Soft Matter and Complex Systems Seminar

Fascinated by the complexity and smallness of the living cell in this talk I will discuss recent developments in anomalous kinetics out of thermodynamic equilibrium. Molecular motors, i.e. tiny proteins (e.g. kinesin) which power the intracellular transport, provide an ideal model system for such a purpose. I will describe their dynamics in the framework of driven Brownian motors, namely, classical Brownian particles far away from thermodynamic equilibrium moving in a nonlinear spatially periodic potential landscape. Both anomalous diffusion as well as anomalous directed transport in the form of negative mobility will be covered. I will demonstrate also very exceptional coexistence of the anomalous diffusion and negative mobility effects in a nonlinear nonequilibrium Brownian motion.

The seminar will be conducted on Zoom
https://zoom.us/j/92987083349?pwd=YTZLSFVWUnJzdE4xS1drR3dqMVFDdz09