Venice meeting on Fluctuations in small complex systems II

9th to 13th October 2014
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
Palazzo Franchetti

 In this meeting, we want to bring together scientists from the fields of biological physics and soft matter, to address and discuss novel aspects of the role of fluctuations in small systems ranging from individual DNA molecules to living cells. With emerging experimental tools allowing us to mechanically probe and manipulate individual DNA molecules and to follow the trajectories of individual biomolecules in living cells we enter a new era of understanding biological function. Physicists contribute to this development both experimentally and theretically, by explaining the physical origin of the observed behaviour. From a physics point of view this development is the more exciting as it opens up new vistas, due to the small size of the systems involved: thermal fluctuations control the behaviour of the systems and their dynamics. This meeting brings together participants from leading international laboratories to discuss non-equilibrium and stochastic effects in small systems.  

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