Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting archive

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Date	Title	Speaker(s)
2024
28 May 2024	Transgenerational inheritance of gene silencing: a model of biological memory R Additional Resources are available for this event	Ben Simons (University of Cambridge)
21 May 2024	Effervescence in a binary mixture with nonlinear non-reciprocal interactions R Additional Resources are available for this event	Suropriya Saha (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen)
14 May 2024	The nature of the ordered state of spin glasses R Additional Resources are available for this event	Mike Moore (University of Manchester)
07 May 2024	Yielding is an absorbing phase transition with vanishing critical fluctuations R Additional Resources are available for this event	Kirsten Martens (Université Grenoble Alpes)
30 Apr 2024	Dynamic condensates in aggregation processes R Additional Resources are available for this event	Mustansir Barma ( Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad)
23 Apr 2024	Collective Actuation in Active Solids R Additional Resources are available for this event	Olivier Dauchot (ESPCI, Paris)
16 Apr 2024	Thermodynamic cost for an (almost) periodic sequence of events R Additional Resources are available for this event	Patrick Pietzonka
26 Mar 2024	Machine learning approach to determine the minimum number of variables to describe observed space-time chaos R Additional Resources are available for this event	Kazumasa Takeuchi (University of Tokyo)
19 Mar 2024	Statistical Physics of Ecosystems R Additional Resources are available for this event	Amos Maritan (University of Padua)
12 Mar 2024	Current fluctuations in finite-sized passive and active systems R Additional Resources are available for this event	Kabir Ramola (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad)
05 Mar 2024	Finite-time quench dynamics in classical systems R Additional Resources are available for this event	Kavita Jain (JNCASR, Bangalore)
27 Feb 2024	Universality of coupled stochastic Burgers equations with degenerate flux Jacobian R Additional Resources are available for this event	Herbert Spohn (Technical University of Munich)
13 Feb 2024	Ranking constituents in complex systems from local and aggregate information R Additional Resources are available for this event	Silvia Bartolucci (University College London)
06 Feb 2024	Characterising phase transitions through virtual walks and more R Additional Resources are available for this event	Parongama Sen (University of Calcutta)
30 Jan 2024	Self-organization of primitive metabolic cycles and shape-shifting complexes due to non-reciprocal interactions	Ramin Golestanian (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation, Goettingen)
16 Jan 2024	On time-reversal symmetry and dissipation in dynamics with memory R Additional Resources are available for this event	Aljaz Godec (Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen)
09 Jan 2024	Extreme spontaneous deformations of active crystals R Additional Resources are available for this event	Hugues Chaté (CEA-Saclay, Paris)
2023
05 Dec 2023	Rough fitness landscapes: from protein evolution to protein design R Additional Resources are available for this event	Francesco Zamponi (Sapienza Università di Roma)
28 Nov 2023	Inaugural Elizabeth Gardner Lecture - Emergent collective behaviour and complexity R Additional Resources are available for this event	Giorgio Parisi (University of Rome)
21 Nov 2023	Plant Tropisms as a Window on Plant Computational Processes R Additional Resources are available for this event	Yasmine Meroz (Tel Aviv University)
14 Nov 2023	Active Caustics R Additional Resources are available for this event	Sriram Ramaswamy (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
07 Nov 2023	Exact solution for macroscopic fluctuation theory for 1D symmetric exclusion process R Additional Resources are available for this event	Tomohiro Sasamoto (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
31 Oct 2023	Liquid Hopfield model: an analytically tractable model for retrieval in heterogeneous liquid mixtures R Additional Resources are available for this event	Izaak Neri (King's College, London)
24 Oct 2023	Dynamics of avalanches in sheared and active granular systems R Additional Resources are available for this event	Lisa Manning (Syracuse University, New York)
17 Oct 2023	Starting over without forgetting the past can benefit your search R Additional Resources are available for this event	Yael Roichman (Tel Aviv University)
04 Jul 2023	Flow Equation Methods for Many-Body Localization and Beyond R Additional Resources are available for this event	Steven J Thomson (Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems, Freie Universität Berlin)
27 Jun 2023	Non reciprocal phase transitions R Additional Resources are available for this event	Vincenzo Vitelli (University of Chicago)
20 Jun 2023	Random searches with finite-lived targets R Additional Resources are available for this event	Denis Boyer (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
13 Jun 2023	The active rheology of gastrulation R Additional Resources are available for this event	Silke Henkes (Leiden University)
06 Jun 2023	Nonequilibrium thermodynamic limits to fluctuations and response R Additional Resources are available for this event	Jordan Horowitz (University of Michigan)
30 May 2023	(Mean-Field) Disorder Dynamics in Driven Amorphous Materials R Additional Resources are available for this event	Elisabeth Agoritsas (University of Geneva)
23 May 2023	Noise in Bacterial Chemotaxis R Additional Resources are available for this event	Sakuntala Chatterjee (S.N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences)
16 May 2023	Resetting: state of the art and new developments R Additional Resources are available for this event	Arnab Pal (Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai)
09 May 2023	Principles of cellular control of phase separation R Additional Resources are available for this event	David Zwicker (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen)
02 May 2023	Ergodicity and the emergence of the hydrodynamic scale in quantum spin chains R Additional Resources are available for this event	Benjamin Doyon (King's College London)
25 Apr 2023	Activity-induced interactions and self-assembly in model active matter R Additional Resources are available for this event	Ignacio Pagonabarraga (University of Barcelona)
18 Apr 2023	Optimizing Brownian escape by shaping barriers R Additional Resources are available for this event	Emmanuel Trizac (LPTMS, Université Paris-Saclay)
28 Mar 2023	Machine learning concepts for inverse materials design R Additional Resources are available for this event	Andrea Liu (University of Pennsylvania)
21 Mar 2023	Structure, phase transitions, and message passing in networks R Additional Resources are available for this event	Mark Newman (University of Michigan)
14 Mar 2023	Collective motion and its fragility R Additional Resources are available for this event	Alexandre Solon (Sorbonne Université)
07 Mar 2023	Why are sand deserts not flat? R Additional Resources are available for this event	Klaus Kroy (Leipzig University )
28 Feb 2023	From tissues, to canyon landscapes, to optimal control : a view from high dimension R Additional Resources are available for this event	Pierfrancesco Urbani (Université Paris-Saclay)
14 Feb 2023	Counting equilibria in non-gradient dynamics R Additional Resources are available for this event	Bertrand Lacroix-A-Chez-Toine (King's College London)
07 Feb 2023	How phage and bacteria coexist R Additional Resources are available for this event	Namiko Mitarai (Niels Bohr Institute)
