicalator"

                                    R. M. Noyes, "Whither Oscillations, Instabilities, and Delayed

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