Speaker: Ernest Barreto, Physics and Krasnow Institute, George Mason University
Title: Synchronization in interacting populations of oscillators
Abstract: The Kuramoto system is a paradigmatic example that illuminates the mechanisms by which synchronization arises in a large set of heterogeneous and globally-coupled oscillators. Motivated by neurobiological dynamics, we study multiple interacting Kuramoto systems in which the connectivity is specified by a general matrix. Knowledge of this matrix is sufficient to determine the onset of collective synchronous behavior. We also consider the case of time-dependent coupling among the populations.
Time: Friday, December 7, 2007, 1:00-2:00 p.m.Place: Science and Technology Building I, Room 242
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