Sitges Conference - XXIV Sitges Conference

XXIV Sitges Conference, Barcelona, 9-11 June 2014

New Horizons in Statistical Physics and its Applications

Scope

In this occasion the Sitges Conference focused on New Horizons in Statistical Physics and its Applications. Sessions in the meeting included topics such as fundamentals of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, fluctuations in small-scale systems, properties of graphene, anomalous transport, aggregation and self-assembly of structures, fluid dynamics, biological systems, heat radiation at the nanoscale, stochasticity in materials and in granular and active matter, mechanisms of generation and conversion of energy, modeling of non-linear noisy systems, and more. With the organization of this Conference we intended to stimulate discussions between researchers coming from different areas on the vast range of applications of statistical physics, to favor the interchange and cross-fertilization of ideas, and to deepen the understanding of the open questions in the field.

Plenary Speakers

D. Bedeaux (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). "Kirkwood-Buff integrals for finite volumes"

A. Bittner (CIC nanoGUNE). "Electron microscopy of liquids on the nanoscale"

L. Bonilla (University Carlos III de Madrid). "Spontaneous chaos, random number generators and electron transport in multi-quantum wells at room temperature"

F. Bresme (Imperial College London). "Computer simulation studies of heat conduction in water: bulk and interfaces"

J. Brey (Universidad de Sevilla). "Memory effects in the relaxation of a confined granular fluid"

P.-O. Chapuis (Centre d'Energetique et de Thermique de Lyon). "Transition regimes between classical thermal radiation and heat conduction"

L. Dagdug (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana). "Diffusion in narrow asymmetric channels: the trigger and the boost"

F. F. De-Miguel (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). "Biophysics of the release of chemical transmitters by the cell body of neurons"

A. Diaz-Guilera (University of Barcelona). "Statistical Physics and Complex Networks"

A. Gadomski (University of Technology and Life Sciences, Bydgoszcz). "Semi-quantitative diffusion type models serving for elucidation of volume expansion in model sol-gel type systems"

T. Geisel (MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization and University of Göttingen)

M. Goethe (University of Barcelona). "Employing vibrational entropy for protein structure predictions"

Z.J. Grzywna (Silesian University of Technology). "Dipole transport through nanochannels in the presence of electric and magnetic fields"

E. Gudowska-Nowak (Jagiellonian University). "Energy flows, work distribution and fluctuation-dissipation relations for system driven by Lévy noises"

F. Guinea (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC). "Graphene as a membrane. Elastic properties of graphene, anharmonicity, and dependence on the environment"

P. Hänggi (University of Augsburg). "On the use and abuse of THERMODYNAMIC entropy"

R. Hidalgo (Universidad de Granada). "Surface activity and collective behaviour of Janus particles at liquid interfaces"

S. Kjelstrup (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). "Surface activities and reaction enthalpy from the small system method"

G. J. M. Koper (Delft University of Technology). "Thermodynamics of Dissipative Self-Assembly"

M. Mareschal (Zaragoza Scientific Centre for Advanced Modelling). "Shocks in fluids: is there a theory?"

M. Mayorga (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México). "Collective phenomena in nanofluids, metafluids y meta materials"

C. Miguel (University of Barcelona). "Deformation and failure of curved nanocrystalline shells"

F. Oliveira (Universidade de Brasília). "Stability Dynamics in Pattern formation for a nonlocal population dynamics"

G. Platero (ICMM, CSIC). "Superexchange transport and blockade in triple quantum dots"

I. Pagonabarraga (University of Barcelona). "Emergent structures in the collective motion of molecular motors"

A. Pérez-Madrid (University of Barcelona). "A thermokinetic approach to radiative transfer at the nanoscale"

L. Romero-Salazar (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México). "Surveying irreversibility in Mexican Portland Cement mortars"

M. J. Ruiz Montero (Universidad de Sevilla). "Uniform self-diffusion in a granular gas"

J.-M. Simon (Université de Bourgogne). "Comparison of the sticking coefficients of different gaseous molecules on silicalite-1 by molecular dynamics simulations"

P. Tarazona (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid). "Protein filaments on lipid bilayers: Statistical physics models for biological systems and the other way round"

C. Van den Broeck (University of Hasselt). "The unlikely Carnot efficiency"

J. M. Vilar (University of the Basque Country)

E. Wegrowe (École Polytechnique). "Magnetization dynamics and spin transport in the light of Onsager reciprocity relations"

Posters

S. Akkaya Deviren, E. Albayrak. "Dynamic phase transitions in the kinetic spin-1 Blume-Capel model on the Bethe lattice"

S. Akkaya Deviren, B. Deviren. "The relationship between carbon dioxide emission and economic growth: Hierarchical structure methods"

F. Alarcón, I. Pagonabarraga. "Emerging structures in spherical microswimmers"

A. Alcaraz, M. Queralt-Martı́n, C. Verdiá-Báguena, V.M. Aguilella, S. Mafé. "Thermodynamic analysis of the pH sensing mechanism in a protein nanopore: evidence for entropy-enthalpy compensation"

F. Barbosa, A. L. A. Penna, R. M. S. Ferreira, K. Lopes, F. A. Oliveira. "Pattern-non-pattern transition for a nonlocal population dynamics"

V. Bianco, G. Franzese. "How hydration water affects the stability of proteins"

J. Codina, I. Pagonabarraga. "Activity induced interactions in bacterial bath"

B. Deviren, M. Keskin. "Dynamic magnetic hysteresis behavior and dynamic phase transition in the spin-1 Blume-Capel model under a time-dependent oscillating external field"

R. M. S. Ferreira, L. C. Lapas, F. A. Oliveira. "Analytical results for anomalous relaxation in diffusion"

I. Latella, A. Pérez-Madrid, L. C. Lapas, J. M. Rubi. "Near-field thermodynamics and nanoscale energy harvesting"

D. Levis. "Emergent structures and effective thermodynamics in systems of self-propelled particles"

O. Vilanova, G. Franzese. "Crystal polymorphism and hexatic phase in a many-body model for a water monolayer"

Program

program_sitgesXXIV.pdf

The book of abstracts and detailed program of the conference can be downloaded here.

Organizing Committee

G. Franzese (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
I. Latella (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
D. Reguera (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
J. M. Rubi (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)

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