Professor Haken's Lecture.

Plenary Lecture by Prof. Hermann Haken, July 18, 2007.

As part of the Nonlinear Dynamics in  Movement and Cognitive Sciences, International Summer School 2007 in Marseille, France, Prof. emer. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h.c. mult. Hermann Haken  delivered the Plenary Lecture.

Hermann Haken is the founder of the interdisciplinary field of research Synergetics, which provides an understanding of emergent phenomena in self-organizing complex systems. In particular, synergetics searches for general principles governing self-organization irrespective of the nature of the individual parts of the systems that may belong to a variety of disciplines such as physics (lasers, fluids, plasmas), meteorology, chemistry (pattern formation by chemical reactions, including flames), biology (morphogenesis, evolution theory) movement science, brain activities, computer sciences (synergetic computer), sociology (e.g. city growth) psychology and psychiatry (including Gestalt psychology).  

Pictures from the lecture are available here