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Curriculum Vitae

Armin Fuchs, Ph.D.
Born: March 13, 1959 in Nürtingen, Germany
Citizenship: German
Present Address: Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
Florida Atlantic University
Innovation Centre 2, Room #115
3 834 FAU Boulevard, Suite 210
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Phone: 561-297-0125/2230
FAX: 561-297-3634
E-mail: fuchs@walt.ccs.fau.edu, afuchs@fau.edu

Major Research Interests:
Application of the concepts of synergetics and the theory of nonlinear dynamical systems to behavioral sciences, biology, and medicine. Especially, the macroscopic modeling of the spatiotemporal dynamics of human EEG and MEG, and combining theses dynamical measures with structural and functional information obtained from MRI and fMRI.

Education:
Diploma Universität Stuttgart 1985 (Physics)
Ph.D. Universität Stuttgart 1990 (Physics)

Professional Experience:
2001-- Associate Professor, Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Department of Physics, and Department of Biomedical Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.
1995--2001 Assistant Professor, Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Department of Physics, and Department of Biomedical Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.
1994--1995 Akademischer Rat (tenured research staff), Institut für Theoretische Physik und Synergetik, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
1993--1994 Postdoctoral fellow, funded by NIMH grant (1R01 MH42900, P.I.: J.A.S. Kelso), Center for Complex Systems, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.
1991--1992 Individual postdoctoral fellowship, funded by DFG (German Research Foundation), Center for Complex Systems, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.
1991 Akademischer Rat, Institut für Theoretische Physik und Synergetik, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
1985--1990 Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter (comparable: Research Assistant), Institut für Theoretische Physik und Synergetik, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
Awards and Honors:

Publications:

Refereed Journal Articles:
  1. J.M. Mayville, K.J. Jantzen, A. Fuchs, F. Steinberg, J.A.S. Kelso: 'Cortical and subcortical networks underlying syncopated and synchronized coordination revealed using fMRI', Human Brain Mapping, submitted

  2. F.W. Carver, A. Fuchs, K.J. Jantzen, J.A.S. Kelso: 'Spatiotemporal Analysis of Neuromagnetic Activity Associated with Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation', Clinical Neurophysiology, submitted

  3. K.J. Jantzen, A. Fuchs, J.M. Mayville, L. Deecke, J.A.S. Kelso: 'Alpha and beta band power changes in MEG reflect learning induced increases in coordinative stability', Clinical Neurophysiology, 112: 1685-1697 (2001)

  4. J.M. Mayville, A. Fuchs, M. Ding, D. Cheyne, L. Deecke, J.A.S. Kelso: 'Event-related changes in neuromagnetic activity associated with syncopation and synchronization timing tasks', Human Brain Mapping, 14: 65-80 (2001)

  5. A. Fuchs, V.K. Jirsa: 'The HKB Model Revisited: How Varying the Degree of Symmetry Controls Dynamics', Human Movement Science 19: 425-449 (2000)

  6. A. Fuchs, J. Mayville, D. Cheyne, H. Weinberg, L. Deecke, J.A.S. Kelso: 'Spatiotemporal Analysis of Neuromagnetic Events Underlying the Emergence of Coordinative Instabilities', Neuroimage 12: 71-84 (2000)

  7. A. Fuchs, V.K. Jirsa, J.A.S. Kelso: 'Issues for the Coordination of Human Brain Activity and Motor Behavior', Neuroimage 11: 375-377 (2000)

  8. A. Fuchs, V.K. Jirsa, J.A.S. Kelso: 'Theory of the Relation between Human Brain Activity (MEG) and Hand Movements', Neuroimage 11: 359-369 (2000)

  9. A. Fuchs, L. Deecke, J.A.S. Kelso: 'Phase Transitions in the Human Brain Revealed by Large SQuID Arrays: Response to Daffertshofer, Peper and Beek, Phys. Lett. A 266: 303-308 (2000)

  10. J.M. Mayville, S.L. Bressler, A. Fuchs, J.A.S. Kelso: 'Spatiotemporal Reorganization of Electric Activity in the Human Brain Associated with a Timing Transition in Rhythmic Auditory-Motor Coordination', Experimental Brain Research 127: 371-381 (1999)

