Venice meeting on
Fluctuations in small complex systems VI

Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti

Palazzo Franchetti, Venezia, 5th to 9th September 2022
Video created by Inbal Metzler and Communication DFA UNIPD

SCOPE. At this meeting, we want to bring together scientists from the fields of statistical, biological and soft matter physics, to address and discuss novel aspects of the role of fluctuations in small systems ranging from individual protein molecules over living biological cells to the transport of tracers in porous media. In particular on small scales new techniques in microscopy allow experimentalists to track the motion of particles as small as single proteins in living cells or to manipulate single DNA molecules. Concurrently computers have become ever more powerful, permitting simulations over previously unreached time and length scales. The wealth of new experimental and simulations data emerging from these methods also pose the need for novel theoretical approaches to understand the dynamics of systems on such scales. From a physics point of view this development is very exciting as it opens up new vistas in statistical physics, and to explore systems in which fluctuations and disorder become controlling elements.
This meeting brings together participants from leading international laboratories to discuss non-equilibrium and stochastic effects in small systems. Combining experts on experiments, simulations, and theory we are looking forward to another stimulating meeting in the very heart of the Serenissima, Venice.



Organisers.
Ralf Metzler, University of Potsdam
Enzo Orlandini, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padova & Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
Gleb Oshanin, Sorbonne University, Paris
Stanislav Y. Shvartsman, Princeton University
Flavio Seno, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padova & Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
Attilio Stella, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padua & Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti


Sponsors.
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padova
Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam
Flatiron Institute - Simons Foundation
Princeton University
Journal of Physics A