Focus Session: Brownian Motion and Stochastic Dynamics in the 100 Years Since Einstein

Presentations

• Study of the dissipative Hofstadter model in the $\pi$-flux regime

  ORAL

  March 22, 2005, 5:00 AM – March 22, 2005, 5:12 AM

  Authors

  • Eduardo Novais

    • Duke University

  • Antonio Castro Neto

    • Boston University

  • Francisco Guinea

    • Boston University

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• The quantum description of Einstein's Brownian motion

  ORAL

  March 22, 2005, 5:12 AM – March 22, 2005, 5:24 AM

  Authors

  • Francesco Petruccione

    • School of Pure and Applied Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041, South Africa

  • Bassano Vacchini

    • Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita di Milano and INFN, Sezione di Milano, Via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milano, Italy

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• Preserving Positivity During Quantum Brownian Evolution

  ORAL

  March 22, 2005, 5:24 AM – March 22, 2005, 5:36 AM

  Authors

  • Allan Tameshtit

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• Human dispersal on geographical scales

  ORAL

  March 22, 2005, 5:36 AM – March 22, 2005, 5:48 AM

  Authors

  • Dirk Brockmann

    • MPI for Dynamics and Selforganization
    • Max Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Selforganization, G\"ottingen, Germany

  • Lars Hufnagel

    • KITP, Santa Barbara, CA
    • KITP, Santa Barbara

  • Theo Geisel

    • MPI for Dynamics and Selforganization
    • Max Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Selforganization, G\"ottingen, Germany

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• Probability distribution of financial returns in a model of multiplicative Brownian motion with stochastic diffusion coefficient

  ORAL

  March 22, 2005, 5:48 AM – March 22, 2005, 6:00 AM

  Authors

  • Antonio Silva

  • Richard Prange

  • Victor Yakovenko

    • University of Maryland

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• Stochastic bifurcation for a white-noise perturbed nonlinear oscillator

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 22, 2005, 6:00 AM – March 22, 2005, 6:36 AM

  Authors

  • Peter Baxendale

    • University of Southern California

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• Excited Random Walk in One Dimension

  ORAL

  March 22, 2005, 6:36 AM – March 22, 2005, 6:48 AM

  Authors

  • Tibor Antal

  • Sidney Redner

    • CNLS LANL, Los Alamos NM 87545, USA
    • Boston University
    • CNLS Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Exact kinetic Monte Carlo approach for diffusion without the lattice hops

  ORAL

  March 22, 2005, 6:48 AM – March 22, 2005, 7:00 AM

  Authors

  • Vasily Bulatov

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Tomas Oppelstrup

  • George Gilmer

  • Malvin Kalos

  • Babak Sadigh

    • Lawrence Livermore National Lab. , USA
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Wei Cai

    • Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University

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• Noise-induced escape of modulated systems: synchronization and scalings

  ORAL

  March 22, 2005, 7:00 AM – March 22, 2005, 7:12 AM

  Authors

  • Dmitri Ryvkine

  • Mark Dykman

    • Michigan State University

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• Probing diffusion on the nanometer scale using electrochemistry

  ORAL

  March 22, 2005, 7:12 AM – March 22, 2005, 7:24 AM

  Authors

  • Diego Krapf

  • Meng-Yue Wu

  • Henny W. Zandbergen

  • Cees Dekker

  • Serge G. Lemay

    • Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft
    • Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

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• Constructive role of Brownian motion: Brownian motors and Stochastic Resonance

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 22, 2005, 7:24 AM – March 22, 2005, 8:00 AM

  Authors

  • Peter H\"anggi

    • Universit\"at Augsburg

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