The Second Joint International Seminar on Applied Analysis and Synthesis of Complex Systems
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| IIASA - Technische Universität München - Kyoto University The Second Joint International Seminar on Applied Analysis and Synthesis of Complex Systems |
| June 30-July 1, 2005 |
| Technische Universität München, München, Germany |
The 21st Century COE (Center of Excellence) Program is an initiative by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology (MEXT) to support universities establishing discipline-specific international centers for education and research, and to enhance the universities to be the world's apex of excellence with international competitiveness in the specific research areas. The program of "Research and Education on Complex Functional Mechanical Systems" was successfully selected to be awarded the fund for carrying out new research and education as Centers of Excellence in the field of mechanical engineering in 2003 (five-year project), and is expected to lead Japanese research and education, and endeavor to be the top in the world.
The program covers general backgrounds in diverse fields as well as a more in-depth grasp of specific branches such as complex system modelling and analysis of the problems including; nonlinear dynamics, micro-mesoscopic physics, turbulent transport phenomena, atmosphere-ocean systems, robots, human-system interactions, and behaviours of nano-composites and biomaterials. Fundamentals of those complex functional mechanical systems are macroscopic phenomena of complex systems consisting of microscopic elements, mostly via nonlinear, large-scale interactions, which typically present collective behaviour such as self-organization, pattern formation, etc. Such phenomena can be observed or created in every aspect of modern technologies. Especially, we are focusing upon; turbulent transport phenomena in climate modelling, dynamical and chaotic behaviours in control systems and human-machine systems, and behaviours of mechanical materials with complex structures.
Kyoto University and IIASA (International Institute of Applied System Analysis) has exchanged Consortia Agreement in 2003 to collaborate to explore this new engineering field through joint academic activities by mechanical engineers and system engineers. This annual seminar has been regularly held to introduce the outline of the COE program of Kyoto University to worldwide researchers and to deepen the shared understandings on novel complex system modelling and analysis, and the first seminar was held in June 28-29 at IIASA, 2004.
In exploring the venue for the second seminar, Prof. Martin Buss, who is a professor at Technische Universitat Munchen and is one of the advisers and contributors to our COE program, has kindly offered us to host the second seminar in 2005 at Technische Universitat Munchen in collaboration with IIASA and Kyoto University.
In this seminar, we will invite the distinguished researchers in Europe as keynote speakers, and the new developments of the COE will be introduced by the project leader as well as by the core active members. Also the emerging novel technologies ongoing at TUM will be presented. All research staffs of Institute of Automatic Control Engineering of TUM and IIASA research staff are cordially invited to attend this seminar.