QLS Seminar announcement for science-ts Digest, Vol 10, Issue 218

[Quantitative Life Sciences]

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QUANTITATIVE LIFE SCIENCES SEMINAR

Monday, 24 November - 11:00 a.m.

Luigi Stasi Seminar Room, ICTP Leonardo Building (first floor)

Stefano BO (University of Turin, Physics Department)

" Irreversibility and dissipation in multiple-scale systems"

Abstract:
Systems with disparate timescales are ubiquitous in physics and biology. 
Efficient modeling dictates to restrict the description to the slower 
processes and not to fully resolve the faster ones. STEFANO BO will 
discuss this general issue in stochastic systems with multiple 
timescales. In particular, he will address the behavior of 
thermodynamics upon changing the level of resolution. He will show how 
for non-equilibrium systems, under quite general conditions, properties 
of the fast dynamics still affect thermodynamics on the slower scales 
therefore compromising a description of the full system in terms of slow 
variables only.
Finally,  two relevant examples will be given concerning Brownian motion 
and a simple biochemical network.



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