Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society

&nbsp;Confirmed Invited Speakers and Tentative Titles of Talks and Book ContributionsBook Editors and Introduction “Spreading Fundamentals”, Armin Bunde (Gießen), Jürgen Caro (Hannover), Jörg Kärger (Leipzig), Gero Vogl (Wien) <p>&nbsp;Dirk Brockmann&nbsp;(Berlin)&nbsp;</p> <p>Epidemics Spreading&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;Frank Cichos&nbsp;(Leipzig)&nbsp;</p> <p>Hot Brownian Motion: Experiment&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;Marc-Olivier Coppens&nbsp;(London)&nbsp;</p> <p>Nature-Inspired Transport Optimization&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;Joaquim Fort&nbsp;(Girona)&nbsp;</p> <p>The Neolithic Transition: Diffusion of People or Diffusion of Culture?</p> <p>&nbsp;Albrecht Fritzsche&nbsp;(Erlangen)&nbsp;</p> <p>Spreading Innovations&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;Russel Gray&nbsp;(Auckland)&nbsp;</p> <p>Expansion of Langu</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>age Families&nbsp;<p></p> <p>&nbsp;Detlef Gronenborn&nbsp;(Mainz) G</p> <p>&nbsp;and Carsten Lemmen (Geesthacht)</p> <p>The Expansion of Farming as Seen from Archaeology and Related Disciplines S</p> <p>&nbsp;Shlomo Havlin&nbsp;(Ramat Gan)&nbsp;</p> <p>Spreading of Failures in the Internet and in Power Grids</p> <p>&nbsp;Anne Kandler&nbsp;(London)&nbsp;</p> <p>Analysing Language Shift: </p>The Example of Scottish Gaelic&nbsp;<p></p> <p>&nbsp;Rainer Klages&nbsp;(London)&nbsp;</p> <p>Search for Food of Birds, Fish and Insects&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;Rajamani Krishna&nbsp;(Amsterdam)&nbsp;</p> <p>Uphill Diffusion&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;Klaus Kroy&nbsp;(Leipzig)&nbsp;</p> <p>Hot Brownian Motion: Theory&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;Ingolf Kühn</p>&nbsp;<p></p>;(Halle<p></p>)&nbsp;<p></p><p></p> <p></p>rsal in<p></p> Plan<p></p>ts and Animals: Biological Processes&nbsp;<p></p> <p>&nbsp;Michael Leitner&nbsp;(Munich)&nbsp;</p> <p>Dispersal in Plants and Animals: Modelling&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;Philipp Maass&nbsp;(Osnabrück)&nbsp;</p> <p>Diffusive Transport in Non-Equilibrium Steady State&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;Hernán Makse&nbsp;(New York)&nbsp;</p> <p>A New Class of Superspreader: From Twitter, Cities and&nbsp; the Brain&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;Christoph Neinhuis&nbsp;(Dresden)&nbsp;</p> <p>Transport Systems in Living Organisms&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;Charles Nicholson&nbsp;(New York)&nbsp;</p> <p>Brain Structure Revealed by Diffusive Spread of Molecules&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;William S. Price&nbsp;(Sydney)&nbsp;</p> <p>NMR Versatility&nbsp;</p> &nbsp;Mart<p></p>in Schnittler<p></p>/b&gt; (Greifsw<p></p>p&gt;ald)&nbsp;<p></p> Spore Dispersal in Lower Organisms: From Model Assumptions to Reality&nbsp;&nbsp;<p></p> <p>&nbsp;Manfred Wendisch&nbsp;(Leipzig)&nbsp;</p> <p>Diffusion Processes in Atmospheric Physics&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>&nbsp;Søren Wichmann</strong>&nbsp;(Leiden)&nbsp;</p> <p>Language Migration: Empirical Data and Modelling&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>