- NATO Science Program
- EC Network LOCNET
- Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research
- NSF-DMR
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Sicilian regional Government
- UNESCO Venice Office
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Purpose:
Over the last decade a major advance of the theory
of nonlinear excitations in discrete lattices is the
discovery that some localized vibrations in perfectly
periodic non-integrable lattices can be stabilized by
lattice discreteness. This realization has led to
extensive studies of intrinsic localization in various
nonlinear nonintergrable lattices, and it proved to be
a conceptual and practical breakthrough.
In the literature these localized excitations are called
either "intrinsic localized modes" (ILMs) with the
emphasis on the fact that their formation involves no disorder,
or "discrete breathers" (DBs) with the emphasis on their
similarity to exact localized breather soliton solutions
in nonlinear continuum theories.
This Advanced Research Workshop is intended to bring
together in a workshop forum both junior and senior
workers to discuss the common research topic of
intrinsic localization of vibrational, atomic and
spin energy, electric charge, electromagnetic energy
and magnetic flux in nonlinear, spatially discrete
systems from the theoretical, numerical, and experimental
perspectives.
The Organizing Committee of the Workshop is composed
of G. Benedek, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy,
A. R. Bishop, Los Alamos Natl. Lab., Los Alamos, NM,
USA, S. Flach, MPI Dresden, Germany, V. Hizhnyakov,
University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, M. Peyrard,
Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, France, and
A. J. Sievers, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
This workshop will be held in conjunction with the
final conference of the EC network
LOCNET.
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Topics include:
- Nonlinear Lattice Dynamics/Intrinsic Localized modes
- Intrinsic Localized Elementary Excitations
- Intrinsic Localization in Electronic and Structural Materials
- Nonlinear Photonic Crystals and Optical Waveguides
- Discrete Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation
- Quantum Breathers and their Interactions
- Intrinsic Localized Modes in Micromechanical Arrays
- Breathers in Josephson Junctions
- Localized Energy Transport in Biopolymers
- Structure and Nonlinear Excitations in Bose-Einstein Condensates
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Speakers include:
- S. AUBRY, CEA Saclay, France
- M. BARTHES, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- A. R. BISHOP, Los Alamos Natl. Lab., NM, USA
- P. L. CHRISTIANSEN, Technical University Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
- S. FLACH, Max-Planck Institut, Dresden, Germany
- L. M. FLORIA, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza. Spain
- V. HIZHNYAKOV, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Y. S. KIVSHAR, Australian Natl. University, Canberra, Australia
- A. M. KOSEVICH, Natl. Academy of Sciences, Kharkov, Ukraine
- A. S. KOVALEV, Inst. of Low Temperature Phys. & Eng., Kharkov, Ukraine
- R. LIVI, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- R. S. MacKAY, University of Warwick, Coventry, England
- B. MALOMED, University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- J. B. PAGE, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
- M. PEYRARD, Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, France
- M. SALERNO, University of Salerno, Baronissi, Italy
- A. J. SIEVERS, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
- S. TAKENO, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka, Japan
- N. THEODORAKOPOULOS, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece
- G. P. TSIRONIS, University of Crete, Greece
- A. USTINOV, University of Nurnberg, Germany
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Applications:
Interested candidates should send a letter to:
Professor V. Hizhnyakov,
Institute of Theoretical Physics
University of Tartu, Tahe 4
Tartu, EE2400, ESTONIA
e-mail: hizh@eeter.fi.tartu.ee
specifying:
- full name(s), address, age, nationality;
- academic qualifications, present position
and affiliation and/or a short CV
- their specific interest in the Workshop.
Junior participants should enclose a letter of
recommendation from the group leader or the director
of their institution.
Travel form is coming around May 15, 2003.
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Directors:
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