16th Edition. Day 1

Statistical Mechanical Ensembles and Typical Behavior of Macroscopic Systems. In this talk I will focus on describing, in a qualitative way, the reason statistical mechanics is able to predict, with great certainty, behavior of macroscopic systems, both in equilibrium and out of it ... Read more

On quasi-static transformations of diffusive systems, renormalized work and all that. For diffusive systems a theory of quasi static transformations of stationary states has been developed as a byproduct of the macroscopic fluctuation theory. ... Read more

Renormalization and disorder: a simple toy model. The problem of the depinning transition of a line from a random substrate is one of the simplest problems in the the theory of disordered systems. It has a long history among physicists and mathematicians ... Read more