Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics

Presentations

• Iterative improvement of free energy landscape reconstructions with optimal protocols derived using automatic differentiation

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 16, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 16, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Publication: Oliver Cheng, Zofia Adamska, Michael P. Brenner, and Megan C. Engel, Iterative improvement of free energy landscape reconstructions with optimal protocols derived from differentiable simulations, planned imminent submission to both arXiv and PRE

  Presenters

  • Megan Engel

    • University of Calgary

  Authors

  • Megan Engel

    • University of Calgary

  • Oliver Cheng

  • Zosia Adamska

  • Michael Brenner

    • Harvard University

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• Optimal control of dissipation in stochastic logic circuits

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 16, 2026, 12:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Songela Chen

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Songela Chen

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • David Limmer

    • University of California, Berkeley

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• Controlling kinetics within rugged energy landscapes using path reweighing and automatic differentiation

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 12:48 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Maximilian Lechner

    • Institute of Science and Technology Austria

  Authors

  • Maximilian Lechner

    • Institute of Science and Technology Austria

  • Carl Goodrich

    • Institute of Science and Technology Austria

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• The Wasserstein Geometry of Real-Space Renormalization

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 1:00 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Eric Regis

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Eric Regis

    • Yale University

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• Optimal nonequilibrium engines obey the thermodynamic Lorentz force law

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Adam Frim

    • University of Pennsylvania

  Authors

  • Adrianne Zhong

    • Northwestern University

  • Adam Frim

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Michael DeWeese

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• Coarse-Graining via Lumping: Exact Calculations and Fundamental Limitations

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Trevor GrandPre

    • Washington University in St. Louis

  Authors

  • Gianluca Teza

  • Attilio Stella

  • Trevor GrandPre

    • Washington University in St. Louis

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• Breaking Morphological Universality: Anisotropy in Lifshitz-Slyozov Coarsening

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 1:36 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Benjamin Vollmayr-Lee

    • Bucknell University

  Authors

  • Benjamin Vollmayr-Lee

    • Bucknell University

  • Arjun Anand

    • Bucknell University

  • Melinda Andrews

    • Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.

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• Nonreciprocal Ising model and the Kitaev-Hatano-Nelson chain.

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 16, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Gabriel Weiderpass

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Gabriel Weiderpass

    • University of Chicago

  • Savdeep Sethi

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• Wildfires as Far-From-Equilibrium Systems: A Theoretical Framework

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 16, 2026, 2:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Antonio Cadilhe

    • Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

  Authors

  • Antonio Cadilhe

    • Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

  • Mário Pereira

  • Paulo Fernandes

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• Harnessing Turbulence for Function

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 16, 2026, 2:12 PM – March 16, 2026, 2:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Daqian Gao

    • The University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Daqian Gao

    • The University of Chicago

  • Matteo Sabato

    • University of Chicago

  • William T. M. Irvine

    • University of Chicago

  • Stefano Sacanna

    • New York University

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