Device Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics

I. Opening Plenary Talk

1. Use of Chaos to Improve Equipments
L. Fortuna, M. Frasca

II. Nonlinear Dynamics, Materials and Sensing Devices

2. Noise Induced Switching Between Oscillation States in a Nonlinear Micromechanical Oscillator
H.B. Chan, C. Stambaugh

3. Nonadiabaticity in Modulated Optical Traps
J.R. Kruse, D. Ryvkine, M.I. Dykman, B. Golding

4. Signal Processing and Control in Nonlinear Nanomechanical Systems
R.L. Badzey, G. Zolfagharkhani, S.-B. Shim, A. Gaidarzhy, P. Mohanty

5. Signal Modulation by Martensitic Control of Shape Memory Alloy Thin Film Actuator Architectures
C.M. Craciunescu, I. Mihalca, V. Budau

6. Exploiting Dynamic Cooperative Behavior in a Coupled-Core Fluxgate Magnetometer
V. In, A.R. Bulsara, A. Kho, A. Palacios, P. Longhini, S. Baglio, B. Ando, V. Sacco, J.D. Neff

7. Motion Sensors and Actuators Based on Ionic Polymer-Metal Composites
C. Bonomo, L. Fortuna, P. Giannone, S. Graziani, S. Strazzeri

8. Pattern Formation Stability and Collapse in 2D Driven Particle Systems
M.R. D’Orsogna, Y.-li Chuang, A.L. Bertozzi, L.S. Chayes

9. Uncertainty Sources in RTD-Fluxgate
B. Andò, S. Baglio, V. Sacco, A. Bulsara, V. In

10. Modeling and Design of Ferrofluidic Sensors
S. Baglio, P. Barrera, N. Savalli, V. Sacco

11. Thermocromic Materials for Temperature Sensors in New Applications
A. Boscolo, E. Menosso, B. Piuzzi, M. Toppano

12. A SQUID Ring-Resonator Finate State Machine
P.B. Stiffell, M.J. Everitt, T.D. Clark, A.R. Bulsara, J.F. Ralph

III. Signal Processing and Applications

13. Suprathreshold Stochastic Resonance Mediated by Multiplicative Noise
N.G. Stocks, A. Nikitin, R.P. Morse

14. Noise for Health: Phage-Based Rapid Bacterial Identification Method
M.D. King, S. Seo, J. Kim, M. Cheng, S. Higgins, R. Young, D.H. McIntyre, B. Thien, A.R. McFarland, L.B. Kish

15. Parametric Resonance Near Hopf-Turing Instability Boundary
A. Bhatacharyay, J.K. Bhattacharjee

16. Recurrent Neural Networks in Rainfall–Runoff Modeling at Daily Scale
E.C. Carcano, P. Bartolini, M. Muselli

17. Distributed Data Acquisition System for Environment Monitoring Nonlinear Processes
G. Costache

18. Automatic Safety Control in Food Processing
R. Furlanetto, F. Tassan, M. Toppano

19. Using a TI C6701 DSP Rapid Prototyping System for Nonlinear Adaptive Filtering to Mitigate Interference
R. Goshorn, D. Goshorn

20. Gunn Oscillations Described by the MEP Hydrodynamical Model of Semiconductors
G. Mascali, V. Romano, J.M. Sellier

21. Dynamic Test Data Generation for the Nonlinear Models with Genetic Algorithms
A. Dobrescu

22. Neuro-Fuzzy Based Nonlinear Models
C. Nitu, A. Dobrescu

23. Recon.gurable Pattern Generators Using Nonlinear Electronic Circuits
J. Neff, V. In, A. Kho, A. Bulsara, B. Meadows, A. Palacios, S. Hampton, L. Nguyen, D. Chi, N. Koussa

24. Condfiguring A Non-Linear Process Control
System Using Virtual Instrumentation
A. Enescu, G. Costache

Keywords: Engineering, Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control, Complexity, Statistical Physics, Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering, Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory