ESF Programme: REACTOR

Workshop

Leeds 7-9 September, 2001

Friday

Evening Session

Introduction

Contributed talks

Milos Marek: Review of work of the Prague Group.

Silvia De Monte: Analysis of the locked state of coupled Ginzburg-Landau oscillators through expansion in order parameters.

Zoltan Neufeld: Reaction-diffusion fronts in chaotic flows.

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Saturday

Morning Session

Main Talk

Alexander Feigin: Nonlinear dynamical properties of atmospheric photochemistry: Investigations and manifestations.

Contributed talks

Dirk Poppe: Nonlinear processes in the gas-phase chemistry of the troposphere.

Philip Trevelyan: 2D flow down a vertical wall in the presence of a first-order exothermic reaction.

Coffee/tea

Contributed talks

Michael Belk : Numerical results on thermal explosion coupled with convection.

Alice Lazarovici: Flame quenching through endothermic reaction.

Agota Toth: Convective instability in acidity fronts.

Michael Baune: Chemically induced hydrodynamic pattern formation.

Afternoon Session

Main Talk

Irv Epstein: New spatiotemporal phenomena in BZ-AOT microemulsions.

Contributed talks

Jonathan Bamforth: Flow distributed oscillations.

Michael Hildebrand: Synchronization of spatiotemporal patterns in locally coupled excitable media.

Coffee/tea

Contributed talks

Jacques Boissonade: Effects of differential diffusion in an open spatial reactor.

Jerzy Gorecki: On the switching properties in a cross junction of chemical excitable media.

Michael Stich: Pattern formation near the onset of birhythmicity.

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Sunday

Morning Session

Main Talk

Hans Westeroff: A Biologist's view of oscillations in yeast cells.

Contributed talks

Lenka Forstova: Experimental investigations of effects of an imposed electric field on aggregation of Dictyostelium discoideum.

Mads Ipsen: Nanoscale pattern formation in catalytic reactions with surface phase transitions.

Coffee/tea

Contributed talks

Jiri Lindner: Nonlinear behaviour of acid-base electrolyte diode.

Maria Wittmann: Direct evidence for fixed charges in the hydrogel of an electrolyte diode.

Florian Plenge: Breathing current domains in globally coupled electrochemical systems.

Dali Snita: Nonlinear properties of ion-exchange and bipolar membranes.

Afternoon Session

Contributed talks

Zdenek Grof: Dynamics of growth of polymer particles in heterogeneous catalytic reactors.  

Maro Rustici: Effect of the reactor geometry on the onset of transient chaos in an unstirred batch Belousov-Zhabotinsky system

Peter Hantz: Macroscopic and microscopic patterns formed in reaction-diffusion systems of inorganic compounds.

Razvan Satnoianu: Turing instability in general systems.

Coffee/tea

Contributed talks

Yong-Jun Li: Pattern formation during periodate reduction on Au(III) film electrode in NaClO₄ and NaClO₄  - camphor electrolytes.

Matthias Bertram: Global feedback control of turbulence in the catalytic CO oxidation on Pt(110).

Miklos Orban: The oscillatory and two-dimensional bromate-1,4 cyclohexanedione-ferroin system: Experiments and simulations.

Igor Schreiber: Threshold sets and nonlinear dynamics in coupled arrays of excitable systems subject to periodic stimuli.

Concluding Remarks

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Posters

Khalid Benyaich (Belgium): Nonlinear chemistry in the presence of volume phase transitions.

Rinaldo Cervellati (Italy): Determination of antioxidants using the Briggs-Rauscher oscillating reaction.

Lukasz Cwiklik (Poland): TBA

Sune Dano (Denmark): Quantitative modelling of glycolytic oscillations.

Matt Davies (UK): Nonlinear phenomena of the fed-batch reactor.

Francesco d'Ovidio (Denmark): Singular perturbations in a population of globally coupled oscillators.

Vilmos Gaspar (Hungary): Flow distributed oscillation patterns in the BZ reaction.

Jerzy Gorecki (Poland): On the switching properties in a cross junction of chemical excitable media.

Zdenek Grof (Czech Rep.): Meso-scale modelling of morphogenesis of polymer particles.

Jesper Hansen (Denmark): A study of the dynamics of a class of reaction-diffusion mechanisms.

Barbara Jagoda (Poland): TBA

Eva Jakab (Hungary): Temperature controlled cellular fronts.

Istvan Kiss (UK): Electric field effects on waves in the Oregonator model for the BZ reaction.

Arno Munster (Germany): Control and coupling of spiral waves in an excitable medium.

Lenka Schreiberova (Czech Rep.): Bifurcation diagrams for the bromate-sulphite-ferrocyanide reaction.

Hana Sevcikova (Czech Rep.): The formation of localized wave initiation sites in aggregating Dictyostelium discoideum.

Jakub Sielewiesuik (Poland): On the switching properties of a passive gap in chemical excitable media.

Peter Simon (UK): Quenching of flame propagation with heat loss.

Henrik Skodt (Denmark): TBA

Istvan Szalai (Hungary): Mechanistic studies on the bromate-1,4-cyclohexanedione-ferroin oscillatory reaction.

Rita Toth (Hungary): Flow distributed oscillation patterns in the BZ reaction.

Philip Trevelyan (UK): 2D flow down a vertical wall in the presence of a first-order exothermic reaction.

Hamilton Verela (Germany): Complex voltametric response in the course of hydrogen oxidation on Pt.

Jianbo Yang (UK): Wave propagation in spatially distributed excitable media.

Jiri Zagora (Czech Rep.): Dynamics of periodically perturbed bromate-sulphite-ferrocyanide system.