Leon Glass
Short Essays, Extended Abstracts and Reviews

  1. L. Glass. Instability and mitotic patterns in tissue growth. In: Regulation and Control in Physiological Systems, A.S. Iberall, A.C. Guyton, Eds. (Instrument Society of America, Pittsburgh, 1973), 129-131.

  2. L. Glass. Deep structures of biological networks. In: Proceedings of the 1974 Conference on Biologically Motivated Automata Theory (MITRE Corporation, McClean, Virginia, 1974), 207-211.

  3. L. Glass. American Scientist 62, 489 (1974). Review of Foundations of Mathematical Biology, Vol. III, Supercellular Systems, R. Rosen, Ed. (Academic Press, New York, 1973).

  4. L. Glass. Across the canadian ice: A response to Marr. Brain Theory Newsletter 2, 48-49 (1977).

  5. L. Glass. Science 200, 678-679 (1978). Review of Self organization in nonequilibrium systems by G. Nicolis and I. Prigogine (Wiley Interscience, New York, 1977).

  6. L. Glass. Mathematical Reviews 57 (Number 4), 69 (1979). Review of Fractals: Form, chance, and dimension by B.B. Mandelbrot (W.H. Freeman, New York, 1977).

  7. L. Glass, M.R. Guevara. One dimensional Poincaré maps for periodically stimulated biological oscillators. In: Proceedings of Colloque International du C.N.R.S. No. 332 Sur la Théorie de l'itération et ses Applications. (Editions du CNRS, Paris, 1982) 205-210.

  8. J. Bélair, L. Glass. Circle maps and the periodic forcing of limit cycle oscillators. In: Temporal Order, L. Rensing and N.I. Jaeger, Eds. (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1985) 175-178.

  9. L. Glass. Mathematical Biosciences 73, 309-310 (1985). Review of Mathematical aspects of physiology. Lecture notes in applied mathematics, Volume 19. (American Mathematical Society, 1981).

  10. L. Glass. Complex cardiac rhythms. Nature 330, 695-696 (1987) (News and Views).

  11. J. Bélair, L. Glass. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 50, 313-320 (1988). Review of eight books about chaos.

  12. L. Glass. Mathematics and cardiac arrhythmias. Rhythmology 3(1), 7-10 (1989) (Editorial).

  13. D. Papadatos, M. Talajic, C. Villemaire, S. Nattel, L. Glass. A computer model of the dynamic conduction properties of the atrioventricular (AV) node. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 12, 1164-1165 (1990).

  14. A. Beuter, C. Labrie, L. Glass. Analysis of complex dynamics during a visuomotor task in patients with neurological diseases. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 12, 992-993 (1990).

  15. L. Glass. Is cardiac chaos normal or abnormal? Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology 1, 481-482 (1990) ("Creative Musing" Section).

  16. D. Papadatos, M. Talajic, C. Villemaire, S. Nattel, L. Glass. A computer simulation of the timedependent conduction properties of the atrioventricular (AV) node. IEEE Computers in Cardiology. 365-367 (1991).

  17. L. Glass. Chaos and the origin of complex biological rhythms. The Biologist 39, 150-152 (1992).

  18. A. Beuter, L. Carrière, L. Varghese, A. de Geoffrey, L. Glass. Complex micromovement dynamics associated with visual feedback alteration. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 14, 1640-1641 (1992).

  19. L. Glass. Review of The geometry of biological time and when time breaks down by A.T. Winfree. The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol.15, No.1, 67-70 (1993).

  20. L. Glass. Editorial: Chaos and heart rate variability, Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology 10, 1358-1360 (1999).

  21. L. Glass. Review of The Computational beauty of nature: Computer explorations of fractals, chaos, complex systems, and adaptation by Gary Flake, Quarterly Review of Biology 75, 97 (2000).

  22. M. Ballora, B. Pennycook, P. Ch. Ivanov, A. L. Goldberger, L. Glass. Detection of obstructive sleep apnea through auditory display of heart rate variability. Computers in Cardiology, 27, 739-740 (2000).

  23. K. Tateno, L. Glass. A method for detection of atrial brillation using RR intervals. Computers in Cardiology, 27, 391-394 (2000).

  24. V. Schulte-Frohlinde, Y. Ashkenazy, P.Ch. Ivanov, A. Morley-Davies, L. Glass, A.L. Goldberger, H.E. Stanley. Finding hidden patterns in complex ventricular ectopy. Computers in Cardiology, 27, 335-339 (2000).

  25. L. Glass. Obituary. Arthur T. Winfree (1942-2002). Nature 421, 34 (2003). pdf file

  26. G. Bub, K. Tateno, A. Shrier, L. Glass. Spontaneous initiation and termination of complex rhythms in cardiac cell culture: Triggered and reentrant activity. Gordon Conference: Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms (2003).

  27. G. Bub, A. Shrier, L. Glass. Coupling dependent formation and termination of spiral waves in cultured cardiac monolayers. Keystone Symposia: Cardiac Arrhythmias (2003).

  28. G. Bub, L. Glass, A. Shrier. Coupling dependent wavefront stability in heterogeneous cardiac cell cultures. Biophys. J. 84, 408a (2003).

  29. M.-Y. Kim, L. Glass, A. Shrier. The effect of a potassium channel blocker on the spontaneous activity of heart cell aggregates. CAIMS-MITACS 7th Annual Conference, York University, Toronto, June 12 - 20 (2006).

  30. E. Libby, L. Glass. Probing the probeset. CAIMS - MITACS 7th Annual Conference, York University, Toronto, June 16 - 20 (2006).

  31. C. Lerma, T. Krogh-Madsen, L. Glass, M. R. Guevara. Stochastic modeling of cardiac arrhythmias. CAIMS - MITACS 7th Annual Conference, York University, Toronto, June 16 - 20 (2006).

  32. C. Lerma, T. Krogh-Madsen, L. Glass, M.R. Guevara. Effect of noise on cardiac arrhythmias associated with long-QT syndrome. Joint SIAM-SMB conference on the life sciences, Raleigh, NC, July 31 - August 4 (2006).

  33. B. Burstein, E. Libby, L. Glass, A. Calderone, S. Nattel. Atrial fibroblasts are different from ventricular: Explanation of atrial-ventricular remodeling differences in congestive heart failure? Circulation (in press, 2006).

  34. M.-Y. Kim, L. Glass, A. Shrier. Drug-induced complex activities of ventricular heart cell aggregates. Dynamics Days 2007, International Conference on Choas and Nonlinear Dynamics, Boston, MA, January 3 - 6 (2007).