14:10-15:00 Peter McClintock (Lancaster) "Fluctuations in non-equilibrium systems"
15:00-15:50 Moshe Gitterman (BIU, Israel) "Stabilization of metastable states"
15:50-16:10 Coffee break
16:10-17:00 Slava Soskin (Kiev) "Noise-induced escapes/transitions on short-time scales"
17:00-17:50 Manuel Arrayas (Madrid) "Quantum dissipative systems"

17:50-19:00 Informal discussions

Friday, 2 August
Session "Fluctuations in non-equilibrium systems - II". Chair: Moshe Gitterman

9:00-9:50 Igor Khovanov (Saratov) "Control of large fluctuations in non-equilibrium systems"
9:50-10:40 Slava Soskin (Kiev) "Drastic facilitation of the onset of global chaos in a Hamiltonian system due to an extremum in the dependence of eigenfrequency on energy"
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:50 Alan McKane (Manchester) "Unstable decay and state selection"

Lunch time

Session "Fluctuations in chaotic systems". Chair: Tatiana Vadivasova

14:00-14:50 Slava Soskin (Kiev) "Reduction of the activation barrier by a non-adiabatic periodic force"
14:50-15:40 Tatiana Vadivasova (Saratov) "The relaxation to stationary probability distribution and mixing properties of the chaotic attractors with noise"
15:40-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:45 Suso Kraut (Oldenburg) "Multistability in weakly dissipative systems and the influence of noise"
16:45-17:30 Alexander Silchenko (Lancaster) "Noise-induced escape through a fractal basin boundary: saddle cycles and hierarchies of instability in chaotic systems"

17:40-19:00 Discussions with coffee. Moshe Gitterman (BIU, Israel) "Self-organized criticality"

Saturday, 3 August
Session "Modelling stochastic dynamics of lasers". Chair: Elena Grigorieva

9:00-9:50 Elena Grigorieva (Minsk) "On the application of asymptotic methods to dynamics of lasers with nonlinear elements"
9:50-10:40 Suso Kraut (Oldenburg) "On the role of chaotic saddles in noisy multistable systems"
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 Stefano Beri (Lancaster) "Fluctuational transitions in VCSELs"
11:30-12:20 Igor Khovanov (Saratov) "Escape from quasi-hyperbolic chaotic attractor"

Free afternoon

Sunday, 4 August
Session "Synchronization - I". Chair: Olga Sosnovtseva

9:00-9:50 Tatiana Vadivasova (Saratov) "Synchronization of periodic, chaotic and stochastic systems"
9:50-10:40 Alexander Balanov (Lancaster) "Coherence resonance versus phase synchronization"
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:50 Grigori Osipov (Nizhny Novgorod) "Synchronization in oscillatory networks"

Lunch time

Session "Synchronization - II". Chair: Grigori Osipov

14:00-14:50 Olga Sosnovtseva (Lingby) "Phase multistability of fast-and-slow motions"
14:50-15:40 Alexander Silchenko (Lancaster) "Synchronization of non-identical chaotic systems"
15:40-16:00 Coffee break

16:00 Poster Session
1. Alexander Nikitin (Warwick) "Escape and trapping trajectories in bistable systems subject to strong harmonic forcing"
2. David Allingham (Warwick) "Modelling electrically stimulated auditory neurons using a stochastic leaky-integrate-and-fire model"
3. Alexandra Pershakova (Lancaster) "Modelling cardiovascular dynamics"
4. Andriy Bandrivskiy (Lancaster) "Exponentially fast Monte Carlo simulations"
5. Stefano Beri (Lancaster) "Escape from a saddle cycle"

Monday, 5 August
Session "Modelling stochastic dynamics of biological systems - I". Chair: Nigel Stocks

9:00-9:50 Grigori Osipov (Nizhny Novgorod) "Suppression of chaos in the cardiac model"
9:50-10:40 Akito Igarashi (Kyoto) "Elastically coupled Brownian motors in a 2-dimensional potential"
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:50 Aneta Stefanoska (Ljubljana) "Modelling oscillations in cardiovascular dynamics"

Lunch time

Session "Modelling stochastic dynamics of biological systems - II". Chair: Aneta Stefanovska

14:00-14:50 Olga Sosnovtseva (Lingby) "Two-mode oscillations in nephron functioning"
14:50-15:40 Nigel Stocks (Warwick) "The applications of suprathreshold stochastic resonance to cochlear implant coding"
15:40-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:50 Dmitry Luchinsky (Lancaster) "Molecular motors"
16:50-17:40 Andrey Polovinkin (Nizhny Novgorod) "Stochastic dynamics of singled-out and coupled excitable elements"

19:00 Informal Conference Dinner

Tuesday, 6 August
Session "Time-series analysis of biological data". Chair: Riccardo Mannella

9:00-9:50 Nata Janson (Lancaster) "Detection and modelling of interacting systems using one-dimensional signals"
9:50-10:30 Andriy Bandrivskiy (Lancaster) "Bayesian inference of cardio-vascular time-series"
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:50 Milan Palus (Prague) "Detecting directionality of coupling: an information-theoretic approach"
11:50-12:20 Aneta Stefanovska (Ljubljana) "Synchronization and modulation in the cardiovascular system"

Free afternoon

Wednesday, 7 August
Session "Numerical methods in stochastic modeling". Chair: Peter McClintock

9:00-9:50 Igor Kaufman (Moskow) "Data acquisition for cardio-vascular experiments and analogue simulations"
9:50-10:40 Andriy Bandrivskiy (Lancaster) "Exponentially fast Monte Carlo simulations"
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 Stefano Beri (Lancaster) "Finite noise intensity effects in non-equilibrium systems"
11:30-12:20 Riccardo Mannella (Pisa) "Monte Carlo simulations of stochastic differential equations"