Sapporo Winter School 2009 - Program

International Conference for Nonlinear Sciences

SAPPORO WINTER SCHOOL

February 10-14, 2009
Sapporo, Japan

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Program & Abstracts

  • Dates: February 10-14
  • Places: the lecture hall (Feb 10-13) and the first meeting room (Feb 14)
    • (Both rooms are located on the first floor of the Conference Hall. Internet access is not available in the Coference Hall.)

 

Part I. Networks of Interacting Machines:
From Cell Biology to Models of Industrial Production

February 10

9:30-9:40
Opening
9:40-10:20
What do biological and production networks have in common?

D. Armbruster (Arizona State University Tempe, USA)

10:20-11:00
Modelling of experience dependent behavior – Fighting among male crickets

H. Aonuma (RIES, Hokkaido University)

11:00-11:30
Coffee Break
11:30-12:10
A Mathematical Model of Amoeboid Locomotion

R. Kobayashi (Hiroshima University)

12:10-12:50
Large scale movement on spatial networks: from the global cargo shipping network to bird migration

B. Blasius (University of Oldenburg, Germany)

12:50-14:00
Lunch
14:00-14:40
Generalized models: Analyzing the dynamics of diagramatic representations of complex heterogeneous networks

Th. Gross (Max-Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Germany)

14:40-15:20
A step toward understanding the principle of biological networks

Y. Suzuki (Graduate School of Nagoya Univ.)

15:20-15:50
Coffee Break
15:50-16:30
Mathematical Model for the Foraging Tactics of Ants Colony under Unsteady Food Supply

H. Nishimori (Hiroshima University)

16:30-17:10
Towards Synthesis of Mammalian Circadian Clocks

H. Ueda (RIKEN, Osaka University)

17:10-17:30
Coffee Break
17:30-18:10
Oblique collisions in dissipative systems

Y. Nishiura (RIES, Hokkaido University)

19:00-
Welcome Party (Aspen Hotel)

February 11

9:30-10:10
Evolutionary engineering of complex functional networks

A. S. Mikhailov (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany)

10:10-10:50
Network evolution of body plans: a modeling approach for evolutionary developmental biology

K. Fujimoto (Osaka University)

10:50-11:10
Coffee Break
11:10-11:50
Synchronization effects in transportation networks with biologically inspired self-organized control

R. Donner (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)

11:50-12:30
Jamology - Research on jams of self-driven particles

K. Nishinari (University of Tokyo)

12:30-
Lunch and Excursion

February 12

9:30-10:10
Consistency Principe for Robust Biological Systems

K. Kaneko (University of Tokyo)

10:10-10:50
The logistics of metabolism

M.-Th. Hütt (Jacobs University, Germany)

10:50-11:20
Coffee Break
11:20-12:00
Control of hybrid systems: a new framework for control of complex systems

J. Imura (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

12:00-12:30
Round table discussion session
12:30-14:00
Lunch


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Part II. Nonequilibrium Pattern Formation in Chemical and Biological Systems

February 12

14:00-14:10
Opening
14:10-14:50
Collective molecular motor using chiral liquid crystalline thin films

H. Yokoyama (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)

14:50-15:30
Self-propelled particles with nematic interactions: From simple agent-based models to experiments with rod-shaped bacteria

M. Bär (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany)

15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-17:00
Short Presentation of Posters
17:00-20:30
Poster Session + Banquet (Banquet starts at 18:30)

February 13

9:30-10:10
Splashes by a frog diving into water

O. Mochizuki (Toyo Univerisity)

10:10-10:50
Integrated study of insect flight: from aerodynamics, maneuverability to optimization

H. Liu (Chiba University)

10:50-11:10
Coffee Break
11:10-11:50
Fluid dynamics of a suspension of micro-organisms

T. Ishikawa (Tohoku University)

11:50-12:30
Theory of flapping flight using vortices

M. Iima (RIES, Hokkaido University)

12:30-14:00
Lunch
14:00-14:40
Single molecule nanoscience: Fluctuation and function of life

T. Yanagida (Osaka University)

14:40-15:20
Coordination of Cell Shape and Motility in Spontaneous Cell Migration

M. Sano (University of Tokyo)

15:20-15:50
Coffee Break
15:50-16:30
Dissipative patterns in heterogeneous BZ systems

V. K. Vanag (Brandeis University, USA)

16:30-17:10
Deformable self-propelled particles

T. Ohta (Kyoto University)

17:10-17:30
Coffee Break
17:30-18:10
Hypotheses on the functional roles of chaotic transitory dynamics

I. Tsuda (RIES, Hokkaido University)

February 14

9:30-10:10
Synchronization of a circadian clock in vitro

H. Ito (Ochanomizu Uiversity)

10:10-10:50
Nonequilibrium Phase Transition to Synchronization in Small World Networks of Phase Oscillators

R. Tönjes (Ochanomizu Uiversity)

10:50-11:10
Coffee Break
11:10-11:50
Individual vs. Collective Descriptions of Coupled Oscillators

