"Tony and Pat Houghton Conference on
Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics"
Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics"
May 8 & 9, 2017
Register to attend - FREE
Monday May 8, 2017
8:30 – 8:55
Houghton Conference Registration
ICERM, 121 S. Main Street, Floor 11
8:55 – 9:00
Welcome Brendan Hassett, ICERM Director
9:00 – 9:05
Introduction Bob Pelcovits, Chair, Organizing Committee
9:05 – 11:30 Cellular Systems Jay Tang, chair
9:05 – 9:50 Phase Transitions and the Principle of Detailed Balance
in Living Systems
Fred MacKintosh, Rice University
9:50 – 10:15 Coffee/Tea Break
10:15 – 11:00 Active Matter Models of Synthetic Biological
Systems
Tanniemola Liverpool, University of Bristol
11:00 – 11:45 Mechanics of Active Matter Constructed from
Actomyosin
Margaret Gardel, University of Chicago
11:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 4:15 Active Matter Bob Pelcovits, Chair
1:30 – 2:15 Emergent Global Features of the Viscous-
Fingering Instability
Sid Nagel, University of Chicago
2:15 – 3:00 Modeling Biosynthetic Active Matter Mike Shelley, New York University
3:00 – 3:30 Coffee/Tea Break
3:30 – 4:15 Flocking through disorder Denis Bartolo, ENS de Lyon
6:15 Dinner Faculty Club
Tuesday
9:00 – 11:30
May 9, 2017
Brownian Systems
Tom Powers, Chair
9:00 – 9:45 Anomalous Diffusion in Membranes and Cytoplasm of
Biological Cells Ralf Metzler, University of Potsdam
9:45 – 10:30
Physics of Information Processing in Living Systems:
from Sensory Adaptation to Biochemical Oscillations Yuhai Tu, IBM
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee/Tea Break
10:45 – 11:30 Transport of Brownian Particles in a Narrow Channel Fabio Marchesoni, Universita di Camerino
11:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 4:15 Electrokinetic Phenomena Derek Stein, Chair
1:30 – 2:15 Static Versus Dynamic Equilibrium: Insights on the
Structure of Conical Tips in Electrified and Magnetized
Menisci
Juan de la Mora, Yale University
2:15 – 3:00 Diffusiophoresis of Charged Colloidal Particles in
the Limit of Very High Salinity
Dennis Prieve, Carnegie Mellon University
3:00 – 3:30 Coffee/Tea Break
3:30 – 4:15 Electro-osmotic Flow through Nanopores in Thin
Membranes — when the tail wags the dog
Sandip Ghosal, Northwestern University
4:15 – 4:30 Concluding remarks
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