Federación Iberoamericana de Sociedades de Física

11th Granada Seminar on Computational and Statistical Physics

11th Granada* Seminar on Computational and Statistical Physics
September 13-17, 2010
*To be held in La Herradura, small village of the Tropical Coast of Granada, Spain
Organized by Institute “Carlos I” for Theoretical and Computational Physics, University of Granada. Sponsored by the European Physical Society and (pending) Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation and American Physical Society.

Foundations of Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics — from basic science to future challenges

Main oral contributions:

Jürg Fröhlich, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Giovanni Gallavotti, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Sheldon Goldstein, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
On the Approach to Thermal Equilibrium of Macroscopic Quantum Systems
Jerry P. Gollub, Haverford College, USA
Experiments on Non-Equilibrium Flow (abstract)
William G. Hoover, Nevada, USA
Pedagogical Computer Simulations Far From Equilibrium (abstract)
David Jou, UAB, Bellaterra, Spain
Temperature, entropy, and second law beyond local equilibrium (abstract)
Joel Lebowitz, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
Approach to equilibrium of macroscopic systems evolving according to classical or quantum dynamics
Stanislas Leibler, The Rockefeller University, USA
Fabio Marchesoni, University of Camerino, Italy
Noise powered small devices (abstract)
Miguel A. Muñoz, University of Granada, Spain
Universality in equilibrium and away from it (abstract)
Sandu Popescu, University of Bristol, UK
Miguel Rubí, University of Barcelona, Spain
Bringing thermodynamics to non-equilibrium microscopic processes (abstract)
Udo Seifert, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Stochastic thermodynamics
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