MS4 ~ Sunday, May 21, 1995 ~ 10:00 AM
Coupled Oscillators
Coupled nonlinear oscillators have been studied for over three hundred years, dating back at least to Huygens's work on synchronization of pendulum clocks. Yet they continue to be a source of intriguing problems, both because of their rich dynamics and their many applications in science and technology. The speakers will focus on physical problems involving coupled oscillators, with specific applications to statistical mechanics, Josephson junction arrays, electrical circuits, coupled pendula, and laser arrays.
Organizer: Steven H. Strogatz, Cornell University
- Coupled Pendula and Discrete Josephson Rings
- Steven H. Strogatz, Organizer
- Weak Disorder in Oscillator Arrays
- Kurt Wiesenfeld, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Collective and Individual Motions of Globally Coupled Oscillators
- Yoshiki Kuramoto, Kyoto University, Japan
- Universality and Chaos in Forced Relaxation Oscillators
- Mark Levi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
3/15/95