Program of the SYNCHRO-2002 Meeting
September 22-28, 2002, Saratov, Russia
8.00-9.00 Breakfast
13.00-14.00 Lunch
19.00-20.00 Dinner
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Sunday, Sept 22. Arrival day
19.00 Welcome Party in "Volzhskie Dali"
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Monday, September 23
Morning session
9.00-9.15 Opening (Vadim Anishchenko)
Chairman: Prof.Dr. Vadim Anishchenko
9.15-9.45 Werner Ebeling (Germany)
Synchronization of Stochastic Motions
in Swarms of Active Brownian Particles
9.45-10.15 Vladimir Nekorkin (Russia)
Synchronization, desynchronization and replication
in active discrete systems
10.15-10.45 Lutz Schimansky-Geier (Germany)
Noise Induced Phenomena in Excitable Media
10.45-11.15 Coffee Break
Chairman: Prof.Dr. Martin Hasler
11.15-11.45 Leonid Shilnikov (Russia)
Mathematical problems of the classical theory of synchronization
11.45-12.15 Vladimir Belykh (Russia)
Attractors and Synchronization
12.15-12.45 Tomasz Kapitaniak (Poland)
Low-dimensional chaos in high-dimensional phase space
Afternoon session
Chairman: Prof.Dr. Peter McClintock
15.30-16.00 Arkady Pikovsky (Germany)
System size resonance
16.00-16.30 Ulrich Parlitz (Germany)
From interrelations to synchronization
16.30-17.00 Coffee Break
Chairman: Prof.Dr. Bernardo Spagnolo
17.00-17.20 Igor Belykh (Switzerland)
Persistent clusters in lattices of coupled nonidentical
chaotic systems
17.20-17.40 Eireen Neumann (Germany)
Slow-fast dynamics in Josephson junctions
17.40-18.00 Olexander Popovich (Ukraine)
Hierarchical Cluster Splitting in a System of Coupled Maps
18.00-18.20 Alexander Laserson (Russia)
Dynamical Chaos in Electron Devices. How it Works.
Chairman: Dr. Alexey Pavlov
20.00-22.00 Poster session
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Tuesday, September 24
Morning session
Chairman: Prof.Dr. Lutz Schimansky-Geier
9.15-9.45 Peter Tass (Germany)
Development of demand-controlled deep brain stimulation
techniques based on stochastic phase resetting
9.45-10.15 Hans Braun (Germany)
Neuronal Encoding with Chaotic and Stochastic Oscillations:
Synchronization and Resonance Phenomena
10.15-10.45 Peter McClintock (UK)
Interactions within the cardiovascular system
10.45-11.15 Coffee Break
Chairman: Prof.Dr. Jack Hudson
11.15-11.45 Ralph Andrzejak (Germany)
A comparison of different surrogate techniques in
combination with nonlinear interdependence measures
11.45-12.15 Stefano Boccaletti (Italy)
Noise-induced synchronization and coherence resonance
of homoclinic chaos
12.15-12.45 Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo (Spain)
Entrainment and synchronization in coupled semiconductor
lasers
Afternoon session
Chairman: Prof.Dr. Arkady Pikovsky
15.30-16.00 Sergey Kuznetsov (Russia)
Critical phenomena and universality for phenomena of
break-up of generalized synchronization
16.00-16.30 Andrew Osbaldestin (UK)
Renormalization in quasiperiodically forced systems
16.30-17.00 Coffee break
Chairman: Prof.Dr. Hans Braun
17.00-17.20 Alexander Balanov (UK)
Phase synchronization from 1-D time series
17.20-17.40 Aneta Stefanovska (Slovenia)
Interactions between cardiovascular oscillations
17.40-18.00 Ekaterina Zhuchkova (Russia)
System of interacting oscillators as a model of cardiac
arrhythmias
Chairman: Dr. Alexey Pavlov
20.00-22.00 Poster session
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Wednesday, September 25
Morning session
Chairman: Prof.Dr. Ulrich Parlitz
9.15-9.45 Jack Hudson (USA)
Collective dynamics of populations of electrochemical
oscillators
