Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

Dynamical systems with multiple time scales have invariant geometric objects that organize the dynamics in phase space. The slow-fast structure of the dynamical system leads to phenomena such as canards, mixed-mode oscillations, and bifurcation delay. We'll discuss two projects involving chemical oscillators. The first is the analysis of a simple chemical model that exhibits complex oscillations. Its bifurcations are studied using a geometric reduction of the system to a one-dimensional induced map. The second investigates the slow-fast mechanisms generating mixed-mode oscillations in a model of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction. A mechanism called dynamic Hopf bifurcation is responsible for shaping the dynamics of the system. This webminar will be broadcast on evo.caltech.edu (register, start EVO, webminar link is evo.caltech.edu/evoNext/koala.jnlp?meeting=MMMeMn2e2sDDDD9v9nD29M )