from the K news page

Jan Tobochnik, Physics, and Péter
Érdi, Center for Complex Systems Studies, published
a paper in the December 2003 issue of Physical Review E
titled "Properties of a random attachment growing network."
Coauthors of the paper include Rebecca Warner '04, and
four of Professor Érdi's students from Hungary--László
Zalányi , Gábor Csárdi, Tamás Kiss,
and Máté Lengyel.

In other news, Péter was an invited speaker at the Annual
Sympoisum of the Center for Biological Modeling of the Michigan
State University. He gave a seminar at the Department of Chemistry
of the Western Michigan University. Peter was the co-director
of the Computational Neuroscience School in Erice, Sicily, where
Bobby Rohrkemper '04 also had a presentation. Péter
was a co-organizer and co-chair of a Workshop "Nonlinear
spatio-temporal neural dynamics - Experiments and Theoretical
Models" held in July 2003 in Alicante (Spain) in the annual
Computational Neuroscience Conference. He also has been nominated
to be a Program Co-Chair in the IEEE International Joint Conference
on Neural Networks to be held in Budapest in July 2004.

Péter visited the Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan)
by invitation of the Center of Excellence at the Mathematics Department.
He gave a talk titled "Neural Networks, Brain Rhythms and
Computational Neuropharmacology" and met with faculty and
students. Finally, Péter was one of the fives keynote speakers
of the Symposium on Intentional Dynamic Systems to be held at
University of Memphis. The title of his talk was "The Brain
as Hermeneutic Device: Code Generation, Mood Regulation and Navigation".
The other four speakers came from University of California-Berkeley,
University of Florida, EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland), and Nagoya
University (Japan). http://cnd.memphis.edu/IDS_2004/

Speaking of Bobby Rohrkemper (see above), he and Alyce
Brady, Computer Science, attended the Consortium for Computing
Sciences in College-Northeastern Region (CCSCNE), which was held
at Union College in Schenectady, New York. The conference included
workshops and lectures related to issues in computer science education.
Students and faculty associated with small colleges in the east
and northeast attended. At the CCSCNE student poster session Bobby
presented his SIP research as a poster titled "Autocorrelation
and Fourier Analysis for Detecting Periodic Cell Potentials in
a Simulated Inhibitory Neural Network." He was one of three
to win a "Best Student Poster" Award.