Many planar spatially extended systems exhibit localized structures such as
spots and oscillons. In particular, such structures can emerge at Turing
and forced Hopf bifurcations. In this talk, I will give an overview of
these mechanisms and show how geometric blow-up techniques can be used to
analyze them: among the findings is the bifurcation of localized structures
that have significantly larger amplitudes than expected from formal
considerations.
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