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Winter term 2025/2026

Self-Organization and Pattern Formation

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Tuesday, 10-12 (A348)

Thursdays, 12-14 (A348)

First lecture on 16.10.2025

Homework sheets

    • Sheet 0: Diffusion and Fourier transform, The harmonic oscillator, A model of a laser
    • Sheet 1: Lyapunov functions, Population of fish, Outbreak of an insect in a forest
    • Sheet 2: Bogdanov-Takens bifurcation, Bogdanov-Takens bifurcation: Unfolding the homoclinic orbit, Biochemical Oscillations
    • Sheet 3: Source degradation model, Allen-Cahn equation with external field, Fisher-KPP equation
    • Sheet 4: Cahn-Hilliard equation with an additional reaction term, Cahn-Hilliard equation with active reaction
    • Sheet 5: The LSW theory of Ostwald ripening, The LSW theory in d spatial dimensions, Non-reciprocal Cahn-Hillard equation
    • Sheet 6: Linear Stability of the Keller–Segel Model, Active Model B and Pseudopotentials
    • Sheet 7: Stability of wave solutions of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation, Phase Equations of the CGLE
    • Sheet 8: Kuramoto models – global synchronization of heterogeneous oscillators, Kuramoto models – spatially coupled identical oscillators, Slow Manifold of Predator-Prey Dynamics
    • Sheet 9: Conceptual Questions

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