CSP - International Workshop on Anomalous Dynamics in Complex Systems: From Chaos on Nanoscales to Search in Biology
Abstract
Our workshop will bring together the three highly active, different fields of anomalous dynamics, chaosin complex systems, and sear"ch in biology. Anomalous dynamics refers to processes that are morecomplicated than standard Brownian motion. The latter term denot"es a simple concept from stochastictheory that is used to describe a big variety of real world processes, most notably the irregula""rmovementof a tracer particle in a fluid. Anomalos dynamics exhibits highly interesting, novel transport propertieslike non-Gaussi""an probability distributions as featured by L~evy flights and L~evy walks, non-ergodicity,power law decay of correlations, sub- and"" superdiffusion. The stochastic theory of anomalous dynamicsis highly developed by now, providing a huge toolbox of methods that as""ks for real world applications.Anomalous transport phenomena, in turn, were found to be ubiquituous in complex systems. Paradigmati""cexamples are search in biology including the human world, such as foraging of animals andoptimizing target search in operations r""esearch. However, anomalous transport also occurs in systemson nanoscales modeling novel material like artificial graphene. In the" latter type of systems anomalousdynamics is intimately linked to the phenomenon of weak chaos. But understanding the emergence ofanomalous dynamics from nonlinearities and deterministic chaos is yet in its infancy. The theory ofchaos in nonlinear dynamical systems has in turn important applications to understand spatio-temporalcomplexity as well as correlations and patterns in signals and experimental data by applying nonlineartime series analysis.The technical and scientific objectives of our workshop are to establish new synergies betweenthe above big three different fields of research. For this purpose we will invite selected world-leadinge"xperts from experimental and theoretical physics, mathematics, engineering and biology representingthese scientific areas. One key"" topic will be applications of the theory of anomalous stochastic processesto understand search in biological dynamics, with cross-"links to modeling swarm intelligenceand swarm robotics in engineering. Another key topic will be to understand chaotic dynamics onnanoscales based both on classical and quantum mechanics.The proposed workshop ties in with key topics in many ONR science and tech"nology departments:Developing advanced search strategies based on anomalous dynamics for locating sparse, randomlydistributed hidd"en targets falls particularly within the remit of Mathematical Optimization andOperations Research. Applications entail the implementation of theoretical algorithms in swarmingrobots to optimize swarm intelligence. Such methods may also aid the development of Co"mputationalMethods for Decision Making. Similarly, this workshop should contribute to ONR~s Science of AutonomyProgram in view of"" unmanned, autonomous system and control theory. Along the same lines itmay help to construct Bio-Inspired Autonomous Systems. Fina""lly, we remark that in 2016 ONR hosteda Focus Area Forum on Autonomy and Unmanned Systems, which fits very well to the theme of adv"ancedsearch of our workshop.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Sep 29, 2017
- Source ID
- N629091712117
Entities
People
- Rainer Klages
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- Queen Mary University of London
- United States Navy