Program
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May 5 (Monday)
8:50-9:00 Opening Remarks
9:00-9:35 Manuel Morillo (Spain) Evaluation of Stochastic Resonance Quantifiers and Comparison with Linear Response Theory Prediction
9:40-10:15 Stefania Residori (France) Light-driven reorientation of dye-doped liquid crystals : the role of dyes as Brownian motors
10:20-10:55 Lutz Schimansky-Geier (Germany) Global Oscillations of Coupled Non-Markovian Elements
Coffee Break
11:15-11:50 Mark A. Pustovoit (Russia) Noise-Induced Hypersensitivity in Simple Model Systems
11:55-12:30 Ioana Bena (Switzerland) Dichotomous Markov Noise: New Exact Results
12:35-13:10 Ralf Eichhorn (Germany) Paradoxical Motion of a Single Brownian Particle: Absolute Negative Mobility
Lunch
14:45-15:45 Round Table Discussion I.
Coffee Break
16:15-17:00 Round Table Discussion II.
May 6 (Tuesday)
9:00-9:35 Grégoire Nicolis (Belgium) Transitions Across a Barrier Induced by Deterministic Forcing
9:40-10:15 Arkady Pikovsky (Germany) Dynamics of Noisy Systems with Time Delay
10:20-10:55 Peter Talkner (Germany) First Passage Times in Time-Dependent Systems
Coffee Break
11:20-11:55 Peter Reimann (Germany) Diffusion on Tilted Periodic Potentials: Enhancement, Universality,and Scaling
12:00-12:35 Fabio Marchesoni (Italy) Biologically Inspired Devices for Controlling the Motion of Flux-Quanta
Lunch
14:30-15:05 Johan Paulsson (USA) Sensitivity and Noise in Intracellular Systems
15:10-15:45 Dilip K. Kondepudi (USA) Sensitivity of Chemical System to Chiral Interactions
Coffee Break (Picture Taking)
16:15-16:50 Chris Jarzynski (USA) Thermal Fluctuations of Systems Driven Far From Equilibrium
16:55-17:30 Harald Posch (Austria) Large-System Phase-Space Dimensionality Loss in Stationary Nonequilibrium Systems
May 7 (Wednesday)
9:00-9:35 Michel Droz (Switzerland) 1/f Noise and Extreme Value Statistics
9:40-10:15 Katja Lindenberg (USA) Noise-Driven Mechanism for Pattern Formation
10:20-10:55 Michel Peyrard (France) Controlling the Thermal Flow and Modeling Turbulence in One Dimension: Two Applications of a driven Nonlinear Lattice
Coffee Break
11:30-12:05 Dmitri G. Luchinskii (UK) Role of Fluctuations in Bayesian Inference of Complex Dynamical Systems: Noise Amplifies the Information
12:05-12:30 Closing Remarks