Theory Club

Thursday 12 Jan 06 - 11:30am

Bursts and heavy tails in human dynamics

Richard Blythe

Thursday 19 Jan 06 - 11:30am

The extinction of family names: generating functions and branching processes

Jonathan Coe

Thursday 26 Jan 06 - 11:30am

Spinning tops

Ben O'Leary

Thursday 9 Feb 06 - 11:30am

An introduction to Lattice Boltzmann

Rupert Nash

Thursday 16 Feb 06 - 11:30am

1/f noise in sandpile models

Mikko Alava (Helsinki University of Technology)

Thursday 23 Feb 06 - 11:30am

Memory equations

Martin Greenall

Thursday 2 Mar 06 - 11:30am

Mode-coupling theory of the glass transition

Thomas Voigtmann

Thursday 9 Mar 06 - 11:30am

Pair Approximation & Applications to Ecological Models

Lawrence Mitchell

Thursday 16 Mar 06 - 11:30am

Numerical computing

Andrew Jackson

Thursday 23 Mar 06 - 11:30am

Mode-coupling theory of the glass transition part 2

Thomas Voigtmann

Thursday 20 Apr 06 - 11:30am

Some general properties of nonequilibrium steady states and a simple example

Beate Schmittmann (Virginia Tech)

Thursday 4 May 06 - 11:30am

Adiabatic compression of a dilute classical gas

Richard Blythe

Thursday 11 May 06 - 11:30am

The Fokker Planck equation and its applications to population genetics

Jonathan Coe & Neelofer Banglawala

Thursday 18 May 06 - 11:30am

How efficiently do hard rods sample phase space?

Graeme Ackland

Thursday 25 May 06 - 11:30am

Entropy and natural selection

Jonathan Coe

Thursday 1 Jun 06 - 11:30am

Quorum sensing

Jamie Wood

Thursday 8 Jun 06 - 11:30am

Computing defect energies for continuous spin glasses

Martin Weigel (Heriot-Watt)

Thursday 15 Jun 06 - 11:30am

Steady states of mass-transport models...

Tom Hanney

Thursday 22 Jun 06 - 11:30am

The war of attrition, or how to win big in mating contests

Lawrence Mitchell

Thursday 29 Jun 06 - 11:30am

Evolving order from complexity

Jamie Wood

Thursday 13 Jul 06 - 11:30am

Information entropy of humpback whale songs

Richard Blythe

Tuesday 3 Oct 06 - 11:30am

Exact solution of the asymmetric exclusion process

Richard Blythe

Tuesday 10 Oct 06 - 11:30am

Connectivity of growing random networks: How preferential attachment leads to scale-free behaviour

Lawrence Mitchell

Tuesday 17 Oct 06 - 11:30am

Monto Carlo simulation and extended sampling

Andrew Jackson

Tuesday 24 Oct 06 - 11:30am

The forward flux sampling method for simulating rare events

Rosalind Allen

Tuesday 7 Nov 06 - 11:30am

Ratchet models and their connection to cell motility

Davide Marenduzzo

Tuesday 14 Nov 06 - 11:30am

Networks, potentials, detailed balance and all that

Graeme Ackland

Tuesday 21 Nov 06 - 11:30am

Mean-field model of fungal growth

Kate Sugden

Tuesday 5 Dec 06 - 11:30am

Kinetic theory of granular media

Alex Buts

Tuesday 12 Dec 06 - 11:30am

What happens next?

Andy Jackson