Memory of Rare and Nonequilibrium Events

Conference Date: April 27 – May 2, 2025

Conference Locations: Institute of Material Science of Uzbekistan (IMS) Parkent

Institute for Fundamental and Applied Research (IFAR) Tashkent

Samarkand University

Day 1 | Sunday, April 27

Event Venue Time
1 Registration IFAR 17:00 – 19:00
2 Dinner IFAR 19:00

Day 2 | Monday, April 28 | Opening and Fundamental Concepts

Event Venue Time
1 Breakfast and Departure to Parkent Tashkent, Nuovo hotel 7:30 – 8:30
2 Registration and Welcome Coffee IMS 9:00
3 Opening Remarks
O.R. Parpiev, Director of the Institute of Material Science
S.Z. Mirzaev, Vice President of Academy of Sciences
R. Netz, Free University Berlin
IMS 9:30
4 Session 1, Chair: Roland Netz
5 A few recent results in the theory of electrolytes, David Andelman
Solvation of Nanoions, Dominik Horinek
IMS 10:00 – 10:45
6 Coffee Break IMS 11:30
7 Unraveling the Mpemba Effect: Nonequilibrium freezing kinetics of supercooled liquid water, Prabal K Maiti IMS 12:00
8 Lunch & Networking IMS 12:45
9 Session 2, Chair: Michael Hinczewski
10 Fast protein folding is governed by memory-dependent friction, Benjamin Dalton
Exploring the Role of Proteins in Plasma Cancer Treatment: Simulations Reveal Molecular Secrets, Jamol Razzakov
IMS 14:00 – 14:45
11 Coffee Break IMS 15:30
12 How Vibrational Lines and Lifetimes are Shaped by Memory Friction, Florian Brünig
Projection operator and reaction coordinates choice, Yevgeni Mamasakhlisov
IMS 16:00 – 16:45
13 Dinner 19:00

Day 3 | April 29 | Advanced Theories and Applications

Event Venue Time
1 Session 3, Chair: Dominik Horinek
2 Statistical Physics of Optimal Transport and Schrödinger Bridges, Henri Orland
Escaping Confinement: Optimizing First-Passage Rates, Won Kyu Kim
IFAR 09:00 – 09:45
3 Coffee Break IFAR 10:30
4 Machine-Learning Potentials: A New Pathway to Accurate Simulations of Thermodynamic Ion Properties and Rare Exchange Kinetics? Nadine Schwierz
Atomistic machine learning from the bottom up, Philip Loche
IFAR 11:00 – 11:45
5 Lunch & Networking IFAR 12:30
6 Session 4, Chair: Nadine Schwierz
7 Pseudo Non-Equilibrium Response of the Cell Nucleus, Aykut Erbas
Modeling cellular interfaces, Susanne Liese
IFAR 14:00 – 14:45
8 Coffee Break IFAR 15:30
9 TBA, Ali Naji IFAR 16:00 – 16:45
10 Conference Dinner TBA 19:00

Day 4 | April 30 | Advanced Theories and Applications

Event Venue Time
1 Session 5, Chair: Matej Kanduc
2 Zeta potentials of cotton membranes in acetonitrile solutions, Yuki Uematsu
"Aqueous Supercapacitors: Insights from Atomistic Simulations of Electrode/Electrolyte Interfaces Combined with Effective Medium Theory“, Alexander Schlaich
IFAR 09:00 – 09:45
3 Coffee Break IFAR 10:30
4 The price of evolution: how thermodynamics shapes gene regulation, Michael Hinczewski
MD simulations for plasma cancer treatment: a case study with phospholipid membranes, Maksudbek Yusupov
IFAR 11:00 – 11:45
5 Lunch & Networking IFAR 12:30
6 Session 6, Chair: Ali Naji
7 Selective Growth of Carbon Nanostructures: A Computational Perspective, Umedjan Khalilov
Cavitation events in soft matter systems, Matej Kanduc
IFAR 14:00 – 14:45
8 Coffee Break IFAR 15:30
9 Do simulations properly forget? Markus Miettinen
Force field development for polymolecular ions, Shavkat Mamatkulov
IFAR 16:00 – 16:45
10 Dinner IFAR 19:00

Day 5 | May 1 | Challenges

Event Venue Time
1 Departure from Tashkent 7:20
2 Arrival to Samarkand 9:30
3 Networking 10:30
4 Lunch 12:00
5 Panel Discussion: Challenges in Nonequilibrium Memory Studies Samarkand University 14:00
6 Dinner 19:00

Day 6 | May 2 | Summary and Future

Event Venue Time
1 Panel Discussion: Summary and Future Perspectives Samarkand University 10:00
2 Lunch & Networking Samarkand University 12:30
3 Departure from Samarkand 16:00
4 Dinner Tashkent 19:00

Organizing Committee

  • Shavkat Mamatkulov – shavkat@zedat.fu-berlin.de
  • Roland Netz – rnetz@physik.fu-berlin.de
  • Henrike Giebl – henrike.giebl@fu-berlin.de
  • Olga Galkina – helga93rr@gmail.com