MEDYFINOL'06

 

20th Anniversary

XV Conference on Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Nonlinear Physics

(XV Reunión de Mecánica Estadística de no Equilibrio y Física no Lineal)

                               

 

    INVITED SPEAKERS (1, 2)

INVITED CONTRIBUTORS (talks and posters)

 

CONTRIBUTORS (Posters)

SPEAKER

TALK ABS.

Dr. Ezequiel Albano

Instituto de  Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas  (INIFTA)

Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)  

Suc. 4, C.C. 16, 1900 La Plata, Argentina 

ealbano@inifta.unlp.edu.ar

"Simulation studies of far-from equilibrium systems"

 

OK

Dr. Jeferson J. Arenzon              

Instituto de Fisica

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

CP15051-91501-970 Porto Alegre,  Brazil

arenzon@if.ufrgs.br

"Diffusive spatial games: is mobility good for cooperation?

 

Dr. Constancio Miguel Arizmendi     

Departamento de Física

Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

Av. Juan B Justo 4302, 

7600 Mar del Plata, Argentina

arizmend@fi.mdp.edu.ar

 "Paradoxical Way for Losers in a Dating Game"

OK

Dr. Marcel Ausloos

S.U.P.R.A.S.,
Institut de Physique B5,
Sart Tilman, Université de Liège,
B-4000 Liège, Belgium

marcel.ausloos@ulg.ac.be

"Non extensive statistical mechanics similarities and differences between SOI (Southern Oscillation Index for El Niño) and S&P500" OK

 Dr. Pablo Balenzuela:

Departamento de Física

Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales

Universidad de Buenos Aires

Pabellón I - Ciudad Universitaria

1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina

pbalen@gmail.com

"Physics of complex sound perception" OK

Dr. Marcia Barbosa                    

Instituto de Física,

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

91501-970 Porto Alegre, Brasil

barbosa@if.ufrgs.br

 

"Thermodynamic, Dynamic and Structural Anomalies in
Water and Water-like potentials"
OK

Dr. Edward Bernat

Psychology Department

University of Minneapolis,

N218 Elliott Hall
75 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0344

ebernat@umn.edu

"Evaluating Structural and Neural Properties of Time-Frequency Activity
Extracted Using Principal Components Analysis."
OK

Dr. Stefan Boettcher

Physics Dept.               off.:(404)727-4298

Emory University        fax:(404)727-0873

Atlanta, GA 30322     

sboettc@emory.edu

"Optimization with Extremal Dynamics".

OK

Dr. Helmut Brand                

Physikalisches Institut

Universität Bayreuth

D-95440 Bayreuth

Germany

brand@uni-bayreuth.de

"Particles and Holes in the cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation:
Selected Recent Developments"

 

OK

Dr. Steven Bressler

Center for Complex Systems & Brain Sciences

Department of Psychology
Florida Atlantic University
777
Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431 USA

bressler@fau.edu

"Derivation of Network Graphs by Autoregressive Spectral Analysis of Neuroelectric Data

OK

Dr. Rafael Delgado Buscalioni

Departamento de Ciencias y Técnicas Fisicoquímicas,

 Facultad de Ciencias UNED

C/ Senda del Rey, Nº 9- Madrid 28040, Spain

"Cyclic motion of grated polymers under shear flow"

OK

Dr. Hector Calisto

Facultad de Ciencias

Universidad de Tarapacá

Arica -  Chile

hcalisto@uta.cl

"On the stochastic resonance in linear systems"  OK

Dr. Sergio Cannas

Instituto de Física,

Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Ciudad Universitaria, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina

cannas@famaf.unc.edu.ar

 

"Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and pattern formation in a lattice model with competing
long range and short range interactions"
OK

Dr. Montserrat Casas         

Departament de Fisica

Universitat de les  Illes Balears,

E-070701 Palma de Mallorca, Spain

montse.casas@uib.es

 

"The role of entanglement in the evolution of quantum states"

OK

Dr. Guillermo A. Cecchi

Center for Studies in Physics and Biology

The Rockefeller University

1230 York Avenue, Box 212

New York, NY10021

gcecchi@us.ibm.com

guille@babel.rockefeller.edu

 "Physics of large scale brain organization"

OK

Dr. Enrique Cerda

Departamento de Física

Universidad de Santiago

Santiago de Chile, Chile

ecerda@lauca.usach.cl

"Geometry of Peeled Surfaces" OK

Dr. Dante R Chialvo              

Department of Physiology

Feinberg Medical School,

Northwestern University,

303 East Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL 60611, USA

d-chialvo@northwestern.edu

 "The brain near the edge"

OK

Dr. Jaime Cisternas

Facultad de Ingeniería

Universidad de los Andes

Santiago de Chile, Chile

jcisternas@uandes.cl

"Modelling of Infectious Diseases in Farm Salmon" OK

Dr. Marcel Clerc

Departamento de Física,

Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas

Universidad de Chile

Casilla 487-3, Santiago, Chile

marcel@dfi.uchile.cl

"Depinning effect of interface connecting stripe pattern and uniform state induced by zig-zag instability" 

