| 19:00 - | Welcome |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | William J. Firth |
| Cavity solitons | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Carl Weiss |
| Vortices in nonlinear resonators | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Maxi San Miguel |
| Dynamics of localized structures and defects in nonlinear optical systems | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Pier Luigi Ramazza |
| Transient defects, domain formation and solitary structures: new results in nonlinear optics | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Ralph Neubecker |
| Controlling defects in spontaneous optical patterns | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Joceline Lega |
| Pulses, fronts and oscillations of an elastic rod | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | SUPPER |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Maurice Kleman |
| Rheological properties of a swollen lamellar phase at low shear and low stress | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Tim Sluckin |
| Shear-induced melting in smectic A liquid crystals | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Hans-Rainer Trebin |
| Dislocation motion and crack propagation in quasicrystals | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Lev Tsimring |
| Instability and separation of binary granular mixtures in a long rotating drum | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Yaroslav Zolotaryuk |
| An inverse method for creation of exact moving solitons on nonlinear chains | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Sergei Bulgadaev |
| Topological phase transitions in systems with internal symmetries: topological | |
| interpretation of quantum numbers | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Michael Monastyrsky |
| Topology of linked defects in liquid crystals and superfluid liquids | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | SUPPER |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Bernard Matkowsky |
| Interaction of counterpropagating hot spots in solid fuel combustion | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Edgar Knobloch |
| On the breakup of spiral waves into turbulence | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Alexander Golovin |
| Defect dynamics in unstable sequential flames governed by coupled KS-CGL | |
| and Burgers-CGL equations | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Alexander Chervanyov |
| Non-equilibrium states of superfluid mixtures of helium isotopes | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Eugenio E. Vogel |
Localized frustration patterns in  J spin glasses |
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| 15:00 - 15:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Rafael Gallego |
| Spiral formation and domain growth in a non potential two dimensional system | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Michal Or-Guil |
| Localized and periodic patterns in reaction-diffusion systems: the onset of propagation | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Axel G. Rossberg |
| A fast, charge preserving algorithm for detecting defects in discretized 2D fields | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Nigel Mottram |
| Numerical modelling of line disclinations in nematic liquid crystals | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | SUPPER |
| Excursion |
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| 09:00 - 10:00 | Nicholas Ercolani |
| Asymptotic behaviour of Landau theories for irrotational vector-valued fields | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Hermann Riecke |
| Transition from ordered to disordered defect chaos | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Helmut Brand |
| Stable localized solutions and their interaction in 1 and 2 D of order | |
| parameter equations | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Boris Rubinstein |
| Automated symbolic nonlinear analysis: approaches, results and problems | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Bernd Dressel |
| Order-parameter approach to electrohydrodynamic convection in vematics | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Hong Zhao |
| Defect lines in anisotropic convection | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Yoshifumi Harada |
| Pattern selection and dynamics of onset for binary fluid convection | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Uwe Thiele |
| Front propagation in anisotropic media | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | SUPPER |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Igor Aronson |
| Nucleation of vortices by rapid thermal quench | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Walter Zimmermann |
| Effects of inhomogeneities in pattern formation | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Michael Tribelsky |
| Symmetry, degeneracy and pattern formation: new type of turbulence | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Markus Bär |
| Spiral instabilities in reaction-diffusion systems | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Alexander Nepomnyashchy |
| Formation of structures in kinetically controlled crystal growth | |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Alexander Mikhailov |
| Strings and topological defects in complex Ginzburg-Landau equation | |
| with global feedback | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | SUPPER |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Valerii Vinokour |
| Topological order and melting of the vortex lattice | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Thomas Nattermann |
| Vortex glass phases in High-Tc-Superconductors | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Ulf Klein |
| Interplay of spin and orbital pair breaking effects in two-dimensional | |
| superconductors | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Roman V. Viznichenko |
| Surface barrier modification and AC losses in YBCO bulks | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Len Pismen |
| Crystallization kinetics in the Swift-Hohenberg model | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Philipp Maass |
| Spinodal decomposition in confined geometries | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Alexei Bogdanov |
| Inhomogeneous two-dimensional structures in liquid crystals and magnetically | |
| ordered materials | |
| 19:00 - | CONFERENCE DINNER |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Yves Pomeau |
| Vortices in spin 1/2 systems near their ground state: topology and dynamics | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Sergio Rica |
| Nonlinear Schrodinger flow passing around an obstacle | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Hugues Chate |
| Instabilities and dynamics of vortex filaments in oscillatory media | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | I Topology and dynamics |
| L. Pismen: Does topology help or is it dangerous? | |
| M. Monastyrsky: Prose and mathematics | |
| N. Ercolani: How to compute single defects? | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 15:30 - 17:30 | II What is computer aided analysis |
| I. Aronson and M. Bär: From simulation to theory - two views | |
| A. Nepomnyashchy: Good old perturbation theory | |
| A. Rossberg: Computational efficiency is the key to structure formation | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | SUPPER |