A 5-day course offered in August/September 2000 and in June 2002 at the
Centre de Recerca en Enginyeria Biomèdica (CREB) at the Universitat
Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
Some labs from the 2002 course: oscillators,
- Nonlinear phenomena: limit cycles, multiple attractors, phase-locking,
bifurcations, chaos, sensitive dependence on initial conditions, interlocking
basins of attraction, instability and the biomedical importance of nonlinearity.
- Scaling: Dimensions, entropies, fractals, 1/f noise
- Function estimation: global vs. local, loess, radial basis functions,
maximum likelihood, bayesian approaches, nonlinear prediction, iterated vs
direct nonlinear prediciton
- Surrogate data and hypothesis testing: many forms of surrogates, phase-randomized,
amplitude-adjusted, polished, impulsive, annealed. Stationarity, edge effects,
- Coupling: cross-prediction, coherence, transinformation. Phase synchronization.
Participants in the course.
A view of Barcelona.