Preliminary Program
Invited talks: 30 minutes + 5 minutes discussion
Short talks: 15 minutes + 5 minutes discussion
| Tuesday, December 05 | |
| 18:00 - 21:00 | Registration |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Welcome Buffet |
| Wednesday, December 06 | |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Opening by Peter Fulde (MPI PKS) |
| 09:00 - 09:35 | Luigi Galgani (University of Milano) |
| The FPU problem and the metastability perspective | |
| 09:35 - 10:10 | Lapo Casetti (University of Florence) |
| Weak and strong chaos in FPU models and beyond | |
| 10:10 - 10:45 | Antonio Ponno (University of Padua) |
| Theory of the energy cascade in FPU: Normal forms, singularity analysis and intermittency | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15 - 11:50 | Simone Paleari (University of Milano) |
| Metastability and dispersive shock waves in Fermi-Pasta-Ulam system | |
| 11:50 - 12:25 | Stefano Ruffo (University of Florence) |
| Nonlinear excitations in 1D and 2D FPU lattices | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 14:35 | Giancarlo Benettin (University of Padua) |
| Some results and open questions on the two-dimensional FPU problem | |
| 14:35 - 15:10 | Wolfgang Dreyer (Weierstrass Institute Berlin) |
| Thermodynamic properties of the atomic chain for various micro-macro transitions | |
| 15:10 - 15:45 | Giulio Casati (University of Insubria-Como) |
| Classical and quantum chaos and understanding and control of the heat flow | |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:15 - 16:50 | Andrea Carati (University of Milano) |
| The problem of the specific heats and the FPU problem | |
| 16:50 - 17:25 | Antonio Politi (CNR Sesto Fiorentino) |
| Anomalous energy transport in 1d lattices | |
| 17:25 - 18:00 | Stefano Lepri (CNR Sesto Fiorentino) |
| Anomalous energy transport in 1d lattices | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Dinner |
| 19:00 - 19:20 | Andreas Henrici (University Zürich) |
| Normal form for periodic FPU chains | |
| 19:20 - 19:40 | Michael Herrmann (Humboldt University Berlin) |
| Hamiltonian and Lagrangian two-scale reduction for lattice systems | |
| 19:40 - 20:00 | Hong-liu Yang (Chemnitz University of Technology) |
| Hydrodynamic Lyapunov modes and strong stochasticity threshold in Fermi-Pasta-Ulam models | |
| 20:00 - ... | Poster session I (incl. drinks and snacks) |
| Thursday, December 07 | |
| 09:00 - 09:35 | Bambi Hu (University of Houston) |
| Asymmetric heat conduction in nonlinear lattices | |
| 09:35 - 10:10 | Baowen Li (National University of Singapore) |
| Effective phonon theory in nonlinear lattices: Normal vs abnormal thermal conduction | |
| 10:10 - 10:45 | Serge Aubry (CEA Saclay) |
| Shockwaves in extended FPU models | |
| 10:45 - 10:50 | Group photo |
| 10:50 - 11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15 - 11:50 | Tassos Bountis (University of Patras) |
| Stability and chaos in n-degree of freedom Hamiltonian lattices | |
| 11:50 - 12:25 | George Chechin (Rostov State University) |
| Bushes of modes as exact excitations in nonlinear dynamical systems with discrete symmetry | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 14:35 | Bob Rink (Imperial College London) |
| Traveling waves and Hamiltonian advance-delay equations | |
| 14:35 - 15:10 | Oleg I. Kanakov (University of Nizhny Novgorod) |
| Scale-invariant properties of q-breathers in nonlinear lattices | |
| 15:10 - 15:45 | Tiziano Penati (University of Milano) |
| Q-breathers, tail resonances and metastability in the FPU lattice | |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:15 - 16:50 | Konstantin Mishagin (University of Nizhny Novgorod) |
| Scaling properties of q-breathers in discrete nonlinear Schrödinger lattices | |
| 16:50 - 17:25 | Philip Rosenau (Tel Aviv University) |
| Interplay between lattices and their quasi continuum limits | |
| 17:25 - 17:45 | Laurent Proville (CEA Saclay) |
| Quantum dynamics of breathers in a nonlinear Klein-Gordon lattice | |
| 17:45 - 18:05 | Benno Rumpf (Chemnitz University of Technology) |
| Growth and erosion of discrete breathers interacting with Rayleigh-Jeans distributed phonons | |
| 18:05 - 19:00 | Dinner |
| 19:00 - 19:20 | Magnus Johansson (Linköping University) |
| Discrete nonlinear Schrödinger approximation of a mixed Klein-Gordon/Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain: Modulational instability and a statistical condition for creation of thermodynamic breathers | |
| 19:20 - 19:40 | Ramaz Khomeriki (Tbilisi State University) |
| Nonlinear bistability in restricted geometries | |
| 19:40 - 20:00 | Michael Zaks (Humboldt University Berlin) |
| Localized desynchronized states in weakly disordered lattices of coupled phase oscillators | |
| 20:00 - ... | Poster session II (incl. drinks and snacks) |
| Friday, December 08 | |
| 09:00 - 09:35 | Hrvoje Buljan (University of Zagreb) |
| Partially coherent optical- and matter-waves in periodic lattices | |
| 09:35 - 10:10 | Boris Altshuler (Columbia University) |
| Many-body localization | |
| 10:10 - 10:45 | Tal Schwartz (Technion) |
| Transport and Anderson localization in disordered two-dimensional photonic lattices | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15 - 11:50 | Leonid Bunimovich (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
| Long range action in dynamical networks | |
| 11:50 - 12:25 | Roberto Livi (University of Florence) |
| Breather states in BEC | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 14:35 | Guillaume James (INSA Toulouse) |
| Pulsating travelling waves in the FPU chain : Analysis via center manifold and normal form theory | |
| 14:35 - 15:10 | Masayuki Sato (Kanazawa University) |
| Traveling intrinsic localized modes in the acoustic spectrum of a nonlinear micromechanical cantilever array | |
| 15:10 - 15:45 | Jayme De Luca (Universidade Federal de São Carlos) |
| Localization criteria for finite chains - A study of the Peyrard-Bishop chain | |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:15 - 16:50 | Jason Fleischer (Princeton University) |
| Dispersive shock waves in nonlinear arrays | |
| 16:50 - 17:25 | Stavros Farantos (FORTH Heraklion) |
| Searching for localized motions in biological molecules: Phase space structures and selectivity | |
| 19:00 | Conference dinner at the restaurant "El Rodizio" |
last update: December 05, 2006
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