Y. Kuramoto (Kyoto University)

11:50-12:10
Linking cell-level and system-level responses in oscillator networks with any network structure

H. Kori (Ochanomizu University)

12:10-12:40
Round table discussion and closing


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Poster Session

February 12

17:00-20:30 (Banquet starts at 18:30)

P01
Spiral wave propagation on the excitable Kuramoto lattice

Edgar Avalos, Pik-Yin Lai, Chi-Keung Chan

P02
Effect of coupling strength on frequency enhancement in excitable medium : Application to Cultured Cardiac Myocyte Synchronization

Wei-Yin Chiang, Pik-Yin Lai, C. K. Chan

P03
Predicting the distribution of spiral waves from cell properties in a model of Dictyostelium pattern formation

Daniel Geberth

P04
Controlling of Excitable Waves in Heart Tissue: Two Different Approaches

Marcel Hörning

P05
Behavior of multi adaptive reaction system and environment-dependent response

Masayo Inoue

P06
Full Synchronization and Partial Synchronization of a Multi-country Inventory Cycle Model

Kenichi Ishiyama

P07
Perturbation of BZ patterns by amphipliles

Rumana Akther Jahan, Kosuke Suzuki, Hitoshi Mahara, Tomohiko Yamaguchi

P08
Method to control dynamics of coupled oscillators using multi-linear feedback

Takeshi Kano

P09
On the intermittency phenomena in the shell-model turbulence

Miki Kobayashi

P10
Design principle of multi-cluster and desynchronized states in oscillatory media

Yasuaki Kobayashi

P11
Dynamical response of oscillator networks: linking cell-level and system-level responses

Hiroshi Kori

P12
The total regulation of gene expression by DNA- membrane complexes formation

Vasily V. Kuvichkin

P13
Multiscale Networks of Interacting Biological Systems: From network constructions to causality among them

Chun Biu Li

P14
Self-sustained Oscillation in a Non-oscillatory Cell Chain and Its Bifurcation Analysis

Ma Yue

P15
The relation between thermodynamic indices and pattern formation

Hitoshi Mahara

P16
Freezing transition of unidirectional lattice-gas flow of flexible chainlike objects

Takashi Mashiko, Yasuhito Imanishi, Ryota Kuwajima, Takashi Nagatani

P17
Distribution of residence time at quasi-stationary states in globally coupled map

Akira Masumi, Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Takashi Hashimoto

P18
Mathematical analysis on a continuum model for a flow of granular materials

Naoto Nakano

P19
Achievement of Emergent Alternative Configurations of Vehicle for Easing Traffic Congestion on Weaving Sections

Ryosuke Nishi, Hiroshi Miki, Akiyasu Tomoeda, Katsuhiro Nishinari

P20
Discreteness-induced pattern formation in nonlinear proliferation systems

Kenta Odagiri

P21
Memory, hysteresis and oscillation induced by multiple covalent modifications and its application to circadian rhythm of Cyanobacteria

Isamu Ohnishi

P22
Flexible biochemical switches based on mixed feedback loops

Benjamin Pfeuty

P23
Time Averaged Properties along Unstable Periodic Orbits in Some Systems of Differential Equations

Yoshitaka SAIKI

P24
Heteroclinic cycle and propagating pulse wave in a ring of coupled bistable oscillators

Kuniyasu Shimizu

P25
Pattern evolution on the surface of reactive oil droplets

Kosuke Suzuki, Tomohiko Yamaguchi

P26
Swarm Oscillators

Dan Tanaka

P27
Two-parameter bifurcations in the Hodgkin-Huxley equations for muscle

Kazuko Terada

P28
Folding patterns of stable/unstable manifolds in high dimensional dynamical systems

Hiroshi Teramoto

P29
Spatiotemporal Pattern Formation in the Molecular Machinery in Biological Systems

Yuichi Togashi

P30
Perturbation Analysis of Anisotropic Traffic Flow Model

Akiyasu Tomoeda, Daisuke Shamoto, Ryosuke Nishi, Kazumichi Otsuka, Katsuhiro Nishinari

P31
Position control of target pattern by annulus illumination on Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction

Toshihiro Tsuzuki

P32
Front interactions in a three component system

Peter van Heijster

P33
Self-Organized Pattern Formation of Bacteria Colony

Joe Yuichiro Wakano

P34
Periodic solution of the cylinder wake

Takeshi Watanabe

P35
Nonlocal Comlex Ginzburg-Landau equation as a model of single Dictyostelium discoideum cell

Miki M. Yamamoto

P36
Adaptive locomotion to friction change in one-dimensional modular robot

Tetsuya Yamamoto

P37
Effect of Conflicts and Turning on Pedestrian Outflow through an Exit

Daichi Yanagisawa, Ayako Kimura, Akiyasu Tomoeda, Ryosuke Nishi, Yushi Suma, Kazumichi Ohtsuka, Katsuhiro Nishinari

P38
Spot Dynamics of Reaction-diffusion system in Heterogeneous Media

Xiaohui Yuan, Takashi Teramoto, Yasumasa Nishiura


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