Complex Spatio-Temporal Behavior in Excitable Media . . . (MS16)

MS16 ~ Monday, May 22, 1995 ~ 10:00 AM

Complex Spatio-Temporal Behavior in Excitable Media

The speakers in this minisymposium will discuss the results of theoretical efforts aimed at modeling complex spatio-temporal behavior in biologically and physiologically relevant excitable media with emphasis on making contact with experiment. They will discuss the waves of chemical signaling which play a vital role in organizing the aggregation and motion of amoeba colonies and the waves of electrical signaling which underly reentrant cardiac arrhythmias and fibrillation.

Organizer: Alain S. Karma, Northeastern University

Modeling of Aggregation Patterns in Dictyostelium: Streams, Mounds and Beyond: Herbert Levine, University of California, San Diego
Nonlinear Dynamics of Reentrant Tachycardias: Leon Glass, McGill University, Canada
Bidomain Modeling of Cardiac Tissue: Does It Give Us Any New Insight?: Craig Henriquez, Duke University
Modeling of Cardiac Fibrillation: Alain Karma, Organizer

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