Graduate School in Nonlinear Science

Sponsored by the Danish Research Academy

• Nonlinear Science Festival
  Thematic Workshop
  at the Niels Bohr Institute, December 7-12, 1998
  Coordinators: Predrag Cvitanovic and Peter L. Christiansen
  Expected number of participants: 90
  
• Stochastic Processes and Applications
  by Andrey L. Pankratov
  Institute for Physics of Microstructures of RAS
  Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
  1998: October 28, November 4, 11, 18, 25 December 2, 9, 16
  1999: January 6
  MIDIT, IMM Building 305, room 027, 15.00-16.00 h
  Number of participants: 8
• Workshop on Coherent Structures, Turbulence, Anomalous Transport in Plasmas and Fluids
  Organizers: Jens Juul Rasmussen and Volker Naulin,
  OFD, Risø, October 21-23, 1998
  Number of participants: 24
• Burst on Parametric Processes in Nonlinear Optical Materials
  by E. V. Podivilov and B. I. Sturman Institute of Automation
  Novosibirsk, Russia
  Organised by Per Michael Johansen
  OFD, Risø, October 19-20, 1998
  Number of participants: 10
• Summerschool on Dynamical Systems' Aspects of Transport and Diffusion in the Atmosphere and the Ocean
  Organizer by Mogens Høgh Jensen
  Bornö, Sweden, July 26 - August 2, 1998
  Number of participants: 30
• Mini Course on Spatial Optics
  May 27-28 1998, Optics and Fluid Dynamics Department, Risø National Laboratory.
  Organized by M. Saffmann and J. Juul Rasmussen, OFD
  e-mail addresses: mark.saffmann@risoe.dk and jens.juul.rasmussen@risoe.dk
  Number of participants: 23
• Workshop on Chaotic Synchronization and Two-Dimesional Maps
  Organized by Erik Mosekilde, Department of Physics, DTU and Carsten Knudsen, Dept. of Applied mathematics, University of Leeds, UK
  Physics Department, Building 309, DTU, May 18-21, 1998
  Number of participants: 35
  
• Mini Burst on Oscillations and Spatial Structures in Chemical Systems
  Organized by Preben Graae Sørensen, Department of Cemistry,
  H. C. Ørsted Institute,
  Universitetsparken 5, Copenhagen Ø
  Thursday May 7, 1998
  Number of participants: 25
• Mini Burst on Nonlinear Transport in Superconductive and Mesoscopic Systems
  Organized by G. M. Fischer, Department of Physics, DTU.
  Thursday, February 26 14:00 - 18:00, DTU, Building 306, Aud. 37
  and Friday, February 27 1998, 8:10-12:00, DTU, Building 305, Room 053.
  Number of participants: 28
  
  
  

• On quantum lattices II
  by Mario Salerno
  Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica
  Università di Salerno
  Italy
  Friday December 18, 15.00 h, 1998 at IMM, DTU, Room 027, Building 305
  
• Introduction to the Biophysics of Cellular Processes:
  Signalling, Information and Mass Transfer Incuding Motor Proteins
  by Jack Tuszynski
  Department of Physics
  University of Alberta
  Edmonton, Canada
  Friday December 18, 14.00, 1998 at MIDIT, IMM, DTU, Room 027, Building 305
  
• Introduction to the Biophysics of Cellular Processes:
  Biopolymer Networks, Mitosis and Tensegrity
  by Jack Tuszynski
  Department of Physics
  University of Alberta
  Edmonton, Canada
  Thursday December 17, 14.00, 1998 at MIDIT, IMM, DTU, Room 027, Building 305
  
• On quantum lattices I
  by Mario Salerno
  Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica
  Università di Salerno
  Italy
  Wednesday December 16, 15.00 h, 1998 at IMM, DTU, Room 027, Building 305
  
• Introduction to the Biophysics of Cellular Processes:
  The Cytoplasm and the Cytoskeleton
  by Jack Tuszynski
  Department of Physics
  University of Alberta
  Edmonton, Canada
  Wednesday December 16, 14.00, 1998 at MIDIT, IMM, DTU, Room 027, Building 305
  
• Introduction to the Biophysics of Cellular Processes:
  Introductory Aspects of Cell Biophysics
  by Jack Tuszynski
  Department of Physics
  University of Alberta
  Edmonton, Canada
  Tuesday December 15, 11.00 (notice the time), 1998 at MIDIT, IMM, DTU, Room 027, Building 305
  
• Evolution of the Flow Structure Inside a Closed Cylindrical Container with Rotating Bottom
  by Andreas Spohn
  Ecole Nationale Superieure de Mecanique et d'Aerotechnique
  Poitiers, France
  Wednesday December 2, 1998 at MAT, DTU
  
• Dispersion managed solitons - ultimate solution for the next generation of the long haul fiber communication systems
  by Vladimir Mezentsev
  Institute of Automation and Electrometry
  Novosibirsk, Russia
  Monday November 23, 13.00 h, 1998 at OFD, Meeting Room, Risø
  