OK

 Dr. Mauro Copelli

Departamento de Fisica,    

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

50670-901 Recife, PE, BRAZIL,

mcopelli@df.ufpe.br

"Physics of Psychophysics: Optimal Dynamic Range in a Critical Network
of Excitable Elements"
 
OK

Dr. Patricio Cordero           

Departamento de Fisica        

Universidad de Chile,

Casilla 487-3, Santiago, Chile

pcordero@dfi.uchile.cl

 

"Phase transition in an excited thin granular system"
OK
Prof. Dr. Roberto Deza
Departamento de Física
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
Universidad de Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata, Argentina
"Noise-induced phase transitions: effects of the noise's
statistics and spectrum"
OK

Dr. Thomas Dittrich    

Departamento de Física

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Ciudad Universitaria, Santafe de Bogota

Bogotá, Colombia

tdittrich@unal.edu.co

"Time-domain scars in the Wigner propagator for chaotic systems".

 

OK

Dr. Cristina Donnamaria  

Instituto de Fisica de Liquidos y Sistemas Biologicos

IFLISB

59 N 798 – C.C. 565

1900 La Plata, Argentina

 mcdonna@lpsat.com

"Modeling of Biopeptides in Physiological solutions. Molecular dynamics simulations"

 

OK

Dr. Joern Dunkel

Institute of Physics

Universität Augsburg
Universitätsstr. 1 / Geb. Nord
D-86135 Augsburg , Germany

joern.dunkel@physik.uni-augsburg.de

"Relativistic Brownian Motion: From the microscopic model to the Langevin
Equation"
OK

Dr. Fereydoon Family

Department of Physics

Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA

(404)727-4293, FAX (404)727-0873

phyff@emory.edu

"Rate Equation Approach to Cluster Size Distribution: Beyond Mean-Field Approximation"

OK

Dr. Alejandra Figliola         

Instituto de Desarrollo Humano,

Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento.

Campus Universitario, Modulo 5,

Juan Maria Gutierrez 1150,

Los Polvorines, Pcia. de Buenos Aires, Argentina

afigliol@ungs.edu.ar

 "Study Of The Long Scaling Behaviour Of Eeg Brain Maduration Signals With Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis"

OK

Dr. Athanasios Gavrielides

Air Force Research Laboratory

Aberdeen Avenue SE, Kirtland

3550  AFB, NM 87117, USA

athanasios.gavrielides@kirtland.af.mil

"Square wave oscillations and chaos synchronization in diode lasers with incoherent optical feedback"

OK

Dr. Theo Geisel

Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Dept. of Nonlinear Dynamics
Postfach 2853
37018
Göttingen, Germany

geisel@ds.mpg.de

"The Scaling Laws of Human Travel 
- Forecasting Epidemics in a Globalized World"
OK

Dr. Richard Gerlach 

Department of Econometrics and

Business Statistics School of Economics and

Political Science University of Sydney

r.gerlach@econ.usyd.edu.au

"Inference and model comparison for asymmetric smooth transition heteroskedastic models"

OK

Dr. George Hentschel

Department of Physics

Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA

(404)727-4293, FAX (404)727-0873

phshgeh@physics.emory.edu

 "Statistical Mechanics and Viscosity of the Glass Transition"

OK

Dr. Emilio Hernandez Garcia

Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados

IMEDEA

Campus de la Universitat de les Illes Balears

Edifici Beatriz de Pinos

E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain

emilio@imedea.uib.es

 "Genetic Similarity and Evolutionary Networks"

OK

Dr. Christoph Herrmann

Lehrstuhl Biologische Psychologie

Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

Institut für Psychologie

Postfach 4120, D-39016 Magdeburg, Germany

Christoph.Herrmann@nat.uni-magdeburg.de

 "The role of amplitude and phase modulations in human EEG oscillations"

OK

Dr. Rudolf Hilfer,

ICA-1, Universität Stuttgart,

Pfaffenwaldring 27,

D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany

"hilfer"@ica1.uni-stuttgart.de

"Applications of Fractional Calculus in Statistical Mechanics and Nonlinear Dynamics"

OK

Dr. José Roberto Iglesias

Instituto de Física,

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul,
Porto Alegre, Brasil.

iglesias@if.ufrgs.br

 

"The unfair consequences of equal opportunities: comparing exchange models of wealth distribution"
 

OK

Dr. Jürgen Kurths
Institut für Physik

Universität Potsdam
Neuen Palais, Gebäude 19
D-14415 Potsdam, Germany

jkurths@agnld.uni-potsdam.de

jkurths@gmx.de

 "Synchronization and Complex Networks"

OK

Dr. Walter Lamberti

Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Córdoba, Argentina

lamberti@fis.uncor.edu

 "The Notion of Distance in Statistical Mechanics and Applications"

OK

Dr. Katja Lindenberg          

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

University of California, San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive,

La Jolla, CA 92093-0340, USA

klindenberg@ucsd.edu

"The Universality of Synchrony: Critical Behavior in a Discrete Model of Stochastic Phase Coupled Oscillators" 

OK

 Dr. Ricardo López Ruiz

DIIS and BIFI, Facultad de Ciencias,

Universidad de Zaragoza,

50009 Zaragoza, Spain

rilopez@unizar.es

 

"Bistability: a common feature in some aggregates of logistic maps"
OK