NECSI LOCAL SEMINAR SERIES PRESENTS:
"Modeling an Excitable Medium by Network"
By Marcus de Aguiar
Date: October 31, 2008
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: NECSI, 24 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge (map)
Abstract:
Networks are mathematical structures that can model a large number of systems in biology, physics, engineering and the social sciences. In this talk, I will give a brief introduction to the theory of networks and review some of the work I have done in collaboration with NECSI fellows. Next, I will show how we can use these tools to construct a simple dynamical model of an excitable medium. The response of the medium to an external source will be calculated analytically for the simple case where the medium is represented by a fully connected network.
Speaker:
Marcus de Aguiar is a professor of physics at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas in Brazil. He earned his Doctorate in Physics at the University of São Paulo in 1987. His research interests are complex networks, population dynamics in space and time, and the semiclassical limit of chaotic systems.
Attendence:
The Local Seminar Series is free and open to the public.