Workshop program
| Sunday, May 4th | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Registration |
| 19:00 - | Welcome banquet |
| Monday, May 5th | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Registration |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Opening by J.-M. Rost, the Managing Director of the MPIPKS |
| 10:00 - 10:40 | Igor Belykh (Georgia State University, USA) |
| Synchronized bursting in complex neural networks | |
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Changsong Zhou (Hong Kong Baptist University, P.R. China) |
| Structure-function relationship in a complex brain network by multilevel modeling | |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Coffee break |
| 12:00 - 12:40 | Jürgen Jost (Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften Leipzig, Germany) |
| Spectral analysis of complex networks | |
| 12:40 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Eckehard Schöll (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany) |
| The role of time delay in coupled excitable systems | |
| 14:40 - 15:20 | Irene Sendina-Nadal (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Mostoles, Spain) |
| Scale-free topologies out of an entrainment process of a network of phase oscillators | |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Philipp Hövel (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany) |
| Synchronization of coupled neurons and extended time-delayed feedback | |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Alexander Khramov (Saratov State University, Russia) |
| The study of the synchronous behavior of the networks consisting of equal elements with slightly different control parameter values | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:40 | BIONET08 Colloquium Guido Caldarelli (CNR-INFM Roma, Italy) |
| Self-organized network evolution coupled to extremal dynamics | |
| 17:40 - 19:30 | Supper |
| Tuesday, May 6th | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Regino Criado Herrero (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Mostoles, Spain) |
| Different approaches to complex networks' vulnerability | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Gourab Ghoshal (University of Michigan, USA) |
| Extensions of network robustness: The case of bicomponents and higher k-components | |
| 10:20 - 11:00 | Group photo & coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Claudius Gros (J.W. von Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany) |
| The role of self-sustained dynamical activity in generalized neural nets | |
| 11:40 - 12:20 | Marc Timme (MPI für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation Göttingen, Germany) |
| Inverse methods for dynamical networks: Which connectivities generate a given dynamics? | |
| 12:20 - 12:40 | Gorka Zamora-López (Universität Potsdam, Germany) |
| Random digraphs with arbitrary assortativity structure: E.g. degree correlations | |
| 12:40 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Bernd Blasius (Universität Oldenburg, Germany) |
| Seasonally modulated transport networks - a lesson from bird migration | |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Hiroya Nakao (Fritz-Haber-Institut Berlin, Germany and Kyoto University, Japan) |
| Turing patterns on random networks | |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Alexey Koronovskii (Saratov State University, Russia) |
| Synchronous behavior of the networks consisting of spatially extended systems | |
| 15:20 - 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Marija Mitrovic (Scientific Computing Laboratory Belgrade, Serbia) |
| Modularity of networks from the perspective of spectral analysis | |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Reik Donner (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany) |
| Common design principles in biological and technological transportation networks | |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Kathrin Padberg (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany) |
| Bio-inspired network dynamics | |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Poster session |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Supper |
| Wednesday, May 7th | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Reinhard Lipowsky (Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung Golm, Germany) |
| Dynamics on networks | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Klaus Lehnertz (Universität Bonn, Germany) |
| Epileptic brain networks | |
| 10:20 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Eshel Ben-Jacob (Tel Aviv University, Israel) |
| Functional role of bionetworks complexity | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Martin Zapotocky (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) |
| Dynamics of axon fasciculation in the presence of neural turnover | |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Martin Zumsande (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme Dresden, Germany) |
| The dynamics of the MAPK signaling cascade | |
| 12:20 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 19:00 | Excursion (steamboat ride and walking tour through the Pillnitz park) |
| 19:00 - | Conference dinner in the Schlosshotel Pillnitz |
| Thursday, May 8th | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Alexander Mikhailov (Fritz-Haber-Institut Berlin, Germany) |
| Elastic-network models of protein machines | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Arne Traulsen (Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionsbiologie Plön, Germany) |
| Cooperation in group-structured populations | |
| 10:20 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Albert Diaz-Guilera (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) |
| Synchronization in structured networks | |
| 11:40 - 12:20 | Andreas Amann (University College cork, Ireland) |
| Complex networks based on discrete mode lasers | |
| 12:20 - 12:40 | Diego Liberati (Italian National Research Council Milano, Italy) |
| Structured dynamics is topology driven both in cell metabolism and in neural system | |
| 12:40 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Sarika Jalan (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme Dresden, Germany) |
| How much random a random network is : A random matrix analysis | |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Santiago Gil (Fritz-Haber-Institut Berlin, Germany) |
| Control of chaos in complex networks | |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Jesus Gomez-Gardenes (Universidad Rovira i Virgili Tarragona, Spain) |
| Entropy rate of diffusion processes on complex networks: A dynamical characterization of network topology | |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Alejandro Mora (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Columbia) |
| The modeling of the dengue fever virus transmission network: Dynamics of the vector-host interactions in urban areas | |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Agnes Szejka (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany) |
| The phase diagram of random threshold networks | |
| 16:00 - 16:40 | Coffee break |
| 16:40 - 17:20 | Yamir Moreno (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain) |
| Complex cooperative networks from evolutionary preferential attachment | |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | Maria Vela (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Mostoles, Spain) |
| Node-based and edge-based multi-scale vulnerabilities | |
| 17:40 - 18:00 | Gautam Sethia (Institute of Plasma Research Gandhinagar, India) |
| Delay breaks up chimera: A unique state of clustered chimera | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Supper |
| Friday, May 9th | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Fatihcan Atay (Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften Leipzig, Germany) |
| Dynamics on networks with time delays | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Mark Fricker (University of Oxford, UK) |
| Transport efficiency and resilience in mycelial networks | |
| 10:20 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Kenneth Showalter (West Virgina University, USA) |
| Spatiotemporal networks in addressable excitable media | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Closing remarks |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
For further information please e-mail to: bionet08@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de
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