The Fifth International Workshop ”SOLITONS, COLLAPSES AND TURBULENCE: Achievements, Developments and Perspectives” CHERNOGOLOVKA, Moscow region, RUSSIA August 2 – 7, 2009

On behalf of P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sci- ences, L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics the Russian Academy of Sci- ences and the Organizing Committee, we are pleased to announce the workshop “ SOLITONS, COLLAPSES AND TURBULENCE: Achievements, Developments and Perspectives” in honor of Vladimir Zakharov’s 70 birthday to be conducted on August 2 - 7, 2009. The conference will be held in Chernogolovka (40 km north east from Moscow) in the building of the Scientist House of the Chernogolovka Scientific Center of RAS.

The workshop will cover a broad spectrum of problems within three topics of crucial interest in nonlinear science: solitons, collapses and turbulence. The main goal of this conference is to bring together key scientists with various back- ground and expertise, both physicists and mathematicians, (young researchers are welcome) working in the field of nonlinear science in order to discuss the main directions of development, achievements and perspectives, to fortify exis- tent connections and (or) establish new links between three main branches of nonlinear science: SOLITONS, COLLAPSES and TURBULENCE.

The topics will range from nonlinear optics, plasma physics, hydrodynamics, solid state physics, differential geometry, string theory, and gravity, to soliton theory, combining the inverse scattering transform and recent approaches to exact integrable and near integrable models, wave collapse physics, turbulence and chaos.

Theory, experiment and industrial applications will be represented, the un- derlying objective being to conduct a truly interdisciplinary conference. Persons interested in participating can receive the second announcement with additional details by contacting the Organizers.

Organizing Committee:
• Evgenii A. KUZNETSOV (Lebedev Institute & Landau Institute, Russia, e-mail: kuznetso@itp.ac.ru) - Chairman,

• Alexandre I. Dyachenko (Landau Institute, Russia, e-mail: alexd@itp.ac.ru)

• Alexandre V. MIKHAILOV (Landau Institute, Russia, and University of Leeds, UK, e-mail: sashamik@amsta.leeds.ac.uk),

• Andrei N. PUSHKAREV (Lebedev Institute, Russia, e-mail: dr.push@gmail.com).