Saturday, 03/12/2011

08:30-09:00 Registration (ITP New Building 6th floor)

Morning Session: Fluctuation theorems I: introduction, basic premise and corollaries

Chairperson: Haijun Zhou

09:00-10:00 am

Hyunggyu Park

Introductory review on fluctuation theorems (PDF)

10:00-10:40 am

Zhanchun Tu

Bounds of efficiency at maximum power for linear, superlinear and sublinear irreversible carnot-like heat engines (PDF)

Coffee Break

Chairperson: Zhanchun Tu

11:00-11:40 am

Daquan Jiang

Fluctuation theorems of sample entropy production (PDF)

11:40-12:20 am

Fei Liu

Generalized integral fluctuation theorem and time reversal in stochastic systems (PDF)

Lunch

Afternoon Session: Fluctuation theorems: experimental tests

Chairperson: Fei Liu

14:30-15:30 pm

Yanwen Tan

How does enzyme work?  A single-molecule perspective (PDF)

15:30-16:10 pm

Bin Xu

Test the fluctuation theorems with two-person constant-sum 2x2 games (PDF)

Coffee Break

Chairperson: Yuhai Tu

16:30-17:10 pm

Ming Li

Experimental studies on single molecular motors (PDF)

17:10-17:50 pm

Jing Yu

Fluctuating biomolecules under tension (PDF)

Dinner

Sunday, 04/12/2011

Morning Session: Fluctuation theorems II: noise in physical and biological systems, new insights from work identities

Chairperson: Leihan Tang

09:00-10:00 am

Yuhai Tu

A nonequilibrium mechanism for an ultrasensitive biological switch: the function and trace of Maxwell demons (PDF)

10:00-10:40 am

Jingdong Bao

Fractional Brownian motion and its applications (PDF)

Coffee Break

Chairperson: Hyunggyu Park

11:00-11:40 am

Jae Dong Noh

Work fluctuations in systems driven by linear forces (PDF)

11:40-12:20 am

Hao Ge

From fluctuation theorems to nonequilibrium thermodynamics (PDF)

Lunch

Afternoon Session: Macromolecular computation, multiscale modeling, free energy landscapes

Chairperson: Jingdong Bao

14:30-15:30 pm

Jooyoung Lee

What can a physicist offer to biology now? And what he cannot? (PDF)

15:30-16:10 pm

Jinshan Wu

Solving non-equilibrium stationary states from effective equations of reduced density matrices via a BBGKY-like method (PDF)

Coffee Break

Chairperson: Fei Liu, Leihan Tang, Yuhai Tu, Zhanchun Tu

16:30-17:50 pm

Round-table Discussion

Dinner