Support for US Researchers to Attend the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Intrinsic Localized Modes and Discrete Breathers in Nonlinear Lattices, Erice, Sicily, July 21-27, 2003

这笔旅费补助金将为6至8名美国科学家提供部分支助，以参加2003年7月21日至27日在西西里埃里切举行的第27届北约非线性晶格中的固有局域模和离散呼吸子高级研究讲习班。 该研讨会涉及凝聚态物质的性质，发生在具有规则晶格结构但空间离散的材料中。 在这样的系统中，非线性模型必须取代上个世纪的线性模型。 非线性引入了一些新的现象，如“固有局域模”和“离散呼吸子”。 这个高级研究研讨会的目的是汇集在一个研讨会论坛的初级和高级工作人员讨论的振动，原子和自旋能量，电荷，电磁能和磁通量的内在本地化的非线性，空间离散系统的共同研究课题从理论，数值和实验的角度。 旅行补助金将使来自美国的六到八名科学家能够旅行，参加研讨会，并与该领域的其他科学家进行互动，该领域涵盖了广泛的物理和生物科学领域。

This Travel Grant will provide partial support for 6 to 8 US scientists to attend the 27th NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Intrinsic Localized Modes and Discrete Breathers in Nonlinear Lattices, Erice, Sicily, July 21-27, 2003. The workshop deals with properties of condensed matter that occur in materials that have a regular lattice structure but that are spatially discrete. In such systems, nonlinear models must replace the linear models of the last century. The nonlinearity introduces fundamentally new phenomena, such as "intrinsic localized modes" and "discrete breathers". This Advanced Research Workshop is intended to bring together in a workshop forum both junior and senior workers to discuss the common research topic of intrinsic localization of vibrational, atomic and spin energy, electric charge, electromagnetic energy and magnetic flux in nonlinear, spatially discrete systems from the theoretical, numerical, and experimental perspectives. The Travel Grant will enable six to eight scientists from the US to travel, attend the workshop and interact with other scientists in this field, which spans a wide area of physical and biological sciences.