Date & Venue: Jan. 6 - 10, 2025 / POSTECH

Overview

Statistical mechanics provides a powerful tool for understanding macroscopic systems on the basis of microscopic laws governing the dynamics of their constituents. Its ever-increasing use is not limited to physical sciences but extends to as diverse subjects as biological and social sciences. This annual event is intended to provide graduate students and early-career scientists in statistical physics and related disciplines with the conceptual framework and analytical tools for advanced studies in statistical physics and interdisciplinary research.

Topics

In the 22nd Winter School, we will cover three selected topics in statistical physics on biological or related synthetic systems in nonequilibrium and equilibrium, including active matter and polymer. Three invited lectures will deliver 15 hours of lectures in total devoted to fundamental concepts and theoretical and numerical tools on the subjects listed below. The attending students are expected to participate in a hands-on group project to practice their own understandings on the subjects. Three lecture series (5 hours each) will cover the following topics :

- Analytic and numerical methods for active matter research (J. D. Noh) 

- Stochastic thermodynamics (J. S. Lee)

- Statistical physics of polymers (J. Kim)

For pedagogical purpose, all the Lectures will be delivered in Korean.

School Lecturers

Jae Dong Noh 노재동 (University of Seoul)

Jae Sung Lee 이재성 (KIAS)

Jaeup Kim 김재업 (UNIST)

Organizers

Dong-Hee Kim (GIST) *chair: dongheekim@gist.ac.kr

Jae Sung Lee (KIAS)

Cheol-Min Ghim (UNIST & APCTP)

Sponsors

Korea Insitute for Advance Study

Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics