INHOMOGENEOUS RANDOM SYSTEMS
               Systemes Aleatoires Inhomogenes
                      January 28-29 2014

                     Conference Program

                   Institut Henri Poincare
             11, rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
                  http://www.ihp.jussieu.fr


Tuesday January 28:
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                  SYNCHRONIZATION
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     Moderator: Giambattista Giacomin (Paris).


 9.00- 9.10      Opening

 9.10-10.00     Giambattista Giacomin (Paris): Synchronization phenomena and 
                statistical mechanics.  

10.00-10.50     Nils Berglund (Orleans): Noise-induced phase slips,
                log-periodic oscillations and the Gumbel distribution. 

10.50-11.10      Coffee Break

11.10-12.00     Arkady Pikovsky (Potsdam): Synchronization in ensembles of 
                oscillators: theory of collective dynamics. 

12.00-12.50     Bastien Fernandez (Marseille): Properties of synchronization 
                graphs in discontinuous forced systems.  

12.50-14.20      Lunch

14.20-15.10     Khashayar Pakdaman (Paris): On some synchronization phenomena 
                in neuronal assemblies. 

15.10-16.00     Christof Kuelske (Bochum): Discrete and continuous rotators. 

16.00-16.20      Coffee Break

16.20-17.10     Paolo Dai Pra (Padova): Collective periodic behavior in 
                dissipative ferromagnetic systems with mean-field interaction.
                 

Wednesday 29 January:
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                     TIME DELAYS IN STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS
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     Moderator: Jacek Miekisz (Warszawa)


 9.10-10.00     Jacek Miekisz (Warszawa): Introduction. 

10.00-10.50     Andre S. Ribeiro (Tampere): Delays as regulators of the
                dynamics of genetic circuits.  

10.50-11.10      Coffee Break

11.10-12.00     Janek Wehr (Tucson): Stochastic delay equations with colored 
                noise -- theory and experiment.

12.00-12.50     Fatihcan Atay (Leipzig): Consensus and synchronization problems
                in networks with time delays.

12.50-14.20      Lunch

14.20-15.10     Tobias Galla (Manchester): Stochastic processes with delays
                and their application to gene regulation and epidemics.  

15.10-16.00     Raul Toral (Palma de Mallorca): Stochastic description of 
                systems with delay: applications to models of protein dynamics.
 

16.00-16.20      Coffee Break

16.20-17.10     Axel Hutt (Villers-les-Nancy): Additive noise tunes the 
                stability in nonlinear systems. 

17.10-18.00     Martin-Luc Rosinberg (Paris): Entropy production and
                fluctuation theorems in stochastic systems with time delay.