The School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Lincoln is hosting the Ergodicity in Physical Systems and Beyond Conference.

The aim of the Conference is to bring together the diverse communities having an interest in the ergodicity and its applications to share recent developments in the field.

For more information visit the website of the conference here: https://ergodicityphysicsbeyond.wordpress.com/

Conference Programme

Monday, 8th July 2024
9:30 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 10:20 Opening
10:20 – 11:00 Prof. Sergej Flach (Institute for Basic Science)
Thermalization of Weakly Nonintegrable Many-Body Dynamics
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 11:40 Dr. Simone Paleari (Universit`a di Milano)
Almost conserved quantity for macroscopic lattice systems
11:40 – 12:05 Dr. Elsen Tjhung (The Open University)
Entropy production in a spatially-varying population dynamics
12:05 – 12:30 Prabhash Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
Role of asymmetric acinar wall motion on the particle transport in the lung acinus
12:30 – 15:00 Lunch Break
15:00 – 15:30 Dr. Nash Rochman (City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy)
Non-ergodic behavior observed in bacterial growth dynamics with implications for somatic damage
mitigation and viral defense (online)
15:30 – 15:55 Prof. Robert Jack (University of Cambridge)
Large deviations of entropy production: from ergodic to non-ergodic
15:55 – 16:20 Dr. Ben Mestel (The Open University)
A computer-assisted proof of dynamo growth in the stretch-fold-shear map
16:20 – 16:35 Coffee Break
16:35 – 17:00 George N. T. Browne (The Open University)
Computer-assisted proofs in area-preserving twist maps
17:00 – 17:40 Prof. Eli Barkai (Bar-Ilan University)
Infinite ergodic theory meets Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics

Tuesday, 9th July 2024
9:30 – 10:10 Prof. Ole Peters (London Mathematical Laboratory)
The ergodicity question and economic theory
10:10 – 10:35 Prof. Colm Connaughton (London Mathematical Laboratory)
Ergodicity breaking in power compounding random walks
10:35 – 11:00 Dr. Ollie Hulme (Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance)
Ergodicity as a principle of optimal decision-making
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 11:40 Dr. Emilie Rosenlund Soysal (London Mathematical Laboratory)
Unmet Expectations: Ergodicity Breaking in Climate Economics
11:40 – 12:05 Dr. Greg Fisher
Non-ergodicity in asset management
12:05 – 15:00 Lunch Break
15:00 – 15:30 Dr. Peter Morse (Princeton University)
The role of geometry in determining the inherent states of hard sphere systems (online)
15:30 – 16:10 Prof. Rafi Blumenfeld (University of Cambridge)
Detailed balance in non-ergodic out-of-equilibrium systems
16:10 – 16:25 Coffee Break
16:25 – 16:50 Dr. Michael Faulkner (University of Warwick)
General symmetry breaking at a topological phase transition
16:50 – 17:15 Dr. Valentina Baccetti (RMIT University)
The role of ergodicity in the performance of memristive reservoir computing
17:15 – 17:45 Poster session

Wednesday, 10th July 2024
9:30 – 10:10 Prof. Ludovic Berthier (CNRS & University of Montpellier)
Ergodicity and sampling in glassy systems
10:10 – 10:35 Dr. Cillian Cockrell (Queen Mary University of London)
Crossover of dynamical instability at the glass transition and in the supercritical state
10:35 – 11:00 Dr. Alessandro Manacorda (CNR-ISC)
Dynamical mean-field theory of particles: From equilibrium solutions to non-equilibrium challenges
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 11:45 Dan Shafir (Bar-Ilan University)
Disorder-Induced Anti-Friction in Anomalous Diffusion (online)
11:45 – 12:10 Prof. Haris Skokos (University of Cape Town)
Energy transport and chaos in a one-dimensional disordered nonlinear stub lattice
12:10 – 12:30 Conference closure
12:30 – 15:00 Lunch