CECAM Workshop on Energy Localization: From Small Polyatomic Molecules to Large Biomolecules (Lyon, France)
PROGRAM
Monday, September 6th, 2004, Chairpeson : Michel Peyrard
- 8:45- 9:00 Opening Remarks
- 9:00 – 9:40 Peter Hamm, “Vibrational self-trapping in alpha-helices”
- 9:40 – 10:20 Paul Champion, “Experimental Studies of Structure, Function, and Coherent Oscillations in Biomolecules”
- 10:20 – 11:00 Coffee Break
- 11:00 – 11:40 Lauri Halonen, “Experimental, theoretical, and computational aspects in energy localization of small symmetrical molecules”
- 11:40 – 12:20 Vladimir Tyuterev, “Effective Hamiltonians, potential energy surfaces and global calculations of vibration-rotation spectra of triatomics”
- 12:20 – 14:00 Lunch Break
Chairperson : S. C. Farantos
- 14:00 – 14:40 Mark S. Child, “Modeling molecular eigenvalues at a saddle point”
- 14:40 – 15:20 Turgay Uzer, “Direct construction of the Transition State”
- 15:20 – 16:00 Coffee Break
- 16:00 – 16:40 Holger Waalkens, “HCN Isomerization in Three Dimensions”
- 16:40 – 17:20 Tamiki Komatsuzaki, “Regularity in Chaotic Transitions on Multi-Basin Energy Landscapes”
- 17:20 – 18:00 Laurent Wiesenfeld, “Transition states with angular momentum; some applications to astrophysics”
- 18:00 – 19:00 POSTER SESSION
- Michel Peyrard, “Breathers in Biomolecules ?”
- Sergej Flach, “Tunneling of bond excitations in small molecules”
- Stavros C. Farantos, “Molecular Reaction Pathways and Elementary Bifurcation Tracks of Periodic Orbits”
- Jerome Dorignac, “Quantum breathers in DNLS models: localisation and interaction”
- Cyril Falvo, “Vibron-polaron critical localization in a finite size molecular nanowire”
- Shchekinova E.Y., “Intramolecular Dynamics of the OCS Molecule using Fast Lyapunov Indicators”
- Mikhail Fistul, “Ac induced quantum transitions of a nonlinear oscillator: from molecular magnets to Josephon junctions”
- Srihari Keshavamurthy, “Intramolecular vibrational dynamics in CDBrClF and CF3CHFI: localized eigenstates and nonstatistical dynamics”
- Julian Edler, “Direct observation of vibrationally self-trapped states”
- George Kopidakis, “Localization and Targeted Transfer of Atomic-Scale Nonlinear Excitations”
- George Kalosakas, “Modeling thermal openings of double stranded DNA”
- Naoko Nakagawa, “An oriented process induced by dynamically regulated energy barriers”
- Andrey Gorbach, “Some aspects of radiation of perturbed classical and quantum discrete breathers”
- Magnus Johansson, “Statistical mechanics of general discrete nonlinear Schroedinger models: Localization transition and its relevance for Klein-Gordon lattices”
Tuesday, September 7th, 2004, Chairperson : Mark Child
- 9:00 – 9:40 Mickle Kellman, “From Normal Modes through New Modes Born in Chaos to Unimolecular Rearrangement”
- 9:40 – 10:20 Marc Joyeux, “Investigation of energy localization and energy transfer through Canonical Perturbation Theory”
- 10:20 – 11:00 Coffee Break
- 11:00 – 11:40 S. Yu. Grebenshchikov, “Localized States and Collisional Energy Transfer in Ozone at Dissociation Threshold”
- 11:40 – 12:20 B. Zhilinskii, “Assignment of quantum states, defects of quantum state lattice, quantum monodromy”
- 12:20 – 14:00 Lunch Break
Chairperson : Sergej Flach
- 14:00 – 14:40 Serge Aubry, “Chemical Dissociation induced by Targeted Energy Transfer”
- 14:40 – 15:20 J. T. Hynes, “Energy Localization and Infrared-Induced Proton Transfer Reactions in Solution”
- 15:20 – 16:00 Coffee Break
- 16:00 – 16:40 David M. Leitner, “Quantum Energy Flow and Localization in Molecules”
- 16:40 – 18:00 POSTER SESSION
- 20:30 Dinner
Wednesday, September 8th, 2004, Chairperson : Peter Hamm
- 9:00 – 9:40 Victor Fleurov, “Nonlinear effects in tunneling”
- 9:40 – 10:20 Nikos Theodorakopoulos, “Domain walls in the Peyrard-Bishop model of DNA denaturation: the extreme discrete case”
- 10:20 – 11:00 Coffee Break
- 11:00 – 11:40 Chris C. Eilbeck, “Localization and interactions of quantum breathers”
- 11:40 – 12:20 George Tsironis, “Intrinsic localization at the microscopic scale: theories in the light of recent experiments”
- 12:20 – 14:00 Lunch Break
Chairperson : Serge Aubry
- 14:00 – 14:40 Guillaume James, “Travelling breathers with exponentially small tails in a chain of nonlinear oscillators”
- 14:40 – 16:00 Concluding Remarks and Future Actions
