Arrival times in stochastic assembly

Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting

Arrival times in stochastic assembly

  • Event time: 11:00am
  • Event date: 28th October 2015
  • Speaker: Juraj Szavits Nossan (Formerly School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
  • Location: Room 2511,

Event details

Imagine assembling a product that has to go through N steps in order to be completed. Now consider a process in which (i) each step has a processing and degradation rate that is proportional to the number of products at that step and (ii) new products are initiated at a constant rate. I will compute the rate at which the products are completed and discuss examples such as nucleated polymerization to which this process is relevan