Workshop on

Macroscopic Limits and Modulation Theory

for PDEs and Lattice Models

Programme

Wednesday, November 2, 2005
12:00 - 13:00 Registration
13:00 - 13:15 Welcome and opening of workshop
13:15 - 13:55 S. Flach:
Localization in systems with nonlinear long-range interactions --- from discrete breathers to $q$-breathers
14:00 - 14:40 J. Dorignac:
Band-edge mode bifurcation in partially isochronous Hamiltonian lattices
14:45 - 15:25 Th. Blesgen:
A Multiscale Approach to Diffusion Induced Segregatio
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:40 H. Uecker:
A spatially periodic Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation as a model problem for inclined film flow over wavy bottom
16:45 - 17:05 A. Mielke:
Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formulation of modulation equations <
17:10 - 17:30 C. Patz:
Dispersive behavior in harmonic oscillator chains

Thursday, November 3, 2005
9:00 - 9:40 A. Vainchtein:
Kinetics of a phase boundary: Lattice model and quasicontinuum approximation
9:45 - 10:25 J. Zimmer:
Travelling Waves for Nonconvex FPU Lattices
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:40 O. Kastner:
Atomistic simulation of an elastic-plastic body with shape memory
11:45 - 12:25 S. Paleari:
Metastability and dispersive shock waves in Fermi-Pasta-Ulam system
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:40 M. Herrmann:
On the modulation theory for the atomic chain
14:45 - 15:25 J. Rademacher:
Geometry of travelling waves in Riemann problems for the hyperbolic limit of atomic chains
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:45 Th. Kriecherbauer:
Shocks and beyond --- the continuum limit of the Toda lattice
16:45 - 17:25 F. Macia:
High-frequency wave propagation in discrete and continuous media
17:45 - 20:00 Social Gathering

Friday, November 4, 2005
9:00 - 9:40 J. Giannoulis:
Three-wave interaction in discrete lattices
9:45 - 10:25 St. Venakides:
Focusing Nonlinear Schrödinger equation: Rigorous Semiclassical Asymptotics
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:40 Sp. Kamvissis:
Semiclassical Limit of the Integrable Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation
11:45 - 12:25 D. Levermore:
To be anounced
12:30   Closing of the workshop