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7th International Conference on Unsolved Problems on NoiseBarcelona, Casa Convalescència, Spain, July 13-17 2015 |
Program UPoN 2015
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Monday, July 13 2015
8:00 9:00 Registration 9:00 9:30 Welcome and opening remarks UPoN 2015 Ferran Sancho Pifarré - Rector de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) Emilio Lora-Tamayo D'Ocón - President of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Xavier Oriols - Chairman UPoN 2015
Fluctuations in econophysics 9:30 10:00 Novel Statistical Physics Approaches to Understanding Economic Fluctuations ( INVITED ) 
H. Eugene Stanley (USA)
Applications of noise(I) CHAIRMAN: Michael F. Shlesinger (USA) 10:00 10:30 Active Brownian motion in confined geometries ( INVITED ) Vyacheslav R. Misko (Belgium) 10:30 10:50 Brownian motion and weak ergodicity breaking ( ORAL ) G. J. Lapeyre, Jr (Spain) 10:50 11:10 Brownian motors in the micro-scale domain: Enhancement of efficiency by noise ( ORAL ) Jakub Spiechowicz (Poland) 11:10 11:30 Unconditional security in practical Kirchhoff-law-Johnson-noise key exchangers ( ORAL ) Laszlo B. Kish (USA) Coffee Break
Noise in complex and non-linear systems (I) CHAIRMAN: Lukasz Machura (Poland) 12:00 12:30 Rates of rare events: scaling, fragility, and delay effects ( INVITED ) Mark Dykman (USA) 12:30 12:50 Stochastic resonance and diversity-induced resonance in complex systems ( ORAL ) Marco Patriarca (Estonia) 12:50 13:10 Non-hermitian diffusion ( ORAL ) Maciej A. Nowak (Poland) Lunch (at the Dining Room of Casa Convalescència)
Fluctuations in biological systems (I) CHAIRMAN: Aneta Stefanovska (UK) 14:40 15:10 From cell membranes to ultracold gases: classical and quantum diffusion in inhomogeneous media ( INVITED ) Pietro Massignan (Spain) 15:10 15:30 A motor that detects the length of DNA by using chain fluctuation ( ORAL ) Kuni H Iwasa (Germany) 15:30 15:50 Model and parameter determination for molecular motors from single molecule experiments ( ORAL ) Francisco Javier Cao (Spain) 15:50 16:10 Free energy measurement of ligands binding nucleic acids using fluctuation theorems ( ORAL ) Joan Camunas-Soler (Spain) Coffee Break
Fluctuations in biological systems (II) CHAIRMAN: Bernardo Spagnolo (Italy) 16:40 17:10 Is it possible to detect long-range interactions among biomolecules through noise and diffusion? ( INVITED ) Irene Donato (France) 17:10 17:30 Electrochemical noise analysis to probe ion transport mechanisms in a membrane channel ( ORAL ) Maria Queralt-Martin (Spain) 17:30 17:50 Coulomb Blockade of Stochastic Permeation in Biological Ion Channels ( ORAL ) P.V.E. McClintock (UK) 17:50 18:10 Antipersistent Random Walk in a Two State Flashing Magnetic Potential ( ORAL ) Pietro Tierno (Spain) 18:10 18:30 Giant acceleration of diffusion observed in a single-molecule experiment on F1-ATPase ( ORAL ) Kumiko Hayashi (Japan)
Tuesday, July 14 2015
Quantum noise and coherence (I) CHAIRMAN: Wolfgang Belzig (Germany) 9:00 9:30 The role of temperature in different thermodynamic ensembles ( INVITED ) Peter Hänggi (Germany) 9:30 10:00 Adiabatic Passage and Noise in Quantum Dots ( INVITED ) Sigmund Kohler (Spain) 10:00 10:20 Non-zero probability of detecting identical electrons at the same position: How does it affect the Landauer-Büttiker noise expression at high temperatures? ( ORAL ) Enrique Colomés (Spain) 10:20 10:40 Dissipative dynamics of a quantum particle strongly interacting with a super-Ohmic heat bath ( ORAL ) Luca Magazzu (Italy) 10:40 11:00 Fractional quantum Hall spectroscopy investigated by a resonant detector ( ORAL ) Alessandro Braggio (Italy) Coffee Break
