Fall colors decorate the VT campus: trees between Pamplin and Derring Halls near the physics building

Invited Speakers

• David Adams (University of Michigan)
  - Rare events in systems far from equillibrium
• Yosi Avron (Technion, Haifa, Israel)
  - Swimming in curved space: Baron von Munchhausen and the cat
• Tom Chou (University of California, Los Angeles)
  - Stochastic inverse problems
• Hans Werner Diehl (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
  - Fluctuation-induced forces
• Carla Finkielstein (Virginia Tech)
  - When physics meets biology, death results
• Erwin Frey (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
  - Bacterial games
• Henk Hilhorst (Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France)
  - Rare events in Voronoi tessellations
• Christopher Jarzynski (University of Maryland)
  - Modeling Maxwell's demon: work, information, and the second law of thermodynamics
• Mehran Kardar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  - Thymic selection of T-cell receptors as an extreme value problem
• Yariv Kafri (Technion, Haifa, Israel)
  - Target location on DNA
• Ya Liu (Lehigh University)
  - Kinetics of models of protein self-assembly
• Roop Mahajan (Virginia Tech)
  - Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science and Complex Driven Systems
• Kirone Mallick (Saclay, France)
  - Fluctuation relations for molecular motors
• David R. Nelson (Harvard University)
  - Voters, stepping stones, and genetic demixing in microorganisms
• Edward F. Redish (University of Maryland)
  - When biology students meets physics, the simple becomes complex: or is it vice versa?
• Sid Redner (Boston University)
  - Facilitated exclusion
• Per Arne Rikvold (Florida State University)
  - Structure of biological communities generated by models of biological macroevolution
• Andrew D. Rutenberg (Dalhousie University, Canada)
  - Making monodisperse domains by proteolytic control of the coarsening instability
• Udo Seifert (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)
  - Stochastic thermodynamics
• Leah B. Shaw (College of William and Mary)
  - Epidemic spread and control in complex adaptive networks
• Herbert Spohn (Technische Universität München, Germany)
  - Universality of the one-dimensional KPZ equation
• Zoltan Toroczkai (University of Notre Dame)
  - NP-completeness as analog chaos
• Kenneth Wong (Virginia Tech)
  - Imaging study of sleep
• Julia M. Yeomans (Oxford University, UK)
  - Scattering at low Reynolds numbers