MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME

Workshop on

LOCALIZATION IN NONLINEAR LATTICES

Dresden, Germany

April 07 - 11, 1997


Scientific Board:

Sergej Flach Robert MacKay
MPI-PKS Dresden

Germany

 DAMTP Cambridge

United Kingdom

Scope of the workshop

Recently, discrete breathers became a focus of research in the field of dynamical localization in nonlinear lattices. Significant progress has been achieved in the understanding of their existence and properties. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers who are actively working in this field, to give an opportunity to present recent results, exchange ideas and methods, and to stimulate further activities in this field. A special aim is to look for experimental relevance of the workshop's subject as well as for possible connections to other topics in physics.

The following topics will be addressed, among others:

Discrete breathers: existence, bifurcations, stability, movability, finite

temperatures, interactions with plane waves and

inhomogeneities
Quantum breathers: characterization, existence, tunneling,

correspondence with classical phase space properties
Related fields: polaron theory, interacting fermions
Applications: vibrations and magnetic excitations in anharmonic

molecules and crystals, arrays of coupled Josephson

junctions, photonic band gap materials, granular and

porous materials

Organizational Details

The meeting will consist of seminars, discussions (to be scheduled during the workshop) and spare time for additional talks, free discussions and work. Workstations will be available.

Participation is mainly by invitations, however, some additional applications will be considered. The total number of participants is limited to 30. We are over the limits!

There will be a special issue in Physica D in 1998 containing the proceedings of this workshop. Details will be announced in the next weeks. Check regularly here! In the meanwhile see the complete booklet below which contains some information on that.

The workshop is organized by the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden. It will be held in the institute's building. Acommodation will be arranged in a nearby hotel. The participants are expected to arrive on Sunday, April 6th in the afternoon. Departure is planned for Saturday, April 12th.

For further information please contact Ingo Allekotte (Head of MPIPKS Visitors Program), Sergej Flach, Robert MacKay or email to the workshop account.

Some final informations can be found here.

Preliminary List of Participants