  11. J.A.S. Kelso, A. Fuchs, R. Lancaster, T. Holroyd, D. Cheyne, H. Weinberg: 'Dynamic Cortical Activity in the Human Brain Reveals Motor Equivalence', Nature 23: 814-818 (1998)

  12. V.K. Jirsa, A. Fuchs, J.A.S. Kelso: `Connecting cortical and behavioral dynamics: bimanual coordination', Neural Computation 10: 2019-2045 (1998)

  13. A. Fuchs, V.K. Jirsa, H. Haken, J.A.S. Kelso: `Extending the HKB-Model of Coordinated Movement to Oscillators with different Eigenfrequencies', Biol. Cybern. 74: 21-30 (1996)

  14. J.J. Buchanan, J.A.S. Kelso, A. Fuchs: `Coordination dynamics of trajectory formation', Biol. Cybern. 74: 41-54 (1996)

  15. J.A.S. Kelso, A. Fuchs: `Selforganizing dynamics of the human brain: Critical Instabilities and Sil'nikov chaos', Chaos 5: 64-69 (1995)

  16. A. Fuchs, J.A.S. Kelso: `A Theoretical Note on Models of Interlimb Coordination', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 20: 1088-1097 (1994)

  17. J.A.S. Kelso, S.L. Bressler, S. Buchanan, G.C. DeGuzman, M. Ding, A. Fuchs, T. Holroyd: `A phase transition in human brain and behavior', Phys. Lett. A169: 134-144 (1992)

  18. A. Fuchs, J.A.S. Kelso, H. Haken: `Phase transitions in the human brain: spatial mode dynamics', International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 2: 917-939 (1992)

  19. H. Haken, J.A.S. Kelso, A. Fuchs, A.S. Pandya: `Dynamic Pattern Recognition of Coordinated Biological Motion', Neural Networks 3: 390-401 (1990)

  20. H. Haken, A. Fuchs, W. Banzhaf: `Mustererkennung durch synergetische Computer (Pattern Recognition by Synergetic Systems)', Design&Elektronik 6: 93-99, 7: 82-86 (1989)

  21. A. Fuchs, H. Haken: `Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions and Associative Memory. Numerical Results', Z. Phys. B71: 519-520 (1988)

  22. A. Fuchs, H. Haken: `Pattern Recognition and Associative Memory as Dynamical Processes in a Synergetic System I, II, Erratum', Biol. Cybern. 60: 17-22, 107-109, 476 (1988)

  23. A. Fuchs: `Synergetics, Selfsimilarity and Computergraphics', Z. Naturforsch. 42a: 319-323 (1986)

  24. A. Fuchs, G. Mahler: `Model Study on disordered one-dimensional Microstructures', Sol. Stat. Com. 55: 1035-1037 (1985)
Book Chapters:
  1. V.K. Jirsa, K.J. Jantzen, A. Fuchs, J.A.S. Kelso: 'Neural field dynamics on the folded three-dimensional cortical sheet and its forward EEG and MEG', Information Processing in Medical Imaging, M.F. Insana, R.M Leahy, eds., Springer, Berlin (2001)

  2. J.A.S. Kelso, V.K. Jirsa, A. Fuchs: 'From Level to Level in Brain and Behavior', in: New Developments in Statistical Mechanics, M. Bachelor, L.T. Wille, eds., World Scientific, Singapore (1999)

  3. J.A.S. Kelso, V.K. Jirsa, A. Fuchs: 'Traversing Scales of Brain and Behavioral Organization I: Concepts and Experiments', in: Analysis of Neurophysiological Brain Functioning, C. Uhl, ed., Springer, Berlin (1999)

  4. A. Fuchs, V.K. Jirsa, J.A.S. Kelso: 'Traversing Scales of Brain and Behavioral Organization II: Analysis and Reconstruction', in: Analysis of Neurophysiological Brain Functioning, C. Uhl, ed., Springer, Berlin (1999)

  5. V.K. Jirsa, J.A.S. Kelso, A. Fuchs: 'Traversing Scales of Brain and Behavioral Organization III: Theoretical Modeling', in: Analysis of Neurophysiological Brain Functioning, C. Uhl, ed., Springer, Berlin (1999)

  6. R. Haas, A. Fuchs, H. Haken, E. Horvath, A.S. Pandya, J.A.S. Kelso: `Recognition of dynamic patterns by a synergetic Computer', in: Progress in Neural Networks, O.M. Omidvar, ed., Ablex Publishing Corporation, Norwood, NJ (1995)

