Gordon Research Conference on

Oscillations and Dynamic Instabilities in Chemical Systems

Il Ciocco, Barga, Italy
June 6-11, 1999

Raima Larter, Chair
Stephen K. Scott, Vice-Chair

Sunday Evening
6:00 Dinner
7:30 Raima Larter, Chair
Welcoming Remarks
  Spatial Patterns & Waves; Noise and Control
7:40 Session Chair: Irv Epstein, Brandeis
7:45 Kenneth Showalter, West Virginia
"Noise mediated wave behavior"
8:45 Peter Jung, Ohio University
"Noise and complexity in excitable media"
Monday Morning
7:30 Breakfast
  Spatial Patterns & Waves; Reaction-Diffusion Systems
8:45 Session Chair: Milos Marek, Prague
8:50 Bernie Matkowsky, Northwestern
"Interaction of Counter-propagating hot spots in solid fuel combustion"
9:50 Break
10:15 Paul Ronney, USC
"Instabilities and dynamics of front propagation in narrow channels"
11:15 Katharina Krischer, Berlin
"Self organized reactive islands at the electrode/electrolyte interface"
Monday Afternoon
12:30 Lunch
Free Time
4:30 Poster Session & Drinks
Monday Evening Biochemical Oscillations and Waves
5:30 Session Chair: Fred Schneider, Würzburg
5:35 Stefan Mueller, Magdeburg
"Spreading depression waves and the aura of classical migraine"
6:35 Break
6:45 Lars Folke Olsen, Odense
"Bifurcation structure and control of a chaotic enzyme reaction"
8:00 Dinner
Tuesday Morning
7:30 Breakfast
  Calcium Oscillations & Waves in Biological Systems
8:45 Session Chair: Albert Goldbeter, Brussels
8:50 Ann Cornell-Bell, Viatech Imaging
"Epilepsy alters calcium signalling in human brain tissue"
9:50 Break
10:15 Chris Fall, UC Davis
"The fertilization calcium wave in Xenopus laevis eggs"
11:15 Genevieve Dupont, Brussels
"Mechanisms of intercellular calcium wave propagation in hepatocytes"
Tuesday Afternoon
12:30 Lunch
Free Time
4:30 Poster Session & Drinks
Tuesday Evening Contributed Short Talks
5:30 Session Chair: Steve Scott, Leeds
5:35 P. Strasser*, J. Christoph, M. Eiswirth and G. Ertl
"Spatiotemporal patterns in an electrocatalytic reaction system"
5:50 M. Hildebrand*, A.S. Mikhailov and G. Ertl
"Nanoscale pattern formation in reactive adsorbates"
6:05 I.Z. Kiss*, V. Gaspar and J.L. Hudson
"Synchronization and control of chaos on electrode arrays"
6:20 P. Hasal*, M. Pribyl, J. H. Merkin and M. Marek
"Spatiotemporal patterns in biochemical reaction diffusion systems with electrically enhanced transport rates"
6:35 D. Horvath*, A. Toth and K. Yoshikawa
"Electric field induced lateral instability in a simple autocatalytic reaction"
6:50 Break
7:00 M. Kaern*, A. Hunding and M. Menzinger
"Fast modes in physiological regulation"
7:15 A. Ciliberto*, J. J. Tyson and B. Novak
"Mathematical model for early development of the sea urchin embryo"
7:30 W. Hanke* and V. M. Fernandes de Lima
"The retinal spreading depression, a tool for the investigation of non-linear behavior in neuronal tissue"
7:45 S. Danoe, F. Hynne, P. G. Sorensen*
"Sustained oscillations in suspensions of yeast cells"
8:00 Dinner
Wednesday Morning
7:30 Breakfast
  New Frontiers: Polymeric Systems & Geochemistry
8:45 Session Chair: Dick Field, Montana
8:50 Peter Ortoleva, Indiana
Memory and the self-organizing planet
9:50 Break
10:15 John Pojman, Southern Mississippi
"Self organization in synthetic polymeric systems"
11:15 Ron Siegel, Minnesota
"Coupling phase transitions in hydrogels to chemical transport and reaction: A basis for pulsating drug delivery"
Wednesday Afternoon
12:30 Lunch
Free Time
4:30 Poster Session & Drinks
Wednesday Evening Oscillatory Chemical Reactions
5:30 Session Chair: Vilmos Gaspar, Debrecen
5:35 Zoltan Noszticzius, Budapest
"Chemical mechanism of the BZ reaction: Progress of the last years and recent results"
6:35 Break
6:45 Mark Tinsley, Leeds
"Multistability and oscillations in atmospheric chemistry"
8:00 Dinner
Thursday Morning
7:30 Breakfast
  Theoretical Advances
8:45 Session Chair: Pierre Borckmans, Brussels
8:50 Florence Baras, Brussels
"Reactive dynamics in low dimensional supports"
9:50 Break
10:15 Dwight Barkley, Warwick
"The computation and mathematics of chemical systems"
11:15 Ray Kapral, Toronto
"Spiral waves in complex oscillatory and excitable media"
Thursday Afternoon
12:30 Lunch
Free Time
4:30 Poster Session & Drinks
Thursday Evening Contributed Short Talks
5:30 Session Chair: Miklos Orban, Budapest
5:35 R. P. Washington
"Periodic polymerization of acrylonitrile with the BZ reaction"
5:50 A. P. Munuzuri, A. Horvath, M. Dolnik, A. M. Zhabotinsky and I. R. Epstein*
"Control of oscillations and Turing structures in the chlorine dioxide-iodine-malonic acid reaction by illumination"
6:05 M. Orban, K. Kurin-Csorgei*, A. M. Zhabotinsky, and I. R. Epstein
"On the nature of pattern arising during polymerization of acrylamide in the presence of methylene blue indicator"
6:20 A.L. Lin*, K. Martinez, M. Bertran, A. Ardelea, G. F. Carey and H. L. Swinney
"Pattern entrainment in a spatially extended oscillatory reaction-diffusion system"
6:35 I. Sendina, M. Gomez-Gesteira, A. P. Munuzuri, V. Perez-Munuzuri*, V. Perez-Villar, L. Ramirez-Piscina, J. Casademunt, F. Saugues and J. M. Sanchos
"Effects of a quenched disorder on wave propagation in excitable media:
6:50 Break
7:00 Business Meeting & Elections
8:00 Dinner

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