Nonlinear Science and Statistical Physics in Mallorca 

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Main Research Topics

• Dynamics of pattern formation and spatio-temporal complexity.
• Complex Ginzburg-Landau equation
• Vector and coupled complex Ginzburg-Landau equations
• Defect Dynamics and Spatio Temporal Chaos in the Vector Complex Ginzburg Landau Equation
• Intemittency, Front motion, and Nucleation in a stochastic extended system.
• Parametrically Forced Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation: Forcing at Three Times the Natural Frequency
• Nonlinear Dynamics of the Perceived Pitch of Complex Sounds
• Sound demostration of the pitch perception phenomena
• Boundary effects in extended dynamical systems:
• Spatial chaos induced by boundaries.
• Average patterns of spatiotemporal chaos: a boundary effect.
• Boundary effects in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation.
• Statistical Physics: Dynamics of phase transitions. Aggregation, adsorption. Kinetic roughening.
• Domain growth
• Stochastic processes and Fluctuations in nonequilibrium systems.
• Coherence resonance in semiconductor laser with optical feedback.
• Monte-Carlo Methods.
• Métodos Monte Carlo en Sistemas Complejos y No-extensivos
• Chaos and dynamical systems.
• Chaotic advection.
• Transverse patterns, chaos and localized structures in lasers and nonlinear optics.
• Noise-sustained structures in nonlinear optical systems
• Selfsimilar Domain Growth, Localized Structures and Labyrinthine Patterns in Vectorial Kerr Resonator
• Defects in type II-DOPO
• Bloch domain walls in Type-II optical parametrics oscillators
• Transverse and polarization mode selection in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
• Patterns in kerr resonators: From hexagons to optical turbulence
• Fractals, polymers, and growth.
• Self organization in cell membranes.
• Physiological nonlinear dynamics:
• Instability in blood vessels at high blood pressure
• Essential nonlinearities in hearing
• Geophysical Nonlinear Dynamics: applications of chaotic advection, quasigeostrophic turbulence, etc.
• Modeling of Social and Economical Systems

Researchers:

• Julyan Cartwright
• Pere Colet
• Rafael Gallego
• Damià Gomila
• Emilio Hernandez-Garcia
• Miguel Hoyuelos
• Gonzalo Izus
• Cristobal Lopez
• Víctor M. Eguíluz
• Manuel Matias
• Catalina Mayol
• Oreste Piro
• Rafael Salazar
• Maxi San Miguel
• Marco Santagiustina
• Pierre Scotto
• Tomas Sintes
• Raul Toral
• Martin Zimmermann

• VISITORS:
• Daniel Walgraef, Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
• Jorge Tredicce, Institut Nonlineaire de Nice.

Publications:

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