FROM DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS TO STATISTICAL MECHANICS     
WEEK 3

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

18-22 February 2008

All Talks are of 45 minutes.


Monday February 18
9:00-10:00 Herbert Spohn      Kinetic theory of weakly nonlinear wave equations 1
10:00-10:30 Coffee break.
10:30-11:30 Giancarlo Benettin      An introduction to the classical FPU problem: some history, some basic results.
11:30-12:30 Antti Kupiainen      Diffusion and transport for coupled maps with a conservation law
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 Self-organized activities
15:30-16:30 Bernard Derrida      Universal fluctuations of diffusive systems
16:30-17:30 Abhishek Dhar      Effect of phonon-phonon interactions on localization
17:30-18:00 Coffee break.
18:00-19:00 Emanuele Caglioti      The Boltzmann-Grad limit of the periodic Lorentz gas in two space dimension
19:30-20:30 Dinner


Tuesday February 19
9:00-10:00 Giancarlo Benettin      Some recent results on FPU, in one and two dimensions
10:00-10:30 Coffee break.
10:30-11:30 Susanna Terracini      A functional analytic approach to multi-modal periodic trajectories in Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chains 1
11:30-12:30 Herbert Spohn      Kinetic theory of weakly nonlinear wave equations 2
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 Self-organized activities
15:30-16:30 Eric Carlen      Homogeneous cooling states for inelastic Maxwellian collisions
16:30-17:30 Mario Pulvirenti      On the qualitative behavior of the solutions to the 2-D Navier-Stokes equation
17:30-18:00 Coffee break.
18:00-19:00 Lev Truskinovsky      Quasi-statically driven bi-stable system: from underdamped to overdamped regimes
19:30-20:30 Dinner


Wednesday February 20
9:00-10:00 Susanna Terracini      A functional analytic approach to multi-modal periodic trajectories in Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chains 2
10:00-10:30 Coffee break.
10:30-11:30 Sergej Flach      Periodic orbits, localization in normal mode space, and the FPU problem
11:30-12:30 Roberto Livi      Scaling of Heat Conductivity in 1d systems
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Self-organized activities
15:30-16:30 Cedric Bernardin      Fourier law for hamiltonian microscopic dynamics perturbed by a conservative noise
16:30-17:30 Jani Lukkarinen      Heat conduction in anharmonic crystals with self consistent temperature profiles
17:30-18:00 Coffee break.
18:00-18:30 Gerhard Keller      Phase transitions in coupled map lattices
18:30-19:00 Nadine Even      Hydrodynamic limt of a zero range process with discontinuos speed parameter
19:00-19:30 Human Rights session
19:30-20:30 Dinner


Thursday February 21
9:00-10:00 Giovanni Gallavotti      Chaotic hypothesis, Thermostats and SRB distributions
10:00-10:30 Coffee break.
10:30-11:30 Gianni Jona-Lasinio      Nonequilibrium thermodynamics: a self-contained macroscopic description of diffusive systems
11:30-12:30 David Ruelle      A QUOI SERT LA DYNAMIQUE NON LINEAIRE?
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 Self-organized activities
15:30-16:30 Christian Maes      What follows from local detailed balance and how to continue?
16:30-17:30 Thierry Bodineau      Large deviations of lattice Hamiltonian dynamics coupled to stochastic thermostats
17:30-18:00 Coffee break.
18:00-19:00 Sergio Ciliberto      Injected power fluctuations in out of equilibrium systems
19:30-20:30 Dinner (BUILLABAISSE)


Friday February 22
9:00-10:00 Lorenzo Bertini      Small noise asymptotic for the Gallavotti-Cohen functional in diffusion processes
10:00-10:30 Coffee break.
10:30-11:30 Milton Jara      Energy fluctuations for a heat conduction model with conservative noise
11:30-12:30 Joel Lebowitz      Yet unknown
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 Self-organized activities
15:30-16:30 Self-organized activities
16:30-17:30 Self-organized activities
17:30-18:00 Coffee break.
18:00-19:00 Self-organized activities
19:30-20:30 Dinner