31 Jan 2023	Colloids under time-delayed feedback: single-particle dynamics, collective motion, and relations to active matter R Additional Resources are available for this event	Sabine Klapp (Technische Universität Berlin)
24 Jan 2023	Snapping out Brownian motion and interfacial diffusion R Additional Resources are available for this event	Paul Bressloff (University of Utah)
17 Jan 2023	Exact solution for the Darcy law of yield stress fluids on the Bethe lattice R Additional Resources are available for this event	Alberto Rosso (University Paris-Saclay)
2022
06 Dec 2022	Marginal stability of the generalized random Lotka-Volterra model: logistic growth case and beyond R Additional Resources are available for this event	Ada Altieri (Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Université Paris Cité)
29 Nov 2022	Interacting epidemics R Additional Resources are available for this event	Francesca Colaiori (Institute for Complex Systems, CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Rome)
22 Nov 2022	Interacting hard rigid rotors on a d-dimensional lattice R Additional Resources are available for this event	Deepak Dhar (Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Research and Education, Pune)
15 Nov 2022	Martingales for Physicists R Additional Resources are available for this event	Edgar Roldán (ICTP - The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy)
08 Nov 2022	The dynamics of higher-order networks R Additional Resources are available for this event	Ginestra Bianconi (Queen Mary University London)
01 Nov 2022	Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics meets infinite ergodic theory R Additional Resources are available for this event	Eli Barkai (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
25 Oct 2022	Time-reversal symmetry broken fluctuations of nonequilibrium systems R Additional Resources are available for this event	Sarah Loos (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)
18 Oct 2022	The run-and-tumble particle: from universal properties to nonequilibrium phase transitions R Additional Resources are available for this event	Francesco Mori (University of Oxford)
11 Oct 2022	Large-scale descriptions of densely packed soft particles under drive R Additional Resources are available for this event	Eric Bertin (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique Université Grenoble Alpes)
04 Oct 2022	Thirty milliseconds in the life of a supercooled liquid R Additional Resources are available for this event	Camille Scalliet (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)
27 Sep 2022	The Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection R Additional Resources are available for this event	John Baez (University of California, Riverside)
28 Jun 2022	Thermodynamic constraints on nonequilibrium processes R Additional Resources are available for this event	Gianmaria Falasco (University of Padova)
21 Jun 2022	Complex-tensor theory of simple smectics R Additional Resources are available for this event	Tyler Shendruk
14 Jun 2022	Time-dependent matrix product ansatz for interacting reversible dynamics R Additional Resources are available for this event	Katja Klobas (University of Oxford)
07 Jun 2022	Simulating the polymer-mediated phase separation of model proteins with multiple domains R Additional Resources are available for this event	Chris Brackley
31 May 2022	Learning force fields from stochastic trajectories R Additional Resources are available for this event	Anna Frishman (Physics Department, Technion)
24 May 2022	Field Theory of stochastic particle systems R Additional Resources are available for this event	Gunnar Pruessner (Imperial College, London)
17 May 2022	Condensation transition in large deviations of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and of reset fractional Brownian motion R Additional Resources are available for this event	Naftali Smith (Ecole Normale Superieure and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
10 May 2022	Protein structure and dynamics from a statistical perspective R Additional Resources are available for this event	Antonia Mey (School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh)
03 May 2022	Will large economies be stable? R Additional Resources are available for this event	Jean-Philippe Bouchaud (École Normale Supérieure and Capital Fund Management)
26 Apr 2022	Simplicity in high-dimensional dynamics of ecosystems R Additional Resources are available for this event	Guy Bunin (Physics Department, Technion)
19 Apr 2022	Inspection Paradox Approach to Stochastic Resetting R Additional Resources are available for this event	Shlomi Reuveni (Tel Aviv University)
12 Apr 2022	Stochastic Thermodynamics: cost of precise biochemical oscillations and active heat engines	Andre Cardoso Barato (University of Houston)
05 Apr 2022	Entropy production of non-reciprocal interactions R Additional Resources are available for this event	Rosalba Garcia Millan (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)
29 Mar 2022	Non-Gaussian random matrices predict the stability of feasible Lotka-Volterra communities R Additional Resources are available for this event	Tobias Galla (University of Manchester)
22 Mar 2022	Fluctuations of a swarm of Brownian bees R Additional Resources are available for this event	Baruch Meerson (Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem )
08 Mar 2022	Structured population modeling in demography, cell biology, and immunology R Additional Resources are available for this event	Tom Chou (UCLA)
01 Mar 2022	Self-Organization of Lifelike Behaviors R Additional Resources are available for this event	Jeremy England (Georgia Tech)
22 Feb 2022	Many-Body Localization: integrability, glassiness, and fluctuation-driven transitions R Additional Resources are available for this event	Valentina Ros (CNRS - Université Paris Saclay, Orsay)
15 Feb 2022	Quantum bounds and fluctuation-dissipation relations R Additional Resources are available for this event	Laura Foini (CNRS - Institut de Physique Théorique, Université Paris-Saclay, France)
08 Feb 2022	Multibody effects in active particle systems, and what working in large space dimension teaches us R Additional Resources are available for this event	Frédéric van Wijland (Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Université de Paris.)
01 Feb 2022	From gambling to growing in uncertain environments R Additional Resources are available for this event	David Lacoste (ESPCI, Paris)
25 Jan 2022	The mathematics of active matter R Additional Resources are available for this event	Tanniemola Liverpool (University of Bristol)
18 Jan 2022	Mechanics and geometry of growing tissues R Additional Resources are available for this event	Jean-Francois Joanny (Collège de France, Paris, France.)
11 Jan 2022	Statistical Physics Analysis of Ecosystems R Additional Resources are available for this event	Giulio Biroli (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France )
2021
14 Dec 2021	To reset or not to reset, that is the question! R Additional Resources are available for this event	Somrita Ray (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati)
07 Dec 2021	Disordered collective motion in dense assemblies of persistent particles R Additional Resources are available for this event	Ludovic Berthier (Universite de Montpellier)
30 Nov 2021	Hydrodynamic interactions induce microphase separation in active systems R Additional Resources are available for this event	Alexander Morozov
23 Nov 2021	An unexpected bridge between Black Hole sand Glasses R Additional Resources are available for this event	Jorge Kurchan (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
16 Nov 2021	First-Passage Resetting and its Application to Optimization and to Wealth Sharing R Additional Resources are available for this event	Sidney Redner (Santa Fe Institute)
09 Nov 2021	Statistical physics of learning in neural networks: the importance of data structure R Additional Resources are available for this event	Marc Mézard (École normale supérieure)
02 Nov 2021	Stochastic dynamics of single molecules across phase boundaries R Additional Resources are available for this event	Stefano Bo (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)
26 Oct 2021	Dynamics of Topological Defects in Active Nematics R Additional Resources are available for this event	Cristina Marchetti (UC Santa Barbara)
19 Oct 2021	Competitive growth on a rugged front R Additional Resources are available for this event	Mehran Kardar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
12 Oct 2021	The thermodynamic uncertainty relation R Additional Resources are available for this event	Udo Seifert (II. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Stuttgart)
05 Oct 2021	Are Confluent Cell Layers Extensile or Contractile?	Julia Yeomans (University of Oxford)
28 Sep 2021	Einstein's fluctuation relation and Gibbs states far from equilibrium R Additional Resources are available for this event	Alexandre Lazarescu (UCLouvain)
23 Jun 2021	Gene regulatory networks versus Neural networks and Bipartite Graphs: what we can learn on cellular (re)programming	Alessia Annibale (King's College London)
16 Jun 2021	Dispersion in confined and fluctuating systems	David Dean (University of Bordeaux)
09 Jun 2021	Optimal Work Extraction and the Minimum Description Length Principle	Matteo Marsili (The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics)
02 Jun 2021	Self-Organized Lane Formation in Bidirectional Transport by Molecular Motors	Ludger Santen (University of Saarland)
26 May 2021	Socio-ecology of active matter: two experiments with fish	Tim Rogers (University of Bath)
19 May 2021	Eco-evolutionary dynamics of a fluctuating population in a switching environment	Mauro Mobilia (University of Leeds)
12 May 2021	Collective phenomena in oscillator networks	Antonio Politi (University of Aberdeen)
05 May 2021	RNA Polymerase interactions and elongation rate	Gunter M. Schütz (Institute of Biological Information Processing, Forschungszentrum Jülich )
21 Apr 2021	Population Dynamics in a Changing Environment: Random versus Periodic Switching	Michael Assaf (The Racah Institute of Physics)
14 Apr 2021	Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality in 1D exciton-polariton systems	Leonie Canet (University Grenoble Alpes)
07 Apr 2021	Macroscopic description of confined particles with repulsive interaction in equilibrium	Anupam Kundu (International centre for theoretical sciences, Bangalore)
31 Mar 2021	Phase separation in active systems: field theoretical description	Cesare Nardini ( CEA-Saclay, France)
24 Mar 2021	Non-equilibrium dynamics of exactly solvable cellular automata	Juan P. Garrahan (University of Nottingham )
17 Mar 2021	Informatic versus Thermodynamic Entropy Production in Active Systems	Michael Cates (DAMTP, Cambridge)
10 Mar 2021	Finite-time Landauer principle	Karel Proesmans (University of Luxembourg)
03 Mar 2021	Large Deviations at Level 2.5 for Random Walks in Random Media	Cécile Monthus (CNRS, CEA, Université Paris Saclay)
24 Feb 2021	[Note: starting time 10.30] Biophysical principles underlying chromosome organisation and transcription	Davide Marenduzzo
17 Feb 2021	Simulation of extremely rare ultra-fast non-equilibrium processes close to equilibrium	Alexander Hartmann (Universität Oldenburg, Institut für Physik)
10 Feb 2021	Analysing quantum large deviations using classical (unravelled) stochastic processes	Robert Jack (DAMTP, Cambridge)
03 Feb 2021	Stochastic Chemical Reaction Networks	Supriya Krishnamurthy (Fysikum, Stockholm University)
27 Jan 2021	Universal survival probability for a d-dimensional run-and-tumble particle	Satya Majumdar (Université Paris-Saclay)
20 Jan 2021	Modeling of collective effects in human or molecular pedestrian flows	Cecile Appert-Rolland
13 Jan 2021	Active Brownian motion in two-dimensions under stochastic resetting	Urna Basu (S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India.)
2020
16 Dec 2020	Inhomogeneous exclusion processes and the efficiency of translation	Joachim Krug (Institute for Biological Physics, University of Cologne)
09 Dec 2020	Building Continuous Time Crystals from Rare Events	Carlos Perez Espigares (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
02 Dec 2020	Online seminar: Counting statistics for non-interacting fermions in a d-dimensional potential	Naftali Smith (Ecole Normale Superieure and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
25 Nov 2020	Online Seminar: Controlling active matter: From engines to biased ensembles	Étienne Fodor (University of Luxembourg)
18 Nov 2020	Online Seminar: Kinetically constrained models: universality results	Cristina Toninelli (Université Paris Dauphine)
11 Nov 2020	Online seminar: Perturbations and boundaries in flocking systems	Francesco Ginelli ( University of Insubria, Como, Italy.)
04 Nov 2020	Local: Kermack and McKendrick’s “Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Epidemics"	Richard Blythe
28 Oct 2020	An exact solution for a quasi-two-dimensional exclusion process	Arvind Ayyer (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
21 Oct 2020	Online Seminar: Statistical mechanics foundation of Weber-Fechner laws	Christian Maes (University of Leuven)
14 Oct 2020	First-order fluctuation-induced phase transitions to collective motion	Julien Tailleur (Université de Paris)
07 Oct 2020	Building a path-integral calculus: a covariant discretization approach	Vivien Lecomte (Université Grenoble-Alpes, France.)
30 Sep 2020	The many faces of the Fisher-KPP equation	Bernard Derrida (Collège de France, Paris, France.)
23 Sep 2020	TBD	Martin Evans
08 Jul 2020	Absolute Negative Mobility: can it take place in thermal equilibrium?	David Mukamel (Department of Physics of Complex Systems Weizmann Institute of Science Israel)
01 Jul 2020	Numerical computation and estimation of large deviations	Hugo Touchette (Stellenbosch University, Department of Mathematical Sciences)
24 Jun 2020	Flagellar length control in biflagellate eukaryotes: time-of-flight, shared pool, train traffic and cooperative phenomena	Debashish Chowdhury (Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, India)
17 Jun 2020	Bringing together two paradigms of non-equilibrium: Driven dynamics of aging systems	Peter Sollich (Universität Göttingen, Institut für Theoretische Physik)
10 Jun 2020	Dynamical Large Deviations of Reflected Diffusions	Johan du Buisson (Stellenbosch University, Department of Physics)
03 Jun 2020	Some exact results on continuous-time quantum walks	Kirone Mallick (CEA Saclay)
27 May 2020	On the largest eigenvalue of a random matrix: Tracy-Widom distribution, large deviations and third order phase transition.	Gregory Schehr (Université de Paris-Sud)
20 May 2020	Steady-state currents in active matter: origin and implications	Yariv Kafri (Technion)
13 May 2020	Speed-dispersion-induced alignment: A one-dimensional model inspired by swimming droplets experiments	Richard Blythe
29 Apr 2020	Will a large stable system be complex?	Pierpaolo Vivo (Dept of Mathematics, King's College London)
22 Apr 2020	Wrinkle patterns in active viscoelastic thin sheets	Rastko Sknepnek (University of Dundee)
08 Apr 2020	Current fluctuations in reset and run-and-tumble processes	Rosemary Harris (Queen Mary University of London)
01 Apr 2020	TBA	Ludovic Berthier (Universite de Montpellier)
18 Mar 2020	Current fluctuations in reset and run-and-tumble processes	Rosemary Harris (Queen Mary University of London)
26 Feb 2020	First passage times for (persistent) random walkers: a mystery	Richard Blythe
12 Feb 2020	Ribosome dynamics in mRNA translation under steady and non-steady state conditions	Juraj Szavits Nossan
05 Feb 2020	Eoin's Operational Researcher Internship	Eoin Ó Laighléis
29 Jan 2020	New year startup & maximum displacement calculation	Matthew Metson
2019
11 Dec 2019	First-passage times of many persistent random walkers in higher dimensions	Matthew Metson
04 Dec 2019	Continuous-time quantum walks	Pablo Andres-Martinez (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh)
27 Nov 2019	Extreme value distributions: the “max-stable distribution” approach	Richard Blythe
20 Nov 2019	Breaking replica symmetry at two different temperatures	Peter Mottishaw
13 Nov 2019	Conference talks on turbulence and microswimmer collective behaviour	Viktor Skultety James Hitchen
06 Nov 2019	The Hopfield model of neural networks	Francesco Cagnetta
23 Oct 2019	Dynamical fluctuations: a solved example R Additional Resources are available for this event	Emil Mallmin
16 Oct 2019	Dynamical fluctuation theory in a nutshell	Emil Mallmin
09 Oct 2019	RSB40 Conference update	Peter Mottishaw
25 Sep 2019	Temperature Interfaces in the Katz-Lebowitz-Spohn Driven Lattice Gas	Uwe Tauber (Virginia Tech)
26 Jun 2019	Phase-space geometry of reaction-diffusion dynamics	Fridtjof Brauns
15 May 2019	Date reserved
08 May 2019	A stochastic 3D polymer model of transcriptional dynamics in chromatin: variability, bursting and omnigenic effects	Davide Marenduzzo
01 May 2019	Date reserved
24 Apr 2019	Date reserved
17 Apr 2019	Fractons	Des Johnston (Heriot-Watt University)
10 Apr 2019	A Simple Introduction to Solvable Vertex Models and Integrable Quantum Spin Chains	Robert Weston (Heriot-Watt University)
03 Apr 2019	Creating a start-up business from your research - the story of Quorate Technology
13 Mar 2019	Martin TBC	Martin Evans
20 Feb 2019	Continuum solution of a many-filament Brownian ratchet	Anthony Wood
13 Feb 2019	The Kramers-Moyal expansion	Eoin Ó Laighléis
06 Feb 2019	The Blowtorch Theorem	Emil Mallmin
30 Jan 2019	The Lieb-Yngvason theory of thermodynamics	Emil Mallmin
23 Jan 2019	Wave solution of non-linear conservation laws II	Francesco Cagnetta
16 Jan 2019	Wave solution of non-linear conservation laws	Francesco Cagnetta
2018
19 Dec 2018	Replica symmetry breaking: the simplest example - Part 2	Peter Mottishaw
05 Dec 2018	Replica symmetry breaking: the simplest example	Peter Mottishaw
28 Nov 2018	Collective feeding in C. elegans nematode worms	Linus Schumacher (MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, The University of Edinburgh)
21 Nov 2018	Response and Fluctuations in Climate Science	Valerio Lucarini (University of Reading)
14 Nov 2018	Conference dry run	Renato Assante James Hitchen
07 Nov 2018	Pricing a financial derivative - the call option	Anthony Wood
31 Oct 2018	Kubo perturbation theory and Optical Properties of Materials	Valerio Lucarini (University of Reading)
24 Oct 2018	TASEP with dynamic defects	Bartlomiej Waclaw
17 Oct 2018	Random energy model: Recap and replicas	Peter Mottishaw
10 Oct 2018	Saving Guinea Pigs with Survival Analysis	Ann Yellowlees (Quantics BioStatistics)
03 Oct 2018	Hopping particles, generating functions and the kernel method	Richard Blythe
26 Sep 2018	Group kick off meeting for 2018/19	Richard Blythe
20 Jun 2018	The random energy model: an introduction.	Peter Mottishaw
13 Jun 2018	Nonequilibrium summer school update	Emil Mallmin
06 Jun 2018	Predicting the geographical dynamics of language	James Burridge (University of Portsmouth)
30 May 2018	Conditioned random walks: Part II	Richard Blythe
23 May 2018	Finite size effects and replica symmetry breaking; what can we learn from exact results?	Peter Mottishaw
16 May 2018	Conditioned random walks	Richard Blythe
09 May 2018	Conference updates	Anthony Wood Eoin Ó Laighléis
25 Apr 2018	Parameter estimation and all that - part III	Bartlomiej Waclaw
18 Apr 2018	Parameter estimation and all that - Part II	Bartlomiej Waclaw
28 Mar 2018	Conference updates	Juraj Szavits Nossan
21 Mar 2018	Parameter estimation and all that	Bartlomiej Waclaw
21 Feb 2018	Scale invariance and pattern formation in out-of-equilibrium interfaces	Francesco Cagnetta
14 Feb 2018	Temperature chaos and free energy landscapes	Peter Mottishaw
07 Feb 2018	Random walks and kernel methods	Anthony Wood
31 Jan 2018	Sticky Particles and Detailed Balance	Joshua Hellier
2017
13 Dec 2017	An introduction to interest rate modelling
06 Dec 2017	Introduction to information thermodynamics	Emil Mallmin
29 Nov 2017	Using Light to Control Bacteria	Aidan Brown
22 Nov 2017	A 1D model for supercoiling-dependent transcription	Davide Marenduzzo
15 Nov 2017	Interacting bosons in one dimension and their relation to the KPZ universality class.	Peter Mottishaw
08 Nov 2017	The physics of DNA supercoiling, and its relevance in DNA melting	Davide Marenduzzo
01 Nov 2017	Stochastic gene expression	Juraj Szavits Nossan
25 Oct 2017	Richard and Peter - Conference updates	Richard Blythe Peter Mottishaw
18 Oct 2017	Self-Thermoelectrophoresis in Colloidal Swimmers	Joost de Graaf
11 Oct 2017	Emil's masters talk + Peter's conference update	Peter Mottishaw Emil Mallmin
04 Oct 2017	An Introduction to Nematic Liquid Crystals	Aidan Brown
27 Sep 2017	Complexity and decay: towards a physics of active disassembly.	Wilson Poon
20 Sep 2017	Bartek Conference Update	Bartlomiej Waclaw
13 Sep 2017	Introductory Group Meeting
28 Jun 2017	Science and Government in the UK	Alexander Slowman
21 Jun 2017	Persistent random walkers and the telegrapher's equation	Martin Evans
14 Jun 2017	First year talks	Ellen Young Eoin Ó Laighléis
07 Jun 2017	First year talks	James Hitchen Francesco Cagnetta
24 May 2017	Statistical Physics of Evolution	Martin Carballo Pacheco
17 May 2017	When can you wire up a network?	Richard Blythe
10 May 2017	Getting Asymptotic Results from a Generating Function	Anthony Wood
03 May 2017	Mathematical and computational models for understanding tumour evolution and improving cancer therapy	Rob Noble (Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier)
26 Apr 2017	Extreme statistics of mutation accumulations in stem cell populations: a model for cancer initiation risk	Philip Greulich
12 Apr 2017	"Burgulence" in random matrix theories	Maciej A. Nowak (Mark Kac Complex Systems Research Center, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland)
29 Mar 2017	Conference updates: Bartek on Cancer Evolution, Richard on Perth meeting on nonequilibrium collective dynamics	Bartlomiej Waclaw Richard Blythe
22 Mar 2017	Branching random walk - a simple disordered system	Peter Mottishaw
15 Mar 2017	Overview of Renyi Entropy	Anthony Wood
08 Mar 2017	Intermediate scattering function of an active Brownian particle	Christina Kurzthaler (Universität Innsbruck)
01 Mar 2017	Equations of state of active Brownian particles	Demian Levis (University of Barcelona)
15 Feb 2017	A randomly started population model	Michael Nicholson
08 Feb 2017	Percolation Part 2	Richard Blythe
01 Feb 2017	The Probability Distribution for Run-and-Tumble Swimmers	Aidan Brown
25 Jan 2017	Fisher KPP equation and travelling wavefronts	Martin Evans
18 Jan 2017	Pattern formation in microtubule-motor mixtures + plans for future meetings	Ivan Maryshev
2016
14 Dec 2016	Free-Energy Approaches for Pickering Emulsions: Particle Exchange between Colloid-Stabilized Droplets	Joost de Graaf
07 Dec 2016	Brownian ratchets and chromosome loop extrusion	Davide Marenduzzo
30 Nov 2016	First passage times and nonequilibrium chromosome looping	Davide Marenduzzo
23 Nov 2016	Reducing wealth inequality in a simple statistical model of macro-economy	Zdzislaw Burda (AGH (Krakow))
16 Nov 2016	Stuart Thomson and Alex Slowman - two short talks on current research	Stuart Thomson Alexander Slowman
02 Nov 2016	Swimming Things: Probability Distributions for Self-propelled Particles	Aidan Brown
19 Oct 2016	Entropy production in nonequilibrium stationary states	Martin Evans
12 Oct 2016	Introduction to percolation theory (or, why statistical physicists make life difficult for themselves)	Richard Blythe
05 Oct 2016	Diagrammatic techniques in statistical physics	Bartlomiej Waclaw
06 Jul 2016	Introduction to integrability in stochastic models	Matthieu Vanicat (French National Centre for Scientific Research Paris)
29 Jun 2016	Swimming crystals and Simha-Ramaswamy instability	Alexander Morozov
08 Jun 2016	Krylov Subspace Methods	Oliver Henrich
25 May 2016	Mean-field approach for random close packings of non-spherical particles	Adrian Baule (Queen Mary University of London)
11 May 2016	Dynamical Density Functional Theory	Ben Goddard (School of Mathematics)
04 May 2016	Counting processes in cancer biology	Bartlomiej Waclaw
27 Apr 2016	Random Walks, First Returns and Sparre Andersen Theorem	Martin Evans
19 Apr 2016	Inverse Problems	Joshua Hellier
24 Feb 2016	Ageing in Excitable and Oscillatory Systems	Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns (Jacobs University Bremen)
17 Feb 2016	Information theory and (non)equilibrium statistical mechanics. Part II	Richard Blythe
10 Feb 2016	Information theory and (non)equilibrium statistical mechanics. Part I	Richard Blythe
02 Feb 2016	Linking and predicting spatial macro-ecological patterns in species-rich ecosystems	Sandro Azaele (University of Leeds)
27 Jan 2016	A simple model of non-self-averaging effects and its relevance to reproducibility of experiments	Peter Mottishaw
20 Jan 2016	Periodic Green's Functions of Stokes Flow: Applications to Microswimmers	Joost de Graaf
2015
16 Dec 2015	Microscopic models for heat conduction	Ricardo Falcao (Federal University of São João del-Rei Brazil)
09 Dec 2015	Coarse-grained DNA models	Thomas Ouldridge (Imperial College London)
02 Dec 2015	Diffusion on an expanding interval	Bartlomiej Waclaw
25 Nov 2015	Molecular finite-size effects in stochastic models of equilibrium chemical systems	Ramon Grima (Systems Biology)
11 Nov 2015	Dispersion in a rectangular network	Jacques Vanneste (Mathematics)
04 Nov 2015	Equilibrium of fluid membranes with tangent-plane order (TPO), elasticity of smectics with TPO, and dispiration asymmetry in smectics-C*	Buddhapriya Chakrabarti (Durham University)
28 Oct 2015	Arrival times in stochastic assembly	Juraj Szavits Nossan
14 Oct 2015	Phase segregation of passive molecules in an active fluid: Implications for molecular segregation at the cell surface	Amit Das (National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore)
07 Oct 2015	The Majority Illusion in Social Networks	Jérôme Michaud (University of Edinburgh)
30 Sep 2015	Explaining the statistical physics of growing liquid crystal interfaces with the KPZ equation: Part II	Alexander Slowman
23 Sep 2015	Explaining the statistical physics of growing liquid crystal interfaces with the KPZ equation: Part I	Alexander Slowman
16 Sep 2015	An introduction to weak noise large deviations and macroscopic fluctuation theory	Cesare Nardini
09 Sep 2015	Introduction to matrix product stationary states of stochastic systems	Martin Evans
17 Jun 2015	Effective Markovian description of systems with coloured noise	Juraj Szavits Nossan
20 May 2015	The Cahn-Hilliard equation: phase separation and interfaces	Giulio De Magistris
13 May 2015	Non-equilibrium long-range systems and geophysical flows: kinetic theory and large deviations	Cesare Nardini
29 Apr 2015	Spatial opinion separation in social systems with stochastically moving agents	Jérôme Michaud (University of Edinburgh)
22 Apr 2015	Spatial opinion separation in social systems: A mean field approach	Jérôme Michaud (University of Edinburgh)
12 Apr 2015	Entanglement measures and monotones	Peter Jarvis (School of Mathematics and Physics University of Tasmania)
25 Mar 2015	Action-angle coordinates	Chay Paterson
18 Mar 2015	Diffusion-driven (or Turing's) instability	Juraj Szavits Nossan
11 Mar 2015	Poland-Sheraga Model of DNA denaturation (cont'd)	Justin Whitehouse
04 Mar 2015	An introduction to combinatorial physics and stochastic mechanics	Nicolas Behr (School of Informatics)
25 Feb 2015	Poland-Sheraga Model of DNA denaturation	Martin Evans
11 Feb 2015	Diffusion with long-range memory	Tunrayo Adeleke-Larodo (University of Oxford)
04 Feb 2015	Mean field theory of a polymer in a random medium and relation to travelling waves	Peter Mottishaw
21 Jan 2015	Theory of Elasticity - applications to the physics of bacteria	Bartlomiej Waclaw
2014
03 Dec 2014	Mathematical rules of reasonable expectation	Richard Blythe
26 Nov 2014	Density functional theory in electronic structure calculations	Andreas Hermann
19 Nov 2014	Modelling Interfacial Growth: An Introduction to the KPZ equation	Justin Whitehouse
12 Nov 2014	Friction, drag, and Rayleigh dissipation functions	Chay Paterson
29 Oct 2014	The Theory of Colour	Tom Ives
22 Oct 2014	"Non-integer Replicas" and the random energy model (REM)	Peter Mottishaw
15 Oct 2014	Introduction to the Directed Percolation Universality Class and the Contact Process	Martin Evans
08 Oct 2014	Lattice-Boltzmann Part 2: LB as Solver for Partial Differential Equations and Multiple Relaxation Time Models	Oliver Henrich
01 Oct 2014	Multiple Relaxation Times in the Lattice Boltzmann Method	Oliver Henrich
24 Sep 2014	How to build a stochastic bridge	Juraj Szavits Nossan
17 Sep 2014	Correlated Extreme Values in Branching Brownian Motion	Kabir Ramola (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad)
25 Jun 2014	Boring (?) First-Order Transitions	Des Johnston (Heriot-Watt University)
11 Jun 2014	The Lorentz Reciprocal Theorem	Aidan Brown
04 Jun 2014	Why generating functionology?	Alexander Slowman
28 May 2014	See the steady states for the trees	Alexander Slowman
21 May 2014	Extreme value statistics with an application to disordered systems	Peter Mottishaw
14 May 2014	How planes stay up: the classical theory of lift on fixed wings	Chay Paterson
30 Apr 2014	Superradiance and the Dicke model	Jonathan Keeling (St. Andrews)
26 Mar 2014	The Black-Scholes model of derivative pricing	Fred Farrell
19 Mar 2014	Fluctuation theorems part 2	Juraj Szavits Nossan
12 Mar 2014	Fluctuation theorems	Juraj Szavits Nossan
05 Mar 2014	Introduction to Condensation in the Zero Range Process (ZRP) and My Research	Justin Whitehouse
19 Feb 2014	First passage processes and electrostatics	Jakub Pastuszak
12 Feb 2014	Percolation theory, part 3	Bartlomiej Waclaw
05 Feb 2014	Percolation theory, part 2	Bartlomiej Waclaw
29 Jan 2014	Percolation theory	Bartlomiej Waclaw
22 Jan 2014	Bayesian methods (with a bit of cosmology)	Andrew Liddle
15 Jan 2014	Spatial modelling in biogeochemistry	Timothy Bush
2013
18 Dec 2013	Solving differential equations with (pseudo-)spectral methods	Alexander Morozov
11 Dec 2013	Morse Theory and van Hove Singularities - part 2	Chay Paterson
04 Dec 2013	Morse Theory and van Hove Singularities	Chay Paterson
27 Nov 2013	Speed of secondary wave in a coupled Fisher wave system	Martin Evans
20 Nov 2013	Introduction to the Fisher equation and travelling waves	Martin Evans
13 Nov 2013	Introduction to the Backward Fokker-Planck equation	Richard Blythe
30 Oct 2013	The random energy model	Peter Mottishaw
16 Oct 2013	An introduction to spin glasses	Peter Mottishaw
09 Oct 2013	An Introduction to Large Deviation Functions	Justin Whitehouse
02 Oct 2013	First passage times in random walks and diffusion	Martin Evans
24 Jul 2013	Can digital organisms teach us anything about biological evolution?	Marcin Zagorski (Institute of Physics at Jagiellonian University)
10 Jul 2013	Hybrid phase transition in the collapse of multiplex networks	Gareth Baxter (University of Aveiro Portugal)
03 Jul 2013	Statistics at the tip of a branching random walk and simple models of evolution with selection	Bernard Derrida (Collège de France, Paris, France.)
26 Jun 2013	Computer simulations of attractive one-patch colloids	Teun Vissers
12 Jun 2013	The Mathematics of Marriage	Timothy Bush
22 May 2013	Molecular spiders in one and two dimensions	Tibor Antal (University of Edinburgh)
08 May 2013	Universal record statistics for random walks and Levy flights	Satya Majumdar (Université Paris-Saclay)
01 May 2013	Exact solution of a stochastic model for lexicon learning	Richard Blythe
24 Apr 2013	Revisiting the flocking transition using active spins	Julien Tailleur (Université de Paris)
10 Apr 2013	Density functional theory for hard polyhedra	Matthieu Marechal (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
03 Apr 2013	Onsager's Hard Rod Fluid	Oliver Henrich
27 Mar 2013	When eigenvalues aren't enough: problems with linear stability analysis	Lawrence Mitchell (EPCC)
20 Mar 2013	Novel approximation methods for stochastic biochemical kinetics	Ramon Grima (Systems Biology)
13 Mar 2013	Dispersion in cellular flows	Jacques Vanneste (Mathematics)
06 Mar 2013	Modelling the tree of life	Fred Farrell
27 Feb 2013	Bayesian statistics	Elco Bakker (Systems Biology)
20 Feb 2013	Saddle-point approximation in statistical physics, part II	Juraj Szavits Nossan
13 Feb 2013	Saddle-point approximation in statistical physics, part I	Juraj Szavits Nossan
06 Feb 2013	A linear theory of two nations	Tom Lion (University of Edinburgh)
30 Jan 2013	The Use of the Information Theoretic Entropy in Thermodynamics	Justin Whitehouse
23 Jan 2013	Knot theory	Giulia Foffano
2012
19 Dec 2012	Arrow's Impossibility Theorem	Graeme Ackland
28 Nov 2012	Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 8): spatial models of growing bacterial colonies	Bartlomiej Waclaw
21 Nov 2012	Generalised matrix Ansatz and exact current fluctuations in the open ASEP	Alexandre Lazarescu (UCLouvain)
14 Nov 2012	Pattern formation in biology by reaction-diffusion systems	Philip Greulich
07 Nov 2012	Ito vs. Stratonovich dilemma	Juraj Szavits Nossan
31 Oct 2012	Ising models at complex temperature: partition function zeroes, helimagnetism, and complex thermodynamics	Chris Hooley (SUPA University of St Andrews)
24 Oct 2012	Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 7): finite populations II	Bartlomiej Waclaw
17 Oct 2012	Brownian ratchet as a model of cell crawling	Elsen Tjhung
10 Oct 2012	Taking directions: self-organization of cortical microtubule array in plants	Bela Mulder (AMOLF)
03 Oct 2012	Non-Markovian Asymmetric Exclusion Process	Richard Blythe
26 Sep 2012	Langevin equations for interface growth: Edwards-Wilkinson and KPZ equation	Martin Evans
19 Sep 2012	Totally asymmetric simple exclusion process on a tree lattice	Peter Mottishaw
12 Sep 2012	From starling flocks to theory: some new results in flocking	Francesco Ginelli ( University of Insubria, Como, Italy.)
04 Jul 2012	Landau theory of discontinuous phase transitions	Martin Evans
27 Jun 2012	Molecular, ecological and evolutionary dynamics of quorum-sensing bacteria	Sam Brown (University of Edinburgh)
20 Jun 2012	An introduction to networks	Steve Court (University of Edinburgh)
13 Jun 2012	Totally asymmetric exclusion process with slow sites: a network theory approach	Juraj Szavits Nossan
06 Jun 2012	Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 6): finite populations	Bartlomiej Waclaw
30 May 2012	Smectics: From BPS to Burgers	Randall Kamien (University of Pennsylvania)
23 May 2012	Basics of evolutionary game theory	Fred Farrell
16 May 2012	Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 5): horizontal gene transfer	Bartlomiej Waclaw
09 May 2012	Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 4): the quasispecies model	Bartlomiej Waclaw
02 May 2012	Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 3)	Bartlomiej Waclaw
25 Apr 2012	Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 2)	Bartlomiej Waclaw
18 Apr 2012	Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution	Bartlomiej Waclaw
11 Apr 2012	Non-Equilibrium phase transitions in large deviation theory: chemical potential and Maxwell construction	Philip Greulich
21 Mar 2012	Large Deviation Theory and Thermodynamics	Philip Greulich
14 Mar 2012	Responses to perturbations in Brownian dynamics simulations	Rosalind Allen
07 Mar 2012	Replica method step by step	Peter Mottishaw
29 Feb 2012	Random energy model and the replica method	Peter Mottishaw
15 Feb 2012	WKB calculation of an epidemic outbreak distribution	Richard Blythe
08 Feb 2012	On derivations of some simple results in hydrodynamics	Alexander Morozov
25 Jan 2012	Cycles in population dynamics due to stochastic resonances	Dominic Russell
18 Jan 2012	Explosive condensation in a mass transport model	Bartlomiej Waclaw
2011
07 Dec 2011	Sampling rare events in non-stationary dynamics	Josh Berryman (University of Edinburgh)
30 Nov 2011	Energy fluctuations in driven systems	Yariv Kafri (Technion)
23 Nov 2011	The Schweitz virial relation and how to compute the local pressure in molecular simulations	Tom Lion (University of Edinburgh)
16 Nov 2011	Statics and dynamics of Exclusion Processes (II)	Martin Evans
09 Nov 2011	Statics and dynamics of Exclusion Processes (I)	Martin Evans
02 Nov 2011	Diffusion with stochastic resetting (part II)	Martin Evans
26 Oct 2011	Diffusion with stochastic resetting (part I)	Martin Evans
19 Oct 2011	An intro to first passage time problems	Martin Evans
05 Oct 2011	Derivation of the Gillespie algorithm	Kym Eden-Jones
28 Sep 2011	A no-preparation seminar	Bartlomiej Waclaw
21 Sep 2011	Pattern formation in active gels	Elsen Tjhung
07 Sep 2011	Dynamics on surfaces	Davide Marenduzzo
19 Aug 2011	Estimating Omissions from Searches	Anthony J. Webster (University of Edinburgh)
01 Jul 2011	Van Kampen's system-size expansion	Bartlomiej Waclaw
08 Jun 2011	Bayesian parameter inference in discrete state-space stochastic population models	Glenn Marion (University of Edinburgh)
07 Jun 2011	Dynamics of Chemotactic Microorganisms	Ankush Sengupta (University of Edinburgh)
30 May 2011	Condensation in non-Markovian zero-range dynamics	Gunter Schuetz (University of Edinburgh)
18 May 2011	The extremal current principle for driven diffusive systems	Philip Greulich
04 May 2011	Condensation in the inclusion process and related models	Stefan Grosskinsky (University of Edinburgh)
20 Apr 2011	Perturbation expansion of evolutionary games	Tibor Antal (University of Edinburgh)
22 Mar 2011	There's plenty of time for evolution	Richard Blythe
02 Mar 2011	Hydrodynamics of bacterial propulsion	Alexander Morozov
16 Feb 2011	One step beyond linear stability analysis: the amplitude equation	Julien Tailleur
02 Feb 2011	Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling with and without detailed balance	Katrin Wolff
19 Jan 2011	The method of characteristics for PDEs	Juan Venegas Ortiz (University of Edinburgh)
2010
08 Dec 2010	A Kinetic View of Statistical Physics	Paul L. Krapivsky (University of Edinburgh)
24 Nov 2010	A Blagger's Guide to Extreme Value Theory	Robert Concannon
03 Nov 2010	Making Norm-conserving Pseudopotentials from Scratch	Bengt Tegner
20 Oct 2010	The Role of Noise in Systems with Two Symmetric Absorbing States	Dominic Russell
06 Oct 2010	The Fisher equation in the presence of an active boundary	Andre Costa
22 Sep 2010	Adaptation at the edge of a species' range: modelling the interaction between gene flow, selection, and random drift	Nick Barton (IST Austria)
15 Sep 2010	Lattice Boltzmann simulations of phase separation in a binary mixture with dynamic temperature	Giuseppe Gonnella (University of Edinburgh)
08 Sep 2010	Extinction rates of established spatial populations	Baruch Meerson (Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem )
07 Jul 2010	Field Theoretic Approaches to Interacting Particle Systems	Alasdair Thomson (University of Edinburgh)
30 Jun 2010	Catastrophes and the increased risk of population extinction	Neelofer Banglawala
16 Jun 2010	Large deviations in and out of equilibrium	Vivien Lecomte (Université Grenoble-Alpes, France.)
26 May 2010	Partition Function Zeroes	Desmond Johnston (University of Edinburgh)
28 Apr 2010	Front speeds, cut-offs, and the blow-up method in scalar reaction-diffusion equations	Nikola Popovic (University of Edinburgh)
21 Apr 2010	Bidirectional stochastic transport on dynamic filaments	Ludger Santen (University of Saarland)
03 Mar 2010	Ordering in spatially-hetergeneous voter models	Richard Blythe
24 Feb 2010	Searching Fast for a Target on DNA without Falling to Traps	Yariv Kafri (Technion)
19 Feb 2010	Asymmetric exclusion process as a model for protein synthesis	Luca Ciandrini (University of Edinburgh)
29 Jan 2010	Formal thermodynamics of combinatorial molecular networks	Vincent Danos (University of Edinburgh)
22 Jan 2010	Fixation in Evolutionary Games under Non-Vanishing Selection	Mauro Mobilia (University of Leeds)
15 Jan 2010	How to solve f(x)=0 numerically? A globally convergent modification of the Newton-Raphson method	Alexander Morozov
2009
27 Nov 2009	How variable is protein production in single cells?	Rosalind Allen
13 Nov 2009	Simulating systems with absorbing state transitions	Conrad Barrett-Freeman
30 Oct 2009	Random matrix theory in financial physics	Bartlomiej Waclaw
16 Oct 2009	Disordered driven lattice gases	Philip Greulich
09 Oct 2009	Transition State Theory	Chantal Valeriani
17 Sep 2009	Methodology of the determination of phase diagrams via computer simulations	Eduardo Sanz
16 Jul 2009	Einstein relation for Nonequilibrium Steady States	Martin Evans
09 Jul 2009	Non-linear Fisher travelling waves and boundary effects : the survival probability of a population of branching random walks	Damien Simon (University of Edinburgh)
03 Jul 2009	Non-linear Fisher travelling waves : an overview	Damien Simon (University of Edinburgh)
25 Jun 2009	Statistics and data fitting, why should you care?	Lawrence Mitchell
30 Apr 2009	Viscoelasticity of conformational transitions in single biopolymers: A simple microscopic model for internal viscous friction	Bhavin Khatri
02 Apr 2009	MSR: An Approach to Nonequilibrium Statistical Dynamics based on Schwinger's Nonpeturbative approach to QFT - Part II	Matthew Salewski (University of Edinburgh)
26 Mar 2009	MSR: An Approach to Nonequilibrium Statistical Dynamics based on Schwinger's Nonpeturbative approach to QFT - Part I	Matthew Salewski (University of Edinburgh)
12 Mar 2009	Low Reynolds number swimming and Purcell's scallop theorem	Rupert Nash
12 Feb 2009	Geometric bounds for eigenvalues of reversible Markov chains	Richard Blythe
22 Jan 2009	Eigenvalue perturbations for matrices with arbitrary Jordan form - Part II	Arno Proeme
15 Jan 2009	Eigenvalue perturbations for matrices with arbitrary Jordan form - Part I	Arno Proeme
2008
17 Dec 2008	First-passage Brownian functional	Satya Majumdar (Université Paris-Saclay)
11 Dec 2008	Gene expression with nonlinear feedback	Otto Pulkkinen (University of Edinburgh)
04 Dec 2008	TBA - Part II	Alexander Morozov
27 Nov 2008	Weak-segregation theory of microphase separation in block copolymers - Part I	Alexander Morozov
20 Nov 2008	Statistical mechanics of a model of genetic switch with linear feedback - Part 2	Paolo Visco (University of Edinburgh)
13 Nov 2008	Statistical mechanics of a model of genetic switch with linear feedback - Part 1	Paolo Visco (University of Edinburgh)
30 Sep 2008	Current Fluctuations in the Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process and Bethe Ansatz - Part II	Sylvain Prolhac (University of Edinburgh)
23 Sep 2008	Current Fluctuations in the Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process and Bethe Ansatz - Part I	Sylvain Prolhac (University of Edinburgh)
05 Aug 2008	Dynamical Phase Transition In Glassy Systems	Vivien Lecomte (Université Grenoble-Alpes, France.)
10 Jun 2008	Introduction to Lattice Boltzmann II	Davide Marenduzzo
03 Jun 2008	Introduction to Lattice Boltzmann I	Davide Marenduzzo
27 May 2008	Introduction to Mode Coupling Theory II	Oliver Henrich
13 May 2008	Introduction to Mode Coupling Theory I	Oliver Henrich
29 Apr 2008	Metastability and topology - What can be read in a Fokker-Planck equation?	Julien Tailleur
08 Apr 2008	Continuous-space birth-death processes: Part II	Tom Adams
28 Feb 2008	Mean-field and continuous-space birth-death processes	Tom Adams
14 Feb 2008	Fixation in subdivided populations (reprise)	Richard Blythe
07 Feb 2008	Perturbative approach to the Navier-Stokes equation	Matthew Salewski (University of Edinburgh)
31 Jan 2008	Statistical mechanics of run-and-tumble bacteria	Mike Cates
17 Jan 2008	Fixation times in a randomly-mating subdivided population	Richard Blythe
2007
27 Nov 2007	Rare events in the macroscopic limit	Julien Tailleur
20 Nov 2007	Steady state correlations in simple shear flow	Oliver Henrich
13 Nov 2007	Steady-State Distributions of Random Walks with (some) Memory	Yariv Kafri (Technion)
06 Nov 2007	Non-normality and linear amplification	Alexander Morozov
30 Oct 2007	Waiting times in Markov jump processes	Paolo Visco (University of Edinburgh)
16 Oct 2007	Extreme value statistics, integer partitions and the Bose gas	Satya Majumdar (Université Paris-Saclay)
09 Oct 2007	Elements of information theory	Richard Blythe
02 Oct 2007	Making power laws: is there anything that won't do?	Lawrence Mitchell
25 Sep 2007	Driven interacting particle systems II: New perspectives	Royce Zia (Virginia Tech USA)
20 Sep 2007	Driven interacting particle systems I: A (re)introduction	Royce Zia (Virginia Tech USA)
17 May 2007	Modelling the wave of advance of neolithic agriculture	Morrel H Cohen (Department of Physics and Astronomy Rutgers University and Chemistry Department Princeton University)
15 May 2007	DNA unzipping	Davide Marenduzzo
01 May 2007	Mass-transport models: part III	Martin Evans
17 Apr 2007	Factorised steady states in mass-transport models	Martin Evans
03 Apr 2007	Condensation in the zero-range process and connection to sums of random variables	Martin Evans
27 Mar 2007	Beyond the gene	Evelyn Fox Keller (University of Edinburgh)
20 Mar 2007	Brownian Motor	Richard Blythe
06 Mar 2007	Neural Networks	Arno Proeme
27 Feb 2007	Interfaces	Jamie Wood (University of Edinburgh)
20 Feb 2007	Transition to turbulence	Alexander Morozov
13 Feb 2007	Boundary conditions and the solution of the diffusion equation of population genetics	Alan McKane (School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Manchester)
06 Feb 2007	Games	Graeme Ackland
30 Jan 2007	The Maxwell distribution in the microcanonical ensemble	Lawrence Mitchell
23 Jan 2007	Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem	Neelofer Banglawala
16 Jan 2007	Proving an H-theorem for Stochastic Rotation Dynamics	Rupert Nash
2006
12 Dec 2006	What happens next?	Andy Jackson (University of Edinburgh)
05 Dec 2006	Kinetic theory of granular media	Alex Buts (University of Edinburgh)
21 Nov 2006	Mean-field model of fungal growth	Kate Sugden (University of Edinburgh)
14 Nov 2006	Networks, potentials, detailed balance and all that	Graeme Ackland
07 Nov 2006	Ratchet models and their connection to cell motility	Davide Marenduzzo
24 Oct 2006	The forward flux sampling method for simulating rare events	Rosalind Allen
17 Oct 2006	Monto Carlo simulation and extended sampling	Andrew Jackson (University of Edinburgh)
10 Oct 2006	Connectivity of growing random networks: How preferential attachment leads to scale-free behaviour	Lawrence Mitchell
03 Oct 2006	Exact solution of the asymmetric exclusion process	Richard Blythe
13 Jul 2006	Information entropy of humpback whale songs	Richard Blythe
29 Jun 2006	Evolving order from complexity	Jamie Wood (University of Edinburgh)
22 Jun 2006	The war of attrition, or how to win big in mating contests	Lawrence Mitchell
15 Jun 2006	Steady states of mass-transport models..	Tom Hanney (University of Edinburgh)
08 Jun 2006	Computing defect energies for continuous spin glasses	Martin Weigel (Heriot-Watt)
01 Jun 2006	Quorum sensing	Jamie Wood (University of Edinburgh)
25 May 2006	Entropy and natural selection	Jonathan Coe (Cavendish Laboratory University of Cambridge)
18 May 2006	How efficiently do hard rods sample phase space?	Graeme Ackland
11 May 2006	The Fokker Planck equation and its applications to population genetics	Jonathan Coe (Cavendish Laboratory University of Cambridge) Neelofer Banglawala
04 May 2006	Adiabatic compression of a dilute classical gas	Richard Blythe
20 Apr 2006	Some general properties of nonequilibrium steady states and a simple example	Beate Schmittmann (Virginia Tech)
23 Mar 2006	Mode-coupling theory of the glass transition part 2	Thomas Voigtmann (University of Edinburgh)
16 Mar 2006	Numerical computing	Andrew Jackson (University of Edinburgh)
09 Mar 2006	Pair Approximation & Applications to Ecological Models	Lawrence Mitchell
02 Mar 2006	Mode-coupling theory of the glass transition	Thomas Voigtmann (University of Edinburgh)
23 Feb 2006	Memory equations	Martin Greenall (University of Edinburgh)
16 Feb 2006	1/f noise in sandpile models	Mikko Alava (Helsinki University of Technology)
09 Feb 2006	An introduction to Lattice Boltzmann	Rupert Nash
26 Jan 2006	Spinning tops	Ben O'Leary (University of Edinburgh)
19 Jan 2006	The extinction of family names: generating functions and branching processes	Jonathan Coe (Cavendish Laboratory University of Cambridge)
12 Jan 2006	Bursts and heavy tails in human dynamics	Richard Blythe
2005
15 Dec 2005	Kirchhoff's loop law and the maximum entropy production principle	Graeme Ackland
08 Dec 2005	Method of characteristics for solving ''quasi-linear'' partial differential equations	Martin Evans
01 Dec 2005	Fock-space and generating-function approaches to a simple birth-death process	Jonathan Coe (Cavendish Laboratory University of Cambridge) Richard Blythe
24 Nov 2005	Persistence and extreme statistics in fluctuating interfaces II	Satya Majumdar (Université Paris-Saclay)
17 Nov 2005	Persistence and extreme statistics in fluctuating interfaces I	Satya Majumdar (Université Paris-Saclay)
10 Nov 2005	Introduction to fluctuating interfaces	Martin Evans
03 Nov 2005	Introduction to stochastic processes II: detailed balance, time reversal symmetry and fluctuation theorems	Richard Blythe
27 Oct 2005	Introduction to stochastic processes I: properties of Markov processes on a finite state space	Richard Blythe
20 Oct 2005	Branching processes using occupation number formalism	Jonathan Coe (Cavendish Laboratory University of Cambridge)
13 Oct 2005	Disordered zero-range process	Tom Hanney (University of Edinburgh)
06 Oct 2005	Daisyworld in zero dimensions	Jamie Wood (University of Edinburgh)
15 Sep 2005	Parallel and random sequential updating schemes in the asymmetric exclusion process	Martin Evans

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