Foundations of Statistical Mechanics


A Complex Systems Dynamics (CoSyDy) Meeting at Imperial College London


Venue: Lecture Theatre 3.01E in the Royal School of Mines, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London

Time and date: 12noon-6pm, Friday, December 18, 2015

Registration: Please email Gunnar Pruessner.

Organisers: Gunnar Pruessner (Mathematics) & Chiu Fan Lee (Bioengineering)

In this meeting we will focus on foundations of statistical mechanics, alternative entropies, non-extensivity and "all that" with applications in mind.


Programme

12noon - 12:55  Buffet lunch
12:55  Welcome
1:00 – 1:50  Piergiulio Tempesta (Madrid)
  Group theory and entropies for complex systems
1:50 – 2:40  Tobias Galla (Manchester)
 Complexity measures, information projections and quantum exponential families
2:40 – 3:10  Coffee break
3:10 – 3:45  Giovanna De Palo (Imperial)
 Role of entropy in chemotaxis
3:45 – 4:20  Thomas Ouldridge (Imperial)
 Information and thermodynamics in biochemical systems
4:20 – 5:10  Ian Ford (UCL)
 Maxwell's demon and the management of ignorance in stochastic thermodynamics
5:10  Wine and snacks


Attendance is free and open to everyone. However, for catering purposes and due to space limitation, please register early by email to g.pruessner@imperial.ac.uk. Registration deadline is December 11. Limited funding from an LMS Scheme 3 grant is available for travel from Warwick, Bath, Leeds and Manchester.