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2010/01/07

16:30-18:00   Room #128 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
LucRey-Bellet (Univ. Massachusetts)
Large deviations, Billiards, and Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
[ Abstract ]
Large deviations have applications in many aspects of statistical mechanics. New applications for the steady states of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics have emerged during the past ten years and these applications deal with the fluctuations of the entropy production. After discussing some general aspects of entropy production we turn to concrete examples, in particular billiards with and without external forces and discuss large deviations theorems for such systems.