Preface |
Scientific Committee and Sponsors |
Opening Addresses by Former UPoN Chairs |
Unsolved Problems of Noise: At the Frontiers of Research / L. B. Kish |
Address on Behalf of the Committee / D. Abbott |
Keynote Talk |
Forces and Fluctuations: Nourished by Noise / V. A. Parsegian |
Constructive Role of Noise |
Non-Markovian Effects in Pattern Forming Chemical Systems / J. M. Sancho ; M. A. Santos ; S. Alonso ; F. Sagues |
Stochastic Resonance with Delay and Traffic / T. Ohira |
Pulse Propagation in Bistable Neural Models via Noise-Induced Resetting / J. Garcia-Ojalvo ; R. Bascones ; L. Schimansky-Geier |
Illusions and Ghost Resonances: How We Could See What Isn't There / D. R. Chialvo |
Open Questions for Suprathreshold Stochastic Resonance in Sensory Neural Models for Motion Detection Using Artificial Insect Vision / M. D. McDonnell |
Unsolved Problems of Intracellular Noise / J. Paulsson |
Noise-Induced Hypersensitivity and Stochastic Resonance: Can Living Systems Use Them at a Molecular Level? / O. V. Gerashchenko ; S. L. Ginzburg ; M. A. Pustovoit |
Stochastic Resonance, Brownian Ratchets, and the Fokker-Planck Equation / A. Allison |
Is Stochastic Resonance Just an Epiphenomenon? / L. M. Ward |
Stochastic Synchronization: Analogy with Systems Undergoing Phase Transition / G. Balazsi ; A. Ordemann ; F. Moss |
A Dynamical System Exhibits High Signal-to-Noise Ratio Gain by Stochastic Resonance / P. Makra ; Z. Gingl |
Sensory Systems |
Active Amplification by Spontaneous Hair Bundle Oscillations / F. Julicher |
Noise in the Outer Hair Cell and Gain Control in the Ear / M. Ospeck ; K. H. Iwasa |
An Information-Theoretic Approach to Cochlear Implant Coding / R. P. Morse ; D. Allingham ; N. G. Stocks |
Graded Positive Feedback in Elasmobranch Ampullae of Lorenzini / A. J. Kalmijn |
Sensing Nature's Electric Fields: Ion Channels as Active Elements of Linear Amplification / S. M. Bezrukov |
Noise-Induced Transition and Synchronization in Paddlefish Electroreceptors / A. B. Neiman ; D. F. Russell |
Oscillations and Noise in Paddlefish Electroreceptors |
Numerical Simulation of Diffusion of Second Messengers cGMP and Ca[superscript 2+] in Rod Photoreceptor Outer Segment of Vertebrates / H. Khanal ; V. Alexiades ; E. DiBenedetto ; H. Hamm |
Stochastic Synchronization and Signal Rectification in the Crayfish Caudal Photoreceptor / S. Bahar |
Neurons and Neuronal Networks |
Correlated Noise and Memory Effects in Neural Firing Statistics / J. W. Middleton ; M. J. Chacron ; B. Lindner ; A. Longtin |
Noise-Induced Synchronized Oscillations in an Inhibitory Neural Network / J. V. Jose ; P. Tiesinga |
Spatiotemporal Organization of Stochastic Synchronization / P. Jung |
Correlated Neuronal Computation / J. Feng |
Can Intrinsic Fluctuations Increase Efficiency in Neural Information Processing? / H. Liljenstrom |
Central Nervous System |
The Human Brain Uses Noise / T. Mori ; S. Kai |
Noise-Induced Sensitization of Human Brain: Toward the Neurological Application of Stochastic Resonance / Y. Yamamoto ; R. Soma ; I. Hidaka ; D. Nozaki ; N. Iso-o ; S. Kwak |
Development of Demand-Controlled Deep Brain Stimulation Techniques Based on Stochastic Phase Resetting / P. A. Tass |
Delays, Scaling, and the Acquisition of Motor Skill / J. L. Cabrera ; J. Milton |
Ion Channels and Motors |
Turning a Poor Ion Channel into a Good Pump / D. Astumian |
Random Walk Model for Single-File Transport of Water Molecules through Carbon Nanotubes / A. Berezhkovskii ; G. Hummer |
1/f Noise in Ion Transport through Nanopores: Origins and Mechanism / Z. Siwy ; A. Fulinski |
Motor Rumblings: Characterization of Adaptation Motors in Saccular Hair Cells by Noise Analysis / J. E. Frank ; V. Markin ; F. Jaramillo |
The Noisy Steps of a Motor Protein / M. Bier |
Molecular Motions in Ion Channels: A Possible Link to Noise in Single Channels / P. Tieleman |
Hysteresis in Channel Gating / E. Gudowska-Nowak ; H. Flyvbjerg ; P. Bennekou ; P. Christophersen |
A PDE Formulation of Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics for Ionic Permeation / Z. Schuss ; B. Nadler ; A. Singer ; R. S. Eisenberg |
Single Molecules |
Single-Molecule Approach to Dispersed Kinetics and Dynamic Disorder: Probing Protein Conformational Fluctuation / S. Xie |
