Principles of the dynamics of non-equilibrium systems

Programme theme

The collective behaviour of non-equilibrium systems is poorly understood compared to systems in thermal equilibrium, for which statistical mechanics provides a well established theory. By non-equilibrium systems we refer both to systems held far from thermal equilibrium by an external driving force, and the complementary situation of systems relaxing towards thermal equilibrium. Such systems display a broad range of phenomena, such as phase transitions and slow collective dynamics, which one would like to understand at a deeper level. The study of non-equilibrium systems has arisen in many different contexts such as reaction-diffusion processes, interacting particle systems, driven diffusive systems, and the slow dynamics of glassy systems. In recent years progress has been made towards better understanding these systems. Mathematical tools have been developed and some exact results pertaining to specific systems have been derived. These developments bring us closer to the point where one can address fundamental questions of generality, both of techniques and results. It is anticipated that bringing together the different communities of physicists and mathematicians working in this diverse field will foster the emergence of new directions and outlooks.

The programme will focus on three major areas:

Driven diffusive systems of interacting particles
Coarsening and persistence
Glassy, constrained dynamics and ageing

Although all three of these areas will be explored throughout the programme, it is intended that there will be periods of focus on each, centred around topical workshops.

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Preprints

Title	Year	Programme
Supersymmetric extensions of Schrodinger-invariance Authors: Malte Henkel, Jeremie Unterberger Download PDF	2005	PDS	21 October 2016
Local scale-invariances in the bosonic contact and pair-contact processes Authors: S Stoimenov, Malte Henkel, Florian Baumann Download PDF	2005	PDS	21 October 2016
A possible classification of nonequilibrium steady states Authors: Beate Schmittmann, Royce Zia Download PDF	2005	PDS	21 October 2016
Driven diffusive systems with disorder Authors: Mustansir Barma Download PDF	2005	PDS	21 October 2016
On the identification of quasiprimary scaling operators in local scale-invariance Authors: T Enss, Michel Pleimling, Malte Henkel Download PDF	2005	PDS	21 October 2016
Interaction driven real-space condensation Authors: Tom Hanney, Satya Majumdar, Mike Evans Download PDF	2005	PDS	21 October 2016
A stochastic model for hyphal growth Authors: Mike Evans, WCK Poon, Kate Sugden Download PDF	2005	PDS	21 October 2016
Hydrodynamics of the zero-range process in the condensation regime Authors: Rosemary Harris, Gunter Schutz Download PDF	2005	PDS	21 October 2016
Dynamical scaling for probe particles in a driven fluid Authors: Erel Levine, David Mukamel, ET Al, Attila Rakos Download PDF	2005	PDS	21 October 2016
Loop dynamics in DNA denaturation Authors: Yariv Kafri, David Mukamel, Amir Bar Download PDF	2005	PDS	21 October 2016

Workshops

PDSW01

Seminars

Monday 16th January 2006
14:00 to 18:00	David Mukamel Organisational Meeting	Room 1

Wednesday 18th January 2006
14:00 to 18:00	Silvio Franz PDS Discussion	Discussion Room

Thursday 19th January 2006
14:00 to 15:00	David Dean Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III Diffusion in random media and the glass transition	Room 1

Tuesday 24th January 2006
11:00 to 12:00	David Mukamel Dynamics and thermodynamics of systems with long range interactions	Room 2

Thursday 26th January 2006
14:00 to 15:00	Tom Hanney University of Edinburgh The dynamics of weighted, directed networks and interacting particle systems	Room 1

Tuesday 31st January 2006
11:00 to 12:00	Yariv Kafri Unzipping flux lines from extended defects in type II superconductors	Room 2

Wednesday 1st February 2006
11:00 to 18:00	Ludovic Berthier A (very) informal discussion on open problems in glasses	Room 1

Thursday 2nd February 2006
14:00 to 15:00	Metallic glasses - a glassy state from hard spheres?	Room 1

Tuesday 7th February 2006
11:00 to 12:00	Federico Corberi Fluctuation-dissipation relations out of equilibrium	Room 2

