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SEVILLA LODY2026S:  LOCALIZATION DYNAMICS IN MATTER AND WAVES, SATELLITE WORKSHOP IN SEVILLA Workshop in honour of Dr. Larissa Brizhik, from BITP, Kyiv, and Ukrainian scientists. October, 14-15, 2026

October 14: Seminar II in IMUS: Instituto de Matemáticas de la Universidad de Sevilla
(Please, use this on-line form to attend)
October 15: ETSII, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática. 2ª planta. Sala Multiusos.
Avda Reina Mercedes s/n, Sevilla, Spain

This workshop is considered continuation of the session of the same name LODY2026 within CMD32 the 32th General Conference of the Condensed-Matter Division of the European Physical Society-75h Conference of the Austrian Physical Society, Graz, Austria, September 2026.
It is focused in localization in classical and quantum physics including atomic and particle physics, photonics, condensed matter, matter waves. See the abstract below.

The workshop honours Dr. Larissa Brizhik, head of the Condensed Matter Department at BITP, Kiev, for her scientific trayectory, including Ilya Prigonine Award, and also as a symbol of the scientists who continue doing research in Ucraine during the war.

Dr. Brizhik will also have a general public talk and Q&A: Questions and answers about war, life, science and scientists.

We acknowledge partial support from IMUS, the Instituto de Matemáticas de la Universidad de Sevilla and National project: MICIU/AEI PID2022-138321NB-C22.
 
Organizers:  Juan FR Archilla, Jesus Cuevas-Maraver, Faustino Palmero
Grupo de Física No Lineal. Email: archilla@us.es
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Book of Abstracts (incomplete) Program (provisional)

Keynote speakers


Larissa Brizhik, Soliton dynamics in a magnetic field and stabilizing role of dissipation effects
     Head of the Condensed Matter Department, Bogolyubov Institute of Theoretical Physics (BITP), Kiev
Leonor Cruzeiro, The second protein folding problem
    Centro de Ciências de Mar, Universidade do Algarve
Francisco Villatoro, Nonlinear Dirac equations: solitons and numerical challenges.
    Deparment of Computation Languages and Science, Universidad de Málaga. Author of the famous science blog: La mula Francis

Invited participants (alphabetical order)

Juan FR Archilla, Breathers in an electric all-bands-flat lattice.
    Group of Nonlinear Physics, Universidad de Sevilla
Julia Cantisán, Fractional dynamics in sine-Gordon models
    Department of Applied Mathematics, Universidad de Huelva
Fernando Carreño-Navas, Soliton dynamics and stability in PT-Symmetric Gross-Neveu models under modified nonlinear interactions
    Institute of Mathematics of the Universidad de Sevilla (IMUS)
Jesús Casado-Pascual, Controlling quantum transport by measurement-rate modulation
    Theoretical Physics, Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, Universidad de Sevilla  
Jesús Cuevas-Maraver, Ponderomotive solitons in plasmas,
    Head of the Group of Nonlinear Physics, Universidad de Sevilla
Almudena P Márquez, Group of Bifurcation Theory and Dynamical Systems, Universidad de Cádiz
David Mellado-Alcedo, Stability of parametrically driven, damped nonlinear Dirac solitons
    Departament of Applied Mathematics, Universidad de Sevilla
Eduardo Menéndez-Proupin, Intrinsic defect on copper nitride.
    Group of simulations and applications to materials, Universidad de Sevilla
Maria Laura Olivera-Atencio, Quantum reinforcement learning in the presence of thermal dissipation
    Theoretical Physics, Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, Universidad de Sevilla
Hiroki Ono, Non-Fourier thermal transport and NP Symmetry
    Microdynamics Laboratory, The University of Osaka
Faustino Palmero, Electrical Lattices as Experimental Platforms for Spatially Localized Excitations in Discrete Systems
    Group of Nonlinear Physics, Universidad de Sevilla
Pedro Pérez-Fernández, Exploring Dynamical Phase Diagrams with a Double Quench Controlled by Relaxation Time
    Group of Basic Nuclear Science, Universidad de Sevilla
Niurka R Quintero, head of the Group of Mathematical Modeling of Nonlinear Systems, Universidad de Sevilla
Elena Recio, Group of Bifurcation Theory and Dynamical Systems, Universidad de Cádiz
Michael F Russell (on-line) Hyperconductivity in insulators, semiconductors and metals
    Turbon Internatinal, Abingdon, UK, formerly Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Antonio Sojo, Does The Stroboscopic Lindbladian Exist? An Analytical Approach
    Theoretical Physics, Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, Universidad de Sevilla
Joël Tsoplefack, Group of Nonlinear Physics, Universidad de Sevilla


Keywords: Localization, solitons, topological phenomena, nonlinear phenomena

Abstract:
Solitons are ubiquitous examples of spatial localization, often in movement.  They include discrete breathers as envelope solitons.  Striking examples in water are tsunamis and bores, but they appear in many other systems as optical waveguides, Josephson junction arrays, Bose-Einstein condensates, matter waves, and biological molecules, to name a few.  Solitons appear both in theory, classical and ab-initio nonlinear dynamics, and experiments. They often have long lives, which may hinder heat evacuation in tokamak fusion reactors. Polarons and solectrons consist of a charge bounded to a local deformation and/or localized vibrational modes. They are often described using semi-classical models within the tight-binding approximation. Localization can also be in momentum as q-breathers, or in time, as rogue waves. Metamaterials allow for the engineering of especial properties including solitons. With time modulation, time crystals appear, as proposed by Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek in 2012. Space-time metamaterials bring about new properties of localized excitations that appear within the frequency or momentum bandgaps.  Electrons have also been described as topological solitons with Coulomb and Lorenz forces as a consequence, in this way, expanding the soliton concept to particle physics.  This workshop intends to review recent advances and unify theories and approaches.

References:
-Georg Herink et al., Real-time spectral interferometry probes the internal dynamics of femtosecond soliton molecules, Science  356: 50-53 (2017)
-Sergej Flach and Andrey V Gorbach, Discrete breathers - Advances in theory and applications,
Phys. Rep.  467: 1-116 (2008)
-Manfried Faber and Alexander P Kobushkin, Electrodynamic limit in a model for charged solitons, Phys. Rev. D, 69: 116002 (2004)
-Frank Wilczek , Quantum Time Crystals. Phys. Rev. Lett.  109: 160401 (2012)



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