Scope of the Conference
During the last two decades, an impressive volume of theoretical and experimental work has been devoted to the existence, stability and dynamics of localized excitations. Such coherent structures have been identified as critical components of numerous continuous and discrete dynamical systems and, depending on the context (and their particular form), they may be referred to as solitons, instantons, kinks, breathers, or quodons, among many others. We nowadays think of such localized nonlinear excitations as being ubiquitous in nature due to their experimental realization in many diverse systems including, but not limited to, optical fibers and waveguide arrays, photonic crystals, Bose-Einstein condensates, molecular crystals, quasi-one-dimensional solids, Josephson-junctions and arrays thereof, layered silicates, micromechanical cantilever arrays, uranium crystals, pendulum arrays, water waves, electrical transmission lines, ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic materials, granular crystals and so on. Additionally, they are also conjectured to play an important role in denaturation transitions and bubble formation in DNA, protein folding, atom ejection and defect migration in crystals, low-temperature reconstructive transformations, and many others.
The study of nonlinear localized excitations is a long-standing challenge for research in basic and applied science, as well as engineering, due to their importance in understanding and predicting phenomena arising in nonlinear and complex systems, but also due to their potential for the development and "design" of novel applications.
The LENCOS Conferences were born in 2009 with the aim of becoming in a reference forum where experimental and theoretical physicists, chemists, biologists, and applied mathematicians, working in the broad field of nonlinear localized modes, can interchange ideas and promote the research in this multi-faceted and diverse thematic area.
Following the spirit of the first LENCOS Conference, all talks will be short (20 minutes) so that every participant can have the possibility of giving a talk.
About the organizers
The meeting is organized the Nonlinear Physics Group (Grupo de Física No Lineal) of the University of Sevilla. This research group has organized recently some events on the some subject such as Moving Breathers in Nonlinear Lattices (2003), Macroscopic Effects of Nonlinear Excitations (2004), New Horizons in Stochastic Complexity and Nonlinear excitations: theory and experiments (2005) apart from the first edition of the LENCOS Conference (2009).
Local Committee
Chair: Jesús Cuevas Maraver
Azucena Álvarez Chillida
Faustino Palmero Acebedo
Juan F. Rodríguez Archilla
Francisco Romero Romero
Bernardo Sánchez Rey
Scientific Committee
Ricardo Carretero González
Jesús Cuevas Maraver
Dimitri Frantzeskakis
Nikolaos Karachalios
Panayotis Kevrekidis
Faustino Palmero Acebedo
Vassilis Rothos
Contact
There is a special email address for every question related to the meeting: lencos@us.es