This workshop focuses on complexity of dynamics and kinetics in reactions from small to large systems in terms of the underlying multidimensional dynamic, phase space structure. Dynamic inhomogeneity of phase space is known to often result in non-RRKM behavior in chemical
reactions, but the underlying mechanism has not been well established yet in the language of phase space for many-dimensional reacting systems. One of the key concepts is the so-called normally hyperbolic invariant manifold (NHIM) which mediates chemical reactions in a deterministic fashion even in a sea of chaos, and thermal fluctuation. The NHIM takes the place of the periodic orbit dividing surface (PODS), which is one of the most successful concepts developed several decades ago for low dimensional systems that enabled us to resolve the complex behavior in reaction dynamics. However, there yet exist many problems to be resolved for NHIM. For example, how does NHIM break down (or in the other term, how is selectivity of reactions spoiled) as an increase of energy, what is the key phase space structure for reactions through higher-index saddles, what is the corresponding counterpart in
dissipative Langevin systems or quantum mechanics, how can one make use of these geometrical objects to design the laser field that controls reactions in applications, how one can extract the NHIM or the stable/unstable manifolds from experimental time series? These are just some of the subjects to be resolved.

Registration fee includes a hot, catered lunch on Monday and Tuesday.