Wednesday 8th February 2006
14:00 to 18:00	Silvio Franz Informal discussion: Cohen-Gallavotti Theorem	Discussion Room

Thursday 9th February 2006
11:00 to 12:00	Kavita Jain Evolutionary trajectories in rugged fitness landscapes	Room 2

Tuesday 14th February 2006
11:00 to 12:00	Richard Blythe University of Edinburgh The nonequilibrium dynamics of new dialect formation	Room 2

Thursday 16th February 2006
11:00 to 12:00	Des Johnston Heriot-Watt University Wealth condensation as a zero range process	Room 2

Tuesday 21st February 2006
11:00 to 12:00	Attila Rakos Bethe Ansatz and current distributions for the TASEP with particle dependent hopping rate	Room 2

Wednesday 22nd February 2006
11:00 to 12:00	Joachim Krug University of Cologne Condensation and coarsening of step bunches	Room 2

Thursday 23rd February 2006
11:00 to 12:30	Juan Garrahan University of Nottingham Overview of kinetically constrained models of glass-formers	Room 2

Tuesday 28th February 2006
11:00 to 12:00	Vladislav Popkov University of Cologne Phase transitions and scaling laws in step bunching on vicinal surfaces	Room 2

Wednesday 1st March 2006
11:00 to 12:00	Sergio Ciliberto Queensland University of Technology Fluctuations in out of equilibrium systems	Discussion Room

Thursday 2nd March 2006
11:00 to 12:00	Stefan Grosskinsky University of Cambridge Stationary results on condensation in two-component zero-range processes	Room 2

Tuesday 7th March 2006
11:00 to 12:00	Ludger Santen Partially asymmetric exclusion process with strong disorder	Room 2

Thursday 9th March 2006
11:00 to 12:00	Ezechiel Cohen Rockefeller University Fluctuation relations in non-equilibrium stationary states of Langevin systems	Room 2

Friday 10th March 2006
10:00 to 11:00	Ludger Santen Informal Discussion	Discussion Room

Tuesday 14th March 2006
14:30 to 15:30	Denis Evans Australian National University What happens to detailed balance away from equilibrium	Room 1

Wednesday 15th March 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Juan Garrahan University of Nottingham Discussion: Overview of kinetically constrained models of glass-formers. Part II	Room 1

Thursday 16th March 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Jeremie Unterberger The Schrodinger-Virasoro algebra: a mathematical structure between conformal field theory and non-equilibrium dymanics	Room 1

Friday 17th March 2006
11:00 to 13:00	Richard Blythe University of Edinburgh Informal discussion: An overview of exclusion processes I	Discussion Room

Monday 20th March 2006
14:15 to 16:00	Tom Hanney University of Edinburgh Informal discussion: An overview of exclusion processes II	Discussion Room

Tuesday 21st March 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Lawrence Gray University of Minnesota Particle clustering in a traffic model	Room 1

Wednesday 22nd March 2006
11:00 to 12:00	Tomohiro Sasamoto Chiba University Spatial correlations of the 1D KPZ surface	Room 1

Tuesday 11th April 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Beate Schmittmann Phase transitions or crossovers: Anomalous finite-size effects in low-dimensional driven systems	Room 2

Tuesday 18th April 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Henk van Beijeren Chaos and the physics of non-equilibrium systems	Room 1

Thursday 20th April 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Alan Bray University of Manchester Asymptotics of the Trapping Reaction	Room 1

Tuesday 25th April 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Vladimir Rittenberg Conformal invariance and its breaking in a stochastic model of a fluctuating interface	Room 1

Thursday 27th April 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Mustansir Barma Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Clustering in passive scalar systems	Room 1

Tuesday 2nd May 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Stochastic models in biology and their deterministic analogues	Room 1

Thursday 4th May 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Kirone Mallick Bethe ansatz solution of the asymmetric exclusion process	Room 1

Tuesday 9th May 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Rosemary Harris Fluctuation theorems and the zero-range process	Room 2

Thursday 11th May 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Moving interfaces in complex matter	Room 2

Tuesday 16th May 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Jorge Kurchan PMMH-ESPCI Shear-thickening and the glass transition	Room 1

