MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME
International Workshop and Seminar on
Vortices, solitons, and frustration phenomena
in 2D magnetic and optical systems
Workshop: January 10 - 14, 2000
Seminar: January 3 - 21, 2000
Scientific Coordinators:
| Arnold M. Kosevich | Franz G. Mertens |
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| Institute for Low Temperature Physics | Physikalisches Institut, Univ. Bayreuth |
| Kharkov, Ukraine | Bayreuth, Germany |
| ARRIVAL
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| 19:00 | Welcome reception (Cafeteria at the Max Planck Institute)
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MONDAY, JANUARY 10
| 08:45 - 09:00 | OPENING | ||
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Marat S. Soskin (Kiev) | ||
| Optical vortices. Fundamentals and applications | |||
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Yuri Kivshar (Canberra) | ||
| Dark solitons and vortices in nonlinear optics: | |||
| Dynamics and instabilities | |||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Carl Weiss (Braunschweig) | ||
| Vortices and solitons in active optical resonators | |||
| 12:30 - 14:30 | LUNCH | ||
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Alexander B. Borisov (Ekaterinburg) | ||
| Vortices and topological defects in the 2D sine-Gordon system | |||
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Igor Barashenkov (Cape Town) | ||
| Exact vortex solutions of the complex sine-Gordon theory on the plane | |||
| 16:30 - 17:00 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Angel Sánchez (Madrid) | ||
| Finite temperature landscape of the random sine-Gordon model | |||
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexei Bogdanov (Donetsk) | ||
| Magnetic vortices and incommensurate structures in noncentrosymmetric magnetic systems | |||
| 19:00 | SUPPER |
TUESDAY, JANUARY 11
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Franz G. Mertens (Bayreuth) | ||
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| Generalized travelling wave ansatz for solitons and vortices | |||
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Alexander S. Kovalev (Kharkov) | ||
| Magnetic vortex dynamics due to its interaction with spin wave modes | |||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Stavros Komineas (Bayreuth) | ||
| Scattering of magnetic solitons in two dimensions | |||
| 12:30 - 14:30 | LUNCH | ||
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Alan R. Bishop (Los Alamos) | ||
| Examples of topological structures and mesoscopic organization in 2D and | |||
| 3D Josephson junction arrays and complex Ginzburg-Landau equations | |||
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Igor Mokhun (Chernivtsy) | ||
| Singularities in vector fields | |||
| 16:30 - 17:00 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Alexander N. Omelyanchouk (Kharkov) | ||
| 2D vortex states and phase slip centers in mesoscopic four-terminal junctions | |||
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Oleg P. Pishnyak (Kiev) | ||
| Phase singularities in a Gaussian beam passed through a | |||
| dye-doped nematic liquid crystal cell | |||
| 19:00 | SUPPER |
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Arnold M. Kosevich (Kharkov) | ||
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| Nonlinear equations allowing existence of embedded solitons | |||
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Borys A. Ivanov (Kiev) | ||
| Two-dimensional solitons and thermodynamics of layered magnets | |||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Igor L. Bogolyubsky (Moscow) | ||
| Soliton vortices in the U(1) gauged easy-axis Heisenberg sigma model | |||
| 12:30 - 14:30 | LUNCH | ||
| 14:30 - 15:30 | John M. Tranquada (Upton) | ||
| Stripe phase in high-temperature superconductors | |||
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Hartmut Benner (Darmstadt) | ||
| Spinwave envelope solitons in magnetic films (Theory and | |||
| experiments; bright/dark solitons; the phase problems; applications) | |||
| 16:30 - 17:00 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Abdelwahab Ghazali (Paris) | ||
| Magnetic structurs in ultrathin films and nanodots: | |||
| Monte Carlo simulations | |||
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Craig Zaspel (Bozeman) | ||
| Electron paramagnetic resonance detection of magnetic solitons | |||
| 19:00 | SUPPER |
THURSDAY, JANUARY 13
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Yuri Gaididei (Kiev) | ||
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| Internal dynamics of breathers and vortices | |||
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Avadh B. Saxena (Los Alamos) | ||
| Deformation of Heisenberg vortices due to magnetoelastic coupling | |||
| 10:00 - 11:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:30 - 12:20 | Nigel Cooper (Birmingham) | ||
| Propagating solitary waves in ferromagnets and quantum | |||
| hall ferromagnets | |||
| 12:30 - 14:30 | LUNCH | ||
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Nikos Papanicolaou (Heraklion) | ||
| Bulk and surface spin-flop transitions | |||
| 15:30 - 16:00 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 16:00 - 19:00 | Poster session | ||
| 20:00 | WORKSHOP DINNER IN A RESTAURANT |
FRIDAY, JANUARY 14
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Johannes Richter (Magdeburg) | ||
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| Frustration and quantum fluctuations in low-dimensional spin systems | |||
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Hartmut Zabel (Bochum) | ||
| Spin frustration effects in thin Cr-films | |||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Mikhail Bogdan (Kharkov) | ||
| Structural properties of magnetic frustrations as 2D solitons | |||
| localized at defects in layered magnets | |||
| 12:30 - 14:30 | LUNCH | ||
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Yuriy A. Kosevich (Moscow) | ||
| Giant double-resonant optical rotation and total polarization conversion | |||
| in gyrotropic and anistropic 2D systems | |||
| 15:30 - 16:00 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Nail Akhmediev (Canberra) | ||
| Comparative study of solitons in dissipative, Hamiltonian and | |||
| integrable systems | |||
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Peter L. Christiansen (Lyngby) | ||
| Curvature-induced symmetry breaking in nonlinear Schroedinger model | |||
| 18:00 | SUPPER |
SATURDAY, JANUARY 15
A FULL-DAY EXCURSION TO THE SURROUNDINGS OF DRESDEN