  7. R. Haas, A. Fuchs, H. Haken, E. Horvath, A.S. Pandya, J.A.S. Kelso: `Recognition of Dynamic Patterns by a Synergetic Computer', in: Ambiguity in Mind and Nature, P. Kruse, M.Stadler, eds., Springer, Berlin (1995)

  8. A. Fuchs, J.A.S. Kelso: `Pattern formation in the human brain during qualitative changes in sensorimotor coordination', in: Proceedings of the World Congress on Neural Networks, 1993, vol. 4: 476-479 (1993)

  9. A. Fuchs, J.A.S. Kelso: `Self-organization in brain and behavior: Critical instabilities and dynamics of spatial modes', in: Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis of the EEG, B.H. Jansen, M.E. Brandt, eds., World Scientific, Singapore (1993)

  10. A. Fuchs, H. Haken: `Synergetic Systems for Pattern Recognition', in: Proceedings First Symposium on Systematology, Journal of Shanghai Institute of Mechanical Engineering 13: 9-22 (1991)

  11. R. Friedrich, A. Fuchs, H. Haken: `Modeling of Spatio-temporal EEG Patterns', in: Mathematical approaches to brain function diagnostics, I. Dvorak, A.V. Holden, eds., Manchester University Press (1991)

  12. R. Friedrich, A. Fuchs, H. Haken: `Spatiotemporal EEG Patterns', in: Synergetics of Rhythms, H. Haken, H.P. Köpchen, eds., Springer Verlag, Berlin (1991)

  13. J.A.S. Kelso, S.L. Bressler, S. Buchanan, G.C. DeGuzman, M. Ding, A. Fuchs, T. Holroyd: `Cooperative and critical phenomena in the human brain revealed by multiple SQuIDS', in: Measuring chaos in the human brain, D. Duke, W. Pritchard, eds., World Scientific, New Jersey (1991)

  14. R. Friedrich, A. Fuchs, H. Haken: `Synergetic Analysis of Spatio-temporal EEG-Patterns', in: Nonlinear Wave Processes in Excitable Media, A.V. Holden et al., eds., Plenum Press, New York (1990)

  15. T. Ditzinger, A. Fuchs, H. Haken: `Synergetic Approach to Phenomena of Perception in Natural and Artificial Systems', in: Evolution of Dynamical Structures in Complex Systems, R. Friedrich, A. Wunderlin, eds., Springer Verlag, Berlin (1990)

  16. M. Bestehorn, R. Friedrich, A. Fuchs, H. Haken, A. Kuhn, A. Wunderlin: `Synergetics Applied to Pattern Formation and Pattern Recognition', in: Optimal Structures in Heterogeneous Reaction Systems, P. Plath, ed., Springer Verlag, Berlin (1989)

  17. A. Fuchs, H. Haken: `The Synergetic Approach to Pattern Recognition', in: Irreversible Processes and Selforganization, W. Ebeling, H. Ulbricht, eds., Teubner Verlag, Leipzig (1989)

  18. A. Fuchs, H. Haken: `Pattern Recognition and Associative Memory as a Dynamical Process in Nonlinear Systems', in: Dynamic Patterns in Complex Systems, J.A.S. Kelso, A.J. Mandell, M.F. Shlesinger, eds., World Scientific, Singapore (1988)

  19. A. Fuchs, H. Haken: `Computer Simulation of Pattern Recognition as a Dynamical Process of a Synergetic System', in: Neural and Synergetic Computers, H. Haken, ed., Springer Verlag, Berlin (1988)

  20. A. Fuchs, H. Haken: `Pattern Recognition and Pattern Formation as Dual Processes', in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Nets I, SOS Printing, San Diego, CA (1988)

  21. A. Fuchs, R. Friedrich, H. Haken, D. Lehmann: `Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Multi-channel Alpha EEG Map Series', in: Computational Systems - Natural and Artificial, H. Haken, ed., Springer Verlag, Berlin (1987)

Abstracts:
  1. A. Fuchs, J.M. Mayville, K.L. Purcott, F. Steinberg, J.A.S. Kelso: `Cerebellar Activity Distinguishes Sensorimotor Task Difficulty in fMRI', Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, submitted

