3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Room: Ballroom II
Networks of nonlinear oscillators arise in many branches of science and engineering. They also pose fascinating mathematical problems that link dynamical systems theory to statistical mechanics, graph theory, and distributed computation. This minisymposium surveys recent developments in oscillator networks. The topics run the gamut from traditional with a twist (new bifurcation scenario in injection-locked lasers), to cutting-edge contemporary (phase locking and signal encoding in neural nets), to offbeat (why "six degrees of separation" may be much more than a curiosity of social networks).
Organizer: Steven H. Strogatz
Cornell University, NY
Paul C. Bressloff
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
LMH, 1/8/99, MMD, 2/9/99