Energy Landscapes 2015: Structure, Dynamics and Exploration Algorithms
Dear colleagues,
we would like to invite you for a workshop on "Energy Landscapes: Structure, Dynamics and Exploration Algorithms" at the Telluride Science Research Center (TSRC) for the period June 28th - July 4th 2015.
The workshop will be devoted to a discussion of systems with multi-minima energy landscapes, such as glasses, crystalline solids, proteins, clusters, large molecules, and combinatorial optimization problems. Of particular interest is a characterization of the landscape geometry ('how does it look like'), of the system dynamics ('what happens in the landscape') and of the relation between the two. This is complemented with the presentation of simulation, optimization and exploration methods for multi-minima systems, and their applications, but any contribution in the area of energy landscapes is welcome, of course.
As in the past, the workshop will endeavour to give everyone an opportunity to present his/her current work or important issues of concern in the area of energy landscapes to the participants. It will allow lots of time for the crucial extensive and intensive but constructive quizzing of the speaker by the audience. This also allows the participants to exchange ideas in detail, and experience has shown that many collaborations have resulted from these meetings. Regarding the specific topics, this workshop has always attempted to bring people from different communities together; thus every contribution is welcome that addresses issues in the field of complex energy landscapes - ranging from abstract models, questions of e.g. phase transitions in physics, chemistry or biology that proceed in finite time, residence times in metastable states and relaxation or aging phenomena on multiminima energy landscapes, issues in optimal control, simulation of time evolution of complex systems, and global optimization problems, over algorithm development to system specific applications in e.g. molecules (clusters, proteins, etc.) or solids (crystals, glasses, spin glasses, ionic conductors, etc.).
In contrast to past workshops, we have scheduled only a one-week workshop instead of the usual two-week meeting, since the workshop will be proceeded by the Steve Berry Tribute Symposium in the week before, and a number of the likely participants have expressed strong interest in attending this symposium, too.
Hoping to see you in Telluride,
with best greetings,
Karl Heinz Hoffmann, Janett Prehl and Christian Schoen
Details about arrival, board and lodging and possible activities in Telluride can be found on the web pages of TSRC.
Details about the participants and the program are given here (Talks) or here (TSRC).
If there are any questions or problems please do not hesitate to contact us (see Contacts).
