Henri Orland

Professor

Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA Saclay, France 

Professor Henri Orland will give three blackboard lectures on the basic formalism and recent developments in the statistical mechanics of equilibrium and nonequilibrium stochastic processes with applications to macromolecules. Each lecture will last for about two hours. The lectures will be accessible to advanced level graduate students and postdocs in theoretical physics and related disciplines.

 

Monday, 12 March, 16:00-18:00

Lecture 1: Basic Formalism

- Langevin equation - Brownian dynamics

- Fokker-Planck equation

- Quantum Mechanics analogy: the Schroedinger approach

- The discrete case: the Master equation

- Kinetic Monte Carlo

Wednesday, 14 March, 16:00-18:00

Lecture 2: Barrier Crossing

- Kramers formula

- Path integral representation

- The semi-classical limit: dominant paths

- Transition paths

- Bridge equations: continuous and discrete case

- Some examples

Thursday, 22 March, 16:00-18:00

Lecture 3: Non-equilibrium work relations

- Jarzynski theorem: Hamiltonian and Diffusive case

- Crooks relation

- Relation to supersymmetry

- Examples of applications

 Date&Time: 16:00-18:00, 12, 14 and 22 March, 2012
 Location: 606 Conference Room