Società Italiana Caos e Complessità

6^th International Tutorial Workshop

 TOPICS IN NONLINEAR DYNAMICS

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF  PIECEWISE-SMOOTH DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

 Urbino (PU), Italy

September 21-23, 2011

Programme (download)

DAY 1 (Discrete time Dynamics)

 8.15 – 8.45        Registration

8.45 – 9.15        Opening of the School :  Mario di Bernardo (enPresidt SICC)

9.15 – 10           Iryna Sushko “1D and 2D Piecewise Smooth Maps: Normal Forms for Border Collision Bifurcations”

 10 – 10.45        Laura Gardini “Homoclinic bifurcations in piecewise smooth systems”

10.45 – 11.15    Coffee Break

11.15 – 12.00    Viktor Avrutin “Map replacement, Band Merging and Applications in Discontinuous Systems”

12.00 – 12.45    Fabio Tramontana “Border Collision Bifurcations in systems with many discontinuities”

12.30 -14.30      Lunch

14.30 – 15.15    Viktor Avrutin “Intersection of BCB curves as Big Bang Bifurcation Points”

15.15 – 16.00    Michael Schanz “Piecewise Smooth Maps with an Horizontal Partition”

16.00 – 16.30    Coffee Break

16.30 – 17.15    Soumitro Banerjee “Onward journey to 3D piecewise smooth maps”

17.15 – 18.00    Erik Mosekilde “Bifurcations of closed invariant curves in high dimensional systems”

18.00 – 19.00    Poster Session

 DAY 2 (Continuous time Dynamics)

 9.00 – 10.30     John Hogan, “An introduction to discontinuity-induced bifurcations in PWS flows”

10.30 – 11.00    Coffee Break

11.00 – 11.45    Piotr Kowalczyk “Micro-chaos in Relay Feedback Systems with Bang-Bang Control and Digital Sampling”

11.45 – 12.30    Fabio Dercole “Persistence vs nonsmooth-fold scenario at boundary equilibria in Filippov systems”

12.30 – 14.30    Lunch

 14.30 – 16.00    Petri Piiroinen, “Numerical techniques for analysis of piecewise-smooth systems”

16.00 – 16.30    Coffee Break

16.30 – 17.15    Luciano Lopez “Selection of the sliding vector in sliding motion on the intersection of several discontinuity surfaces”

17.15 – 18.00    Mike Jeffrey “Teixeira Singularity in sliding vector fields”

18.00 – 19.00    Poster Session

 DAY 3 (Applications)

 9.00 – 10.30    Marian Wiercigroch “Nonsmooth dynamics in mechanical engineering”

10.30 – 11.00    Coffee Break

11.00 – 11.45    Ugo Galvanetto “Effects of including the whole body in safety helmet impact tests”

11.45 – 12.30    Lucio Demeio “Nonlinear Dynamics of pipelines on piecewise linear substrates”

12.30 -14.30      Lunch

14.30 – 16.00    Stefano Lenci “Nonsmooths systems in civil engineering: an application to an historical church”

16.00 – 16.30    Coffee Break

16.30 – 17.30    Giovanni Lancioni “Nonsmoothness in the nonlinear dynamics of windscreen wipers”

17.30 – 18.30    Closing of the meeting