Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich 555 "Komplexe Nichtlineare
Prozesse"
Third International Symposium
Engineering of Chemical Complexity
Berlin, May 5-7, 2004
Program and Organization: G. Ertl, A. S. Mikhailov, H. H. Rotermund
The aim of this meeting is to review current perspectives for design, manipulation and efficient control of self-organizing complex chemical systems, ranging from biotechnology and reactive nanostructures to macroscopic pattern formation in chemical reactors. Both experimental studies of such phenomena and their mathematical modeling will be discussed. Possible technological applications of self-organization phenomena shall be considered.
Invited Speakers
Address:
Harnack-Haus, Ihnestr. 16-20,
14195 Berlin-Dahlem (subway station U1 "Thielplatz")
Information: Ms. I. Reinhardt, +49 (0) 30 8413 5103
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16:00 – 20:00 Arrival and registration
8:45 Opening: G. Ertl
Session chair: N. Jaeger
9:00
M. Marek
(Institute of Chemical Technology, the Czech Republic)
Nonlinear dynamics of catalytic converters
9:35
D. Luss
(Houston University, USA)
Dynamics of transversal hot zones on the top of shallow packed bed reactors
10:10
J. L. Hudson
(Virginia University, USA)
Autocatalytic cooperative phenomena at the onset of pitting corrosion in
stainless steels
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break and registration
Session chair: R. Kapral
11:15
M. Britton
(Cambridge University, UK)
Probing chemical waves and patterns using nuclear magnetic resonance
11:50
J. Lauterbach
(University of Delaware, USA)
Pattern formation during heterogeneously catalyzed reactions: bridging the materials and pressure gap
12:25 – 14:00 Lunch
Session chair: H. Yokoyama
14:00
K. C. Showalter
(University of West Virginia, USA)
Collective behavior of interacting stabilized waves
14:35
O. Steinbock
(Florida State University, USA)
Anomalous dispersion in chemical reaction-diffusion systems
15:10
S. C. Müller
(University of Magdeburg, Germany)
Hydrodynamic instability of autocatalytic reaction fronts
15:45 – 16:45 Coffee break
Session chair: D. Luss
16:15
I. R. Epstein
(Brandeis University, USA)
Complex patterns in complex media
16:50
R. Imbihl
(University of Hannover, Germany)
Reactive phase separation in surface chemical reactions
17:25 – 18:45 Poster Session
19:00 Conference Dinner
Session chair: R. Rigler
9:00
R. E. Kapral
(University of Toronto, Canada)
Mesoscopic dynamics of reaction-diffusion systems
9:35
P. Gaspard
(Universite Libre du Bruxelles, Belgium)
Oscillatory phenomena and fluctuations in nanosystems
10:10
Y. Tabe
(National Nanotechnology Research Institute, Japan)
Coherent collective molecular motion in a condensed monolayer system
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
Session chair: Y. Nishiura
11:15
R. Rigler
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland)
Nonequilibrium catalysis of single enzyme molecules
11:50
E. D. Gilles / J. Stelling
(MPI for Complex Technological Systems, Germany)
Structure of cellular biological systems
12:25 – 14:00 Lunch
Session chair: I. Epstein
14:00
N. Packard
(ProtoLife Company, Venice)
Evolutionary control of amphiphilic phases
14:35
T. Ohta
(Kyoto University, Japan)
Microphase separation in rod-coil copolymers
15:10
M. Bär
(MPI for Physics of Complex Systems, Germany)
Chemically driven moving structures in thin liquid films and biomembranes
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
Session chair: S. C. Müller
16:15
F. Sagués
(University of Barcelona, Spain)
Chemoconvective patterns: experiments and theory
16:50
H. Engel
(Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
From trigger waves to phase waves and back again
17:25
M. Eiswirth
(Fritz Haber Institute, Germany)
Nonautocatalytic oscillators and olfactory response
Session chair: N. Packard
9:00
I. G. Kevrekidis
(Princeton University, USA)
Equation-free modeling of complex systems
9:35
B. Fiedler
(Free University of Berlin, Germany)
Hybrid models
10:10
Y. Nishiura
(Hokkaido University, Japan)
Dynamics of particle-like patterns in dissipative systems
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
Session chair: G. Ertl
11:15
K. Krischer
(Technical University of München, Germany)
A journey through the complex dynamics of electrode reactions
11:50
I. Kiss
(Virginia University, USA)
Building up a society: cooperative action of coherent groups in electrochemical
oscillator populations
12:25
H. Yokoyama
(National Nanotechnology Research Institute, Japan)
Technological impact of nonequilibrium nanostructures in reactive soft matter
13:00 Closing
last modified: May 6, 2004 / Oliver Rudzick
