The doctoral school "COMPLEX" from F.R.S.-FNRS organizes

Winter School:

"Understanding and exploiting complexity at the nanoscale"

(January 20-22, 2010)

[Register before January 14] [PDF announcement]

Organizers:

Massimiliano Esposito and Pierre Gaspard

Location:

Solvay Room on the 5th floor of the NO building on Campus Plaine (see map) at the Free University of Brussels (Belgium).

Invited speakers:

Sergio Ciliberto : Measuring nonequilibrium fluctuations (3h) [abstract, lectures]

Pierre Gaspard : Out-of-equilibrium nanosystems: principles and applications (1h) [abstract]

Hugo Touchette : Large deviation theory in statistical mechanics (3h) [abstract,lectures]

Christian Maes : Fluctuation-response relations out-of-equilibrium (1h) [abstract]

Yuli V. Nazavov : Electron counting statistics (3h) [abstract, lecture1, lecture2, lecture3]

Luca Peliti : Population genetics and evolutionary dynamics (3h) [abstract, lecture1, lecture2, lecture3, references]

Christian Van den Broeck : What we can learn from confronting micro-reversibility with macro-irreversibility (1h) [abstract]

Francesco Zamponi : Statistical physics of spin glasses (3h) [abstract+notes]

Program:

Wednesday 20

9:30-10:30     Gaspard
10:30-11:30     Van den Broeck
Coffee Break
11:50-12:50     Ciliberto
Lunch
14:30-15:30   Maes
15:30-16:30     Zamponi
Coffee Break
16:50-17:50     Ciliberto

Thursday 21

9:30-10:30       Zamponi
10:30-11:30     Peliti
Coffee Break
11:50-12:50     Touchette
Lunch
14:30-15:30     Zamponi
15:30-16:30     Nazarov
Coffee Break
16:50-17:50     Ciliberto

Friday 22

9:30-10:30       Nazarov
10:30-11:30     Peliti
Coffee Break
11:50-12:50     Touchette
Lunch
14:30-15:30     Nazarov
15:30-16:30     Peliti
Coffee Break
16:50-17:50     Touchette

Registration is free but obligatory (before January 14):

Send an empty email to mesposit@ulb.ac.be with the title: "yes, your full name, your institution".

Additional information:

For participants:

Lunch is at charge of the participants, but tables will be reserved at the cafeteria.

For those who don't live close to Brussels, we can book an Hotel for you at 100 euros/night (at your own expenses).

For speakers:

Lunch will be provided at the "Union des anciens" on campus.

Map of Brussels and campus with key places marked.

Hotel Argus where you are going to stay.

Funding:

ESF: Exploring the Physics of Small Devices

Last update: January 28, 2010.