LOCALIZED EXCITATIONS ON LATTICES - FROM CLASSICAL TO QUANTUM, FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
Coordinators : Alan R. Bishop and Sergej Flach
The workshop is the final part of a 4-weeks event which is devoted to modern problems of nonlinear lattice structure and dynamics.
The first Focus Week of the event considers nonlinear deformation waves - a subject on the edge between discreteness and continuity. The second Focus Week turns to computational approaches to nonlinear phenomena in intrinsically discrete systems (mainly lattice dynamics of solids). The third Focus Week deals with aspects of quantization of localized excitations on lattices.
Thus the final workshop week completes the bridge and will mainly focus on recent advantages in the broad field of localized excitations, also widely known as discrete breathers (DB) on lattices.
A selection of main topics (in alphabetical order!) includes:
We expect around 70 participants in the workshop, with
a big fraction being associated to the European Commission
Research Training Network LOCNET. To provide with enough
time for discussions and work, we will keep the time reserved
for oral presentations at a reasonable level.
Thus the workshop should offer enough time for discussions to
exchange
ideas and methods, to stimulate cooperations
and to do theoretical work right ``on the spot'' using
the excellent facilities of
the Max Planck Institute.
The links of this workshop part with the seminar Focus Weeks of the event
will give us the
possibility to interact with colleagues working in
other subfields of nonlinear science with mutual benefit.