Experimental frontiers of noise CHAIRMAN: Luca Varani (France) 11:30 12:00 Thermal and mechanical noise in gravitational wave detectors ( INVITED ) Gianpietro Cagnoli (France) 12:00 12:20 The quest for the missing noise in a micro-mechanical system out of equilibrium ( ORAL ) Ludovic Bellon (France) 12:20 12:40 Noise Thermal Impedance: a way to access electron dynamics. ( ORAL ) E. Pinsolle (Canada) Poster session and Lunch (at the Dining Room of Casa Convalescència)
Applications of noise (II) CHAIRMAN: Laszlo Kish (USA) 15:30 15:50 Towards an information-theoretic model of the Allison mixture ( ORAL ) Lachlan Gunn (Australia) 15:50 16:10 How a player with finite memory can win by switching in a sequence of Parrondo Games? ( ORAL ) Ka Wai CHEUNG (China) 16:10 16:30 Asymmetry in Genetic Code and the Role of Parrondo’s Paradox in Nature ( ORAL ) Lee Kee Jin (Singapore) Coffee Break
Fluctuations in materials and devices (I) CHAIRMAN: Javier Mateos (Salamanca) 17:00 17:20 Percolation noise at the metal-insulator transition of nanostructured VO2 films ( ORAL ) Laszlo B. Kish (USA) 17:20 17:40 Frequency-dependent shot noise in single-electron devices interpreted by means of waiting time distributions ( ORAL ) Vincent Talbo (Spain) 17:40 18:00 Conductance fluctuations in Si nanowires studied from first-principles ( ORAL ) Riccardo Rurali (Spain)
Wednesday, July 15 2015
Fluctuations in biological systems (III) CHAIRMAN: Peter McClintock (England) 9:00 9:30 Chronotaxic dynamics: when the characteristic frequencies fluctuate and the system is stable ( INVITED ) Aneta Stefanovska (UK) 9:30 9:50 Fluctuations and effective temperature in an active dumbbell system ( ORAL ) Giuseppe Gonnella (Italy) 9:50 10:10 Fluctuation Relations applied to characterize heterogeneous molecular ensembles ( ORAL ) Alvaro Martínez-Monge (Spain) 10:10 10:30 Stochastic facilitation in the brain? ( ORAL ) Lawrence M. Ward (Canada) 10:30 10:50 Seeking for a fingerprint: analysis of point processes in actigraphy recording ( ORAL ) Ewa Gudowska-Nowak (Poland) Coffee Break
Fluctuations in materials and devices (II) CHAIRMAN: Gijs Bosman (USA) 11:20 11:50 Noise in graphene and carbon nanotube devices ( INVITED ) Bernard Plaçais (France) 11:50 12:10 Is the peculiar behavior of 1/f noise in graphene the result of the interplay between band-structure and inhomogeneities? ( ORAL ) M. Macucci (Italy) 12:10 12:30 Monte Carlo study of velocity fuctuations during transient regimes in graphene ( ORAL ) José M. Iglesias (Spain) Photo of the UPoN 2015 conference (12:30) Lunch (at the Dining Room of Casa Convalescència)
Fluctuations in materials and devices (III) CHAIRMAN: Massimo Macucci (Italy) 14:30 14:50 Measurements of RF noise in InGaAs/InAlAs recessed diodes: Signatures of shot-noise suppression ( ORAL ) J. Mateos (Spain) 14:50 15:10 1/f noise arising from time-subordinated Langevin equations ( ORAL ) Julius Ruseckas (Lithuania) 15:10 15:30 Plasmonic Noise of Field-Effect Transistors Operating at Terahertz Frequencies ( ORAL ) L. Varani (France) Visit to Sagrada Familia / Catedral del mar (17:00) Committee dinner
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Theoretical trends in noise and fluctuations (I) CHAIRMAN: Peter Hänggi (Germany) 9:00 9:30 Fluctuation theorems and stochastic thermodynamics : applications to energy fluctuations in electric circuits and micro devices ( INVITED ) Sergio Ciliberto (France) 9:30 9:50 Experimental realization of a microscopic Carnot engine ( ORAL ) L. Dinis (Spain) 9:50 10:10 Equilibrium and non-equilibrium fuctuations at the single molecule level: from free-energy measurements to inference ( ORAL ) M. Ribezzi-Crivellari (Spain) 10:10 10:30 Fluctuations of intensive variables and non-equivalence of thermodynamic ensembles ( ORAL ) A.Ya. Shul’man (Russia) Coffee Break
Other topics of noise CHAIRMAN: Felix Ritort (Spain) 11:00 11:30 How can the fluctuations in the motion of kayak-paddlers be used to estimate performance? ( INVITED ) Zoltan Gingl (Hungary) 11:30 11:50 Is There an Optimal Search Strategy? ( ORAL ) Michael F. Shlesinger (USA) 11:50 12:10 A stochastic model for phytoplankton dynamics in the Tyrrhenian Sea ( ORAL ) Davide Valenti (Italy) Poster session and Lunch (at the Dining Room of Casa Convalescència)
Theoretical trends in noise and fluctuations (II) CHAIRMAN: Ludovic Bellon (France) 14:50 15:20 All that glitters is not gold: Zero-point energy in the Johnson noise of resistors ( INVITED ) Laszlo B. Kish (USA) 15:20 15:40 The spectral characteristics of steady-state Lévy flights in an in nitely deep rectangular potential well ( ORAL ) A.A. Kharcheva (Russia) 15:40 16:00 Stationary states in 2D systems driven by Lévy noises ( ORAL ) B. Dybiec (Poland) 16:00 16:20 Typical pure states and rare events for quantum many-body systems ( ORAL ) Takaaki Monnai (Japan) Coffee Break
Noise in complex and non-linear systems (II) CHAIRMAN: Derek Abbott (Australia) 16:50 17:10 Degradation Stochastic Resonance Concept: Benefits of Controlled Noise Injection in Adaptive Averaging cell-based Architecture ( ORAL ) Antonio Rubio (Spain) 17:10 17:30 Noise on resistive switching: a Fokker-Planck approach ( ORAL ) G. A. Patterson (Argentina) 17:30 17:50 Stochastic enhancement of absolute negative mobility ( ORAL ) Lukasz Machura (Poland) 17:50 18:10 Cascade Amplification of Fluctuations ( ORAL ) Michael Wilkinson (UK) 18:10 18:30 Conversion of mechanical noise into useful electrical energy using piezoelectric 2D materials ( ORAL ) Gabriel Abadal (Spain) Gala dinner - Museu d'Historia de Catalunya - (20:30)
Friday, July 17 2015
Quantum noise and coherence (II) CHAIRMAN: Paolo Bordone (Italy) 9:00 9:30 Classical and quantum non-linear dynamics in optomechanical systems ( INVITED ) Yaroslav Blanter (Netherlands) 9:30 9:50 Pauli-Heisenberg Oscillations in Electron Quantum Transport ( ORAL ) Karl Thibault (Canada) 9:50 10:10 Effects of non-Gaussian a-stable noise sources on the transient dynamics of long Josephson junctions ( ORAL ) Claudio Guarcello (Italy) 10:10 10:30 On the weak measurement of the electrical THz current: a new source of noise ? ( ORAL ) Damiano Marian (Italy) Coffee Break
Quantum noise and coherence (III) CHAIRMAN: Yaroslav Blanter (Netherlands) 11:00 11:30 Elementary events and probabilities in time-dependent quantum transport ( ORAL ) Wolfgang Belzig (Germany) 11:30:11:50 Electron interferometry in quantum Hall edge channels ( ORAL ) Jerôme Rech (France) 11:50 12:10 Functional approach to heat-exchange, application to the spin boson model: from Markov to quantum noise regime. ( ORAL ) Matteo Carrega (Italy) 12:10 12:30 Heat and charge current fluctuations in a thermoelectric quantum dot ( ORAL ) Adeline Crépieux (France) 12:30 12:45 Concluding remarks Lino Reggiani (Italy)
POSTER SESSION
