MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME
International Workshop and Seminar on
Statistical Mechanics of Space-Time Chaos
July 12 - 15, 2000
Scientific Coordinators:
| Roberto Livi | Antonio Politi |
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| University of Florence | National Institute of |
| Italy | Applied Optics, Italy |
TUESDAY, JULY 11
| 18:00 | REGISTRATION
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| 19:00 | Welcome reception (Cafeteria at the Max Planck Institute)
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 12
| 08:45 - 09:00 | OPENING | ||
| CHAIR: DAVID MUKAMEL | |||
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Raymond Kapral (Toronto) | ||
| Mesoscaly dynamics of spatially extended dynamical systems | |||
| 09:50 - 10:40 | Hugues Chaté (Gif-sur-Yvette) | ||
| Phase ordering and persistence in spatiotemporally chaotic | |||
| systems with and without conservation laws | |||
| 10:40 - 11:10 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:10 - 12:00 | Arkady Pikovsky (Potsdam) | ||
| Lyapunov exponents in disordered systems | |||
| 12:00 - 12:50 | Markus Bär (Dresden) | ||
| Modulated amplitude waves and the transition from phase | |||
| to defect chaos | |||
| 12:50 | LUNCH | ||
| CHAIR: ANGELO VULPIANI | |||
| 14:30 - 15:20 | Henk van Beijeren (Utrecht) | ||
| Chaos theory and statistical mechanics with a critical | |||
| examination of a Brownian motion experiment | |||
| 15:20 - 16:10 | Gary Morriss (Sydney) | ||
| Elliptic behaviour in thermostatted Lorenz gas | |||
| 16:00 - 16:40 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 16:40 - 17:30 | Frank Schmüser (Dresden) | ||
| On the relation between coupled map lattices and kinetic Ising models | |||
| 17:30 - 17:55 | Dieter Gross (Berlin) | ||
| Microcanonical thermodynamics of non-extensive systems | |||
| 17:55 - 18:20 | Haye Hinrichsen (Duisburg) | ||
| Robustness of voter-type coarsening | |||
| 19:00 | SUPPER |
| CHAIR: STEFANO RUFFO | |||
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Sergej Flach (Dresden) | ||
| Discrete breathers - from macroscale to nanoscale localization | |||
| 09:50 - 10:40 | Thierry Dauxois (Lyon) | ||
| Order of phase transition in models for DNA denaturation | |||
| 10:40 - 11:10 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:10 - 12:00 | George Tsironis (Heraklion) | ||
| Vibrational energy localization and diffusion in complicated systems | |||
| 12:00 - 12:25 | Yuriy Kosevich (Munich) | ||
| Temporal fourier spectra of stationary and slowly moving breathers | |||
| in beta-FPU anharmonic lattice | |||
| 12:25 - 12:50 | Magnus Johansson (Gif-sur-Yvette) | ||
| Growth and decay of discrete nonlinear Schrödinger breathers | |||
| interacting with internal modes or standing-wave phonons | |||
| 12:50 | LUNCH | ||
| 15:00 - 18:00 | POSTER SESSION: 2nd floor | ||
| 19:00 | CONFERENCE DINNER AT RESTAURANT 'SOPHIENKELLER' | ||
| please check the way description to the restaurant in this booklet | |||
| ('Frequently asked questions') |
| CHAIR: HOLGER KANTZ | |||
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Giancarlo Benettin (Padova) | ||
| A tentative model for transport of particles in a gradient of pressure | |||
| 09:50 - 10:40 | Hervé Kunz (Lausanne) | ||
| Some new results in random matrix theory | |||
| 10:40 - 11:10 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:10 - 12:00 | Hans H. Rugh (Cergy-Pontoise) | ||
| A geometric approach to the thermodynamics of Hamiltonian systems | |||
| 12:00 - 12:25 | Wolfram Just (London) | ||
| On mean field phase transitions in long range coupled map lattices | |||
| 12:25 - 12:50 | Georg Kopidakis (Gif-sur-Yvette) | ||
| Discrete breathers in realistic models | |||
| 12:50 | LUNCH | ||
| CHAIR: HENK VAN BEIJEREN | |||
| 14:30 - 15:20 | Denis J. Evans (Canberra) | ||
| The fluctuation theorem for heat flow | |||
| 15:20 - 16:10 | J. Robert Dorfman (College Park) | ||
| Entropy production in deterministic, Hamiltonian systems with | |||
| Anosov-like dynamics | |||
| 16:10 - 16:40 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 16:40 - 17:30 | Harald Posch (Vienna) | ||
| Tangent space dynamics and hydrodynamic modes for hard particle systems | |||
| 17:30 - 17:55 | Jürgen Vollmer (Essen) | ||
| The ABC of chaos in transport theory | |||
| 17:55 - 18:20 | Carl Dettmann (New York) | ||
| Chaos and diffusion in infinite billiard models | |||
| 19:00 | SUPPER |
| CHAIR: ARKADY PIKOVSKY | |||
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Angelo Vulpiani (Rome) | ||
| Studies of burning fronts in passive-reactive diffusion | |||
| 09:50 - 10:40 | David Mukamel (Rehovot) | ||
| Coarsening processes on non-equilibrium systems | |||
| 10:40 - 11:10 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:10 - 12:00 | Peter Grassberger (Jülich) | ||
| to be announced | |||
| 12:00 - 12:25 | Ofer Biham (Jerusalem) | ||
| Critical behavior and universality in sandpile models | |||
| 12:25 - 12:50 | Stefan Boettcher (Atlanta) | ||
| Memory and aging in self-organized critical avalanches | |||
| 12:50 | LUNCH | ||
| 15:00 | EXCURSION TO PILLNITZ BY ELBE STEAMER |