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ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE
XXIII SITGES CONFERENCE on STATISTICAL MECHANICS:
Understanding and Managing Randomness in Physics, Chemistry and Biology
Sitges, Barcelona, SPAIN, 4-8 June 2012
http://www.ffn.ub.es/sitges
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Dear Colleague,
This is the announcement and call for contributions to the XXIII Sitges
Conference on Statistical Mechanics, to be held in Sitges, a charming
seaside resort near Barcelona (Spain), from the 4th until the 8th of
June 2012.
The title of this forthcoming edition of the Sitges Conference will be
"Understanding and Managing Randomness in Physics, Chemistry and
Biology". In this Science Meeting, we intend to stimulate the discussion
of fluctuation phenomena in small-scale systems in interdisciplinary
science.
The Conference Program will include the following topics: fluctuations
in small-scale systems, nanomachines, artificial nanodevices and
nanostructures; fluctuations in intracellular transport and in
biological systems; forces induced by fluctuations and the Casimir
effect; heat radiation at the nanoscale; aggregation and self-assembly
of structures; stochasticity in materials, and in granular and active
matter; fluctuations in confined systems and in systems with few
molecules; mechanisms of generation and conversion of energy based on
the presence of fluctuations; modelling of non-linear noisy systems.
With the organization of this Conference, we will provide a unique
opportunity to exchange points of view, to promote contacts and new
collaborations, and to create a forum for debate that can help us to
give answers to the many open questions in this vast domain of
interdisciplinary research.
We are pleased to announce the following list of plenary speakers:
Bezrukov, S. (NIH, USA)
Bittner, A. (CIC nanoGUNE, Spain)
Bonilla, L. (University Carlos III, Spain)
Cesàro, A. (University of Trieste, Italy)
Dawson, K. A. (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Golestanian, R. (University of Oxford, UK)
Gudowska, E. (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Hänggi, P. (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Hansen, A. (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Karttunen, M. (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Kjelstrup, S. (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Metzler, R. (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Platero, G. (ICMM, Spain)
Schimansky-Geier, L. (Humboldt-University at Berlin, Germany)
Sokolov, I. (Humboldt-University at Berlin, Germany)
Van den Broeck, C. (University of Hasselt, Belgium)
The list of plenary and invited contributors will be periodically
updated in the conference web-page: http://www.ffn.ub.es/sitges.
Important Deadlines:
Request for financial support
15 March 2012
Conference registration for contribution
15 March 2012
Announcement of acceptance of abstracts
16 April 2012
Announcement of financial support
16 April 2012
Early registration fee payment
23 April 2012
Final program communication
2 May 2012
You can register and see the outline structure of this and previous
conferences at the web-site: http://www.ffn.ub.es/sitges,
which will be updated and completed as the
Conference planning proceeds.
If you are interested in presenting a talk (30 min) or a poster
communication, please indicate so in your
registration and submit a single page abstract following the
instructions that can be found in the web page.
We would be very grateful if you could circulate the conference notice
to your colleagues, post-docs, and
Ph.D. students, and encourage them to submit talks and/or posters.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Sitges,
The Local Organizing Committee of the XXIII Sitges Conference
Giancarlo Franzese
Ignacio Pagonabarraga
Agustí Pérez
David Reguera
Miguel Rubi
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