Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society

 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)

 Dirk Brockmann (Berlin) 

Epidemics Spreading 

 Frank Cichos (Leipzig) 

Hot Brownian Motion: Experiment 

 Marc-Olivier Coppens (London) 

Nature-Inspired Transport Optimization 

 Joaquim Fort (Girona) 

The Neolithic Transition: Diffusion of People or Diffusion of Culture?

 Albrecht Fritzsche (Erlangen) 

Spreading Innovations 

 Russel Gray (Auckland) 

Expansion of Langu

age Families 

 Detlef Gronenborn (Mainz) G

 and Carsten Lemmen (Geesthacht)

The Expansion of Farming as Seen from Archaeology and Related Disciplines S

 Shlomo Havlin (Ramat Gan) 

Spreading of Failures in the Internet and in Power Grids

 Anne Kandler (London) 

Analysing Language Shift:

The Example of Scottish Gaelic 

 Rainer Klages (London) 

Search for Food of Birds, Fish and Insects 

 Rajamani Krishna (Amsterdam) 

Uphill Diffusion 

 Klaus Kroy (Leipzig) 

Hot Brownian Motion: Theory 

 Ingolf Kühn

 

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ts and Animals: Biological Processes 

 Michael Leitner (Munich) 

Dispersal in Plants and Animals: Modelling 

 Philipp Maass (Osnabrück) 

Diffusive Transport in Non-Equilibrium Steady State 

 Hernán Makse (New York) 

A New Class of Superspreader: From Twitter, Cities and  the Brain 

 Christoph Neinhuis (Dresden) 

Transport Systems in Living Organisms 

 Charles Nicholson (New York) 

Brain Structure Revealed by Diffusive Spread of Molecules 

 William S. Price (Sydney) 

NMR Versatility 

 Mart

in Schnittler

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Spore Dispersal in Lower Organisms: From Model Assumptions to Reality  

 Manfred Wendisch (Leipzig) 

Diffusion Processes in Atmospheric Physics 

 Søren Wichmann (Leiden) 

Language Migration: Empirical Data and Modelling