Exploring the Physics of Small Devices

Science meetings

Please submit your proposal for science meetings using this application form.

Applications for events taking place in 2012 should be submitted before 1 November 2011.

You will find here the guidelines for science meetings organisers 

The programme will support financially the following events:

2012

Workshop "kTlog2 Cuenca: Quantum Fluctuations and Information"
Cuenca, 24-26 May 2012
Contact: Juan Manuel Rodriguez Parrondo

Workshop "Search and Stochastic Phenomena in Complex Physical and Biological Systems"
Institute for Cross-disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems, 28/05-1/06 2012
Contact: Carlos Mejia Monasterio, Madrid

Conference "Understanding and managing randomness in physics, chemistry and biology"
Sitges, Barcelona, 4-8 June 2012
Contact: Miguel Rubi
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Workshop "New trends in Scanning Probe Microscopy: simultaneous tunneling and current measurements"
Cesky Krumlov, 30/06 - 2/07 2012
Contact: Pavel Jelinek, Prague

Workshop "Small Matters"
UCSD San Diego, 30-31 July 2012
Contact: Christian Van den Broeck, Diepenbeek

II Summer School on Statistical Physics of Complex and Small Systems
Benasque, 3-14 September 2012
Contact: Fernando Falo, Zaragoza

XXVth Marian Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics: Fluctuation Relations in Nonequilibrium Regime
Jagiellonian University in Krakow, 10-13 September 2012
Contact: Ewa Gudowska-Nowak, Krakow

6th International Workshop on Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics
Røros, 20-24 August 2012
Contact: Dick Bedeaux, Trondheim

Workshop "Engineering the Casimir force - theoretical and experimental perspectives"
Hotel Villalba, Vilaflor, Canary Islands, 7-10 November 2012
Contact: David Stanley Dean, Talence

2011

Workshop "Noise in nonequilibrium systems: From Physics to Biology"
MPI Dresden, 11-14 April 2011
Contact: Peter Talkner, Augsburg
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Workshop "Thermodynamics: can macro learn from nano? (ND2011)"
Snogeholm Castle, 24-26 May 2011
Contact: Heiner Linke, Lund

Workshop "New trends in molecular assembling and electronics: experiment and theory" joined with the 13th ICFS Conference
Dresden, 4-6 July 2011
Contact: Pavel Jelinek, Prague

Conference "Nonequilibrium processes: the last 40 years and the future"
Obergurgl, 28/08-02/09/2011
Contact: Harald Posch, Vienna
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Summer School on Statistical Physics of Complex and Small Systems
Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 19-23 September 2011
Contact: Pere Colet, Palma de Mallorca
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24th Marian Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics
Zakopane, 17-22 September 2011
Contact: Ewa Gudowska-Nowak, Krakow
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Nordita extended workshop (4-6 weeks) Foundations and Applications of Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stockholm, 19/09-13/10/2011
Contact: Ralf Eichhorn, Stockholm

Workshop "Photovoltaics at the nanoscale"
Hasselt, Belgium30/10 - 04/11/2011, Hasselt, Belgium
Contact: Bart Mario Michel Cleuren, Diepenbeek 

Workshop "Stochastic Dynamics in Mathematics, Physics and Engineering"
Bielefeld, 2-4 November 2011
Contact: Max-Olivier Hongler, Lausanne

 

2010

School "Understanding and exploiting complexity at the nanoscale"
Brussels, 20-22 January 2010
Contact: Massimiliano Esposito
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Workshop on "Optimal Stochastic Control"
Funchal, Portugal, 14-18 February 2010
Contact: Max-Olivier Hongler

Workshop on "Mechanics of large molecular assemblies: from single molecules to cell shape"
Mallorca, Spain, 8-10 April 2010
Contact: Manuel A. Matias

Workshop on "Complex Energy Landscapes: Computational and Statistical Methods of Soft matter"
Zaragoza, Spain, 2-4 June 2010
Contact: Jesus Gomez-Gardenes

Workshop on "Recent Development in the Physics of Micro- and Nano Devices"
Lund, Sweden, 21-24 June 2010
Contact: Hongqi Xu
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Workshop on "Optimization At a Small scale"
UCSD, La Jolla, United States, 19-23 July 2010
Contact: Christian van den Broeck

Workshop "New trends in nonlinear dynamics: heat control and thermo-electric efficiency (HEAT 2010)"
Erice, Italy, 1-6 August 2010
Contact: Heiner Linke, Lund

Workshop "Optimization in stochastic nano-systems"
Delmenhorst, Germany, 10-13 October 2010
Contact: Andreas Engel

Workshop "Beyond the Casimir Force"
Siguenza, Spain, 10-13 November 2010
Contact: Ricardo Brito

2009

Workshop on "Optimization At a Small Scale"
La Jolla, USA, 19 - 23 July 2009
Contact: Christian van den Broeck

School on Fundamental Problems in Statistical Mechanics XII
La Foresta, Leuven, 31 August - 11 September 2009
Organiser: Gerard T. Barkema
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Workshop "kT log 2: Computing matters"
Toledo, 22 - 24 October 2009
Organiser: Juan M.R. Parrondo
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