Topics and Special Sessions Proposed


The Conference includes three types of presentations

Every Special Session includes 4-5 presentations.
The session organizer is responsible for the selection and the review process of the papers of his session.

The topics and the special sessions proposed for the Conference Chaos2008 include but are not limited to:



1. Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics
Nonlinear dynamics of continuous, discontinuous and hybrid systems
Nonlinear dynamics and chaos in engineering applications (Anatoly Kolesnikov, Russia)
Qualitative and quantitative analysis of nonlinear dynamic systems
Synchronization and control of dynamical systems (Tassos Bountis, Greece)
Classical Deterministic Chaos
Dynamical processes: theory and applications
Complex dynamical systems
Extremes in Chaotic Systems (Valerio Lucarini, Italy)
Differential equations and new transforms applications (Prabhat Mahanti, Canada)
Nonlinear fractional partial differential equations
Integral equations and applications
Topological dynamics
Asymptotic Methods
Numerical and geometrical methods in nonlinear dynamics
Computational Aspects (Prabhat Mahanti, Canada)
Computer aided symbolic methods in dynamics
Symmetries and perturbation methods
Chaos: critical behavior and universality
Liapunov functions
Phase diagrams
Bifurcation theory
Analysis of bifurcations and chaos
Hopf Bifurcation, sequence of period-doubling bifurcations and chaos
Chaotic models and attractors (Logistic, Hénon, Lorenz, Rössler,...)
Chaotic network dynamics (Alexander S. Mikhailov, Germany)
Fractals





8. Chaos in Climate Dynamics

Chaos in simplified Climate Models (The Lorenz model) (Valerio Lucarini, Italy)
Weather forecasts
Earth's climate




9. Geophysical Flows (Sergey Prants)
Geodesic flows
Spatially extended systems
Spatiotemporal pattern formation and chaos
Vortex ripples in sand
Coupled map lattice and spatiotemporal pattern formation
Self-Organized criticality (Deepak Dhar, India)
Multifractal geophysics




2. Stochastic Chaos
Stochastic Chaos versus Deterministic
Bifurcation to stochastic chaos
Stochastic global bifurcation in perturbed Hamiltonian systems
Stochastic chaos in Fokker-Planck equations
Stochastic chaos and its control
Bifurcation and Chaotic Analysis of Stochastic Duffing System
Stochastic chaos: an analogue of quantum chaos
Heterogeneity and stochastic chaos in stock markets
Stochastic chaos in Ecology
The transition from deterministic chaos to a stochastic process
Chaotic Transitions in Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamical Systems
Stochasticity and deterministic chaos
Nonlinear Stochastic Systems

3. Chemical Chaos (Alexander S. Mikhailov, Germany)
Chemical reaction chaos
Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reactions
Reaction diffusion patterns
Pattern-Formation
Spatially extended systems and pattern formation



4. Data Analysis and  Chaos
Analysis of chaotic data (Vaclav Snassel, Czech Republic)
Chaos and time-series analysis
Principal Component Analysis and Chaos
Data analysis and spatiotemporal chaos
Chaos and innovation
Polynomial chaos
Embbeding chaos

5. Hydrodynamics, Turbulence and Plasmas (Sergey Prants, Russia)
Turbulence
Turbulent Transport
Turbulence simulation (D. Panagiotounakos, Greece)
Entropy of particles on a turbulent sea
Rayleigh-Benard convection
Fluid Mechanics and Turbulence (Gianni Petrizzetti, Italy)
Chaotic advection
Chaotic advection in oscillatory flows
Von Karman flow
Von Karman vortex streets

6. Optics and Chaos
Nonlinear optics
Laser optics and chaos
The Ikeda attractor
Quantum chaos


7. Chaotic Oscillations and Circuits (Victor Grigoras, Romania)
Chaotic delay equations
Chaotic communication
Chaotic oscillators (Wencheng Li, China)
Phenomena and criteria of chaotic oscillations
Nonlinear Vibrations and Applications
Van der Pol oscillators
Chaotic synchronization
SHIL’NIKOV Chaos
CHUA’S oscillators
Synchronization and delay between signals
Nonlinear filtering and communication
Control of oscillations and chaos
Control of Chaos and Synchronization
Chaos and multi channel communication (Rudolf Sprik, The Netherlands)


 


10. Biology and Chaos
Computational Biology and Chaos
Fractal geometry in Biology
Chaos control in Biology
Nonlinear dynamics of protein folding
Biomechanics (Gianni Pedrizzetti, Italy)

11. Neurophysiology and Chaos
Neurons and Chaos
Chaos in the Brain
Chaos in the Heart
Neurocomputation
Parameter estimation for neuron models

12. Hamiltonian systems (Thomas Seligman)
Dynamics of conservative and dissipative systems
Flow equations for Hamiltonians
Ergodic theory
Hamiltonian and Quantum Chaos(Thomas Seligman)

13. Chaos in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Chaos in the Solar system
N-body Chaos
Dynamics and Optimization of Multibody Systems
Chaos in Galaxies
The Hénon-Heiles system
Order and chaos in galaxies
Galaxy simulations
Nonlinearity in Plasma and Astrophysics

14. Chaos and Solitons
Integrable Systems and Solitons (Nail Akhmediev, Australia)
The Korteweg–de Vries equation
Bifurcation and chaos in the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation
The generalized KdV-Burgers' equation
The Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation
The sine-Gordon equation
The generalized Burgers-Huxley equation
Darboux transformations for soliton equations

15. Micro- and Nano- Electro-Mechanical Systems
Electrospun Nanofibers and applications
Nonlinear phenomena in electrospinning
Micro egg-shaped product via electrospinning

16. Neural Networks (M. Christodoulou, Greece)
Fuzzy neural networks
Discrete-time recurrent neural networks

Delayed neural networks
Fuzzy bilinear systems
Fuzzy control (Yannis Boutalis, Greece)


17. Chaos, Ecology and Economy (Pasquale Commendatore, Italy)
Bifurcations and chaos in ecology
Nonlinear dynamics in spatial systems
Evolution on eco-epidemiological systems
Surviving chaos and change
Oscillations and chaos in dynamic economic models
Control of chaotic population dynamics
Sustainable development


 

 


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