INSTITUT HENRI POINCARE, PARIS 2005

"Nonlinear Physics: Condensed Matter, Dynamical Systems and Biophysics"

A 60th Birthday Symposium in Honor of Serge AUBRY

May 30th-31st, 2005


  Monday
May 30th
Tuesday
May 31st

  Chair: T. Dauxois Chair:  A.R. Bishop
9h00
M. FLORIA
G. TSIRONIS
9h35
M. PEYRARD
R. SCHILLING
10h10 Coffee Break Coffee Break
10h45 J.M. LUCK
Poster Session
11h15 C. BAESENS
C. GODRECHE
11h50 S. ALEXANDROV
B. HU
12h25 Lunch Lunch
 
  Chair:  R.S. MacKay Chair:  G. Tsironis
14h30 L.PROVILLE
R. S. MACKAY
15H05 P. MONCEAU
I. PERCIVAL
15h40 Poster Session
G. HERVE
16h15 Tea Time
Tea Time
16h45 G. KOPIDAKIS
B. DEY
17h20 T. DAUXOIS
S. AUBRY
19h30 Dinner with the after dinner talk by
D.K. CAMPBELL


TALKS

Sasha ALEXANDROV (Loughborough, UK)
Lattice mobile polarons and bipolarons

Serge AUBRY (Saclay, France)
Some recent results about Intraband Breathers in systems with discrete spectrum and targeted transfer
applied to electron transfer in the photosynthetic reaction center and non-Kramers chemical reactions.

Claude BAESENS
(Warwick, UK)
Discommensuration Theory and Shadowing

Alan R. BISHOP (Los Alamos, USA)

David CAMPBELL (Boston, USA)
Nonlinear physics: past, present and future

Thierry DAUXOIS (Lyon, France)
The ANTI-FPU problem

B. DEY (Pune, India)
New suggestions concerning the origin of Sonoluminescence

Mario FLORIA (Zaragoza, Spain)
2D Anisotropic NL-Schrodinger Lattices. Numerical studies on Schrodinger Breather Mobility

Claude GODRECHE
(Saclay, France)
Zero-range processes: statics and dynamics

Guy HERVE (Paris, France)
Intramolecular signal transmission in regulatory enzymes

Bambi HU
(Hong-Kong, China, and Houston, USA)
The Classical and Quantum Frenkel-Kontorova Model

George KOPIDAKIS
(Heraklion, Greece)
Localization and Targeted Transfer of Nonlinear Excitations

Jean-Marc LUCK (Saclay, France)
Ground-state structure and dynamics in a toy model for granular compaction

Robert MACKAY
(Warwick, UK)
Ergodic Pumping: a mechanism for driving biomolecular conformation changes

Pierre MONCEAU (Saclay and Grenoble, France)
Nature of the Peierls transition in charge density wave systems: strong coupling versus weak coupling

Ian PERCIVAL (London, United Kingdom)
An application of the `Arnold gas'

Michel PEYRARD (Lyon, France)
The Peierls barrier and the control of energy flow in nonlinear lattices: two problems revisited with, or in the spirit of, Serge Aubry.

Laurent PROVILLE (Saclay, France) 
Quantum breathers in the Klein-Gordon lattice

Rolf SCHILLING (Mainz, Germany)
Energy landscape properties studied by use of symbolic sequences

George TSIRONIS (Heraklion, Greece)
Nonlinear localization and the quantized Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model


     

POSTERS

Juan ARCHILLA (Sevilla, Spain)
Discrete breathers and reconstructive transformations.

Vasileios BASIOS (Brussels, Belium), Ioannis KOURAKIS, P. SHUKLA   (Bochum, Germany)
Detection and controlability aspects of intrinsic localized modes in dusty plasma crystals

Jean-Guy CAPUTO, L. LOUKITCH (Rouen, France)
Dynamics of point Josephson junctions in a microstrip line

Nuno CATARINO
(Edinburgh, UK) , Robert MACKAY (Warwick, UK)
Quantum scaling and renormalization of Frenkel-Kontorova models 

Thierry DAUXOIS
(Lyon, France)
Dynamics and Thermodynamics of systems with long-range interactions

Thierry DAUXOIS, Michel PEYRARD (Lyon, France)
Soliton: Portraits of Pionneers

Jerome DORIGNAC   (Boston, USA)
Bipolaron phase diagram in the 1D adiabatic Holstein-Hubbard model.

Cyril FALVO  (Besançon, France)
Vibron-polaron in a three-dimensional model of alpha-helix proteins

Bastien FERNANDEZ   (Marseille, France)
Discrete time piecewise affine models of regulatory networks

Sergej FLACH   (Dresden, Germany)
q-breathers and the FPU problem

Guillaume JAMES, Pascal NOBLE, Yannick SIRE   (Toulouse, France)
Weak coupling limits in Euclidean invariant Hamiltonian systems

Magnus JOHANSSON  (Linkoping, Sweden)
Statistical Mechanics of general discrete nonlinear Schrödinger models:
Localization transition ans its relevance for Klein-Gordon lattics

George KALOSAKAS  (Dresden, Germany)
Localized solutions of DNLS using Aubry's method

V. KOUKOULOYANNIS (Thessaloniki, Greece), IOANNIS KOURAKIS  (Bochum, Germany)
Existence of multibreathers in systems with an inverse dispersion law - Application in charged dust lattice oscillations

Aleksandra MALUCKOV (Nis, Serbia and Montenegro)
Bifurcation analysis of the localized modes dynamics in lattices with saturable nonlinearity

Jesus Cuevas MARAVER (Sevilla, Spain)
Interaction of moving breathers with vacancies

A. GOMEZ-MARIN, J. M. SANCHO  (Barcelona, Spain)
Feynman's Brownian Motors

P. MANIADIS  (Barcelona, Spain)
Discrete Breathers and self induced transparency

Dimitri PETRITIS (Rennes, France)
From mathematical physics to mathematical genomics: a survey

Francesco PIAZZA, Paolo DE LOS RIOS (Lausanne, Switzerland), Brice JUANICO, Yves-Henri SANEJOUAND (Lyon, France)
Slow energy transfer in proteins

P. SEN (New Delhi, India)
Nonlinear transport of energy and artificial structure creation in single crystalline lattices

A. TROMBETTONI (Perugia, Italy)
Bose-Einstein condensation on inhomogeneous networks