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" [abstract]
9:40 - 10:20 Paul Champion, "Experimental Studies of Structure, Function, and Coherent Oscillations in Biomolecules" [abstract]
10:20 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:40 Lauri Halonen, "Experimental, theoretical, and computational aspects in energy localization of small symmetrical molecules" [abstract]
11:40 - 12:20 Vladimir Tyuterev, "Effective Hamiltonians, potential energy surfaces and global calculations of vibration-rotation spectra of triatomics" [abstract]
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch Break

Chairperson : S. C. Farantos
14:00 - 14:40 Mark S. Child, "Modeling molecular eigenvalues at a saddle point" [abstract]
14:40 - 15:20 Turgay Uzer, "Direct construction of the Transition State" [abstract]
15:20 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:40 Holger Waalkens, "HCN Isomerization in Three Dimensions" [abstract]
16:40 - 17:20 Tamiki Komatsuzaki, "Regularity in Chaotic Transitions on Multi-Basin Energy Landscapes" [abstract]
17:20 - 18:00 Laurent Wiesenfeld, "Transition states with angular momentum; some applications to astrophysics" [abstract]
18:00 - 19:00 POSTER SESSION
- Michel Peyrard, "Breathers in Biomolecules ?" [abstract]
- Sergej Flach, "Tunneling of bond excitations in small molecules" [abstract]
- Stavros C. Farantos, "Molecular Reaction Pathways and Elementary Bifurcation Tracks of Periodic Orbits" [abstract]
- Jerome Dorignac, "Quantum breathers in DNLS models: localisation and interaction" [abstract]
- Cyril Falvo, "Vibron-polaron critical localization in a finite size molecular nanowire" [abstract]
- Shchekinova E.Y., "Intramolecular Dynamics of the OCS Molecule using Fast Lyapunov Indicators" [abstract]
- Mikhail Fistul, "Ac induced quantum transitions of a nonlinear oscillator: from molecular magnets to Josephon junctions" [abstract]
- Srihari Keshavamurthy, "Intramolecular vibrational dynamics in CDBrClF and CF3CHFI: localized eigenstates and nonstatistical dynamics" [abstract]
- Julian Edler, "Direct observation of vibrationally self-trapped states" [abstract]
- George Kopidakis, "Localization and Targeted Transfer of Atomic-Scale Nonlinear Excitations" [abstract]
- George Kalosakas, "Modeling thermal openings of double stranded DNA" [abstract]
- Naoko Nakagawa, "An oriented process induced by dynamically regulated energy barriers" [abstract]
- Andrey Gorbach, "Some aspects of radiation of perturbed classical and quantum discrete breathers" [abstract]
- Magnus Johansson, "Statistical mechanics of general discrete nonlinear Schroedinger models: Localization transition and its relevance for Klein-Gordon lattices" [abstract]

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" [abstract]
9:40 - 10:20 Marc Joyeux, "Investigation of energy localization and energy transfer through Canonical Perturbation Theory" [abstract]
10:20 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:40 S. Yu. Grebenshchikov, "Localized States and Collisional Energy Transfer in Ozone at Dissociation Threshold'' [abstract]
11:40 - 12:20 B. Zhilinskii, "Assignment of quantum states, defects of quantum state lattice, quantum monodromy" [abstract]
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch Break

Chairperson : Sergej Flach
14:00 - 14:40 Serge Aubry, "Chemical Dissociation induced by Targeted Energy Transfer" [abstract]
14:40 - 15:20 J. T. Hynes, "Energy Localization and Infrared-Induced Proton Transfer Reactions in Solution" [abstract]
15:20 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:40 David M. Leitner, "Quantum Energy Flow and Localization in Molecules" [abstract]
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" [abstract]
9:40 - 10:20 Nikos Theodorakopoulos, "Domain walls in the Peyrard-Bishop model of DNA denaturation: the extreme discrete case" [abstract]
10:20 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:40 Chris C. Eilbeck, "Localization and interactions of quantum breathers" [abstract]
11:40 - 12:20 George Tsironis, "Intrinsic localization at the microscopic scale: theories in the light of recent experiments" [abstract]
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" [abstract]
14:40 - 16:00 Concluding Remarks and Future Actions