2009 Boulder Summer School in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
July 6 – July 24, 2009
Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics: Fundamental Problems and Applications

The 2009 Boulder School will be devoted to non-equilibrium systems (introduction, classic models, and recent developments), non-equilibrium work theorems and fluctuation relations, reaction-diffusion and interacting particle systems, non-equilibrium dynamics in magnets, driven elastic systems and soft matter: out of equilibrium: polymers, colloids, membranes.
The goals of this school are twofold: First, to provide a pedagogical introduction and overview of the fundamentals and recent progress in non-equilibrium statistical physics for graduate students and postdocs working in both theory and experiment, and second, to point out opportunities for fruitful future developments.