Theory Club

Wednesday 18 Jan 12 - 11:30am

Explosive condensation in a mass transport model

Bartek Waclaw

Wednesday 25 Jan 12 - 11:30am

Cycles in population dynamics due to stochastic resonances

Dominic Russell

Wednesday 8 Feb 12 - 11:30am

On derivations of some simple results in hydrodynamics.

Alexander Morozov

Wednesday 15 Feb 12 - 11:30am

WKB calculation of an epidemic outbreak distribution

Richard Blythe

Wednesday 29 Feb 12 - 11:30am

Random energy model and the replica method

Peter Mottishaw

Wednesday 7 Mar 12 - 11:30am

Replica method step by step

Peter Mottishaw

Wednesday 14 Mar 12 - 11:30am

Responses to perturbations in Brownian dynamics simulations

Rosalind Allen

Wednesday 21 Mar 12 - 11:30am

Large Deviation Theory and Thermodynamics

Philip Greulich

Wednesday 11 Apr 12 - 11:30am

Non-Equilibrium phase transitions in large deviation theory: chemical potential and Maxwell construction

Philip Greulich

Wednesday 18 Apr 12 - 11:30am

Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution

Bartek Waclaw

Wednesday 25 Apr 12 - 11:30am

Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 2)

Bartek Waclaw

Wednesday 2 May 12 - 11:30am

Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 3)

Bartek Waclaw

Wednesday 9 May 12 - 11:30am

Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 4): the quasispecies model

Bartek Waclaw

Wednesday 16 May 12 - 11:30am

Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 5): horizontal gene transfer

Bartek Waclaw

Wednesday 23 May 12 - 11:30am

Basics of evolutionary game theory

Fred Farrell

Wednesday 30 May 12 - 11:30am

Smectics: From BPS to Burgers

Randall Kamien

Wednesday 6 Jun 12 - 11:30am

Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 6): finite populations

Bartek Waclaw

Wednesday 13 Jun 12 - 11:30am

Totally asymmetric exclusion process with slow sites: a network theory approach

Juraj Szavits Nossan

Wednesday 20 Jun 12 - 11:30am

An introduction to networks

Steve Court

Wednesday 27 Jun 12 - 11:30am

Molecular, ecological and evolutionary dynamics of quorum-sensing bacteria

Sam Brown

Wednesday 4 Jul 12 - 11:30am

Landau theory of discontinuous phase transitions

Martin Evans

Wednesday 12 Sep 12 - 11:30am

From starling flocks to theory: some new results in flocking

Francesco Ginelli

Wednesday 19 Sep 12 - 11:30am

Totally asymmetric simple exclusion process on a tree lattice

Peter Mottishaw

Wednesday 26 Sep 12 - 11:30am

Langevin equations for interface growth: Edwards-Wilkinson and KPZ equation

Martin Evans

Wednesday 3 Oct 12 - 11:30am

Non-Markovian Asymmetric Exclusion Process

Richard Blythe

Wednesday 10 Oct 12 - 11:30am

Taking directions: self-organization of cortical microtubule array in plants

Bela Mulder

Wednesday 17 Oct 12 - 11:30am

Brownian ratchet as a model of cell crawling

Elsen Tjhung

Wednesday 24 Oct 12 - 11:30am

Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 7): finite populations II

Bartek Waclaw

Wednesday 31 Oct 12 - 11:30am

Ising models at complex temperature: partition function zeroes, helimagnetism, and complex thermodynamics

Chris Hooley (SUPA, University of St Andrews)

Wednesday 7 Nov 12 - 11:30am

Ito vs. Stratonovich dilemma

Juraj Szavits-Nossan

Wednesday 14 Nov 12 - 11:30am

Pattern formation in biology by reaction-diffusion systems

Philip Greulich

Wednesday 21 Nov 12 - 11:30am

Generalised matrix Ansatz and exact current fluctuations in the open ASEP

Alexandre Lazarescu

Wednesday 28 Nov 12 - 11:30am

Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 8): spatial models of growing bacterial colonies

Bartek Waclaw

Wednesday 19 Dec 12 - 11:30am

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem

Graeme Ackland