Thursday 18th May 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Quasi stationary distributions and Fleming Viot processes	Room 1

Tuesday 23rd May 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Michel Droz Pattern formation in nonequilibrium systems: the Liesegang case	Room 1

Thursday 25th May 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Multiclass invariant measures for TASEP and multitype queuing systems	Room 1

Tuesday 30th May 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Leticia Cugliandolo A sigma model approach to glassy dynamics	Room 1

Wednesday 31st May 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Phase transitions and mesoscopic structures in systems with long range interactions	Room 1

Thursday 1st June 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Royce Zia A possible classification for nonequilibrium steady states	Room 1

Friday 2nd June 2006
11:00 to 12:00	Statistical mechanics: Historical overview and current issues	Room 1

Monday 5th June 2006
12:30 to 16:00	Informal discussions	Discussion Room

Tuesday 6th June 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Sidney Redner Boston University Social balance on networks: The dynamics of friendship and hatred	Room 1

Thursday 8th June 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Silvio Franz Dynamical and mosaic lengths in a model glass	Room 1

Friday 9th June 2006
11:00 to 12:00	Sidney Redner Boston University Informal discussions	Room 1

Tuesday 13th June 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Eugene Speer Point processes with specified correlation functions	Room 1

Thursday 15th June 2006
14:15 to 15:15	Maury Bramson University of Minnesota Exclusion processes in one and higher dimensions	Room 1

Principles of the dynamics of non-equilibrium systems

Organisers

Martin Evans University of Edinburgh
Silvio Franz
Claude Godreche
David Mukamel

Speakers

Mustansir Barma Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Ludovic Berthier
Richard Blythe University of Edinburgh
Maury Bramson University of Minnesota
Alan Bray University of Manchester
Sergio Ciliberto Queensland University of Technology
Ezechiel Cohen Rockefeller University
Federico Corberi
Leticia Cugliandolo
David Dean Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
Michel Droz
Denis Evans Australian National University
Silvio Franz
Juan Garrahan University of Nottingham
Lawrence Gray University of Minnesota
Stefan Grosskinsky University of Cambridge
Tom Hanney University of Edinburgh
Rosemary Harris
Kavita Jain
Des Johnston Heriot-Watt University
Yariv Kafri
Joachim Krug University of Cologne
Jorge Kurchan PMMH-ESPCI
Kirone Mallick
David Mukamel
Vladislav Popkov University of Cologne
Attila Rakos
Sidney Redner Boston University
Vladimir Rittenberg
Ludger Santen
Tomohiro Sasamoto Chiba University
Beate Schmittmann
Eugene Speer
Jeremie Unterberger
Henk van Beijeren
Royce Zia

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Principles of the dynamics of non-equilibrium systems

Programme theme

Preprints

Supersymmetric extensions of Schrodinger-invariance

Local scale-invariances in the bosonic contact and pair-contact processes

A possible classification of nonequilibrium steady states

Driven diffusive systems with disorder

On the identification of quasiprimary scaling operators in local scale-invariance

Interaction driven real-space condensation

A stochastic model for hyphal growth

Hydrodynamics of the zero-range process in the condensation regime

Dynamical scaling for probe particles in a driven fluid

Loop dynamics in DNA denaturation

Workshops

Relaxational dynamics of macroscopic systems

Nonequilibrium dynamics of interacting particle systems

First-passage and extreme value problems in random processes

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Principles of the dynamics of non-equilibrium systems

Programme theme

Preprints

Supersymmetric extensions of Schrodinger-invariance

Local scale-invariances in the bosonic contact and pair-contact processes

A possible classification of nonequilibrium steady states

Driven diffusive systems with disorder

On the identification of quasiprimary scaling operators in local scale-invariance

Interaction driven real-space condensation

A stochastic model for hyphal growth

Hydrodynamics of the zero-range process in the condensation regime

Dynamical scaling for probe particles in a driven fluid

Loop dynamics in DNA denaturation

Workshops

Relaxational dynamics of macroscopic systems

Nonequilibrium dynamics of interacting particle systems

First-passage and extreme value problems in random processes

Seminars

Organisers

Speakers

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