Chapter
Wetting transitions in fluid interfaces
Basics on wetting transitions
Density functional models: general approach
Higher-order wetting transitions
Geometrical characterization of dynamical heterogeneities in chemical gels, colloidal gels and colloidal glasses
Mode coupling theory and the glass transition
Dynamical heterogeneities
Dynamical heterogeneities and mode coupling theory
Dynamical heterogeneities: from chemical gels to structural glasses
Dynamical heterogeneities in chemical gels
Dynamical heterogeneities in colloidal gels
Dynamical heterogeneities in structural glasses
Lectures on molecular- and nano-scale fluctuations in water
Lecture one: tetrahedral condensed matter
Electric field fluctuations
Solvation of small excluded volumes
Solvation of large solutes
Lecture three: Hydrophobicity and self-assembly
The driving force for hydrophobic assembly
Dewetting transitions in hydrophobic assembly
Applications and hydrophobic collapse
Water and anomalous liquids
An overview on anomalous liquids and water
Structural anomalies and polymorphism
A Hamiltonian model for water
Phase diagram and supercooled water
Water confined between hydrophobic surfaces
Liquid-liquid phase transitions
Dynamic crossover phenomenon in confined water and its relation to the liquid-liquid critical point: Experiments and MD simulations
The density minimum, peaking of thermal expansion coefficient and equation of state (EOS) of 1-D confined water
Dynamic crossover in the alpha-relaxation times of 1-D and 3-D confined water
Supporting evidence for the dynamic crossover from MD simulationson bulk and confined water and from extended MCT
Evidence for the dynamic crossover phenomenon in other glass-forming liquids
"Uno, Nessuno e Centomila": The intricate structure of confined water
Liquid water structure from X-ray spectroscopy and simulations
A brief history of water structure
Neutron and X-ray diffraction
Structure modeling of experimental datasets
X-ray spectroscopic techniques
Molecular dynamics and small-angle X-ray scattering
Sensitivity of diffraction techniques to local coordination in water
X-ray spectroscopic signatures of different structural species
Enhanced small-angle X-ray scattering of ambient and supercooled water
Information on H-bond angles from joint EXAFS and diffraction modeling
Dimensionless equations for particle motion
Momentum transfer: The particle-fluid coupling
Empirical expression of the drag law
Parameters and boundary conditions
Draft, Kiss and Tumbled effect
Description of the effect
Parameters and boundary conditions
Sedimentation of many particles
The empirical law of Richarson and Zaki
Velocity distribution in sheared suspensions
Various distributions in porous medium
The mechanism of saltation
The numerical wind channel
Results for the saturated flux
Results for the wind profile
Simulations of quicksand crumbling
Critical overview of Agent-Based Models for Economics
Classical Theory of Economics
Absence of simple arbitrage
Fat-tailed distribution of returns
Stationarity and time scales
Kim and Markowitz model: an attempt to explain the Black Monday
Discussion realism/tractability
Self-Organized Criticality
Santa Fe artificial stock market
Discussion realism/tractability
Self-Organized Criticality
Self-Organized Criticality
Caldarelli, Marsili and Zhang: a prototype of stock exchange
Discussion realism/tractability
Self-Organized Criticality
Self-Organized Criticality
Giardina and Bouchaud model
Discussion realism/tractability
Self-Organized Criticality
The destabilizing effect of leverage
Self-Organized Criticality
Credit network and bankrupt avalanches
Description of the dynamics
Self-Organized Criticality
Stylized facts as finite-size effects and self-organization of markets
Self-Organized Criticality
Conclusions and perspectives
Long-term memory in climate records and the detection problem
Numerical estimation of the exceedance probability
Estimation of the anthropogenic trend
The Fermi Pasta Ulam (FPU) problem: A path to complexity
"In the beginning..." was the FPU Problem
FPU recurrences - numerical studies
FPU recurrences - analytic approaches
The legacy of FPU - The field of nonlinear science
Solitons and coherent structures
Patterns and complex configurations
Intrinsic localized modes (ILMS)
Reconciling FPU with statistical mechanics
Catastrophic cascade of failures in interdependent networks
Single-network robustness
Interdependent networks robustness
Partially dependent networks
The kinetics of the folding/unfolding process of hydrated lysozyme studied by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Light scattering enhancement in porphyrin nanocomposites
Water hydration of biopolymers: The case of cellulose in ancient paper - a SANS study
Evidence of a finite screening length of the repulsive potential among copolymer micelles in a room temperature ionic liquid
Sample details and formation of micelles
Determination of interparticle interaction pair potential
Aggregation of porphyrin-based cyclic supramolecular architectures
Effiects of medium-chain alcohols on the structure of phospholipid bilayers
Deep Inelasting Neutron Scattering experiments on supercooled water
Fluctuations of the Casimir-like force between two inclusions in a biological membrane
Variance of the pseudo-Casimir force
Liquid-liquid critical point of mixtures of Jagla ramp potential particles and hard spheres
A dynamical model for operational risk in banks
Forecasting power and VaR
On thepossibility of detecting the liquid-liquid critical point in an aqueous solution of salt
Complex Materials in Physics and Biology
( International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi” )
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