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PCTS Public Lecture - Introduction by Cliff Brangwynne, Princeton University
Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Phase separation in biology: implications for polarity and disease. Tony Hyman, Dresden
 

PCTS Public Lecture - Introduction by Mikko Haataja, Princeton University
Mon, Apr 20, 2015, 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Short stories in membrane biophysics of how complex behavior arises from minimal components Sarah Keller, Univ. Washington
 

PCTS Seminars by Gavin Crooks, LBNL: Entropy and information
Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
(Maxwell’s demon and Landauer’s principle; The arrow of time) Gavin Crooks, LBNL

PCTS Seminars by Gavin Crooks, LBNL: Perturbation and Response
Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
(fluctuations and dissipation; linear response; the geometry of thermodynamics) Gavin Crooks, LBNL

PUBLIC LECTURE "The Ambiguity of Time's Arrow"
Thu, Apr 9, 2015, 8:00 pm – Fri, Mar 27, 2015, 9:00 pm
In our everyday lives we have the sense that time flows inexorably from the past into the future; that time has a definite direction; and that the arrow of time points towards a future of greater entropy and disorder. But in the microscopic world of atoms and molecules the direction of time is indeterminate and ambiguous. Although entropy…
PCTS Seminars by Gavin Crooks, LBNL: The fluctuations of dissipation
Tue, Apr 7, 2015, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
(Equilibrium and disequilibrium; fluctuations theorems and the Jarzynski’s identity; experiments and observations) Gavin Crooks, LBNL

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