[This is the old program from WS 2006/07. The current program and contact information can be found here.]

16 October 2006, 17:00

Hsuan-Yi Chen (Department of Physics and Graduate School of Biophysics, National Central University, Taiwan)
Models of nonequilibrium domains in biomembranes [Abstract]

03 November 2006, 16:00

Ichiro Tsuda (Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)
Modeling episodic brain memory [Abstract]

17 November 2006, 16:00

Marc-Thorsten Hütt (School of Engineering and Science, International University Bremen IUB)
Exploring biological networks with dynamic probes

Abstract:
Understanding how the topology of a network regulates, influences, constrains or even enhances the dynamics upon it is becoming the key question of research on biological networks. Within this talk I will qualitatively look at this link between topology and dynamics and discuss a few observations from implementing simple dynamic processes on complex networks. By simulating such processes on real networks we can, e.g., consider them as noise-processing devices or ask for the capacity of a network to host complex dynamic behavior. The general method will be illustrated on metabolic network and transcriptional regulatory networks.
In the case of metabolic networks, for example, we find that their response is highly specific: Complex dynamics are systematically reduced on metabolic networks compared to networks with similar topologies. Already small topological modifications substantially enhance the capacity of a network to host complex dynamic behavior and thus reduce its regularizing powers. This exceptionally pronounced regularization of dynamics encoded in the topology may explain, why steady-state behavior is ubiquitous in metabolism.

24 November 2006, 16:00

Yuka Tabe (Department of Applied Physics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan)
Dissipative structures in molecular thin films [Abstract]

01 December 2006, 16:00, Habervilla, Faradayweg 8

Carsten Beta (Department of Fluid Dynamics, Pattern Formation and Nanobiocomplexity, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen)
Directional sensing - an experimental approach based on microfluidics [Abstract]

19 January 2007, 16:00

James Sneyd (Dept. of Mathematics, University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Calcium oscillations: Using mathematics to do physiology [Abstract]

02 February 2007, 16:00

Vadim N. Biktashev (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK)
Asymptotic approaches to cardiac excitation models [Abstract]

16 February 2007, 16:00

Chaiya Luengviriya (Institut für Experimentelle Physik, Universität Magdeburg)
Scroll wave instabilities in a chemical excitable medium [Abstract]