The purpose of the seminar is to bring together active researchers working in the field of both topological and nontopological coherent excitations on nonlinear lattices
and to promote an information exchange of concepts and methods in theory and applications. Theoretical aspects include quantum versus classical systems, dissipative versus conservative systems,
analytical versus statistical approaches. Experimental aspects vary over a vast field including many magnon and many phonon bound states in solids,
nonlinear optics in photonic crystals, complex structures of weak superconducting links.

The four week seminar is structured into a first Focus Week on 'Nonlinear Deformation Waves' (Sep 4-9), a Focus Week on 'Computational Approaches to Nonlinear Phenomena' (Sep 10-15),
a Focus Week on 'Quantum Discrete Breathers' (Sep 17-21) and a Workshop on 'Localized Excitations on Lattices - From Classical to Quantum, From Theory to Practice' (Sep 24-28).

During Focus Weeks two talks will be scheduled in the morning, while the afternoons will be reserved for joint disussions and research. Poster sessions will allow for additional participant contributions.
During the workshop invited and contributed talks will be scheduled in the morning and afternoon sessions, with additional poster sessions scheduled for the evenings.  

M. Ablowitz, Y. Ajiro, S. Aubry, C. Baesens, D. Bambusi, A. Benabdallah, P. Binder, T. Bountis, L. Bunimovich, D. Campbell, T. Cretegny, P. Christiansen, H.-H. Dai,
V. Dobrovitski, J. Dorignac, P. Entel, C. Eilbeck, J. Engelbrecht, F. Fillaux, M. Fistul, M. Floria, Y. Fu, Y. Gaididei, Y. Gornostyrev, M. Hamilton, D. Hennig,
V. Hizhnyakov, K.-M. Ho, M. Hornquist, B. Hu, P. Jakob, T. Janssen, M. Johansson, T. Kawahara, V. Kenkre, P. Kevrekidis, Y. Kivshar, K. Kladko, G. Kopidakis, A. Kosevich, A. Kovalev,
J. Leon, S. Lepri, A. Lichtenberg, R. Livi, A. Lomonosov, R. MacKay, A. Maradudin, G. Maugin, J. Mazo, F.-G. Mertens, J. Morris, V. Mozhaev,
A. Ovchinnikov, D. Parker, J. Page, B. Persson, A. Porubov, A. Reid, A. Samsonov, A. Savin, R. Schilling, M. Schuster, A. Scott, J.-A. Sepulchre, A. Sievers, J. Speight
, D. Srolovitz, S. Takeno, N. Theodorakopoulis, V. Tognetti, G. Tsironis, A. Ustinov, J. Wattis, C. Willis, E. Zabolotskaya, Y. Zolotaryuk

The deadline for applications is June 30, 2001. The workshop registration fee is 150 DM. Costs for accommodation and meals will be covered by the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems. In exceptional cases, limited funding is available to partly cover travel expenses.

For further information and application please contact:

Visitors Program
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme
Nöthnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden
Tel.: +49-351-871-2198 / Fax: +49-351-871-2199
Email: nsld@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de
http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~nlsd