Preliminary program

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Last update: 14/03/2014


  Sunday, 16th March
   
18:00 - 21:00 Registration
   
19:00 - 21:30 Welcome reception
   
   
  Monday, 17th March
   
08:45 - 09:00 Opening - Frank Jülicher, MPIPKS & Scientific Coordinators
   
09:00 - 09:35 Ulrich Keyser (University of Cambridge)
  Optimizing diffusive transport through a synthetic membrane channel
   
09:35 - 10:10 Benoit Palmieri (McGill University, Montréal / Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot)
  Diffusion in confining and fluctuating environments : From atomistic diffusion to cell migration.
   
10:10 - 10:45 Joachim Dzubiella (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
  Molecular diffusion and hydrophobic binding kinetics in water: Insights from explicit-water simulations
   
10:45 - 11:15 coffee break
   
11:15 - 11:50 Murugappan Muthukumar (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
  Theory of polymer capture and translocation through nanopores
   
11:50 - 12:25 Serge Lemay (University of Twente, Enschede)
  Brownian motion of redox molecules in nanochannels
   
12:25 - 14:30 lunch
   
14:30 - 15:05 David Reguera (Universitat de Barcelona)
  Entropic separation and transport in confined systems
   
15:05 - 15:25 Johan Dubbeldam (Delft University of Technology)
  Effects of crowding and pore friction on the translocation time
   
15:25 - 15:45 Anatoly Shushin (Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Moscow)
  The effect of interparticle interaction on the kinetics of geminate reactions of Brownian particles
   
15:45 - 16:30 coffee break
   
16:30 - 17:30
bmcg14 colloquium (chairman: V. Zaburdaev, MPIPKS)
  Sergey M. Bezrukov (NICHD, National Institutes of Health)
  Entropy potentials in description of biological channels and other confining structures
   
18:00 - 19:00 supper
   
19:00 - 21:00
poster session
   
  Tuesday, 18th March
   
09:00 - 09:35 Sidney Redner (Boston University)
  The dynamics of diffusive capture processes
   
09:35 - 10:10 David Holcman (IBENS, Ecole Normale Superieure Paris)
  Narrow escape theory and applications
   
10:10 - 10:45 Raphael Voituriez (CNRS - UPMC, Paris)
  First-passage times of random walks in confinement
   
10:45 - 11:15 coffee break
   
11:15 - 11:50 Olivier Benichou (CNRS - UPMC, Paris)
  Geometry-induced superdiffusion in driven crowded systems
   
11:50 - 12:25 Rich Lehoucq (Sandia National Laboratoires, Albuquerque)
  Analysis and approximation of a finite-range jump process
   
12:25 - 14:30 lunch
   
14:30 - 15:05 Igor Sokolov (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
  Models of subdiffusion induced by geometrical restrictions
   
15:05 - 15:25 Vasyl Kharchenko (National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Sumy)
  Rocking subdiffusive ratchets: Origin, optimization and efficiency
   
15:25 - 15:45 M. Reza Shaebani (Saarland University, Saarbrücken)
  Anomalous diffusion of self-propelled particles on directed random networks
   
15:45 - 16:15 coffee break
   
16:15 - 16:50 Enrico Carlon (KU Leuven)
  Anomalous dynamics of DNA hairpin folding
   
16:50 - 17:10 Assaf Amitai (École normale supérieure - Paris)
  Diffusing polymers in microdomains and extracting geometrical information from chromosome capture data
   
18:00 - 19:00 supper
   
  Wednesday, 19th March
   
09:00 - 09:35 Holger Stark (Technical University of Berlin)
  Hydrodynamics and collective motion of microswimmers
   
09:35 - 10:10 Arthur Straube (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
  Formation and transport of colloidal doublets in a modulated ratchet potential: theory and experiment
   
10:10 - 10:45 Ignacio Pagonabarraga (Universitat de Barcelona)
  Collective molecular motor dynamics in confined geometries
   
10:45 - 11:15
group photo (to be published on the workshop's web page) &
  coffee break
   
11:15 - 11:50 Clemens Bechinger (University Stuttgart)
  Tribology of colloidal systems
   
11:50 - 12:25 Alessandro Siria (CNRS, ILM, Lyon)
  Nanofluidics and triboly inside individual nanotubes
   
12:25 - 14:00 lunch
   
14:00 - 22:00
excursion and conference dinner in Stolpen
   
  Thursday, 20th March
   
09:00 - 09:35 Miguel Rubi (Universitat de Barcelona)
  Working under confinement
   
09:35 - 10:10 Pavol Kalinay (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)
  Effective transport equations in quasi 1D systems
   
10:10 - 10:45 Leonardo Dagdug (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico City)
  Diffusion in narrow asymmetric channels on curved manifolds
   
10:45 - 11:15 coffee break
   
11:15 - 11:50 Steffen Martens (Technische Universität Berlin)
  First steps to incorporate the impact of most general force fields and particle inertia into the Fick-Jacobs approach
   
11:50 - 12:25 Peter Hänggi (University Augsburg)
  Rectifying particle transport via entropic barriers and hydrodynamics
   
12:25 - 14:30 lunch
   
14:30 - 15:05 Holger Kantz (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden)
  Barriers to transport induced by multiplicative noise
   
15:05 - 15:25 Bart Cleuren (Hasselt University)
  Diffusion of interacting particles in discrete geometries
   
15:25 - 15:45 Stefano Pagliara (University of Cambridge)
  Channel-facilitated diffusion boosted by particle binding at the channel mouth
   
15:45 - 16:15 coffee break
   
16:15 - 16:50 Ralf Metzler (University Potsdam)
  Ageing single file motion
   
16:50 - 17:10 Ebrahim Fouladvand (Zanjan University,Tehran)
  One dimensional Brownian motion of an adiabatic piston in a hard rod gas
   
17:10 - 17:30 Jaeoh Shin (University of Potsdam)
  Polymer translocation through a narrow pore with fluctuating driving forces
   
18:00 - 19:00 supper
   
  Friday, 21st March
   
09:00 - 09:35 Fabio Marchesoni (Universita' di Camerino)
  Active brownian particles in a channel
   
09:35 - 10:10 Kevin Dorfman (University of Minnesota)
  Diffusion of DNA in nanochannels
   
10:10 - 10:45 Peter Nielaba (University of Konstanz)
  Model colloids in 2D channel geometry in equilibrium and in external fields
   
10:45 - 11:15 coffee break
   
11:15 - 11:50 Klaus Kroy (University of Leipzig)
  How to break a bond - Theory of rapid force spectroscopy
11:50 - 12:25 Hartmut Löwen (University of Düsseldorf)
  Brownian motion of artificial colloidal microswimmers
   
12:25 - 12:35 closing
   
12:35 - 14:00 lunch