Physics Colloquium                                 University of Waterloo                                 Nov. 10, 2005

Brownian Motion

Active Fluctuations & Anomalous Diffusion


(Movie from A. van Oudenaarden and J. A. Theriot)

Mehran Kardar (MIT)

Allen Lee (MIT) &  Ha Youn Lee (Los Alamos)

Yacov Kantor (Tel Aviv) &  Jeffrey Chuang (BC)

I.       Brownian Motion                                          

II.      Cell Motility                                        

III.     Model of Symmetry Breaking            

IV.     Non-equilibrium Fluctuations  

V.        Translocation                                         

VI.       'Brownian Translocation' and its limitations                                         

VII.     Anomalous dynamics