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Member of the Mathematical Physics Group of the University of Lisbon.

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Phone: (Portugal) 218417116
Email:

Postal Address:
Departamento de Matemática
Instituto Superior Técnico
Av. Rovisco Pais
1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

Research interests

Dynamical systems
Coupled map lattices
Genetic regulatory networks
Spatially extended monotone mappings
Symbolic dynamics

Publication list

Selected papers:

R. Coutinho, B. Fernandez, Fronts in extended systems of bistable maps coupled via convolutions, Nonlinearity 17 (2004) 23-47.

R. Coutinho, B. Fernandez, Spatially extended circle maps: Monotone periodic dynamics of functions with linear growth, J. Nonlinear Sci. 14 (2004) 93-118.

R. Coutinho, B. Fernandez, Extensive bounds on the entropy of repellers in expanding coupled map lattices, to appear in Ergod. Th. & Dynam. Sys. (First View )