Complex Driven Systems

Hahn Hall North Wing seen from the Duck Pond

Schedule of Events

Sessions I and II will be held in ICTAS Building, Room 310. All other sessions will be held in Hahn Hall-North Wing, Room 130.

Session I
8:30 a.m. - 8:40 a.m.	Welcome and opening remarks
8:40 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.	Roop Mahajan (Virginia Tech) Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science and Complex Driven Systems
9:10 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.	Yariv Kafri (Technion, Haifa, Israel) Target location on DNA [PDF]
9:40 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.	Kenneth Wong (Virginia Tech) Imaging study of sleep

10:10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Coffee Break

Session II
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.	Carla Finkielstein (Virginia Tech) When physics meets biology, death results
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	Tom Chou (Univ. of California, Los Angeles) Stochastic inverse problems [PDF]
11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.	Adi Constantinescu (West Virginia University) Cluster growth driven by long-range de-wetting interactions acting across thin films
11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Ben Vollmayr-Lee (Bucknell University) Coarsening with an asymmetric mobility
12:00 p.m. - 12:15 p.m.	Jeff Olafsen (Baylor University) A non-equilibrium system for the study of polymer-like folding in 2D via experiment and simulation
12:15 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Stephen Teitsworth (Duke University) Scaling behavior of current switching times in semiconductor superlattices driven by shot noise

12:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

Lunch Break

Session III
2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.	Kirone Mallick (Saclay, France) Flucuation relations for molecular motors
3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.	Udo Seifert (Universität Stuttgart, Germany) Stochastic thermodynamics [PDF]
3:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.	Christopher Jarzynski (Univ. of Maryland) Modeling Maxwell's demon: work, information, and the second law of thermodynamics
4:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.	Mehran Kardar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Thymic selection of T-cell receptors as an extreme value problem

4:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Coffee Break

5:15 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.

Poster Session

Session IV
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.	Erwin Frey (Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München, Germany) Bacterial games
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.	David R. Nelson (Harvard University) Voters, stepping stones, and genetic demixing in microorganisms
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	Per Arne Rikvold (Florida State University) Structure of biological communities generated by models of biological macroevolution

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Coffee Break

Session V
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.	David Adams (University of Michigan) Rare events in systems far from equillibrium
11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.	Chris Brackley (University of Aberdeen, UK) Limited ressources in a driven diffusion model
11:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	Jiajia Dong (Hamline University) A reliable and simple method for estimating currents in Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process (TASEP) with inhomogeneous hopping rates
11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.	Jon Cook (Washington and Lee University) A model for competition in a cell
11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Jens Karschau (University of Aberdeen, UK) Random origin placement in DNA replication
12:00 p.m. - 12:15 p.m.	Daniel ben-Avraham (Clarkson University) Realm of validity of the fluctuation theorem
12:15 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Carolyne Van Vliet (University of Miami) Microscopic and mesoscopic master equation for non-stationary quantum-statistical Markov processes and Jarzynski's work-free energy relation: a historical perspective

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch Break

Session VI
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.	Zoltan Toroczkai (University of Notre Dame) NP-completeness as analog chaos
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Yosi Avron (Technion, Haifa, Israel) Swimming in curved space: Baron Munchhausen and the cat
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	Ya Liu (Lehigh University) Kinetics of models of protein self-assemblys

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Coffee Break

Session VII
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.	Hans Werner Diehl (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany) Fluctuation-induced forces
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Leah B. Shaw (College of William and Mary) Epidemic spread and control in complex adaptive networks
5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.	Herbert Spohn (Technische Universität München, Germany) Universality of the one-dimensional KPZ equation
5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.	Edward F. Redish (Univ. of Maryland) When biology students meets physics, the simple becomes complex: or is it vice versa?

7:00 p.m. - ?

Banquet at Holiday Inn

Session VIII
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.	Andrew D. Rutenberg (Dalhousie University, Canada) Making monodisperse domains by proteolytic control of the coarsening instability
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.	Sid Redner (Boston University) Facilitated exclusion [PDF]
9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.	Richard Bausch (Universität Düsseldorf, Germany) Solidification of binary alloys in the rapid-growth regime [PPT]
9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	Stefan Boettcher (Emory University) Aging in dense colloids as diffusion in the logarithm of time [PDF]

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Coffee Break

Session IX
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.	Evgeniy Khain (Oakland University) Clustering of brain tumor cells: theory and experiment
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.	Tao Jia (Virginia Tech) Intrinsic noise in stochastic models of gene expression with molecular memory and bursting
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	Henk Hilhorst (Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France) Rare events in Voronoi tessellations [PDF]
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Julia M. Yeomans (Oxford University, UK) Scattering at low Reynolds numbers

12:00 p.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Closing remarks