Localized Structures in Dissipative Nonlinear Systems - Program
| Monday, October 18, 08:00 - 18:00, Erhard Schmidt lecture room (WIAS) Please note: Duration of talks includes 5 minutes for discussion. | ||
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| 08:00 - 08:45 | Registration (First Floor Foyer) | |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Opening | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Session M1 - Spatial and Temporal Dissipative Solitons I — Chair: Uwe Bandelow | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Cornelia Denz (Münster) | Controlling complexity in periodically structured dissipative photonic systems (abstract) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | J. Nathan Kutz (Seattle, WA) | Light-bullet mode-locking, stabilization and control in planar waveguide arrays (abstract) |
| 21:00 - 21:30 | Vladimir Konotop (Lisboa) | Controlled dissipation and nonlinear Zeno effect in arrays of Bose-Einstein condensates and in optical waveguides (abstract) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Session M2 - Spatial and Temporal Dissipative Solitons II — Chair: Nail Akhmediev | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Nikolay Rosanov (Saint-Petersburg) | Few-cycle dissipative optical solitons (abstract) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Boris Malomed (Tel Aviv) | Dissipative solitons supported by hot spots (abstract) |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Mustapha Tlidi (Brussels) | Localized structures in a cavity filled with a left-handed material (abstract) |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Session M3 - Rogue Waves — Chair: Fedor Mitschke | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Nail Akhmediev (Canberra) | Rogue waves: basic concepts (abstract) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | John Dudley (Besancon) | Extreme localised structures in nonlinear fiber optics (abstract) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Majid Taki (Lille) | Time and space optical rogue waves -- Experiments and modelling (abstract) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Session M4 - Cavity Solitons I — Chair: William Firth | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Thorsten Ackemann (Glasgow) | Phase locking of laser cavity solitons (abstract) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Stephane Barland (Valbonne) | Towards excitable localized structures in coupled semiconductor lasers (abstract) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Massimo Giudici (Valbonne) | Cavity solitons in driven semiconductor microcavities (abstract) |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Giovanna Tissoni (Como) | Spontaneous and induced motion of cavity solitons in different semiconductor systems and their applications (abstract) |
| Tuesday, October 19, 09:00 - 18:10, Erhard Schmidt lecture room (WIAS) Please note: Duration of talks includes 5 minutes for discussion. | ||
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Session T1 - Cavity Solitons II — Chair: Nikolay Rosanov | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | William Firth (Edinburgh) | Stable localized vortices and solitons in a laser model with cubic nonlinearity (abstract) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Krassimir Panajotov (Brussels) | Dissipative solitons in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers: Impact of light polarization and optical feedback (abstract) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Oleg Egorov (Jena) | Symmetry breaking and motion of Bloch Cavity Solitons (abstract) |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:50 - 11:50 | Session T2 - Localized Structures: General Theory — Chair: Boris Malomed | |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Hans-Georg Purwins (Münster) | Survey of dissipative solitons in physical and other systems (abstract) |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Rudolf Friedrich (Muenster) | Symmetry breaking instabilities of localized structures (abstract) |
| 11:50 - 13:10 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:10 - 14:35 | Session T3 - Optical Fibers and Waveguide Arrays I — Chair: Sergey Turitsyn | |
| 13:10 - 13:40 | Fedor Mitschke (Rostock) | Fiber-optic solitons: The telltale beat (abstract) |
| 13:40 - 14:10 | Dmitry Skryabin (Bath) | Nonlinear spatio-temporal dynamics in arrays of subwavelength waveguides: Theory and experiment (abstract) |
| 14:10 - 14:35 | Shalva Amiranashvili (Berlin) | Modeling of short optical pulses (abstract) |
| 14:35 - 15:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:00 - 16:25 | Session T4 - Optical Fibers and Waveguide Arrays II — Chair: Dmitry Skryabin | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Sergey Turitsyn (Birmingham) | Random Raman-Rayleigh fibre lasers (abstract) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Fabio Biancalana (Erlangen) | Highly non-instantaneous solitons in liquid-core photonic crystal fibers (abstract) |
| 16:00 - 16:25 | Truong Tran (Erlangen) | Raman multi-peak solitons in photonic crystal fibers (abstract) |
| 16:25 - 16:50 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:50 - 18:10 | Session T5 - Dissipative Effects in Reaction-Diffusion Systems — Chair: Rudolf Friedrich | |
| 16:50 - 17:20 | Vladimir Zykov (Berlin) | Periodic sequence of stabilized wave segments in excitable media (abstract) |
| 17:20 - 17:45 | Matthias Wolfrum (Berlin) | Mechanisms of semi-strong pulse interaction in the Schnakenberg model (abstract) |
| 17:45 - 18:10 | Svetlana Gurevich (Münster) | Localized structures in a three-component reaction-diffusion system (abstract) |
| Tuesday, October 19, 19:00 - 23:00, Restaurant "Brauhaus Georgbraeu" | ||
| 19:00 - 23:00 | Conference Dinner | |
| Wednesday, October 20, 09:00 - 11:00, Erhard Schmidt lecture room (WIAS) Please note: Duration of talks includes 5 minutes for discussion. | ||
| 09:00 - 10:20 | Session W1 - Optical Solitons in Nonlocal Dispersive Media — Chair: Andrei G. Vladimirov | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Kestutis Staliunas (Barcelona) | Pattern and solitons in oscillatory systems with space-modulated forcing (with spatial ``rocking'') (abstract) |
| 09:30 - 09:55 | Svitlana Bugaychuk (Kiev) | Localized structures of wave coupling in dissipative nonlocal media (abstract) |
| 09:55 - 10:20 | Truong Tran (Erlangen) | Quantum optics and squeezing of dispersive resonant radiation from optical solitons (abstract) |
| 10:20 - 10:30 | Closing | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |