Focus Session: Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Small Systems

Presentations

• Beyond the second law.

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 13, 2008, 11:15 AM – March 13, 2008, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Christian Van den Broeck

    Hasselt University

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• Dynamics of Microtubule Growth and Catastrophe

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 11:51 AM – March 13, 2008, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Sidney Redner

    Boston University

  • Tibor Antal

    Harvard University

  • Paul Krapivsky

    Boston University

  • Mitch Mailman

    Brandeis University

  • Bulbul Chakraborty

    Brandeis University

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• Work fluctuations in modulated systems: what is and what is not universal in the steady state

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:03 PM – March 13, 2008, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Mark Dykman

    Michigan State University

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• Recognizing the role of microscopic reversibility in stochastic systems with optical trapping experiments as an example

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:15 PM – March 13, 2008, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Ross Brody

    University of Maine

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• What Do We Measure With Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy?

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:27 PM – March 13, 2008, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Ching-Hwa Kiang

    Rice University

  • Nolan Harris

    Rice University

  • Eric Botello

    Rice University

  • Wei-Hung Chen

    Rice University

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• Holographic microrheology of biofilms

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:39 PM – March 13, 2008, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Fook Chiong Cheong

    New York University

  • Simone Duarte

    New York University

  • David G. Grier

    New York University, Department of Physics and Center for Soft Matter Research, New York University, Center for Soft Matter Research of New York University, Center for Soft Matter Research, New York University

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• Fluctuation relations in a micromechanical oscillator driven far from thermal equilibrium

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:51 PM – March 13, 2008, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Corey Stambaugh

    University of Florida

  • Ho Bun Chan

    University of Florida

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• Effect of charge distribution on the translocation of an inhomogeneously charged polymer through a nanopore

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 1:03 PM – March 13, 2008, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Aruna Mohan

    Rice University

  • Anatoly Kolomeisky

    Rice University

  • Matteo Pasquali

    Rice University, Dep. Chemical and Biomolecular Eng., Rice Univ.

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• Heat Transport in spin chains

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 1:15 PM – March 13, 2008, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Jinshan Wu

    UBC

  • Mona Berciu

    UBC, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, University of British Columbia

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• Athermal dynamics of strongly coupled stochastic three-state oscillators

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 1:27 PM – March 13, 2008, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Lev Tsimring

    UCSD, INS-University of San Diego, USA, University of California, San Diego

  • Bastien Fernandez

    University of Marseille

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• Entropy-driven hysteresis in a model of DNA overstretching

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 1:39 PM – March 13, 2008, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Stephen Whitelam

    University of Warwick

  • Sander Pronk

    UC Berkeley

  • Phillip Geissler

    UC Berkeley

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• Replica and extreme-value analysis of the Jarzynski free-energy estimator

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 1:51 PM – March 13, 2008, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Matteo Palassini

    Department of Fundamental Physics, University of Barcelona

  • Felix Ritort

    Department of Fundamental Physics, University of Barcelona

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• Hand-Over-Hand Binding in a Tethered-Particle Method Study of DNA Hybridization

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 2:03 PM – March 13, 2008, 2:15 PM

  Authors

  • Marie T. Ung

    University of Pennsylvania

  • John Crocker

    University of Pennsylvania

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