Rare Events: 2009-2010
Organizers: Ravin Bhatt and Roberto Car
Co-sponsored by The D. E. Shaw Group.
Understanding rare events is crucial in modeling how complex many body systems organize, leading to diverse phenomena such as crystal nucleation and growth, chemical reactions in solution, self-assembly of macromolecules, protein folding and dynamics of disordered systems. Related phenomena occur in quantum field theory and cosmological phase transitions that may set the large-scale structure of the universe. Unifying theoretical concepts in this area require effective coarse-grained descriptions and non-equilibrium statistical mechanical methodologies. This program will bring together key people working in this area aiming at the development of new theoretical concepts and computational tools.
NEXT Symposium in this Series:
Complex energy landscapes and long time dynamics
12-13 November 2009
Nucleation phenomena in materials, relaxation processes in glasses, and large-scale conformational changes in macromolecules involve collective motions of many particles that occur rarely on the time scale of the atomic dynamics. Understanding and predicting these processes poses great theoretical challenges. This workshop intends to provide an overview of the field and stimulate the discussion on the guiding principles that govern this large class of phenomena.
Confirmed speakers include:Christoph Dellago(University of Vienna),
Weinan E (Princeton), Hannes Jonsson (University of Iceland and Brown University), Randall Kamien (UPenn), Yannis Kevrekidis (Princeton), David P. Landau (University of Georgia), Michele Parrinello* (ETHZ-Lugano Center), Bernhard Trout (MIT), Haw Yang (Princeton) and Stefano Piana-Agostinetti (DE Shaw) *M. Parinello will give Joint Physics/PCTS Colloquium on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009 at 4:30 pm in Jadwin A-10
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REGISTRATION for November 12-13
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Future Symposia include:
Rare Events in Biology
February 3-4, 2010
PROGRAM for February 3-4
May Symposium (TBA)
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Past Symposia in the Series:
Rare Fluctuations and Large Disorder in Quantum Systems COMPLETED: September 24-5, 2009
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