Minisymposia

Call for minisymposia

The call for organizing Minisymposia is opened. Interested organizers may send their proposal to ddei2025@auth.gr

The proposal should contain

1.  Names, affiliations and contact details of organizers.

2. Title and a short description (one paragraph) for the topic of the proposed minisymposia.

3. A tentative list of potential speakers (names and affiliations).

A minisymposium should have a total duration of 120min. It may have 4 talks of 30 min duration (25 min presentation plus 5 min for questions), but other forms may be suggested as well, e.g. 6 talks of 20 min duration (17  min presentation plus 3 min for questions). A minisymposium may have more than one two-hour session, e.g., part I and part II. 

List of minisymposia

The following minisymposia will take place in DDE2025. The exact dates/times will be added when the program is announced. Please note that as for now the list of speakers is tentative.

Session Title: Multistability and Nonlocal Stability Analysis

Session Organisers:
Datseris, George, University of Exeter
email: G.Datseris@exeter.ac.uk
Rossi, Kalel Luiz, University of Oldenburg,
email: kalel.luiz.rossi@uni-oldenburg.de

Several dynamical systems are multistable: they exhibit a coexistence of stable solutions, formally called attractors. Examples include power grids, climate components, the brain, mechanical and metabolic systems, to name a few. Perturbations, such as noise or external shocks, can induce transitions between these attractors – which, depending on the application, may be either desirable or catastrophic. It becomes crucial therefore to study the stability in such multistable systems. Typically stability is studied using local bifurcation analysis and continuation, but this approach can be unsuitable for real-world applications where perturbations are finite-sized instead of infinitesimal. This calls for a nonlocal view of stability. Recent progress has enriched the literature with various quantities that can be used as quantifiers of nonlocal stability: basin stability or volume, the geometry of the basins, basin entropy, return time, minimal fatal shock, and other notions of resilience. In this minisymposium we want to highlight and promote recent research that explores one or several of the following categories:

– novel indicators of nonlocal stability
– novel techniques for finding multiple system attractors and/or their basins of attraction
– nonlocal stability analysis and continuation of multistable systems
– multistability in high-dimensional systems
– very high (10+) or extreme multistability (infinitely many coexisting attractors)
– multistability in chaotic systems

1. George Datseris – University of Exeter.
2. Kalel L. Rossi – University of Oldenburg.
3. Andreas Morr – Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
4. Muhammed Fadera – University of Exeter.
5. Alexandre Wagemakers – Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
6. Andrew Flynn or Andreas Amann – University College Cork.
7. Peter Ashwin – University of Exeter.
8. Julien Clinton Sprott – University of Wisconsin – Madison.
9. Tomasz Kapitaniak or Marek Balcerzak – Politechnika Łódzka.
10. Alexander Pisarchik – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Session Title: Advances in Theoretical and Practical Applications for Infectious Diseases and Control

Session Organisers:
Steindorf, Vanessa, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao, Spain
email: vsteindorf@bcamath.org
Aguiar, Maíra, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao, Spain
email: maguiar@bcamath.org

Focused on future research directions for modeling the spread of pathogens capable of causing new outbreaks, this interdisciplinary symposium aims to promote timely debates exploring various approaches in epidemiology, particularly on the mathematical modeling of infectious respiratory and vector-borne diseases. Key discussions will cover recent advances in mathematical epidemiology, offering a comprehensive look at both theoretical methods and practical applications. Topics will include the role of temporal and spatial dynamics in disease transmission, the challenges of predicting epidemic trends, improving predictive models to inform public health strategies, and the integration of environmental and human behavior factors into models. By bridging theory and practice, the symposium aims to enhance tools for disease control and outbreak preparedness.

1. Vanessa Steindorf
Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao, Spain
vsteindorf@bcamath.org
2. Maíra Aguiar
Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao, Spain
maguiar@bcamath.org
3. Nico Stollenwerk
Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao, Spain
nstollenwerk@bcamath.org
4. Thomas Goetz
University of Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany
goetz@uni-koblenz.de
5. Paula Patrcio
Center for Mathematics and Applications (NOVA Math) and
Department of Mathematics, NOVA FCT, Lisbon, Portugal
pcpr@fct.unl.pt
6. Carlo Estadilla
Bristol Medical School
University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
carlo.estadilla@gmail.com
7. Chiara Cicolani
Universit degli studi dell’ Aquila, L’ Aquilla, Italy
Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao, Spain
chiara.cicolani@graduate.univaq.it
8. Akhil K. Srivastav
Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao, Spain
asrivastav@bcamath.org