Research in Excitable Media
This National Science Foundation supported research project is aimed at studying spatial and temporal scales of the onset of instabilities in oscillatory chemical systems. Excitable media also occur in biology (the heart and the brain), physics and many other fields.
The research group
From left to right
Stephen Chaterpaul, Claudia Frank, Elizabeth Russell, Harold Hastings (Project Co-Director), Flavio Fenton, Sabrina Sobel (Project Co-Director), Jordan Pekor.
Here is the initiation of target patterns (see also the next photo) in the BZ reaction.
A complex pattern appears 60 seconds later.
For information, please email Harold.Hastings@Hofstra.edu.