8th Warsaw School of Statistical Physics

29 June - 5 July 2025, Chęciny, Poland

Lecture abstracts

Arezki Boudaoud

Plant growth: a journey across scales

I will summarise recent progress in understanding plant growth from cell to tissue scale, with a focus on the rheology of the cell wall, the thin polysaccharide-made layer that surround plant cells. I will illustrate how this progress was enabled by experimental and theoretical approaches from soft matter, fluid mechanics, and statistical physics. I will notably present results from our group suggesting that growth involves a coupling between chemistry and mechanics of the cell wall and showing that growth varies with the scale at which it is observed.

Julyan Cartwright

Pattern formation in nature

Fabian Essler

Non-equilibrium dynamics of many-particle quantum systems and conservation laws

I give an introduction to non-equilibrium dynamics in many-particle quantum systems. I review the general principles that underlie local relaxation at late times and then turn to the important role played by conservation laws. I discuss both spatially homogeneous and inhomogeneous settings, and show how in the latter generalised hydrodynamics emerges.

Randy Kamien

The Geometry and Topology of Soft Materials

A triangle’s a triangle no matter how small. Because of that we can use our macroscopic intuition and experience to understand molecular-scale matter. Dołącz do mojego cyrku!

Karol Życzkowski

Enjoying a seven dimensional orange, concentration of measure and statistical properties of spectra of evolution operators.