Bernard Derrida Aisenstadt Chair Lecture Series
Bernard Derrida will give a series of three lectures suring his visit to the Centre de recherches math茅matiques for the Aisenstadt Chair.
The first two will take place in the workshop:聽Interacting Particle Systems and Hydrodynamic Limits聽in March 2022.The third one will take place in the workshop: Branching systems, reaction-diffusion equations and population models in May 2022.
First lecture:
Lecture intended for a wider audience and presented as part of the Quebec Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Friday, March 18, 2022, 3:30 PM (on Zoom and in the room)
Centre de recherches math茅matiques
Andr茅-Aisensdadt Pavilion, Universit茅 de Montr茅al
Room 6214
(To get the Zoom link if you are not a participant of the March 14-25 workshop, please聽register )
罢颈迟濒别:听The importance of large deviations in non-equilibrium systems
Abstract:
Statistical Physics allowed to unify, at the end of the 19th century, Newton's mechanics and thermodynamics. It gave a way to predict the amplitude of fluctuations around the physical laws which were known at that time. Einstein, in his very first works, showed that the measurement of these fluctuations allowed to estimate the size of atoms. His reasoning, which was at the origin of the linear response theory, applied to the black body gave one of the first evidences of the duality wave-particle in Quantum Mechanics. Statistical Physics gives also a framework to predict large deviations for systems at equilibrium. In the last two decades, major efforts were devoted to extend our understanding of the statistical laws of fluctuations and large deviations to non-equilibrium systems. This talk will try to present some of the recent progresses.
Second lecture (TBA)
Third lecture (TBA)
Biography:
Bernard Derrida is a French theoretical physicist, he is an expert in statistical mechanics who has adapted statistical-physics ideas to various problems in biology and is best known for his work in statistical mechanics, and is the eponym of Derrida plots, an analytical technique for characterizing differences between Boolean networks.
He passed the entrance examination for the 脡cole Normale Sup茅rieure in 1971 and then the aggregation of physics in 1974 and obtained his doctorate in 1979.
In 1993, he became a university professor. He then taught at the Universit茅 Pierre et Marie Curie and at the ENS where he was part of the statistical physics laboratory.
Since 2015, he has held the Statistical Physics Chair at the Coll猫ge de France.
In 2010, Derrida was awarded the Amp猫re Prize in 2001 and the Boltzmann Medal by IUPAP with John Cardy and he was elected, in 2004 to the Acad茅mie des sciences.