  2. J.M. Mayville, D. Cheyne, L. Deecke, M. Ding, A. Fuchs, J.A.S. Kelso: `Desynchronization of MEG (15-30Hz) associated with overt and imagined sensorimotor coordiantion reflects task difficulty', Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, submitted

  3. K.J. Jantzen, D. Cheyne, L. Deecke, A. Fuchs, J.A.S. Kelso: `Learning sensorimotor coordination alters the stability of large-scale cortical (MEG) dynamics', Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, submitted

  4. F.W. Craver, A. Fuchs, J.M. Mayville, S.W. Davis, J.A.S. Kelso: `Systemantic Investigation of the Human Brain's Response to Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation', Dynamical Neuroscience VII, Integration Across Multiple Imaging Modalities, Delray Beach, FL, October 1999

  5. A. Fuchs, K.L. Purcott, D.G. Nair, J.M. Mayville, S. Owens, F. Steinberg, J.A.S. Kelso: `Brain Activity in Perception-Motor Coordination Revealed by Functional MRI', Dynamical Neuroscience VII, Integration Across Multiple Imaging Modalities, Delray Beach, FL, October 1999

  6. V.K. Jirsa, J.A.S. Kelso, A. Fuchs: `Macroscopic reorganization of neural activity due to heterogeneous connections', Dynamical Neuroscience VII, Integration Across Multiple Imaging Modalities, Delray Beach, FL, October 1999

  7. J.A.S. Kelso, A. Fuchs, J.M. Mayville, D. Cheyne, H. Weinberg, L. Deecke: `Decompositions of Brain Signals into Physiological Events underlying Phase Transitions in the Human Brain', Dynamical Neuroscience VII, Integration Across Multiple Imaging Modalities, Delray Beach, FL, October 1999

  8. D.G. Nair, K.L. Purcott, A. Fuchs, J.M. Mayville, F. Steinberg, J.A.S. Kelso: `Comparing Motor an Imaginary Related Activation in the Brain: A Functional MRI Study in Normal Subjects and a Stroke Patient', Dynamical Neuroscience VII, Integration Across Multiple Imaging Modalities, Delray Beach, FL, October 1999

  9. V.K. Jirsa, J.A.S. Kelso, A. Fuchs: `Macroscopic reorganization of neural activity due to heterogeneous connections', Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 25/2: 2257 (1999)

  10. J.A.S. Kelso, A. Fuchs, J.M. Mayville, A.J. Nash, D. Cheyne, H. Weinberg, L. Deecke: `Decompositions of Brain Signals into Physiological Events underlying Phase Transitions in the Human Brain', Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 25/1: 1137 (1999)

  11. A. Fuchs, J.A.S. Kelso: `Large Scale Electric (EEG), Magnetic (MEG) and Metabolic (fMRI) Activity during Human Sensorimotor Coordination', Abstracts of the international conference: Progress in Motor Control II, State College, PA, August 1999

  12. V.K. Jirsa, A. Fuchs, J.A.S. Kelso: `Neural Field Theory Connecting Cortical and Behavioral Dynamics: Bimanual Coordination', Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 23/2: 1139 (1997)

  13. T. Holroyd, J.A.S. Kelso, A. Fuchs, D. Cheyne, H. Weinberg: `Neuromagnetic Field Dynamics during Rhythmic Sensorimotor Coordination', Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 23/2: 2087 (1997)

  14. V.K. Jirsa, A. Fuchs, J.A.S. Kelso: 'Correlation between Brain Activity and Motor Behavior: Theory and Experiment', Abstracts of the 4th Experimental Chaos Conference, Boca Raton, Florida, August 1997

  15. R. Lancaster, T. Holroyd, A. Fuchs, D. Cheyne, H. Weinberg, J.A.S. Kelso: 'The Task Dependent Nature of Brain Dynamics: Motor Equivalence in the Brain', Satellite Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Neuroscience, Washington DC, November 1996

  16. J.M. Mayville, G.V. Wallenstein, A. Nash, A. Fuchs, S.L. Bressler, J.A.S. Kelso: `Cortical Dynamics of the Human EEG Associated with Behavioral Phasetransitions in an Auditory Motor Task', Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 22/2: 890 (1996)

