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SECOND 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 second 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:
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Request for financial support
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23 March 2012
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Conference registration for contribution
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23 March 2012
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Announcement of acceptance of abstracts
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16 April 2012
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Announcement of financial support
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16 April 2012
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Early registration fee payment
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23 April 2012
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Final program communication
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2 May 2012
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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