Workshop 1:
Cardiac Arrhythmias, Pattern Formation,
Atmospheres and Oceans
September 14th - 25th 1998
Organisers: Dwight Barkley, David Dritschel,
Arun Holden & Alan Newell
Week 1 - Monday 14th to Thursday 17th September 1998
PENULTIMATE PROGRAMME
| Monday September 14th, 4.00pm Arrival, Registration, Reception. |
Tuesday September 15th, THE DYNAMICS OF THE HEART
Morning 9am - 12.30pm
Talks:
9.00-10.00 Sasha Panfilov, Scaling electrical turbulence in the heart.
10.00-11.00 Arkady Pertsov, Spatio temporal organisation of electrical activity during ventricular fibrillation
11.30-12.30 Alain Karma, Scroll wave dynamics in thick myocardium.
Lunch break 12.30pm - 3pm Lunch, informal discussions
Afternoon 3pm - 6pm
Short talks, videos, software.
Discussion topics:
1. State of the art numerical methods.
2. What can theories of pattern formation and pattern analysis do for cardiology?
3. Links with other themes.
Principal contributors: Barkley, Biktashev, Karma, Panfilov, Pertsov, Vargnese, Winfree |
Wednesday September 16th, PATTERN FORMATION, DESCRIPTION AND DIAGNOSTICS
Morning 9am - 12.30pm
Talks:
9.00-10.00 Eberhard Bodenschatz, Observations from experiments on Rayleigh-Bénard convection
10.00-11.00 Werner Pesch, Numerical simulation of Rayleigh-Bénard convection
11.30-12.30 Thierry Passot, Order parameter equations for convective patterns
Lunch break 12.30 - 3pm Lunch, informal discussions
Afternoon 3pm - 6pm
Short talks, videos, software.
Discussion topics:
1. Use of wavelets and other more direct methods for pattern analysis.
2. The links between experiments, simulation, phenomenological descriptions and order parameter descriptions.
3. Patterns with richer textures, squares, spirals, targets, hexagons, and their defects.
Principal contributors: Aronson, Bodenschatz, Bowman, Hoyle, Newell, Passot, Pesch, Proctor. |
Thursday September 17th, DEFIBRILLATION
Morning 9am - 12.30pm
Talks:
9.00-10.00 Jim Keener, Dynamics of defibrillation
10.00-11.00 Valentine Krinsky, De-excitation of cardiac cells (experiment and theory)
11.30-12.30 Arun Holden, TBA
Lunch break 12.30 - 3pm Lunch, informal discussions
Afternoon 3pm - 6pm
Short talks, videos, software.
Discussion topics:
1. How can computation help improve defibrillation?
2. Links with other themes
Principal contributors: Holden, Krinsky, Keener, Pumir, Romey. |
WARWICK WEEKEND - detailed programme
Week 2 - detailed programme
For registration/accommodation forms, etc. please contact:
Mrs. Peta McAllister, Mathematics Research Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL - UK
Phone: 44 + (0)1203 - 524403
Fax: 44 + (0)1203 - 523548
E-mail: peta@maths.warwick.ac.uk
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