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Saturday, May 13
Collegium Maius, Jagiellońska 15
1900 Get together Party
Sunday, May 14
Collegium Novum, Gołębia 24
  Chairperson: Andrzej Fuliński
900-920 Karol Musioł
(Rector of the Jagellonian University)
Andrzej Białas
(President of Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences)
Opening
930-1000 Jarosław Piasecki Centenary of Marian Smoluchowski's kinetic theory of the Brownian motion
1000-1030 Harald Posch From diffusion to the colour of the sky:
Marian Smoluchowski's scientific roots and his impact on statistical physics
1030-1100 Coffee break
1100-1130 Joseph Klafter Searching a circular DNA strand: a stochastic approach
1130-1200 Peter Talkner Long-time behavior of driven Smoluchowski processes with metastable states
1200-1230 Peter Hänggi Quantum aspects of Brownian motion and Brownian motors
1900 Banquet
Monday, May 15
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Sławkowska 17
  Chairperson: Peter Hänggi
900-930 Katja Lindenberg Subdiffusion-Reaction Problems
930-1000 Igor M. Sokolov Response, fluctuations and reactions in subdiffusive systems
1000-1030 Alexander Dubkov Anomalous diffusion
1030-1100 Coffee break
1100-1130 Miguel Rubi Fick-Jakobs kinetics for entropic transport in quasi-onedimensional structures
1130-1200 Fereydoon Family Smoluchowski Rate Equation Approach to Cluster Size Distribution: Beyond Mean-Field
1200-1230 Michael Shlesinger The glass transition: Stretched times and divergent time scales
1230-1300 Woybor A. Woyczynski Large scale structure of the universe and scaling limits for clasical and anomalous conservation laws
1300 Lunch
  Chairperson: Howard Lee
1500-1530 Andrzej Fuliński Asymmetries and anomalous phenomena in ionic transport through nanochannels
1530-1600 Sergey Bezrukov Static and dynamic disorder in protein folding: Fluctuating ion channels
1600-1630 Werner Ebeling Several generalizations of the Smoluchowski equation
1630-1700 Henrik Flyvbjerg Cell motility as persistent random motion: theories from experiments
1700-1730 Coffee break
1730-1800 R. Dean Astumian The unreasonable effectiveness of equilibrium-like theory for interpreting non-equilibrium experiments
1800-1830 Bernardo Spagnolo Lifetime of metastable states and suppression of noise in interdisciplinary physical models
1830-1900 George Maret Breakdown of photon transport due to Anderson localization
Tuesday, May 16
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Sławkowska 17
  Chairperson: Harald Posch
900-930 Jakub Zakrzewski Atomic physics meets condensed matter physics
930-1000 Joachim Anherhold The Quantum Smoluchowski Equation
1000-1030 Maciej A. Nowak Brownian Walks of Large Matrices
1030-1100 Coffee break
1100-1130 Eli Pollak Hamiltonian theory of stochastic acceleration
1130-1200 Adi R. Bulsara Novel Coupling of Nonlinear Elements for Fun and Profit
1200-1230 Howard Lee Ergodic hypothesis in Hermitian many-body problems
1230-1300 Wojciech H. Żurek  
1300 Lunch
  Chairperson: Michael Shlesinger
1500-1530 Claudio Zannoni The intertwining of structure and dynamics in liquid crystals
1530-1600 Robert Hołyst Evaporation/condensation in a microscale
1600-1630 David Allender Ordered liquid-disordered liquid phase separation in bilayer leaflets.
1630-1700 Clemens Bechinger Surmounting barriers: The benefit of hydrodynamic interactions
1700-1730 Francesc Sagues Noise-mediated rhythms in active media
1730-1800 Coffee break
1800-1930 Poster session
Wednesday, May 17
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Sławkowska 17
  Chairperson: Jerzy Łuczka
900-930 Christian Van den Broeck From Brownian motor to Brownian refrigerator
930-1000 Harvey Scher Anomalous transport in geological formations: Theory and observations
1000-1030 Ralf Eichhorn Noise-induced enantiomer separation in a microfluidic channel
1030-1100 Coffee break
1100-1130 Horacio Wio Stochastic resonance in extended systems: general nonequilibrium potential framework
1130-1200 Lutz Schimansky-Geier Low randomness in ratchets and steppers
1200-1230 Henryk Galina Smoluchowski coagulation equation in modeling polymerization processes
1230-1300 Gabor Papp Two level system perturbed by noise: the Random Matrix Theory Approach
1300 Lunch
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