Yuri Maistrenko

Synchronization: Theory and Application - NATO Science Series II Yuri Maistrenko 2003 edition

Marc Notes: Avail. in paper (ISBN 1402014171) at EUR 60.00. Table of Contents: Cycling attractors of coupled cell systems and dynamics with symmetry.- Modelling diversity by chaos and classification by synchronization.- Basic Principles of Direct Chaotic Communications.- Prevalence of Milnor Attractors and Chaotic Itinerancy in High -dimensional Dynamical Systems.- Generalization of the Feigenbaum-Kadanoff-Shenker Renormalization and Critical Phenomena Associated with the Golden Mean Quasiperiodicity.- Synchronization and clustering in ensembles of coupled chaotic oscillators.- Nonlinear Phenomena in Nephron-Nephron Interaction.- Synchrony in Globally Coupled Chaotic, Periodic, and Mixed Ensembles of Dynamical Units.- Phase synchronization of regular and chaotic self-sustained oscillators.- Control of dynamical systems via time-delayed feedback and unstable controller."Publisher Marketing: Synchronization is a universal phenomenon that is encountered in nature, science and engineering. The book presents a broad view of modern theoretical and experimental approaches to synchronization, especially in complex and chaotic systems, and its applications in life sciences and engineering. Contributors include applied mathematicians, physicists, biologists, and specialists in communications and control theory. The study of synchronization is presented in its many aspects: basic mathematical theory, numerical simulation of complex systems, applications of methods in theoretical physics, experimental implementation, and applications in engineering and life sciences.

Contributor Bio:  Pikovsky, Arkady Arkady Pikovsky was part of the Max-Planck research group on nonlinear dynamics, before becoming a professor at the University of Potsdam, Germany. A member of the German and American Physical Societies, he is also part of the Editorial Board of Physical Reviews E for the term 2000-2002. Before this, he was a Humboldt fellow at University of Wuppertal. His PhD focusses on the theory of chaos and nonlinear dynamics, and was carried out at the Institute of Applied Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Arkady Pikovsky studied radiophysics and physics at Gorky State University, and started to work on chaos in 1976, describing an electronic device generating chaos in his Diploma thesis and later proving it experimentally.