Friday, August 11

MS34
Phase Locking in Chaotic Systems

1:30 PM-3:30 PM
Anthurium &Ginger (Salon 1 & 2)

Although phase locking in periodic systems has been studied since the 17th century, phase locking in chaotic systems has received major attention only within the last decade. This minisymposium will address the problems of finding appropriate methods for the analysis and description of the phenomenon, its detection in nature, and possible applications. The speakers will discuss instances of the phenomenon in biological and electrical systems, and plasmas, and present numerical simulations. The minisymposium should be of particular interest to researchers in neuroscience, mathematical biology and lattice dynamics; fields in which phase locking plays a crucial role.

1:30-1:55 Chaotic Phase Locking in Theory and Practice

Kresimir Josic, Organizer; and Douglas J. Mar, Boston University, USA

2:00-2:25 Phase Synchronization: from Theory to Data Analysis

Jürgen Kurths, M. Rosenblum, and A. Pikovsky, University of Potsdam, Germany

2:30-2:55 Origin of Phase Synchronization via Phase Jumps in Two Coupled Chaotic Oscillators

Chil-Min Kim, Won-Ho Kye, Sunghwan Rim, In-Bo Kim, Dong-Uk Hwang, and Young-Jai Park, Pai Chai University, Korea

3:00-3:25 Noise Scaling of Phase Synchronization and Experimental Observation of Lag Synchronization in Coupled Chaotic Systems

�Ying-Cheng Lai, Arizona State University