About: This first symposium has the objective of consolidating the collaboration not only between Japanese and Spanish researchers in the subject of Energy Localization in Nonlinear Lattices but also other participants from any country.  

Japan-Sevilla: The scientific collaboration between Japan and Sevilla very likely started 400 years ago, with the Keicho Embassy, when Hasekura Tsunegaga entered Sevilla in 1614., with 30 Japanese people. Some of them remained in Coria del Rio near Sevilla providing the family name "Japon".  This symposium is another small step in this relationship.

Organizers:  Juan F.R. Archilla, Nonlinear Physics Group at Universidad de Sevilla,  (Opening pdf)
                     Yusuke Doi,  from the Nonlinear Discrete  Dynamics Lab, Dept. of Adaptive Machine Systems at Osaka University.
 
Plenary speakers (order of talks)

• María J. G. Calero, Master in Industrial Mathematics,: M2i , University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. (cover slide, poster)
• Study of the Vicseck model on phase transition in a system of self-driven particles.  
• Joël Tsoplefack, (with Faustino Palmero and Jesús Cuevas) Doctorate Program on Physical Science and Technology, Universidad de Sevilla 
• Discrete breathers in an electrical transmision line (cover slide, poster)
• Yamato Mogi, (with Masayuki Kimura and Shinji Doi) Department of Electric Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan
• Localized modes in magnetically coupled resonant circuit array induced by a locally distributed impurity (cover slide)

Applications:  For researchers and students that would like to participate, please, write to archilla@us.es.  Attendance will provide credits for Master and PhD students of the University of Sevilla
Cultural activities:

• Night walking tour along Sevilla city
• Night visit to the Alcazar of Sevilla,  a palace and castle, first Moorish from 913 and later Christian  from 1248.
• Walk along the Guadalquivir river, strolling along the park and statue of Hasekura Tsunegaga from Coria del Rio to Puebla del Rio finishing in a restaurant to eat  rice with wild duck from the Guadalquivir marshes
• Kayaking in the Guadalquivir river at Seville
• 2019 marks the 500 year of the first circum-navitation of the world, which started in Sevilla  by Magellan and finishes in Sevilla by Elcano in 2021. There willl be many activities and many related places to visit as Sanlucar de Barrameda, at the mouth of the river, where Magellan  spent a  couple of months preparing the boats. The event is a candidate for UNESCO world heritage listing

Gualquivir marshes, a nonlinear physical phenomenon,  See the film Isla Minima (The tiny island), where they are an integral part of the script