Venice meeting on
Fluctuations in small complex systems II
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
Palazzo Franchetti, Venezia
9th to 13th October 2014
PROGRAMME
Opening remarks:
8:50 – 9:00
Gian Antonio Danieli President Istituto Veneto Scienze, Lettere, Arti
Attilio Stella University of Padova and I.N.F.N. Padova
Ralf Metzler U Potsdam & Tampere UT
17:30 – 18:00
Joseph Klafter
TBA
Carlos Mejia-Monasterio
TBA
Carsten Beta
Eukaryotic chemotaxis – a statistical view
Coffee Break
Enrico Carlon
Anomalous dynamics of DNA hairpin folding
Jae-Hyung Jeon
Lateral anomalous diffusion in lipid bilayers
Juergen Horbach
Anomalous transport in confined glass-forming systems under shear
Lunch
Katja Lindenberg
Synchronization of coupled on-off units: Effects of fluctuations due
to finite numbers
Luca Monticelli
Hydrophobic compounds affect the lateral organization of biological
model membranes
Markus Deserno
Effective Field Theory approach towards fluid surface mediated
interactions between particles
Coffe Break
Haim Diamant
Dynamic pair correlations in a complex fluid at intermediate
distances
Bernard Derrida
Universal current fluctuations in non equilibrium systems
Poster Presentations
18:00 – 19:00
Welcome party
09:00 – 09:30
09:30 – 10:00
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10:30 – 11:00
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11:30 – 12:00
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12:30 – 14:30
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17:00 – 17:30
8 October 2014
Venice meeting on
Fluctuations in small complex systems II
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
Palazzo Franchetti, Venezia
9th to 13th October 2014
PROGRAMME
09:00 – 09:30
09:30 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 10:50
10:50 – 11:20
11:20 – 11:50
11:50 – 12:20
12:20 – 13:00
Peter Hänggi
Anomolaus Heat Diffusion
Pieter Rein ten Wolde
Fundamental Limits to Cellular Sensing
Matthias Weiss
Macromolecular Crowding: Same same but different
Coffee Break
Yael Roichman
Collective excitations of hydrodynamically coupled driven colloidal
particles
Somendra Bhattacharjee
A thermodynamic approach for DNA
Julia Yeomans
Lyotropic Active Nematics
Lunch
Excursion
Excursion
19:30
Social dinner (Torcello )
8 October 2014
Venice meeting on
Fluctuations in small complex systems II
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
Palazzo Franchetti, Venezia
9th to 13th October 2014
PROGRAMME
09:00 – 09:30
09:30 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:30
12:30 – 14:30
14:30 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:00
16:00 – 16:30
16:30 – 17:00
17:00 – 17:30
17:30 – 18:00
Udo Seifert
Stochastic thermodynamics of information processing: From principles
to cellular sensing
Alberto Imparato
Energy Transfer in molecular devices
Massimiliano Esposito
Efficiency fluctuations in small machines
Coffee Break
Lene Oddershede
Single molecule analysis of naturally supercoiled DNA reveals that
supercoiling enhances juxtaposition dynamics and sharpens the
epigenetic lambda switch
Doris Heinrich
Fluctuations in living cell dynamics
Raphael Voituriez
First-passage times of Markovian and non Markovian random walks in
confinement
Lunch
Yuval Garini
Nuclear genome organization explorer by dynamics studies in live cells
Jesus Perez-Gil
Coupled environmental and structural/functional fluctuations in the
pulmonary surfactant system
Felix Ritort
From free energy measurements to free energy inference in small
systems
Coffee Break
Eli Barkai
Infinite densities in strong anomalous diffusion
Ana-Suncana Smith
Role of fluctuations on the stability of macromolecular clusters in
adherent membranes
Poster presentations
8 October 2014
Venice meeting on
Fluctuations in small complex systems II
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
Palazzo Franchetti, Venezia
9th to 13th October 2014
PROGRAMME
09:00 – 09:30
09:30 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:30
12:30 – 14:30
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15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:00
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16:30 – 17:00
17:00 – 17:30
17:30 – 18:00
18:00 – 18:10
David Mukamel
Mixed order phase transitions
Fulvio Baldovin
Finite-size scaling in unbiased translocation dynamics
Olivier Bénichou
Geometry-induced superdiffusion in driven crowded systems
Coffee Break
Antonio Trovato
Improved prediction of protein complex binding affinities: the role of
entropic fluctuations
Marco Laurati
Spatially resolved measurements of complex tracer dynamics in systems
out of equilibrium
Giovanni Dietler
Supercoiling Induced Denaturation Bubbles in DNA: an Atomic Force
Microscopy Study with circular DNA
Lunch
Ignacio Pagonabarraga
Enviromentally induced, emergent dynamics of Brownian ratchets. From
confinement to hydrodynamic speed up
Samuel Sanchez
TBA
Carlo Vanderzande
Statistics and dynamics of polymers subjected to a force
Coffee Break
Jörg Langowski
Transport in live cells mapped by FCS in light sheet microscopy
Klaus Kroy
Non-isothermal Brownian motion
Holger Stark
Dynamic patterns of active Brownian particles: Role of hydrodynamics
and driving field
Closing remarks
8 October 2014