Focus Session: Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Small Systems

Presentations

• Beyond the second law.

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 13, 2008, 10:15 AM – March 13, 2008, 10:51 AM

  Authors

  • Christian Van den Broeck

    • Hasselt University

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• Dynamics of Microtubule Growth and Catastrophe

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 10:51 AM – March 13, 2008, 11:03 AM

  Authors

  • Sidney Redner

    • Boston University

  • Tibor Antal

    • Harvard University

  • Paul Krapivsky

    • Boston University

  • Mitch Mailman

    • Brandeis University

  • Bulbul Chakraborty

    • Brandeis University

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• Work fluctuations in modulated systems: what is and what is not universal in the steady state

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 11:03 AM – March 13, 2008, 11:15 AM

  Authors

  • Mark Dykman

    • Michigan State University

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• Recognizing the role of microscopic reversibility in stochastic systems with optical trapping experiments as an example

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 11:15 AM – March 13, 2008, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Ross Brody

    • University of Maine

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• What Do We Measure With Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy?

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 11:27 AM – March 13, 2008, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Ching-Hwa Kiang

    • Rice University

  • Nolan Harris

    • Rice University

  • Eric Botello

    • Rice University

  • Wei-Hung Chen

    • Rice University

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• Holographic microrheology of biofilms

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 11:39 AM – March 13, 2008, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Fook Chiong Cheong

    • New York University

  • Simone Duarte

    • New York University

  • David G. Grier

    • New York University
    • Department of Physics and Center for Soft Matter Research, New York University
    • Center for Soft Matter Research of New York University
    • Center for Soft Matter Research, New York University

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• Fluctuation relations in a micromechanical oscillator driven far from thermal equilibrium

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 11:51 AM – March 13, 2008, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Corey Stambaugh

    • University of Florida

  • Ho Bun Chan

    • University of Florida

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• Effect of charge distribution on the translocation of an inhomogeneously charged polymer through a nanopore

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:03 PM – March 13, 2008, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Aruna Mohan

    • Rice University

  • Anatoly Kolomeisky

    • Rice University

  • Matteo Pasquali

    • Rice University
    • Dep. Chemical and Biomolecular Eng., Rice Univ.

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• Heat Transport in spin chains

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:15 PM – March 13, 2008, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Jinshan Wu

    • UBC

  • Mona Berciu

    • UBC
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia
    • University of British Columbia

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• Athermal dynamics of strongly coupled stochastic three-state oscillators

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:27 PM – March 13, 2008, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Lev Tsimring

    • UCSD
    • INS-University of San Diego, USA
    • University of California, San Diego

  • Bastien Fernandez

    • University of Marseille

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• Entropy-driven hysteresis in a model of DNA overstretching

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:39 PM – March 13, 2008, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Stephen Whitelam

    • University of Warwick

  • Sander Pronk

    • UC Berkeley

  • Phillip Geissler

    • UC Berkeley

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• Replica and extreme-value analysis of the Jarzynski free-energy estimator

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:51 PM – March 13, 2008, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Matteo Palassini

    • Department of Fundamental Physics, University of Barcelona

  • Felix Ritort

    • Department of Fundamental Physics, University of Barcelona

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• Hand-Over-Hand Binding in a Tethered-Particle Method Study of DNA Hybridization

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 1:03 PM – March 13, 2008, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Marie T. Ung

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • John Crocker

    • University of Pennsylvania

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