Efe Ilker (MPI-PKS, Dresde) Time is a major constraint for life. Biological systems need to adapt and respond accurately to changes in their environment. This is difficult to achieve : usually, as we drive a system out of equilibrium, the system lags behind the desired state due to information loss, which, for thermodynamic systems, is… Read More »Controlling the dynamics of populations in biology, from proteins to ecological populations (Efe Ilker / LPT / Seminar) – 12/10, 14H.

Tony Jin (Université de Genève, Suisse)  Diffusion is the transport regime most commonly encountered in nature and yet, we do not have to this day a full comprehension of the microscopic origins of diffusion. In order to make progress, it is thus important to have at our disposal toy models that showcase the right physical… Read More »Exact description of quantum stochastic models as quantum resistors (Tony Jin / LPT / Seminar) – 19/10, 14H.

Marc Joyeux (Université Grenoble Alpes) Bacterial genomes are partitioned into several kilobases long chromosomal domains that are topologically independent from each other, meaning that changes of DNA superhelicity in one domain do not propagate to neighbors. Both in vivo and in vitro experiments have been performed to question the nature of the topological barriers at… Read More »Topological barriers of the bacterial genome (Marc Joyeux / LPT / Seminar) – 9/11, 14H.

Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean (MPSD, Hambourg) All-optical spectroscopy of matter is a well-established technique to access properties of electrons and quasi-particles in matter. The description of these optical properties is usually done employing ab initio methods based on linear response theory. The recent advances in experimental techniques have opened up the possibility to develop novel types of… Read More »Advances in optical spectroscopies of solids : Insight from ab initio simulations (Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean / LPT / Seminar) – 16/11 – 14H.