Lectures: Non-Equilibrium Fluctuation Theorems, from Jarzynski’s identity and beyond

April 24, 29 and May 1, 433 Latimer, 2-3:30 PM

Reading list:

• G. E. Crooks, Excursions in Statistical Mechanics (UC Berkeley PhD Thesis, 1999).
• G. Hummer and A. Szabo, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 3658-3661 (2001)
• C. Bustamante, J. Liphardt and F. Ritort, “The non-equilibrium thermodynamics of small systems,” Physics Today 58, 43-48 (2005).