Fondation Francqui-Stichting
Fondation d’Utilité Publique -  Stichting van Openbaar Nut

Complexity and Statistical Mechanics
(Rome, Academia Belgica – March 17-18, 2008)

Programme

Monday March 17,2008

9:10-9:20    Barones Janine Delruelle, Board Member of the Francqui Foundation
9:20-9:30    Walter Geerts, Director of the Academia Belgica
9:30-10:20  Grégoire Nicolis "Nonlinear dynamics and self-organization in the presence of metastable phases"
10:20- 11:10 Antonio Politi "Covariant Lyapunov vectors as a tool to probe chaotic dynamics"

Break

11:30-12:20 Giovanni Jona-Lasinio "Towards nonequilibrium thermodynamics : a phenomenological theory of diffusion processes"

Break

14:30-15:20 Giovanni Gallavotti "Chaos and coarse graining"
15:20-16:10 Angelo Vulpiani "On the relevance of coarse-graining in chaotic and non-chaotic systems"

Break

16:40-17:30 Bernard Derrida "Current fluctuations in non-equilibrium systems"
17:30-18:20 Alberto Imparato "Work and heat probability distribution of a driven Brownian particle"

Tuesday March 18, 2008

9:30-10:20   Jean Bricmont "On a mechanical derivation of Fourier's law"
10:20-11:10 Thomas Gilbert "Heat conduction and Fourier law in weakly interacting many particle dispersing billiards"

Break

11:30-12:20 Giulio Casati "Classical and quantum chaos and understanding and control of heat flow"

Break

14:30-15:20 Luciano Pietronero "Self-organization and stylized facts in agent based models for economics"
15:20-16:10 Stefano Ruffo "Systems with long-range interactions"

Break

16:40-17:30 Francesco Sylos Labini "Complex structures in self-gravitating systems and in galaxy distributions"
17:30-18:20 Pierre Gaspard "Time asymmetry and the complexification of matter under nonequilibrium conditions"