Edinburgh (1995), Bayreuth (1993), Dijon (1991), Montpellier (1989), Paris (1988), Grenoble (1987), Dijon (1986), Nice (1985), and Dijon (1984).

With these proceedings, we wish to continue the tradition of publishing conference papers in electronic form as initiated at the meeting Nonlinear Coherent Structures in Physics and Biology held at the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 1995. The Edinburgh electronics proceedings can be found at the WWW-site:

http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/solitons/procs.

The SOLPHYS proceedings are available in postscript format and are compressed using gzip. You can download the individual papers and expand them by using the command gunzip 'filename'. This should be working on most unix-systems but  in case you wish to read the proceedings from a PC you may enter problems. In case of problems with reading the proceedings, please contact Mads Peter Sørensen on e-mail address mps@imm.dtu.dk. The proceedings are also available as a book printed by Department of Mathematical Modelling.

The study of nonlinear phenomena has been increasingly recognized over the last years as a development which leads to new fundamental applications in physics, biology, and the sciences, as well as in mathematics. One of the earliest examples was in nonlinear optics, and transatlantic cables with virtually loss-free transmission of information based on optical solitons are now being designed for use. A similar area which is just starting to be used in applications is the Josephson effect in semi-conductors, potentially useful for a variety of rapid switching devices and a new generation of computers. Another area which is still in the realm of basic theory and experiments is the study of nonlinear effects in energy storage and transmission on long physical and biological macromolecules and in organic thin films. The robustness of the soliton in realistic environments with noise and thermal fluctuations is essential. All these areas share common grounds.

The scientific committee had the following members: J.C. Eilbeck, Heriot-Watt, UK, N. Flytzanis, Heraklion, Greece, F. Mertens, Bayreuth, Germany, J. Moloney, Tucson, USA, R.D. Parmentier, Salerno, Italy, M. Peyrard, Lyon, France, C. Reiss, Paris, France, M. Remoissenet, Dijon, France, M. Salerno, Salerno, Italy, A.C. Scott, Lyngby, Denmark and Tucson, USA, K. H. Spatschek, Düsseldorf, Germany, G. Tsironis, Heraklion, Greece, L. Yakushevich, Puschino, Russia, M. Wadati, Tokyo, Japan.

We gratefully acknowledge financial support from

• Thomas B. Thriges Fond.
• Danish Research Councils (SNF and STVF).
• Risø National Laboratory.
• Department of Mathematical Physics.
• Modelling Nonlinear Dynamics and Irreversible Thermodynamics (MIDIT).

Peter Leth Christiansen and Mads Peter Sørensen
Editors.
July 15, 1998.

Solphys '97 Proceedings, Index

 
 

Two-dimensional solitary waves in media with quadratic and cubic nonlinearity Ole Bang Study of the thermal stability of short DNA duplexes via the Peyrard-Bishop model A. Campa and A. Giansanti The internal structure of the two-soliton solution to nonlinear evolution equations of a certain class Fiona Campbell and John Parkes Transverse Stability of Solitary Waves on Coupled Nonlinear Transmission Lines M. S. Ody, A. K. Common and M. I. Sobhy Short timescale energy transfer in proteins Leonor Cruzeiro-Hansson Wavelet Analysis of Breather Mode Behaviour Kyle Forinash and W. Cristopher Lang Non Local Effects in Window Type Josephson Junctions J. G. Caputo, N. Flytzanis, V. Kurin, N. Lazarides and E. Vavalis Diffusion effects in a nonlinear electrical lattice and applications to signal processing P. Marquié, S. Binczak, J. C. Comte and J. M. Bilbault The stability of solitary wave solutions to a modified Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation Susan Munro and John Parkes Solitary Waves in the Earth's Upper Ionosphere S. H. Kjus, H. L. Pécseli, B. Lybekk, J. Holtet, J. Trulsen and A. Eriksson Finite-dimensional Systems Integrable via Inverse Scattering F. Pempinelli and M. Boiti Solitons in DNA and neutron scattering. Possibilities and perspectives. Ludmilla V. Yakushevich