  17. J.A.S. Kelso, A. Fuchs, T. Holroyd, D. Cheyne, H. Weinberg: `Bifurcations in Human Brain and Behavior', Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 20: 444 (1994)

  18. J.J. Buchanan, J.A.S. Kelso, A. Fuchs: `Coordination Dynamics of Trajectory Formation: I. Experimental Results', Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 19: 544 (1993)

  19. A. Fuchs, J.A.S. Kelso, J.J. Buchanan: `Coordination Dynamics of Trajectory Formation: II. Theoretical Results', Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 19: 544 (1993)

  20. G.V. Wallenstein, S.L. Bressler, A. Fuchs, J.A.S. Kelso: `Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Phase Transitions in the Human Brain', Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 19: 1606 (1993)

  21. J.A.S. Kelso, S.L. Bressler, S. Buchanan, G.C. DeGuzman, M. Ding, A. Fuchs, T. Holroyd: `A sensorimotor phase transition in the human brain revealed by multiple low temperature SQuIDS', Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 17: 657 (1991)
Competitive Grants:
'Combining EEG, MEG, f/MRI to Enhance the Resolution of Brain Recordings', NINDS (NS39845), A. Fuchs (P.I.), total direct cost: $100,000, 2000-2002

'Brain Dynamics of Complex Behavior Revealed by Functional Neuromagnetic Imaging', Human Frontier Science Program, D. Cheyne (P.I.), total direct cost: $600,000, 1997-2000, role on project: research staff

'Dynamic Patterns in Complex Dynamical Systems', NIMH (MH42900, Neuroscience Research Branch), J.A.S. Kelso (P.I.), renewed 1997-2001, extended by a MERIT Award to 2005, total award: approx. $7,000,000 over 18 years, role on project: research staff

'National Training Program: Complex Systems and Brain Sciences', NIMH, J.A.S. Kelso (P.I.), 1996-2000, role on project: program faculty

Third application for NSF grant for high speed computing, NSF-vBNS (very high speed Backbone Network Service or Internet II), J. Schilit, P.I., wrote project section for Complex Systems to justify funding and arranged letters of support from collaborators, submitted to NSF 7/1998, funded, Grant ANI-9818184

Second application for NSF grant for high speed computing, NSF-vBNS (very high speed Backbone Network Service or Internet II), J. Schilit, P.I., wrote project section for Complex Systems to justify funding, submitted to NSF 1/1998, rejected

First application for NSF grant for high speed computing, NSF-vBNS (very high speed Backbone Network Service or Internet II), J. Schilit, P.I., wrote project section for Complex Systems to justify funding, submitted to NSF 1997, rejected

'Visualization, Analysis and Modeling of Global Brain Dynamics', A. Fuchs (P.I.) and J.A.S. Kelso (Co-P.I.) submitted to NSF 1996, not funded

Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation), 1991-1992, P.I.
Invited Talks and Lectures:
`Content of a Database for Neurophysiological Research', International Workshop: Neuroinformatics and Electrophysiological Neuroimaging, Carmel, CA, January 2000

`Noninvasive Brain Imaging applied to Sensorimotor Coordination', Workshop: Modeling Action and Perception: Debates in Dynamics, State College, PA, August 1999

`The Physics behind Modern Imaging Technology for Noninvasive Studies of the Structure and Dynamics of the Living Human Brain', Colloquium of the Department of Physics, FAU, February 1999

`Nature's Way of Computing: Synergetic Systems for Pattern Formation and Pattern Recognition', Workshop on Emerging Computing held by EPSRC, London, July 1998

`Traversing Scales of Brain and Behavioral Organization', Department of Kinesiology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, February 1998

`Phasetransitions in the Human Brain: Theory and Experiments', at the Penn State Action Club, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, February 1998

`Traversing Scales of Brain and Behavioral Organization II: Analysis and Reconstruction', International Workshop: Model-based Analysis of Neurophysiological Brain Functioning, Leipzig, December 1997

`Phasetransitions in the Human Brain: Theory and Experiment', Colloquium of the Department of Physics, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, June 1997

`Phasenübergänge im menschlichen Gehirn' (Phasetransitions in the Human Brain), Max-Planck-Institute of Neurophysiological Research, Leipzig, Germany, August 1996

`Analysis of the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Brain Signals -- Operational Procedures from Synergetics', Dynamical Neuroscience Workshop, Boca Raton, FL, November 1994

