05 Feb 2003

Maritn Rypdal "Self-Organized Criticality and Dynamical Systems - I".

The talk will be based on a series of papers by Cessac, Blanchard and Kruger, where the Zhang model of SOC is studied in the frame of dynamical systems theory. First I will give a short introduction to the concept of SOC as a motivation for this program, before presenting the most important results from these works. I will also point out several open problems and discuss their importance