618. WE-Heraeus-Seminar: Extreme Events and Rouge Waves - 2016

EXTREME EVENTS & ROGUE WAVES SEMINAR
INTERNATIONAL WILHELM AND ELSE HERAEUS SEMINAR 2016

Bad Honnef/Germany, May 30 - June 3, 2016

ANNOUNCEMENT

We are pleased to announce the seminar

Extreme Events and Rogue Waves - 2016

which will take place in Bad Honnef, a small town close to Bonn/Germany from Monday, May 30, 2016 to Friday, June 3, 2016.

The seminar is supported by the Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Stiftung and will be held at the Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, a conference center of the German Physical Society.

The final program and schedule can be downloaded here:

- Program

- Schedule

The focus of the seminar will be on a variety of recent aspects in extreme events and rogue waves in oceanography, optics, plasma waves and matter waves, including both theoretical and experimental aspects.

Invited speakers that have already confirmed their participation are: T. Adcock (Oxford), U. Bandelow (Berlin), F. Baronio (Brescia), F. Biancalana (Edinburgh), N. Broderick (Auckland), M. Brunetti (Geneve), C. Cartes (Santiago), A. Chabchoub (Melbourne), G. Clauss (Berlin), O. Descalzi (Santiago), I. Didenkulova (Tallinn), U. Feudel (Oldenburg), P. Friederichs (Bonn), P. Fröhle (Hamburg), G. Genty (Tampere), P. Grelu (Dijon), H. Kantz (Dresden), B. Kibler (Dijon), C. Masoller (Barcelona), M. Menendez (Cantabria), F. Mitschke (Rostock), J. Peinke (Oldenburg), E. Pelinovsky (Nizhny Novgorod), V. Shrira (Keele), A. Slunyaev (Nizhny Novgorod), P. Suret (Lille), M. Taki (Lille), M. Tlidi (Bruxelles), E. Tobisch (Linz), S. Turitsyn (Birmingham), A. Toffoli (Melbourne), , S. Wabnitz (Brescia), T. Waseda (Tokyo).

The organisers of the seminar are N. Akhmediev (Canberra), N. Hoffmann (Hamburg), H. Brand (Bayreuth).

Our main goal is to provide a platform for the discussion of new developments in this exciting interdisciplinary area of research and foster the scientific exchange between the different disciplines involved.