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NonEquilibrium Steady States

Sept 10th - Oct 12th 2007

 

 


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Sep 10th- Oct 12th Nonequilibrium Steady States

 

Oct 14th- Nov 9th
Entropy Production, Transport, Chaos and Turbulence

 


Nov 12th- Dec 14th

Quantum Dynamics Out of Equilibrium


 

 

 

 

 

Program of the first month of the trimester

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Tea and coffee are available everyday at 4 pm on the 2nd floor


Week 0: 10/09 - 14/09

 


13/09 Presentation session: From 2 pm on (10-15 minutes/presentation)

Max Ebbinghaus: Stochastic models for transport on biological networks
Zoran Levnajić: Collective Behavior of Coupled Chaotic 2D Maps
Valerio Lucarini: Some open problems in climate dynamics and climate diagnostics
Phil Howard:
Anomalous Deterministic Diffusion in Simple Maps
Gaurav Srivastava: Conserved mass models with fragmentation, diffusion and aggregation
Sven Dorosz:
Work distributions far from equilibrium in quantum spin chains
Awadhesh Kumar Dubey: Kinetics of Phase Separation (Binary mixtures)

Week 1: 17/09 - 21/09

 

17/09-21/09 Christopher Jarzynski: everyday, 10 - 12 am
Systems driven away from equilibrium
Lecture notes are available : pages 1-24, pages 25-48, pages 49-78, pages 79-97

17/09 Giovanni Gallavotti: seminar, 2-3 pm
Fluctuations in quantum systems

The seminar will be followed by an improved "Welcome" coffee break

21/09 Olivier Dauchot:
seminar, 2-3 pm

Intensive thermodynamic parameters in stationary non equilibrium systems


Week 2: 24/09 - 28/09

24/09-28/09 David Ruelle: everyday, 10 am – 12 am
Nonequilibrium seen from a dynamical systems viewpoint : SRB measures,linear response, etc...

Lecture notes

26/09  Zoran Levnajić: seminar, 2 pm - 3pm
Quantum Decoherence in Double-slit Scattering Experiment

27-28/09 : KPZ days

27/09 Day 1
Hans Fogedby - part 1:
27/09 at 2 pm

Growth and Pattern Formation in the Kardar Parisi Zhang equation
Lectures

Herbert Spohn: 27/09, 3:15 - 4:15 pm
Exact results for the KPZ equation in one dimension

28/09 Day 2
Hans Fogedby - part 2:
27/09 at 2 pm

Growth and Pattern Formation in the Kardar Parisi Zhang equation
Lectures

Léonie Canet: 28/09, 3:15 - 4:15 pm
A non-perturbative renormalization group approach to the KPZ equation
Pierre Le Doussal:
28/09, 4:15 pm

Week 3: 01/10 - 05/10


01/10-05/10 Bernard  Derrida: everyday, 2 pm – 4 pm

Nonequilibrium steady states: fluctuations and large deviations of the density and of the current

Lecture notes are available : pages 1-24, pages 25-48, pages 49-78, pages 79-97

01/10, 02/10, 03/10 Felix Ritort:
10 am – 12 am

Single molecule experiments: from physics to biology


04/10, 05/10 Pierre Gaspard:
10 am – 12 am

Nonequilibrium transients and steady states from Hamiltonian dynamics
Lecture notes are available : lecture 1: ppt or pdf, lecture 2: ppt or pdf, lecture 3: ppt or pdf, lecture 4: ppt or pdf.



Week 4: 08/10 - 12/10

Focus meeting