Seminar presentations of seminal publications on various topics related to the statistical mechanics and stochastic description of many-body systems with a focus on biological and soft systems.
Examples of seminar topics are:
- Onsager relations
- renormalization group theory
- field-theoretic description of two-component plasmas, mean-field versus strong-coupling limit
- phase transitions on lattices
- projection techniques and coarse-graining
- classical density functional theory, liquid state theory
- de Gennes´ reptation theory for the dynamics of polymer melts
- Parisi´s replica method for the description of quenched random systems
- non-equilibrium steady state systems
- self-organization in non-equilibrium systems, reaction-diffusion equation
- fluctuations theorems for non-equilibrium reactions
- non-linear spectroscopy
- statistical interference, principal component analysis, clustering
- hydrodynamic instabilities : Serrin´s Theorem
Literature
- Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, Robert Zwanzig
- Non-equilibrium thermodynamics, S.R. de Groot and P. Mazur
- The Fokker-Planck equation, H. Risken
- Stochastic processes in physics and chemistry, N.G. van Kampen
- Elementary fluid dynamics, D.J. Acheson
- Self-organization in non equilibrium systems, G. Nicolis and I. Prigogine