Unzipping DNA: From Pulling to Pores and Back Again / D. K. Lubensky |
Phase Transitions of a Polymer Threading a Membrane: Character of the Transition When the Molecule Can Undergo a Helix-Random Coil or an Equilibrium Polymerization Transition / E. A. Di Marzio ; J. J. Kasianowicz |
Highly Accurate Real-Time Classification of Channel-Captured DNA Termini / S. Winters-Hilt |
Genetics |
Stochastic Model of Evolution of Conserved Protein Coding Sequences / V. A. Kuznetsov |
Noise and Noise Analysis for Medical Applications |
Quantifying Heartbeat Dynamics by Magnitude and Sign Correlations / P. C. Ivanov ; Y. Ashkenazy ; J. W. Kantelhardt ; H. E. Stanley |
Cardiovascular Dynamics--Multiple Time Scales, Oscillations, and Noise / A. Stefanovska ; A. Bandrivskyy ; P. V. E. McClintock |
Noisy Ventilation Improves Lung Function / B. Suki ; S. P. Arold ; A. Alencar ; K. R. Lutchen ; E. P. Ingenito |
Fluctuations and Noise in Stochastic Spread of Respiratory Infection Epidemics in Social Networks / R. Yulmetyev ; N. Emelyanova ; S. Demin ; F. Gafarov ; P. Hanggi ; D. Yulmetyeva |
Nonlinear Dynamics |
Drastic Reduction of the Activation Barrier by a Moderately Weak Periodic Driving / S. M. Soskin ; R. Mannella ; A. N. Silchenko ; M. Arrayas |
Universality of Escape from a Modulated Potential Well / M. I. Dykman ; B. Golding ; J. R. Kruse ; L. I. McCann ; D. Ryvkine |
Fluctuational Escape from Chaotic Attractors / I. A. Khovanov ; D. G. Luchinsky |
Two-State Description of Stochastic Excitability / L. Meinhold |
Singularities in Far-from-Equilibrium Distributions at Finite Noise Intensities / S. Beri |
Stability Enhanced by the Noise in Nonlinear Systems with Metastable States / B. Spagnolo ; A. A. Dubkov ; N. V. Agudov |
Materials, Devices |
Thermal (Noise) Death of Moore's Law? |
Origins of Non-Gaussian Noise in Metallic Manganites / M. B. Weissman ; A. Palanisami ; J. N. Eckstein |
Steady State of Random Resistor Networks under Biased Percolation: A Framework for Noise in Disordered Materials? / C. Pennetta ; E. Alfinito ; L. Reggiani |
Instability of the Noise Level in Polymer Field-Effect Transistors with Non-Stationary Electrical Characteristics / O. Marinov ; M. J. Deen ; J. Yu ; G. Vamvounis ; S. Holdcroft ; W. Woods |
Monte Carlo Simulation of Noise in Electronic Devices: Limitations and Perspectives / T. Gonzalez ; J. Mateos ; M. J. Martin-Martinez ; S. Perez ; R. Rengel ; B. G. Vasallo ; D. Pardo |
Monte Carlo Simulation of Electronic Noise under Large-Signal Operation / E. Starikov ; P. Shiktorov ; V. Gruzinskis ; L. Varani ; J.-C. Vaissiere |
To Be or Not to Be a Source of Shot Noise: An Open Problem of Generation Recombination Noise / G. Gomila |
Waves, Hydrodynamics, and Mechanics |
Noisy Wavefront Propagation in the Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piscounov Equation / C. R. Doering ; C. Mueller ; P. Smereka |
Synthetizing Hydrodynamic Turbulence from Noise: Formalism and Applications to Plankton Dynamics / R. Reigada ; R. M. Hillary ; M. A. Bees |
Surprising Aspects of Fluctuating "Pulled" Fronts / D. Panja |
General Theory and Experiment |
Broomhead-King Hydrophobic Modes in Receptor-Targeted Peptide Design: How to Find Modes in a Short Data Sequence / A. J. Mandell ; K. A. Selz ; M. J. Owens ; M. F. Shlesinger |
System Size Stochastic and Coherence Resonance / A. Pikovsky ; A. Zaikin |
Noise-Induced Walking Patterns on Ratchets / J. L. Mateos ; A. Neiman |
On the Amplitude and Time-Structure Properties of 1/f[superscript alpha] Noises / R. Mingesz |
Shot Noise as a Tool to Probe Microscopic Interactions |
Can Quantum Regression Theorem Be Reconciled with Quantum Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem? |
Excess Noise in the Output of Linear Fluctuating Systems / M. H. W. Hoffmann |
Electronic Delocalization in Finite One-Dimensional Correlated-Disordered Binary Solids / P. Carpena ; P. Bernaola-Galvan |
List of Participants |
Author Index |
Preface |
Scientific Committee and Sponsors |
Opening Addresses by Former UPoN Chairs |
Unsolved Problems of Noise: At the Frontiers of Research / L. B. Kish |
Address on Behalf of the Committee / D. Abbott |
Keynote Talk |