`Order Parameters and their Dynamics in Biological Systems', Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, October 1993

`Synergetic Approach to Coherent Spatiotemporal Brain Patterns', A Workshop on Dynamics of Complex Systems, Boca Raton, FL, April 1992

`Synergetics applied to the Analysis of Brain Signals', Graduate Seminar in Nonlinear Dynamics, Gatech, Atlanta, GA, June 1992

`Synergetic Systems for Pattern Recognition', First Symposium on Systematology, Shanghai Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai, China, November 1990

`Synergetic Systems for Pattern Recognition', Institute of Systems Science, Academia Sinica, Bejing, China, November 1990

`Musterbildung und Mustererkennung (Pattern Formation and Pattern Recognition)', Winter Seminar Messung und Selbstähnlichkeit (Measurement and Selfsimilarity), Zeinisjoch, Galtür, Austria, February 1990

`Mustererkennung als dynamischer Prozess in synergetischen Systemen (Pattern Recognition as a Dynamical Process in Synergetic Systems)', Colloquium of the Department of Physics at the University of Ilmenau, January 1990

`Mustererkennung als dynamischer Prozess in synergetischen Systemen (Pattern Recognition as a Dynamical Process in Synergetic Systems)', Colloquium of the Department of Physics at the University of Hamburg, May 1989

`Mustererkennung als dynamischer Prozess in synergetischen Systemen (Pattern Recognition as a Dynamical Process in Synergetic Systems)', Colloquium of the Department of Physics at the University of Regensburg, December 1989

`From Pattern Formation to Pattern Recognition', IPSO-4 (Fourth International Conference on Irreversible Processes and Selforganization), Rostock, Germany, February 1989

`Strukturbildung und Strukturanalyse in synergetischen Systemen (Formation of Structures and Analysis of Structures in Synergetic Systems)', Winter Seminar Optimal Structures in Heterogeneous Reaktions, Zeinisjoch, Galtür, Austria, February 1988

`Computer Simulation of Pattern Recognition as a Dynamical Process of a Synergetic System', International Symposium Neural and Synergetic Computers, Schloss Elmau, Bavaria, Germany, June 1988

`Spatiotemporal Analysis of multi-channel alpha-EEG map series', with R. Friedrich, International Symposium Computational Systems -- Natural and Artificial, Schloss Elmau, Bavaria, Germany, May 1987

`Synergetik, Selbstähnlichkeit und Computergrafik (Synergetics, Selfsimilarity, and Computergrafics)', at the Workshop Symmetrie, Selbstähnlichkeit und Computergrafik, Symposium on Symmetry, Darmstadt, Germany, June 1986

Contributed Talks:
`Large Scale Electric (EEG), Magnetic (MEG) and Metabolic (fMRI) Activity during Human Sensorimotor Coordination', International conference: Progress in Motor Control II, State College, PA, August 1999

`The Task Dependent Nature of Brain Dynamics: Motor Equivalence in the Brain', International Society of Brain Topography (ISBET), Zurich, Switzerland, March 1997

`Pattern Formation in the Human Brain During Qualitative Changes in Sensorimotor Coordination', World Congress on Neural Nets, Portland, OR, July 1993

`Self-organization in brain and behavior: Critical instabilities and dynamics of spatial modes', Second Annual Conference on Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis of the EEG, Houston, TX, April 1992

`Ein dynamisches System zur Mustererkennung (A Dynamical System for Pattern Recognition)', DPG (Meeting of the German Society of Physics), Karlsruhe, Germany, March 1988
Teaching Experience:
  • "General Physics I", at FAU, Spring 1998

  • "General Physics II", at FAU, Fall 1995, Spring 1996, Fall 1996, Spring 1997, Fall 1997, Fall 1999

  • "College Physics II", at FAU, Fall 1998, Spring 2000

  • "Computational Brain Physics", at FAU, Summer B 1996, Spring 1999

  • "Synergetics", at FAU, Fall 1996, Fall 1999

  • "Research in Complex Systems", at FAU, Spring 1997, Spring 1998

  • "Computational Brain Physics II", at FAU, Fall 1997

  • "Current Topics in Complex Systems", at FAU, Summer B 1997

  • "Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos II", Spring 1999

  • "Proseminar in Complex Systems", at FAU, Spring 2000

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