Scientific program
| Sunday, August 29 | |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | Registration |
| 19:00 - 21:30 | Welcome reception in the institute's main building |
| Monday, August 30 | |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Opening and Welcome address |
| Holger Kantz (MPIPKS) and the scientific coordinators | |
| 09:15 - 10:30 | Cornelia Denz (Universität Münster) |
| Complexity & nonlinearities in periodic systems | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Periodically structured systems - from atoms to light (Chairperson: Robert Boyd) | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Markus Oberthaler (Universität Heidelberg) |
| Interacting particles in many modes | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Willem Vos (University of Twente) |
| Spontaneous emission control in nanophotonic structures | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| Complexity in structured systems - is the theory complete? (Chairpersons: Cornelia Denz and Gian-Luca Oppo) | |
| 14:30 - 16:00 | Round table discussion with video conferencing with major complexity/nonlinear science centres |
| Introduction: Claudio Conti and Vladimir Konotop | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | CPSS10 Colloquium (Chairperson: Klaus Hornberger, MPIPKS) |
| Klaus Sengstock (Universität Hamburg) | |
| Ultracold quantum gases in hexagonal optical lattices | |
| 17:45 - 18:45y | Damia Gomila (Universitat de les Illes Balears) |
| Pattern formation and localized structures with intracavity photonic crystals | |
| 19:00 - 20:30 | Supper |
| Tuesday, August 31 | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Introductory remarks and discussion of open issues from previous day |
| Complex spatio-temporal phenomena in photonic systems (Chairperson: Willem Vos) | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Stefano Longhi (Politecnico di Milano) |
| Optical simulations of Schrödinger and Dirac wave equations in photonic crystal structures | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Andrey Sukhorukov (Australian National University) |
| Slow light in coupled periodic photonic structures | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Dmitry Skryabin (University of Bath) |
| Nonlinear photonics in nano-waveguides and their arrays | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 - 16:30 | Poster session I (Chairperson: Cornelia Denz) |
| Short highlight presentations of poster presenters (5 minutes each) | |
| Followed by poster session I with extended coffee break | |
| 16:30 - 19:00 | Guided tour through Dresden's old city centre |
| 19:00 - 20:30 | Supper |
| Wednesday, September 1 | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Introductory remarks and discussion of open issues from previous day |
| Transport in periodically structured systems (Chairperson: Damia Gomila) | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Roberto Livi (Università di Firenze) |
| Transport properties of the DNLSE | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Group photo (to be published on the web page) and coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Vladimir Konotop (Universidade de Lisboa) |
| Conservative and dissipative nonlinear deffect modes in periodic media | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Milutin Stepic (Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences) |
| Surface modes at the boundary of two dissimiliar photonic lattices | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Mario Molina (Universidad de Chile) |
| Discrete and surface solitons in two-dimensional photonic lattices | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 - 19:00 | Excursion to the Saxon Switzerland |
| 19:00 - 20:30 | Supper |
| Thursday, September 2 | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Introductory remarks and discussion of open issues from previous day |
| Applications of complex structures (Chairperson: Yuri Kivshar) | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Martin Weitz (Universität Bonn) |
| Quantum transport of atoms in Fourier-synthesized optical lattices | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Claudio Conti (University Sapienza, Rome) |
| Complexity of nonlinear waves in random systems | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Bernd Terhalle (Universität Münster) |
| Rabi oscillations and interband Landau-Zener tunneling in two-dimensional photonic lattices | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 - 16:00 | Research perspectives (Chairpersons: Cornelia Denz and Gian-Luca Oppo) |
| Slide session followed by a debate of future developments with video conferencing with major complexity/nonlinear science centres | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| Beyond periodic structures (Chairperson: Claudio Conti) | |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Robert Boyd (University of Rochester) |
| Complex and structured materials for nonlinear optics | |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Chiara Fort (European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Sesto Fiorentino) |
| Inelastic light scattering to probe strongly correlated bosons in optical lattices | |
| 19:00 - | Conference dinner |
| Friday, September 3 | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Introductory remarks and discussion of open issues from previous day |
| Discrete vs. continuous models (Chairperson: Roberto Livi) | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Boris Malomed (Tel Aviv University) |
| Solitons and solitary vortices in continuous and discrete two-dimensional media | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Fatkhulla Abdullaev (Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan) |
| Compactons in nonlinear Schrödinger lattices with strong nonlinearity management | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Magnus Johansson (Linköping University) |
| Peierls-Nabarro energy surfaces and directional mobility of discrete solitons in two-dimensional saturable nonlinear Schrödinger lattices | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Yuriy Kosevich (Russian Academy of Sciences) |
| Dramatic reduction of phonon thermal conductivity in anharmonic nanowires and nanoribbons with dynamically rough surfaces and edges | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 - 16:30 | Poster session II and final keynote presentation (Chairperson: Boris Malomed) |
| Short highlight presentations of poster presenters (5 minutes each) | |
| Followed by poster session II with extended coffee break | |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Yuri Kivshar (Australian National University) |
| Nonlinear physics and localization in periodic structures | |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Closing remarks |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Supper |
For further information please e-mail to: cpss10@pks.mpg.de
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