SE-MS conference on:

COMPLEX SYSTEMS: FROM THE NANOSCALE TO THE CONTINUUM (CS:N2C)

Feb 10 - 12, 2015

PROGRAM: (last update Jan 23, 2015) [Lecture Hall 404, KP/TP building]

• Feb 10, 2015 / Tuesday sessions:
  • 09:00- 09:20: Welcome and a very short introduction to complex systems

  • Open Quantum Systems and beyond
    • 09:20-10:15: Francisco Pérez Bernal
      Tutorial: Shape phase transitions in nuclear and molecular structures (45 min)

    • 10:15-11:10: Doris Reiter
      Phonon influence on the dynamics of optically driven semiconductor quantum dots (45 min)

    • 11:10-11:30: Coffee Break

    • 11:30-11:55: Mario Gómez Ramos
      Scattering and structure of quantum systems within few-body models (20 min)

    • 11:55-12:20: Jesús Casal Berbel
      Continuum treatment for weakly bound systems (20 min)

    • 12:20-12:45: Guillermo Megías Vázquez
      Electroweak interactions with nucleons and nuclei (20 min)

    • 12:45-13:10: Peter Kettmann
      Quench dynamics of an ultracold Fermi gas in the superfluid BCS regime (20 min)

  • 13:10-14:40 Lunch Break

  • Coupled Systems, Synchronization and Feedback
    • 14:40-15:35: Jesús Casado Pascual
      Tutorial: A general approach for dealing with dynamical systems with spatiotemporal periodicities (45 min)

    • 15:35-16:30: Svetlana Gurevich
      Time-delayed feedback control of self-organized structures in dissipative systems (45 min)

    • 16:30-16:50: Coffee Break

    • 16:50-17:15: Thomas Kendziorczyk
      Spin-wave mediated mutual synchronization of spin-torque nano-oscillators (20 min)

    • 17:15-17:40: Felix Tabbert
      Dynamics of localized structures with time-delayed feedback (20 min)

    • 17:40-18:05: Sarah Trinschek
      Attractively and repulsively coupled elementary chaotic systems (20 min)

• Feb 11, 2015 / Wednesday sessions:
  • Soft Matter, Nano- & Biosystems (I)
    • 09:00-10:00: Uwe Thiele
      Tutorial: Interfacial dynamics: from the nanoscale to the continuum (45 min)

    • 10:00-11:00: Alberto T. Pérez
      Electrohydrodynamical instabilities in very insulating liquids (45 min)

    • 11:00-11:25: Coffee Break

    • 11:25-11:50: Francisco José Gómez Aguilar
      Initial conditions, modal analysis and breakup length of capillary liquid jets (20 min)

    • 11:50-12:45: Markus Wilczek & Juan Zhu
      Langmuir-Blodgett deposition: Continuum modeling and experiments (45min)

  • 12:45-14:15: Lunch Break

  • Soft Matter, Nano- & Biosystems (II)

    • 14:15-14:40: Walter Tewes
      Continuum modeling of dip-coating (20 min)

    • 14:40-15:35: Manuel Morillo
      Calcium-mediated coupling between electrical and molecular activities of suprachiasmatic neurons (45 min)

    • 15:35-16:30: Maria del Carmen Lemos
      Modeling in developmental biology: the ocellar complex in Drosophila Melanogaster fly (45 min)

    • 16:30-16:50: Coffee Break

    • 16:50-17:45: Cornelia Denz/Jörg Imbrock
      Light propagation in non-linear photonic lattices (45 min)

    • 17:45-18:10: Wolfgang Horn
      Non-linear laser lithography (20 min)

    • 18:10-18:35: Alvaro Barroso
      Assembly of nanomatter and biomedical applications with holographic optical tweezers (20 min)

    • 18:35-19:00: Marc Osthues
      Continuum modeling of surface structuring by ion-beam erosion and redeposition (20 min)

• Feb 12, 2015 / Thursday sessions:
  • Bose-Einstein Condensation
    • 09:00-09:55: Tilmann Kuhn
      Tutorial: Bose-Einstein condensation: a macroscopic quantum phenomenon and its realization in different systems (45 min)

    • 09:55-10:50: Faustino Palmero
      Spatial localized excitations in nonlinear complex systems: Solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates (45 min)

    • 10:50-11:15: Coffee Break

    • 11:15-11:40: Pedro Perez Fernandez
      Ground state and excited state quantum phase transitions in a two-site Bose-Hubbard model with a Feshbach resonance (20 min)

    • 11:40-12:05: Julian Hüser
      Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons: A theoretical study of magnon-magnon and magnon-phonon interactions (20 min)

  • 12:05-14:15: Lunch Break

  • Granular Matter
    • 14:15- 14:45: Alberto T. Pérez
      Tutorial: Granular matter as paradigmatic complex system (25 min)

    • 14:45-15:40: Miguel Ángel Sánchez Quintanilla
      Magnetic force and cohesion in granular materials (45 min)

    • 15:40-16:05: Francisco Ruiz Botello
      Sound propagation in granular cohesive medium: Supratransmission and demodulation in 1D particle chains (20 min)

    • 16:05:10-16:30: Javier Pérez Vaquero
      Effect of triboelectricity in the packing of granular material (20 min)

    • 16:30-16:50: Coffee Break

    • 16:50-17:15: Thomas Zub
      Continuum modeling of granular flow: surface structure formation under vertical vibration (20 min)

    • 17:15-17:40: Lukas Ophaus/Stefan J. Linz
      Transport and transport reversal of granular matter on conveyors (20 min)

    • 17:40-18:05: Pablo García Sánchez
      Electrokinetic manipulation of metal microparticles (20 min)