Workshop Program

30 minutes talk = 25 minutes + 5 minutes discussion

Sunday, July 01  
   
18:00 - 20:00 Registration
   
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome Buffet
   
Monday, July 02  
   
08:45 - 09:00 Peter Fulde (Director of MPIPKS)
  Opening
   
09:00 - 09:30 Introduction
 
   
09:30 - 10:00 Igor Sokolov
  Fluctuations, aging and equilibration in non-Markovian renewal systems
   
10:00 - 10:30 Karina Weron
  Wait-and-switch model of the non-Debye relaxation
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
   
11:00 - 11:30 Tomas Novotny
  Surmounting a barrier due to a weak non-Gaussian noise
   
11:30 - 12:00 Sergey Savel'ev
  Controlling the motion of interacting small particles far from equilibrium
   
   
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
   
   
14:30 - 15:00 Hyunggyu Park
  Synchronization transitions in populations of random frequency oscillators
   
15:00 - 15:30 Natalia Janson
  Controlling noise-induced patterns in an ensemble of globally coupled neural oscillators
15:30 - 16:30 Coffee break
   
   
16:30 - 17:30 POFFFE07 Colloquium
  Lutz Schimansky-Geier
  Coupled noisy oscillators
   
   
   
Tuesday, July 03  
   
   
09:00 - 09:30 Giovanni Galavotti
  Phase space contraction and heat
   
09:30 - 10:00 Christian Van den Broeck
  Beyond the second law
   
10:00 - 10:30 Luca Peliti
  The entropy flow in out-of-equilibrium systems
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
   
11:00 - 11:30 Peter Hänggi
  Quantum fluctuation theorems
   
11:30 - 12:00 Mahendra Verma
  Universal scaling laws for large events in driven nonequilibrium systems
   
12:00 - 12:30 Alberto Imparato
  Evaluation of free energy landscapes from manipulation experiments
   
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
   
14:00 - 14:30 Achim Wixforth
  Acoustically driven microfluidics
   
14:30 - 15:00 Peter Talkner
  Chiral separation in microflows
   
15:00 - 15:30 Jose M. Ortiz de Zarate
  Nonequilibrium fluctuations and hydrodynamic instabilities
   
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Luca Gammaitoni
  Noise Limited computational speed
   
16:30 - 17:00 Marcello Borromeo
  Transport on vibrated substrates
   
17:00 - 17:30 Bram Wynants
  An explicit model illustrating physical quantities appearing in non-equilibrium fluctuations
17:30 - 18:00 Poster Session Short Presentation
   
19:00 - 20:00 Supper
20:00 - 22:00 Poster Session
   
   
   
Wednesday, July 04  
   
09:00 - 09:30 Abraham Nitzan
  Current noise in molecular junctions: Elastic and inelastic effects
   
09:30 - 10:00 Jiangbin Gong
  Dissipationless directed transport in single-band quantum dynamics
   
10:00 - 10:30 Sergej Flach
  Broken space-time symmetries and transport - classical and quantum
   
10:30 - 10:40 Group Photo
   
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 11:30 Sigmund Kohler
  Landau-Zener transitions in a noisy environment
   
11:30 - 12:00 Liliane Arrachea
  Transport induced by harmonically time-dependent fields in dissipative quantum systems
   
12:00 - 12:30 Sabine Tornow
  Dissipative two-electron transfer
   
12:30 Lunch
   
14:00 Excursion (more details soon...)
   
19:30 Conference Dinner
   
   
Thursday, July 05  
   
   
09:00 - 09:30 Mans Ehrenberg
  Fitness costs of fluctuations in gene expression of growing bacteria
   
 
09:30 - 10:00 Ulrich Gerland
  Physical mechanisms of conformational transitions in biomolecular complexes
   
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
   
   
10:30 - 11:00 Gerhard Schmid
  Capacitance fluctuations causing channel noise reduction in stochastic Hodgkin-Huxley systems
   
11:00 - 11:30 Dmitri Petrov
  Experimental statistical physics in an optical trap
   
11:30 - 12:00 Eok Kyun Lee
  Stochastic dynamical systems driven by dichotomous noise
   
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
   
14:00 - 14:30 Oleg Usatenko
  Fluctuations, correlations, memory and interaction in 1D complex stochastic dynamic systems
   
14:30 - 15:00 Benjamin Lindner
  The diffusion coefficient of nonlinear brownian motion
   
15:00 - 15:30 David Reguera
  Catching Nano-Droplets at birth: Homogeneous nucleation of noble gases
   
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
   
16:00 - 16:30 Jooyoung Lee
  Energy landscape of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass
   
16:30 - 17:00 Giancarlo Franzese
  Fluctuations around the Widom line of metastable liquid water
   
18:00 - 19:30 Supper
   
Friday, July 06  
   
   
09:00 - 09:30 Jerzy Luczka
  Absolute negative mobility of inertial Brownian particles
   
09:30 - 10:00 Miguel Rey Mazón
  Nonadiabatic electron heat pump
   
10:00 - 10:30 Iaroslav Zolotariuk
  Ratchet effect in two-dimensional periodic systems
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
   
11:00 - 11:30 Bartlomiej Dybiec
  Emergence of bimodality in noisy systems with single-well potential
   
11:30 - 12:00 Jing-Dong Bao
  Nonergodic non-Markovian Brownian motion: Intermediate dynamics between Newton and Langevin
   
12:00 - 12:30 Eric Lutz
  Levy diffusion at thermal equilibrium
   
12:30 - 12:40 Closing
   
12:40 Lunch


Last updated: June 7, 2007