9.45-10.15 Martin Hasler (Switzerland)
Temporal Signal Classification by Synchronization with
a Chaotic System
10.15-10.45 Jan Freund (Germany)
Synchronization in Stochastic Systems
10.45-11.15 Coffee Break
Chairman: Prof.Dr. Peter Tass
11.15-11.45 Harald Engel (Germany)
Wave dynamics in active media with nonlocal spatial
coupling
11.45-12.15 Grigory Osipov (Russia)
Synchronization of coupled rotators
12.15-12.45 Alexander Neiman (USA)
Oscillation, noise and synchronization in sensory neurons
14.30-19.00 Excursion to Saratov and the Volga River
20.00 Conference Dinner
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Thursday, September 26
Morning session
Chairman: Prof.Dr. Werner Ebeling
9.15-9.45 Wolfgang Weidlich (Germany)
Sociodynamics - A Systematic Approach to Mathematical
Modelling in the Social Sciences
9.45-10.15 Udo Erdmann (Germany)
Collective motion with interacting Active Brownian particles
10.15-10.45 Yury Romanovsky (Russia)
A Model of Oscillations of Subglobal Molecules with
Anomalous Quality Factor
10.45-11.15 Coffee break
Chairman: Prof.Dr. Jose Mateos
11.15-11.45 Vladimir Shalfeev (Russia)
Synchronization of chaotic ocsillations in ensemble of
phase systems
11.45-12.15 Alexander Dmitriev (Russia)
Information transmission and transformation in chaotic
synchronization process of 2D maps
12.15-12.45 Dmitry Postnov (Russia)
Noise-induced Oscillations and Phase Multistability in
Small Ensembles of Biological Oscillators
Afternoon session
Chairman: Dr. Stefano Boccaletti
15.20-15.50 Astero Provata (Greece)
Local Oscillations and Fractality in the
Lattice-Lotka-Volterra and Lattice-Limit-Cycle Models
15.50-16.20 Bernardo Spagnolo (Italy)
Noise Induced Phenomena in Sea Fish Population Dynamics
16.20-16.50 Coffee Break
Chairman: Dr. Astero Provata
16.50-17.20 Tatjana Vadivasova (Russia)
Synchronization in ensembles of oscillators with noise and
regular excitation
17.20-17.40 Andrey Polovinkin (Russia)
Stochastic Dynamics of Singled-out and Coupled Excitable
Elements
17.40-18.00 Nikolai Agudov (Russia)
Noise delayed decay of unstable states: theory versus
numerical simulations
20.00 - Presentation of new books (Weidlich, Pikovsky, Schimansky-Geier,
Postnov, Ebeling, Romanovsky) and journals
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Friday, September 27
Morning session
Chairman: Prof.Dr. Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo
9.15-9.45 Jose Mateos (Mexico)
Current Reversals and Synchronization in Chaotic Ratchets
9.45-10.15 Giovanni Giacomelli (Italy)
Experimental Investigation of Stochastic Phase
Synchronization in Vertical-Cavity Lasers
10.15-10.45 Leonid Melnikov (Russia)
Mode-locking in lasers: nonlinear dynamics of ultra-short
pulses
10.45-11.15 Coffee break
Chairman: Prof.Dr. Tomasz Kapitaniak
11.15-11.45 Michael Rosenblum (Germany)
Locking-based frequency measurement and synchronization of
complex system
11.45-12.15 Michael Zaks (Germany)
Unstable periodic orbits as mediators in synchronization
transitions
12.15-12.45 Alexander Kuznetsov (Russia)
Multi-parameter picture of transition to chaos
12.45-13.00 Andrey Pankratov (Russia)
Nonlinear systems under noise subjected to strong periodic
driving: resonant activation and suppession of noise
13.05-13-20 Closing (L.Schimansky-Geier, A.Pikovsky, A.Neiman)
Afternoon session
15.30-17.30 Aqua Park (Part 1)
18.00 Dinner
18.30-20.30 Aqua Park (Part 2)
21.00-24.00 Barbecue & Beer
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Saturday, Sept. 28 Departure day
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