Organizers: Yasuhito Narita[1], Bruce Tsurutani[2], George Morales[3], Gurbax Lakhina[4], and Masahiro Hoshino[5]
[1] Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany: y.narita[at]tu-braunschweig.de
[2] Pasadena, California: bruce.tsurutani[at]gmail.com
[3] University of California at Los Angeles, California: morales[at]physics.ucla.edu
[4] Navi Mumbai, India: gslakhina[at]gmail.com
[5] The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan: mhoshino[at]g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Location: Maxx Hotel Sanssouci Potsdam, Germany
6 through 12 September, 2026 (an icebreaker will be held in the early evening of Sunday 6 September and an excursion on Saturday 12 September)
The 11th international Nonlinear Wave, Chaos and AI Workshop (NWCAI Workshop 2026) will be held at the Maxx Hotel Sanssouci Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, 6 to 11 September 2026 (Sunday night through Friday). Previous NWC Workshops were held in Kyoto Japan (1994), Cologne Germany (1997), Carlsbad Calif. (1999), Tromso Norway (2001), Mumbai India (2003), Fukuoka Japan (2006), Beaulieu-sur-Mer France (2008), and La Jolla Calif (2010, 2013, 2017). The 2026 NWCAI Workshop will be sponsored by the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany.
All speakers will be allowed an equal amount of time for their talks. All talks can be interrupted by questions from the audience. Such interactions are encouraged since this event will have a workshop format (unless the discussions are too extensive). There will be an upper limit of 30 attendees so that the workshop format will be effective. The workshop is aimed to be a highly interactive, friendly, informal get-together of scientists from different fields of expertise discussing common topics. Past attendees of NWCWs have included experts in plasma physics (space and astrophysical plasmas, laboratory plasmas, and fusion plasmas), geophysics (atmospheric, ionospheric, and oceanic turbulence), fluid dynamics, nonlinear physics, and mathematics. The NWCAI workshop aims for a mix of observationalists, theoreticians, and PhD students. The topics will, as earlier, be all aspects of nonlinear processes in science. We will have talks on AI to discuss the potential and future of AI in nonlinear physics.
Workshop attendance is by invitation only. All invitees are expected to be expert in one of the topics and give an extensive presentation on it. Graduate students and postdocs may opt for shorter (half the regular time) talks. The length of the talks will depend slightly on the final number of attendees. But a reasonable time to aim for is about 45 minutes per talk including the discussion.
Publication of the workshop talk materials
We have arranged for a Springer book for all of the review talks to be published after the meeting. Please be thinking of both your talk and a publication. The review articles will be refereed.
Arrangements and accommodation
The Maxx Hotel Sanssouci Potsdam is located near the renowned Parc Sanssouci in the center of Potsdam. The address is Allee nach Sansssouci 1, 14471 Potsdam, Germany. Individual accepted attendees should make their own room reservations directly online at
Front Office, Phone +49 331 9091 921, email: reservations.potsdam[at]maxxhotel.com
Please mention the code "NWCAI" to get the special room rate. The single room rate is 142.98 Euro per night (superior category). Local tax of 7.5 % will be added to the room rate. Breakfast (11 Euro) is not included in the room price. The special room rate is valid until 13 July 2026.
Registration
The amount of the workshop registration is 450 Euro (early-bird registration before 31 March 2026) and 550 Euro (late registration before 31 May 2026). The registration fee will cover the cost of the conference facility, coffee and tea service, and social events (icebreaker, conference dinner, and excursions). Registration is to be paid in advance on the homepage of the conference organized by the conference management service iTUBS (this will be given at a later date). Please follow the link of registration at the workshop homepage (to be announced soon). If invitees have not registered by the 1 June 2026 deadline, the invitation will be rescinded, so that people on the waiting list can be invited.
Registration for accompanying people will be 150 Euro each. This will cover the ice breaker, conference dinner and excursions.
Abstract (due 31 May 2026)
Please send an abstract for your talk to all of the convenors. We will look over the abstracts with the thought of looking for missing topics and will invite people to cover them.
Midweek free time
There will be a half day midweek break on 9 September (Wednesday afternoon). We will visit either Sanssoucci Palace or the research facilities in Potsdam (excursion tbd). Please use this opportunity to talk with your fellow workshop attendees about science in an informal setting.
Conference Dinner on 11 September 2026 (Friday)
The conference dinner will be held on Friday after the formal workshop has finished. It will be held at a nearby Potsdam restaurant "Zum Fliegenden Holländer", Benkertstr. 5, 14467 Potsdam, Phone +49 331 60 12 77 50. The restaurant is located at a walking distance of 1.2 km east from the conference hotel. This will be a chance to talk to your fellow attendees but with a glass of wine or beer in your hand. The food, the first round of drinks (beer, wine, soft drink, tea), and the bottles of water are included in the registration.
Excursion on 12 September (Saturday)
There will be a special allday celebration and excursion for the workshop guests.