Steady-states, fluctuations and dynamics

of non-equilibrium systems

7-11 June 2009

7-9 June – Technion, Haifa

10-11 June – Weizmann Institute, Rehovot

Program

Lewiner Seminar Room, Taub Building, Technion

Sunday 7 June

09:00-09:45 Haye Hinrichsen, University of Würzburg

On the relation between self-organized and conventional criticality far from equilibrium

09:45-10:30 Kirone Mallick, CEA Saclay

Exact results for the Asymmetric Exclusion Process

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:45 Julien Tailleur, University of Edinburgh

Statistical mechanics of bacterial motion

12:30-14:30 Lunch

Mathematical/Theoretical Physics Seminar

14:30-15:30 Satya Majumdar, Univ. de Paris-Sud

Condensation and extreme statistics

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-16:45 Ofer Biham, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Reaction networks with fluctuations:

from inter-stellar chemistry to intra-cellular biology

Monday, 8 June

09:00-09:45 Martin Evans, University of Edinburgh

Matrix representation of the stationary measure for the multispecies Asymmetric Simple Exclusion process

09:45-10:30 Yossi Klafter, Tel Aviv University

Fractional kinetics in biological systems

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:45 Claude Godrèche, CEA Saclay

Longest excursions of stochastic processes in non-equilibrium systems

12:30-14:30 Lunch

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-16:45 Henri Orland, CEA Saclay

Determination of dominant pathways in protein folding

16:45-17:30 Yacov Kantor, Tel Aviv University

Nonuniversal aspects of anomalous diffusion with absorption

Tuesday, 9 June

09:00-09:45 Richard Blythe, University of Edinburgh

Consensus in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics

09:45-10:45 Harald Posch, University of Vienna

Rough hard disk systems in and out of equilibrium

10:45-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:45 Yair Shokef, Weizmann Institute

Isolated non-equilibrium systems in contact

11:45-12:30 Nadav Shnerb, Bar Ilan University

Optimizing metapopulation sustainability: noise, diffusion
and desynchronization

12:30-14:30 Lunch

Weissman Auditorium, Physics Building, Weizmann Institute

Wednesday, 10 June

09.00-09:45 Dov Levine, Technion

Correlation length for amorphous systems: Order for the glass state?

09:45-10:30 Jorge Kurchan, ESPCI

Mapping out of equilibrium into equilibrium

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:45 Yoseph Imry, Weizmann Institute

Slow relaxation and aging in the electron glass

12:30-14:30 Lunch

16:00-16:45 Gunter Schütz, IFF Jülich

Condensation in non-Markovian zeo-range dynamics

16:45-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-17:45 Baruch Meerson, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Extinction of metastable stochastic populations

17:45-18:30 Jay Feinberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Crack-like processes within frictional motion – The
dynamics of the birth and death of frictional motion

Thursday 11 June

09.00-09:45 Royce Zia, Virginia Tech

Competition between multiple TASEPs for a finite pool of particles

09:45-10:30 Raphael Chetrite, ENS Lyon

Lagrangian approach of far from equilibrium systems

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:15 Physics Colloquium

Bernard Derrida, ENS Paris

Current fluctuations in non-equilibrium systems

12:30-14:30 Lunch

16:00-16:45 Hugues Chaté, CEA, Saclay

Density fluctuations and orientationally-ordered phases of "dry" active matter

16:45-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-17:45 David A. Kessler, Bar-Ilan University

Globally coupled chaotic maps with demographic noise

17:45-18:30 Joel Stavans, Weizmann Institute

Universality of persistence exponents in two-dimensional Ostwald Ripening

Sponsored by

The Lewiner Institute for Theoretical Physics, Technion

and

The Albert Einstein Center for Theoretical Physics, Weizmann Institute

and

The Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger Conference Foundation,

Weizmann Institute