D E Wolf – författare

Prediction of traffic (like weather forecast), its planning and control are counted among the great scientific and technological challenges. Similarly, flow of granular material like tablets or powders is of immense importance for industrial processing of solids. Both fields have intriguing conceptual analogies.From 9–11 October, 1995, the German Supercomputing Center HLRZ (Höchstleitungsrechenzentrum) at the research center Jülich (KFA) organized an international workshop "Traffic and Granular Flow". The purpose of this workshop was to promote the interaction between these two scientific fields, to which supercomputing is making essential contributions, and to stimulate the transfer between basic and applied research.

These truly interdisciplinary conference proceedings give an account of modern brain research. The whole range from the molecular to the systemic level is spanned. The book intends to stimulate the use of supercomputers, for analyzing and comparing images obtained with PET (positron emission tomography), MEG (magnetoencephalography or fNMR (functional magnetic resonance imaging), or for simulating neural networks. The book also offers a basis on which scientists from different disciplines can assess the current state of the field.