Brownian Motion in Confined Geometries

Workshop: 17 - 21 March 2014

Scientific Coordinators:
Sergey M. Bezrukov (NICHD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA)
Lutz Schimansky-Geier (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
Gerhard Schmid (Universität Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany)

Organisation:
Mandy Lochar (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Dresden, Germany)

The announcement's pdf-file

The Brownian dynamics of micro- or nanosized particles or molecules often proceeds under geometrical constraints leading to novel transport phenomena. We aim at bridging available results on confined Brownian motion of point particles with the emerging work on translocation of realistic complex solutes relevant to biotechnology and biophysics.

Topics include
• Brownian motion and random walks in confined geometries
• escape problems and search strategies in confined geometries
• channel-facilitated transport of biopolymers
• applications in micro- and nano-fluidics confined geometries
• mass and charge transport in artificial and natural micro- and nano-structures
• diffusive mechanisms in confined geometries
• transport of particles, polymers and complex biomolecules in biological cells and zeolites
• catalytic reactions occurring on confining, non-uniform templates or in porous media
• separation techniques of size-dispersed particles
• geometrically confined self-propelled particles

The list of invited speakers: (* to be confirmed)
D. Anselmetti* (Germany)
C. Bechinger (Germany)
O. Benichou (France)
L. Dagdug (Mexico)
K. Dorfman (USA)
J. Dzubiella (Germany)
P. Hänggi (Germany)
D. Holcman* (France)
P. Kalinay (Slovakia)
H. Kantz (Germany)
U. Keyser (UK)
R.B. Lehoucq (USA)
S.G. Lemay (Netherlands)
H. Löwen (Germany)
F. Marchesoni (Italy)
S. Martens (Germany)
R. Metzler (Germany)
M. Muthukumar (USA)
P. Nielaba* (Germany)
I. Pagonabarraga* (Spain)
B. Palmieri (Israel)
J. Percus (USA)
U. Rant* (Germany)
D. Ray* (India)
S. Redner (USA)
D. Reguera (Spain)
M. Rubi (Spain)
A. Siria (France)
I. Sokolov (Germany)
R. Voituriez (France)

Applications for participation and oral or poster contributions are welcome and should be made by using the application form on the event's web page. The number of attendees is limited. The registration fee for the event is 120 EUR and should be paid by all participants. Costs for accommodation and meals will be covered by the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems. Limited funding is available to partially cover travel expenses. Please note that childcare is available upon request.

Applications received before December 31, 2013 are considered preferentially.

For further information please e-mail to:
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