Dr. Raphaël Voituriez "First-passage times of Markovian and non-Markovian random walks"
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée, UPMC, Paris
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Feb 01, 2017 from 02:15 PM to 03:00 PM |
Where | Seminarraum A, FMF, Stefan-Meier-Str. 21, Freiburg |
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The first-passage time is a key quantity for evaluating the kinetics of various processes, and in particular chemical reactions involving "small" numbers of particles. A striking example is given by gene transcription, where specific proteins search for target sequences on DNA.
I will present asymptotic results which enable the evaluation of the first-passage time statistics to a target site for a wide range of random processes in confined domains, and show how these results can be extended to non-Markovian processes, which are often needed to model transport in complex environments.
invited by Maxim Dolgushev