Brownian Motion: a Paradigm for Soft Matter and Biological Physics

The workshop is co-organized with the Center for NanoScience (CeNS) and will take place on September 26-28, 2005 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.  The program will start Monday 9 am and end Wednesday  4 pm. For Monday night we plan to visit the famous Munich Oktoberfest.

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Speakers:

• Andreas Bausch: 'Cytoskeletal polymer networks: relating molecular structure to macrosopic properties'
• Dieter Braun: 'What drives Molecules along Thermal Gradients?'
• Philippe Cluzel: 'Noise propagation in the chemotaxis network of a single bacterium'
• Werner Ebeling: 'From passive to active Brownian motion'
• Dekel Erez: 'Optimality and evolutionery tuning of the expression level of a protein'
• Ernst-Ludwig Florin: '3D and 2D imaging of soft and dynamic nanostructures  using thermal fluctuations'
• Thomas Franosch: 'The localization transition of the 3D lorentz model and continuum percolation'
• Matthias Fuchs: 'Properties of stationary states in sheared colloidal dispersions'
• Ulrich Gerland: 'Coupled dynamics of DNA/RNA base-pairing and nanopore translocation'
• Gerhard Gompper: 'Hydrodynamics of vesicles and cells in shear and capillary flows'
• Frank Jülicher: 'Cell dynamics and cellular oscillations'
• Yariv Kafri: 'Collective behavior of molecular motors pulling liquid membranes'
• Yossi Klafter: 'Biological processes on the level of a single molecule'
• Klaus Kroy: 'How a deterministic response emerges from Brownian polymer dynamics'
• Georg Maret: 'Conformation and stretching of end tethered DNA'
• Ralf Metzler: 'Breathing dynamics of local DNA-denaturation zones- Sequencing and nano-sensing'
• Felix Ritort: 'Recovering folding free energies of RNA molecules in an experimental test of Crooks fluctuation theorem'
• Christoph Schmidt: 'Short time inertial response of viscoelastic fluids: direct observation of vortex propagation in the correlated Brownian motion of micron-sized particles'
• Udo Seifert: 'Fluctuation theorems, Jarzynski relation and entropy production'
• Igor Sokolov: 'Diffusion in complex molecular systems: nonlocality and memory'
• Holger Stark: 'Hydrodynamic Interactions in Colloidal Physics and the Locomotion in Biology'
• Royce Zia: 'On Mass Transport Models: Exact Results, Condensation Transitions, and Condensates' Properties'