The predictability problem [Elektronische Ressource] / James Kwang Yau Ong

The predictability problemJamesKwan Yau OngEingereicht bei derMathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultätder Universität PotsdamJuly2007This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. Elektronisch veröffentlicht auf dem Publikationsserver der Universität Potsdam: http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2007/1502/ urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-15025 [http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-15025] AcknowledgementsI thank Professor Jürgen Kurths for accepting me into his group as his doctoralstudent and providing an environment conducive to learning about the applica-tion of nonlinear dynamics in many diverse fields. His group, the Arbeitsgruppefür NichtlineareDynamik(AGNLD)inthePhysicsDepartmentof theUniversityof Potsdam, is truly a melting pot for ideas from many different traditions, andwhile most of the research performed in this group has nothing to do with myresearch, I have greatly profited from the many lively academic discussions withothermembersofthegroup.I thank Professor Reinhold Kliegl for accepting me with open arms into hisCognitivePsychology research group. From the first day, I never felt like an out-sider in the group.