Research Colloquium — Wednesday, October 19, 2005

"The impact of architecture on network dynamics"

Prof. Krešimir Josić
Department of Mathematics, University of Houston

Martin Golubitsky
Department of Mathematics, University of Houston
Eric Shea-Brown
Department of Mathematics, New York University


Network architecture can have a large impact on the dynamics of coupled phase oscillators. It will be shown that architecture can force relations between average frequencies of the different oscillators in such networks. The main tool in this analysis is coupled cell theory which provides precise relations between network architecture and the flow-invariance of certain polydiagonal subspaces. Architecture also imposes restrictions on the spatiotemporal symmetries of periodic solutions that a network of oscillators can support. These obstructions are related, but distinct from those observed in equivariant differential equations.



Room: 126 Clements Hall
Coffee: 3:15 pm – 3:30 pm
Colloquium: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm