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PROGRAM SUMMARY

ABSTRACTS

Theme topics of the Instructional Worskhop:

(1) Noise-driven directed transport far from equilibrium; from Maxwell's demon to Brownian ratchet;

(2) Effects of interactions on noisy transport: dynamical phases and non-equilibrium phase transitions;

(3) Instabilities in driven systems: collective spatio-temporal patterns;

(4) Kinetics in rugged landscapes and glassiness: from structural and orientational glasses to spin glasses;

(5) Quantum fluctuations and dynamics: annealing, entanglement and computation;

(6) Effects of defects and disorder: noise-induced depinning kinetics and transport.

Theme topics of the Conference:

(a) Fluctuations and noise in biology: effects of interactions and enzymatic kinetics on noisy intracellular transport; noise in gene expression; fluctuations and spatial patterns in living systems and in colonies of organisms; role of fluctuations in origin of life and evolution;

(b) Glassiness and jamming: roles of interactions and fluctuations in transition to-, and relaxation from-, glassy and jammed states of matter; molecular liquids and glasses, spin glasses, colloidal glasses, jamming in granular systems.

(c) Fluctuations and transport in vortex matter: vortex dynamics; ordered and glassy states of vortex matter in macroscopic and mesoscopic superconductors; vortices in
novel systems, driven vortex lattices far from equilibrium.

(d) Quantum fluctuations in condensed matter near absolute zero temperature: quantum phase transitions; quantum fluctuations and disorder; quantum fluctuations and dynamics; optimization, entanglement and computation.

Academic Program sub-committee:

T. V. Ramakrishnan (Advisor),

D. Chowdhury, A. K. Grover, B.K. Chakrabarti.