Preprint: Sampling an Ensemble of Low-dissipation Protocols for Nonequilibrium Control
Todd R. Gingrich, Grant M. Rotskoff, Gavin E. Crooks, Phillip L. Geissler arXiv:1602.01459
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Announcement: Introducing GavinCrooks.com
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Celebrating 50,000 Publications: Physical Review E Milestones
Entropy production fluctuation theorem and the nonequilibrium work relation for free energy differences Gavin E. Crooks Phys. Rev. E 60, 2721 (2000)
Article: Optimal control in nonequilibrium systems: Dynamic Riemannian geometry of the Ising model
Grant M. Rotskoff, Gavin E. Crooks, Phys. Rev. E, 92, 060102 (2015) [ Full text | Journal| arXiv ] Abstract A general understanding of optimal contr...
Grand East Coast Tour (Oct/Nov 2015)
Optimal Thermodynamic Control and the Dynamic Riemannian Geometry of Ising magnets Stonybrook University Friday Oct. 30, 2:30pm, Laufer Center lecture ha...
Princeton Lectures on The Dynamics of Disorder
Over the next 2 weeks I will be lecturing at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science on non-equilibrium statistical dynamics. The Fluctuations of Diss...
Quote of the Day
“And then there’s quantum, of course.” The monk sighed. “There’s always bloody quantum.”
Tech. Note: On Measures of Entropy and Information
A brief overview of information measures on classical, discrete probability distributions. [
Article: Scaling laws governing stochastic growth and division of single bacterial cells
Srividya Iyer-Biswas, Charles S. Wright, Jonathan T. Henry, Klevin Lo, Stanislav Burov, Yihan Lin, Gavin E. Crooks, Sean Crosson, Aaron R. Dinner, Norbert F...
Article: Universality in Stochastic Exponential Growth
Srividya Iyer-Biswas, Gavin E. Crooks, Norbert F. Scherer, and Aaron R. Dinner, Phys. Rev. Lett., 113, 028101 (2014)
News: David Sivak, Assistant Professor
I am proud to announce that Simon Fraser University has hired David Sivak (Former Crooks’ Ensemble Postdoctoral Fellow) to the position of Assistant Profes...
WebLogo 3.4 Released
3.4 (2014-06-03) [Gavin Crooks, Eric Talevich] Python 3 Weblogo now runs under python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3 & 3.4 (Python2.5 is no longer suppor...
Article: Time step rescaling recovers continuous-time dynamical properties for discrete-time Langevin integration of nonequilibrium systems
David A. Sivak, John D. Chodera, Gavin E. Crooks, arXiv:1301.3800
Media: Time Marches On (Except when it doesn’t)
Media: The American Scholar By Josie Glausiusz
Tech. Note: Survey of Simple, Continuous, Univariate Probability Distributions
Version: 0.5 BETA In a desperate attempt to preserve my own sanity, a survey of probability distributions used to describe a single, continuous, unimodal, u...
Talk: The Dynamics of Disorder — Kavli Frontiers of Science
The Dynamics of Disorder: From Clausius to Jarzynski. Kavli Frontiers of Science.
Article: Using nonequilibrium fluctuation theorems to understand and correct errors in equilibrium and nonequilibrium discrete Langevin dynamics
David A. Sivak, John D. Chodera, Gavin E. Crooks, Phys. Rev. X 3, 011007 (2013)
Quote of the Day
In science, as in life, it is extremely dangerous to fall in love with beautiful models.
Press: How Computers Push on the Molecules They Simulate
Berkeley Lab press release on our PRX paper on Langevin integrators and shadow work.