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Short Thematic Program on Delay Differential Equations
May 2015
Organizing Committee
Odo Diekmann (Utrecht)
Sue Ann Campbell (Waterloo)
Stephen Gourley (Surrey)
Yuliya Kyrychko (Sussex)

Eckehard Schöll (TU Berlin)
Michael Mackey (McGill)
Hans-Otto Walther (Giessen)
Glenn Webb (Vanderbilt)
Jianhong Wu (York)


May 11-15, 2015
Theme: Delay-Differential equations in physical sciences and engineering

Thematic leader: Eckehard Schöll, TU Berlin; Yuliya Kyrychko, Sussex

Opening talk, Ingo Fischer (Palma)
Public lecture, Gabor Stepan (Budapest)
Invited lectures, poster session and panel discussions



Schedule

Monday, 11 May 2015

8:30-9:00

Coffee and Registration

9:00-9:30

Opening Remarks

9:30-10:30

Ingo Fischer, Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems, Palma de Mallorca
Delays in Physical Systems: Nuisance, Challenges and Opportunities

10:30-11:00

Coffee

11:00-11:45

Anna Zakharova, Technische Universität Berlin
Time delay control of symmetry-breaking patterns: oscillation death and chimera states

11:45-12:30

Jan Sieber, University of Exeter
Extended time-delayed feedback and its odd-number limitation

12:30-14:30

Lunch
14:30-15:15
Laurent Larger, Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies,
Delay dynamics explored through signal and information photonic processing
15:15-16:00
Bernd Krauskopf, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Pulsed lasers with delay
16:00-16:30

Tea

16:30-17:15

Cristina Masoller, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Optical spikes in the delayed Lang-Kobayashi equations: interplay of modulation and delay
4:30
Cash Bar Reception
Tuesday, 12 May 2015

9:00-9:45

Thomas Erneux, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Time delay, excitability, and multi – rhythmicity

9:45-10:30

Kathy Lüdge, Freie Universität Berlin
Optical delays for improving the dynamic behavior of passively mode-locked lasers

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-11:45

Xinzhi Liu, University of Waterloo
Analysis of hybrid dynamical systems with time delays

11:45-12:30

Yuliya Kyrychko, University of Sussex
Dynamics of neural and genetic networks with discrete and distributed delays

12:30-14:30

Lunch break

14:30-17:30

Poster Session and Scientific Discussions

Wednesday, 13 May 2015

9:00-9:45

Jian-Qiao Sun, University of California, Merced
Multi-objective optimal design of feedback controls for nonlinear dynamical systems with time delay

9:45-10:30

Thilo Gross, University of Bristol
Dynamical motifs in networks of delay-coupled delay oscillators

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-11:45

Konstantin Blyuss, University of Sussex
Dynamics of coupled oscillators with distributed-delay coupling

11:45-12:30

Oleksandr Popovych, Juelich, Germany

12:30-

Lunch/Excursion
Thursday, 14 May 2015

9:00-9:45

Daniel J. Gauthier, Duke University, Durham, NC
Reservoir computing using autonomous time-delay Boolean networks

9:45-10:30

Otti D’Huys, Duke University, Durham, NC
Extreme transients in autonomous time-delay Boolean networks

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-11:45

Sabine Klapp, Technische Universität Berlin
Delay-differential equations for driven soft-matter systems

11:45-12:30

Philipp Hövel, Technische Universität Berlin
Control of cluster synchronization in delay-coupled oscillators by network adaptation

12:30-14:30

Lunch

14:30-15:30

Public Lecture
Gabor Stepan,
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Delay models for dynamic contact problems: machine tool vibrations

15:30-16:00

Tea break

16:00-17:00

Panel Discussion of open problems

19:00-

Conference dinner
Friday, 15 May 2015

9:30-10:15

Andre Longtin, University of Ottawa
Delay-induced linearization and paradoxical oscillations in feedforward nets

10:15-11:00

Rachel Kuske, University of British Columbia
New pattern dynamics in stochastic PDEs with Pyragas control

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-12:15

Serhiy Yanchuk, Humboldt University of Berlin
Multistable jittering in oscillators with pulsatile delayed feedback

12:15-13:00

Gabor Orosz, University of Michigan
Stochastic delayed dynamics and its applications to connected vehicles

13:00-13:30

Closing remarks

13:30-

Lunch + Open scientific discussions