NJIT Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Friday, October 28, 2011, 11:30am
Cullimore Lecture Hall II
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Synchronization in Real Networks: Control and Optimization
Rajarshi Roy
University of Maryland
We explore synchronization in networks of coupled
optoelectronic oscillators in our laboratory.
Numerical models are developed and simulations are compared with
experimental observations to understand how real networks synchronize and
desynchronize as coupling coefficients are varied. Convergence to synchrony is found to depend
on the network topology. We find that
networks with the same number of nodes and links, and identical eigenvalues of
the coupling matrix can exhibit fundamentally different approaches to
synchrony. Applications to sensing and
communication are studied.
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