Noise in Nonequilibrium Systems: From Physics to Biology

PROGRAM

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Sunday, April 10 
18:30 - 19:30 Registration
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome reception
  
Monday, April 11 
09:15 - 09:30 Opening
  Managing Director of the MPIPKS & Scientific Coordinators
   
09:30 - 10:00 Lutz Schimansky-Geier
  Fluctuations in models of self-propelled particles
   
10:00 - 10:30 Christian Van den Broeck
  The efficiency of small machines
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
   
11:00 - 11:30 Sigmund Kohler
  Graphene ratchets
   
11:30 - 12:00 Jesús Casado-Pascual
  Effect of high-frequency magnetic field on the resonant behavior
  displayed by a spin-1/2 particle under the influence of a rotating magnetic field
   
12:00 - 12:30 Thomas Wellens
  Efficient and coherent excitation transfer across disordered molecular networks
   
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
   
14:30 - 15:00 Roland Netz
  DNA dynamics and the measurement problem in protein force spectroscopy
   
15:00 - 15:30 José L. Mateos
  Experimental control of transport in a deterministic optical ratchet
   
15:30 - 16:00 Heiner Linke
  An approach to an artificial protein motor
   
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
   
16:30 - 17:30 NINES11 Colloquium
  Peter Jung
  How nerves get into shape
   
18:00 - 20:00 Dinner
   
20:00 - 22:00 Poster Session I - focus on all the posters with odd poster numbers
  
Tuesday, April 12 
09:00 - 09:30 Hans Frauenfelder
  Noise is essential for proteins
   
09:30 - 10:00 Thomas Franosch
  Persistent memory for a Brownian walker in a random array of obstacles
   
10:00 - 10:30 Sophia Yaliraki
  Multiscale dynamics of biomolecular networks
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
   
11:00 - 11:30 Wolfgang Schleich
  Focusing without a lens
   
11:30 - 12:00 Milena Grifoni
  Quantum spin-orbit ratchets
   
12:00 - 12:30 Frank Großmann
  Semiclassics plus noise: A trajectory approach to dissipation in quantum mechanics
   
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
   
14:30 - 15:00 Gloria Platero
  Topology and phase: Two ways to control the coherent dynamics of electrons
   
15:00 - 15:30 Baowen Li
  Creating heat current from zero thermal bias
   
15:30 - 16:00 Eli Pollak
  Stochastic theory of atom surface scattering
   
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
   
16:30 - 17:00 Thomas Dittrich
  Directed transport in a ratchet with internal and chemical freedoms
   
17:00 - 17:30 Miguel Rubí
  Thermodynamics and stochastic dynamics of transport in confined media
   
17:30 - 18:00 Sergey Bezrukov
  Entropic potentials in one-dimensional transport description
   
18:00 - 18:30 Stefan Linz
  Modeling global and local avalanching of granular matter
   
20:00 Banquet
  
Wednesday, April 13 
09:00 - 09:30 Jörg Kotthaus
  Self-oscillation in nanoelectro- and nanooptomechanical systems
   
09:30 - 10:00 Cristiane de Morais Smith
  Artificial staggered magnetic field for ultracold atoms in optical lattices
   
10:00 - 10:30 Klaus Richter
  Quantum universality and its breakdown in ergodic mesoscopic systems
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
   
11:00 - 11:30 Giuliano Benenti
  Increasing thermoelectric efficiency: Dynamical models unveil microscopic mechanisms
   
11:30 - 12:00 Abraham Nitzan
  Unidirectional hopping transport of interacting particles on a finite chain
   
12:00 - 12:30 Keiji Saito
  Additivity principle in high-dimensional harmonic lattices
   
12:30 - 15:00 Lunch Break
   
15:00 - 15:30 Volkhard May
  Quantum transport in nano hybrid systems
   
15:30 - 16:00 Michael Thorwart
  Competition between relaxation and external driving in the dissipative Landau-Zener problem
   
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
   
16:30 - 17:00 Jerzy Luczka
  Interaction-induced negative mobility in a system of two overdamped Brownian particles
   
17:00 - 17:30 Manuel Morillo-Buzón
  Noise effects on collective variables of finite arrays driven by time-periodic forces
   
17:30 - 18:00 Igor Goychuk
  Viscoelasticity, dispersive kinetics and anomalous diffusion
   
18:00 - 20:00 Dinner
   
20:00 - 22:00 Poster Session II - focus on all the posters with even poster numbers
  
Thursday, April 14 
09:00 - 09:30 Udo Seifert
  Stochastic thermodynamics
   
09:30 - 10:00 Werner Ebeling
  Shot-noise models and efficiency of ATP-driven nano-scale machines operating under far-from-equilibrium conditions
   
10:00 - 10:30 Frank Jülicher
  The stochastic dance of helical swimmers
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 11:30 Sergej Flach
  The weak password problem: Chaos, criticality and encrypted p-CAPTCHAs
   
11:30 - 12:00 Igor Sokolov
  Particles in confining potentials under Levy noise: Old and new results
   
12:00 - 12:30 Closing Remarks
   
13:10 - 14:00 Lunch
  
  

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