“…Example systems include pacemaker cells in the heart (Michaels et al, 1987), circadian cells in the brain (Liu et al, 1997), coupled cortical neurons (Crook et al, 1997), Hodgkin-Huxley neurons (Brown et al, 2003), brain networks (Varela et al, 2001), yeast cells (Ghosh et al, 1971), flashing fireflies (Buck, 1988;Ermentrout, 1991), chirping crickets (Walker, 1969), central pattern generators for animal locomotion (Kopell and Ermentrout, 1988), particle models mimicking animal flocking behavior (Ha et al, 2010b, and fish schools , among others. The coupled oscillator model (1) also appears in physics and chemistry in modeling and analysis of spin glass models (Daido, 1992;Jongen et al, 2001), flavor evolution of neutrinos (Pantaleone, 1998), coupled Josephson junctions (Wiesenfeld et al, 1998), coupled metronomes (Pantaleone, 2002), Huygen's coupled pendulum clocks (Bennett et al, 2002;Kapitaniak et al, 2012), micromechanical oscillators with optical (Zhang et al, 2012) or mechanical (Shim et al, 2007) coupling, and in the analysis of chemical oscillations (Kuramoto, 1984a;Kiss et al, 2002). Finally, oscillator networks of the form (1) also serve as phenomenological models for synchronization phenomena in social networks, such as rhythmic applause (Néda et al, 2000), opinion dynamics (Pluchino et al, 2006a,b), pedestrian crowd synchrony on London's Millennium bridge , and decision making in animal groups (Leonard et al, 2012).…”