Dynamical Systems and Statistical Physics Seminar

Spring Term 2009

Time:  Tuesday at 4pm; tea is available from 3.15pm in the adjacent common room.
Location:  Room 103, first floor of the Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizer: Wolfram Just (w.just@qmul.ac.uk)

Date	Speaker	Title
06 Jan	James Elliott (Cambridge)	Wang-Landau simulations of polymer adsorption in various geometries
13 Jan	Gernot Akemann (Brunel)	Random Matrix Theory and Superstatistics
20 Jan	James Springham (Leeds)	Ergodic properties of linked-twist maps
27 Jan	Hartmut Erzgräber (Exeter)	Modelling and nonlinear dynamics of coupled lasers
30 Jan joint with CSG	Stu Whittington (Toronto)	Counting knotted, unknotted and almost unknotted embeddings of graphs in lattices
03 Feb	Vassili Gelfreich (Warwick)	Fermi acceleration in non-autonomous billiards
10 Feb	Robert Jack (Bath)	Space-time thermodynamics and large deviation functions: a perspective on the glass transition
12 Feb joint with SMSG	Gerhard Keller (Erlangen)	Rare events, escape rates and quasistationarity: some exact formulae
17 Feb	Oliver Jenkinson (Queen Mary)	How to optimize long term happiness? - Ergodic optimization of utility functions
24 Feb	Gregor Tanner (Nottingham)	Wave transport in complex structures - a dynamical approach
03 Mar	Peter McOwan (Queen Mary)	Adventures in mathematical biology
10 Mar	Jeroen Lamb (Imperial)	Homoclinic bifurcation with symmetry
17 Mar	Juan P. Garrahan (Nottingham)	Molecular random tilings
24 Mar	Ray Streater (Kings)	Entropy increase in a model of quantum spin systems