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. 

Tentative Schedule of Seminars (Tuesdays in Room T1 1.3.21)

14.5. Tuesday, 16:15    Rodriguez, reptation theory
21.5. Tuesday, 16:15    Tedeschi, parisi trick for disordered systems
28.5. Tuesday, 16:15    Froböse, coarse-graining and projection 
                                      Salas, quantum projection
4.6. Tuesday, 16:15      Köhler Ruiz, diffusion-reaction systems
                                      Pastorello, Serrin´s theorem for onset of turbulence
11.6. Tuesday, 16:15     Bota, non-linear spectroscopy 
                                      Salem, Onsager theorem
13.6 Thursday, 16:15    (Special day, room  T3 1.3.48) 
                                     McEntee, quantum annealing of spin-glass systems
                                     Montserrat, self-organized criticality
2.7. Tuesday, 16:15      Helabad, barrier-crossing acceleration in specific potentials
                                      Pandey, Poisson-Nernst-Planck equation
4.7. Thursday, 16:15     (Special day, room  T3 1.3.48)    
                                       Liu, Mpemba effect 
                                      Schröter, statstical interference

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 

 

Literatur

 

  • 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