Interplay of Analysis and Probability in Physics

Abstract

Various approaches to scale-bridging were the main theme of the first day. Particular problems included the derivation of the thermal conductivity of a diffusion process from an atomistic model (Stefano Olla), the development of a coarse-graining technique to calculate canonical ensemble averages efficiently (Fr\'ed\'eric Legoll), and a potential-theoretic approach to the analysis of the transition from the metastable state to the stable state for a lattice gas under the Kawasaki dynamics (Anton Bovier). J\"urgen G\"artner and Jean-Dominique Deuschel discussed a range of models interacting with a random disorder.