• Chirped optical solitons in fiber communication systems with periodic structure. Theory and applications.
  by Vladimir Mezentsev
  Institute of Automation and Electrometry
  Novosibirsk, Russia
  Friday November 20, 15.00 h, 1998 at MIDIT, IMM, Building 305, Room 027, DTU
  
• Protein-Solvent Interactions and Biological Functions. Models from Statistical Physics
  by Giorgio Careri
  Dipartimento Fisica
  Universita' Roma La Sapienza
  Roma, Italy
  Monday November 16, 14.00 h and 15.30 h 1998 at IMM, Bldg. 305, Room 053, DTU
  
• Pattern Formation in Oscillatory Media with Global Coupling
  by Guy Dewel
  Service de Chemie-Physique
  Universite Libre de Bruxelles
  Bruxelles, Belgique
  Friday November 13, 1998 at IMM, DTU
  
• Fringe Patterns and Decay Rates of Bose-Einstein Condensates
  by Guy Dewel
  Service de Chemie-Physique
  Universite Libre de Bruxelles
  Bruxelles, Belgique
  Thursday November 12, 1998 at IMM, DTU
  
• A Fast, Approximate Method to Calculate Normal and Tangential Contact Problems for Wheel and Rail
  by Jerzy Piotrowski
  Faculty of Automobiles and Heavy Machines Engineering
  Warsaw University of Technology
  Warsaw, Poland
  Thursday November 5, 1998 at IMM, DTU
  
• Plasma Resonance in Stacked Josephson Junctions
  by S. Sakai
  Electrotechnical Laboratory
  Tsukuba, Japan
  Thuesday October 13, 1998 at IMM, Bldg. 305, Room 027, DTU
  
• Spatial Optical Solitons and their Interactions
  by Yuri Kivshar
  Optical Sciences Centre
  Australian National University
  Canberra, Australia
  Friday September 25, 1998, 14.00 h, at IMM, Bldg. 305, Room 027, DTU
  
• Nonlinear Waves and Solitons in Fluids, Plasmas and Optics
  by V. I. Karpman
  Racah Institute of Physics, University of
  Jerusalem, Israel
  4 lectures, September 01, 1998 at OFD Risø
  September 15, 1998, at IMM, Bldg. 321, Room 012, DTU
  
• The Zeno Paradox and Quantum Chaos
  by Jacob Levitan
  College of Samaria and Judea
  University of Bar Ilan
  Ramat Gan, Israel
  Thursday September 10, 1998, 15.00 h, at IMM, Bldg. 305, Room 027, DTU
  
• Statistical Physics of Soft Interfaces of Self-assemblied Amphiphiles
  by Dr. Ling Miao
  Department of Chemistry
  Technical University of Denmark
  Aug. 31, Sept. 2, Sept. 7, Sept. 9, Sept. 14,1998
  at IMM, Bldg. 206, Room 250, DTU
  
• Theoretical model of a four-section DBR laser
  by Prof. Mario F.S. Ferreira
  Department of Physics
  University of Aveiro, Portugal
  Friday August 28, 1998, 14.00
  at MIDIT, room 027, building 305, DTU
  
• Mathematical modelling of acoustic waves in anisotropic media
  by Søren Halkjær
  Department of Mathematical Modelling, DTU
  Thursday August 27, 1998, 15.00
  at MIDIT, room 027, building 305, DTU
  
• Synergetics as a Contribution to Nonlinear Science:
  Concepts of synergetics
  by Hermann Haken
  Institute for Theoretical Physics I, Center of Synergetics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  Tuesday, August 18, 1998 at 15:00, 1998, MIDIT, IMM, Room 053, Building 305, DTU
  
• Synergetics as a Contribution to Nonlinear Science:
  Some applications to physics
  by Hermann Haken
  Institute for Theoretical Physics I, Center of Synergetics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  Thursday, August 20, 1998 at 15:00, 1998, MIDIT, IMM, Room 053, Building 305, DTU
  
• Synergetics as a Contribution to Nonlinear Science:
  The human brain as a synergetic system
  by Hermann Haken
  Institute for Theoretical Physics I, Center of Synergetics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  Tuesday, August 25, 1998 at 13:00, 1998, MIDIT, IMM, Room 053, Building 305, DTU
  
• Synergetics as a Contribution to Nonlinear Science:
  An application to discrete optimization
  by Hermann Haken
  Institute for Theoretical Physics I, Center of Synergetics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  Wednesday, August 26, 1998 at 13:00, 1998, MIDIT, IMM, Room 133, Building 321, DTU
  
• Polymer Adsorption on Fluctuating Surfaces
  by Prof. M. Laradji
  Department of Physics,
  University of Prince Edward Island,
  Canada.
  Tuesday August 18, 1998, 15.15 (Coffee at 15.00)
  at Department of Chemistry, building 206, room 250, DTU
  
• Elastic Properties of homopolymer-homopolymer Interfaces Containing Diblock Copolymers
  by Prof. M. Laradji
  Department of Physics,
  University of Prince Edward Island,
  Canada.
  Thursday August 13, 1998, 15.15 (Coffee at 15.00)
  at Department of Chemistry, building 206, room 250, DTU
  
• Pattern formation by the space-charge waves in the photosensitive materials
  by Nicolai Kukhtarev
  Physics Department,
  Alabama A&M University, Huntsville,
  Alabama, U.S.A.
  Wednesday August 12, 1998, 15.00
  at MIDIT, room 027, building 305, DTU
  
• Validation of the variationnal approach for chirped pulses in fibers with periodic dispersion
  by J.G. Caputo
  Laboratoire de Mathématiques,
  INSA de Rouen et UPRESA CNRS 60-85,
  BP 8, 76131, Mont Saint Aignan Cedex,
  France
  Wednesday August 05, 1998, 15.00
  at MIDIT, room 027, building 305, DTU
  
• Vehicle Track Dynamics
  by Wanming Zhai
  Train & Track Research Institute, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
  Lecture Series, July 19-September 18, 1998
• Chaotic Multimode Semiconductor Lasers: Theory and Application
  by Kenton White
  Arizona Center for Mathematical Sciences
  University of Arizona, Tucson
  Wednesday July 01, 1998, 15.00
  at MIDIT, room 027, building 305, DTU
  
• Role of the Critical Collapse Singularity in forming and sustaining Nonlinear Waveguides in Air
  by J.V. Moloney
  Arizona Center for Mathematical Sciences
  University of Arizona, Tucson
  Tuesday June 30, 1998, 14.00
  at MIDIT, room 027, building 305, DTU
  
• Spontaneous Generation and Control of Optical Turbulence in Wide Aperture Semiconductor Lasers
  by J.V. Moloney
  Arizona Center for Mathematical Sciences
  University of Arizona, Tucson
  Friday June 26, 1998, 14.00
  at MIDIT, room 053, building 305, DTU
  
• Pattern Formation and Control in Nonlinear Optical Systems
  by J.V. Moloney
  Arizona Center for Mathematical Sciences
  University of Arizona, Tucson
  Thursday June 18, 1998, 14.15
  at MIDIT, room 027, building 305, DTU
  
• Underdamped long Josephson junction coupled to overdamped single-flux-quantum circuits - experiment and simulation
  by Yongming Zhang
  Conductus, Inc. Sunnyvale, CA 94086
  Thursday June 18, 1998, 13.00
  at MIDIT, room 027, building 305, DTU
  
• The D-bar problem and Nonlinear Integrable PDEs
  by Alexandre Zenchuk
  Landau Institute, Kosygina 2, Moscow 117334, Russia,
  Tuesday June 16, 1998, 15.00
  at MIDIT, room 027, building 305, DTU
  
• The Dressing Method
  by Alexandre Zenchuk
  Landau Institute, Kosygina 2, Moscow 117334, Russia,
  Monday June 15, 1998, 15.15
  at MAT, room 026, building 303, DTU
• Self-bouncing of Quadratic Solitons
  by C. B. Clausen,
  Department of Mathematical Modelling,
  Technical University of Denmark,
  Lyngby, Denmark
  Thursday May 14, 1998, 15.00
  at MIDIT, room 027, building 305, DTU
• Linear and Nonlinear Prediction, Filtering and Control of Dynamical Systems,
  by Kenneth Showalter
  Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University,
  Morgantown, WV 26506-6045, USA
  Wednesday, April 15, 14.00 at MIDIT, room 027, building 305, DTU
• S-Band DC SQUID Amplifier,
  by Georgy Prokopenko
  Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
  Thursday, April 02, 14.00 at MIDIT, room 027, building 305, DTU
• Exact stable solitary pulses in linearly coupled Ginzburg-Landau equations
  by Javid Atai
  Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Sydney
  NSW 2006, Australia
  Thursday, April 23, 15.00 at MIDIT, room 027, building 305, DTU
• Intrinsic Josephson Junctions in High Temperature Superconductors
  by Reinhold Kleiner
  Physikalisches Institut III, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  Erlangen, Germany
  Thursday, March 12, 15.15 at MIDIT, room 027, building 305, DTU
• What can global reconstruction accomplish ?
  by Natalia Janson
  Saratov State University
  Saratov, Russia
  Tuesday January 27, 1998, 15.00
  at MIDIT, room 027, building 305, DTU
• Optical Solitons and Quasisolitons
  by E.A.Kuznetsov
  Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
  Moscow, Russia
  Friday January 16, 1998, 10.00
  at OFD, Meeting Room, Building 128, Risø
• Hamiltonian Description of Nonlinear Waves
  by E. A. Kuznetsov
  Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics,
  Moscow, Russia
  Thursday January 15, 13.00
  at MIDIT, room 027, building 305, DTU.