Dates and location:
May 30 to June 2 at Dalum Landbrugsskole, Odense , Denmark
Scope and background:
The realization of the importance of a quantitative understanding of
chemical systems involving a large number of elementary reactions, has
spread from the traditional field of combustion kinetics to life
sciences and atmospheric systems. In practical applications the
reactions are coupled to transport of chemical species by diffusion,
convection or conduction. A complete mechanistic description of such
systems is in most cases an impossible task, and in practice the
complexity has to be reduced by elimination of inessential details. In
some cases this can be done in the classical way simply by throwing
away reactions and species of minor importance, but in general more
sophisticated methods must be applied to avoid loosing the
quantitative faithfullnes of the reduced models. The theory of
nonlinear dynamics have given some hints to new approaches involving
systematic methods for reduction of complexity. An important part of
the reduction process is to relate the predictions of the models to
experimental data. Obviously the models are supposed to describe all
known experimental data, but the use of data obtained from carefully
designed experiments can sometimes facilitate the reduction process.
The use of special designed reactors may also reveal essential system
behavior.
The goal of the workshop is to describe the state of art in complexity
reduction, and to give the participants an opportunity to get
practical experience with numerical methods used in this field. The
organizers have invited a number of people with practical experience
from experimental investigations or modelling of complex chemical
systems. A part of the meeting will be committed to practical work in
front of a computer. There will be opportunity for presentation of
posters and for 10 minutes poster talks. The meeting will end with a
general discussion of the results presented in the talks and in the
posters.
Invited speakers:
Accomodation/travel and registration
Accomodation is free for the participants, but the number of
participants is limited to 60. There is a limited number of travel
grants available to students and young researchers. Please
apply before April 25.
Deadline for registration is May 14, 2002. Registration by
e-mail to the address below.
Organization:
Local organizers: Preben Graae Sørensen from the Department of
Chemistry, University of Copenhagen and Lars Folke Olsen from the
Southern University of Denmark. The workshop is a part of the
Reactor program financed by the European Science Foundation.
Enquiries and registration:
Lars Folke Olsen, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
University of Southern Denmark
Phone: +45 6550 2482 , e-mail: lfo@bmb.sdu.dk,
homepage: www.sdu.dk/Nat/bmb/faculty/lfo.html
Preliminary program
| Thusday, May 30 | ||
| Registration: | 16.00-17.30 | |
| Dinner: | 17.30-18.30 | |
| Introduction: | Preben Graae Sørensen | 19.00-19.30 |
| Lecture: | Alison Tomlin title and abstract | 19.30-20.15 |
| Discussion: | 20.15-20.30 | |
| Lecture: | Carsten Knudsen | 21.00.21.30 |
| Discussion: | 21.30-21.45 |
| Friday, May 31 | ||
| breakfast: | 7.30- 8.30 | |
| Lecture: | Tamas Turanyi title and abstract | 9.00- 9.45 |
| Discussion: | 9.45-10.00 | |
| Lecture: | Mads Ipsen | 10.00-10.30 |
| Continuation studies of partial differential equations | ||
| Discussion | 10.30-10.45 | |
| Coffee break | 10.45-11.15 | |
| Lecture: | Michael Stich title and abstract | 11.15-11.45 |
| Discussion | 11.45-12.00 | |
| Lunch: | 12.15-12.30 | |
| Lecture: | Martin Falcke | 13.00-13.45 |
| Discussion: | 13.45-14.00 | |
| Lecture: | Juergen Zobeley | 14.00-14.30 |
| Discussion: | 14.30-14.45 | |
| Coffee break: | 14.45-15.15 | |
| Poster presentation: | poster abstracts | 15.15-17.30 |
| Dinner: | 17.30-18.30 | |
| Short presentations: | 19.00-21.00 | |
| Social gathering | 21.00-22.00 |
| Saturday, June 1 | ||
| Breakfast: | 7.30- 8.30 | |
| Bus departure for SDU | 8.45 | |
| Computer session and Coffee | 9.00-13.00 | |
| Lunch: | 13.00-13.30 | |
| Bus departure (DL) | 13.45 | |
| Lecture | Igor Schreiber title and abstract | 14.00-14.45 |
| Discussion | 14.45-15.00 | |
| Lecture: | Allan Gross title and abstract | 15.00-15.45 |
| Discussion: | 15.45-16.00 | |
| Coffee break: | 16.00-16.30 | |
| General discussion: | 16.30-17.30 | |
| Dinner: | 17.30-18.30 | |
| Poster session | poster abstracts | 19.00-21.00 |
| Sunday, June 2 | ||
| Breakfast: | 7.30-8.30 | |
| Departure: |