Summer Schools, Workshops, Conferences, ...

I am organizer of various summer schools, workshops and conferences:

  1. Summer School Ageing and the Glass Transition (Luxembourg, September 18-24, 2005)

  2. funded by the Université Franco-Allemande and the Université of Luxembourg

    conference proceedings:



    Statistical Physics of Ageing Phenomena and the Glass Transition
    University of Luxembourg, 18-24 September 2005
    Journal of Physics Conference Series, Volume 40
    Edited by Malte Henkel, Michel Pleimling, and Roland Sanctuary
    lecture notes:



    Ageing and the Glass Transition
    Lecture Notes in Physics, Volume 716
    Edited by Malte Henkel, Michel Pleimling, and Roland Sanctuary
    • Hardcover: 350 pages
    • Publisher: Springer (June 3, 2007)
    • ISBN: 978-3540696834



  3. Focus Session Models and Materials far from Equilibrium (APS March Meeting 2008, New Orleans, LA, March 10-14, 2008)


  4. International Symposium Complexity in Materials far from Equilibrium (Blacksburg, VA, May 14-16, 2008)

  5. funded by the National Science Foundation (DMR-0757181), Sowers Foundation and Virginia Tech

    NSF highlight (powerpoint): Complexity in Materials far from Equilibrium


  6. Seminar Many-Body Systems far from Equilibrium: Fluctuations, Slow Dynamics and Long-Range Interactions (Dresden, Germany, February 16-27, 2009)

  7. funded by the Max-Planck Insitut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden (Germany)


  8. Focus Session Systems far from Equilibrium II (APS March Meeting 2009, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009)


  9. 2009 Boulder Summer School in Condensed Matter and Material Physics - Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics: Fundamental Problems and Applications (Boulder, CO, July 6-24, 2009)

    videos of the presentations can be found here


  10. International Symposium Complex Driven Systems - from Statistical Physics to the Life Sciences (Blacksburg, VA, October 1-3, 2010)

  11. funded by the National Science Foundation, VT College of Science, VT Department of Physics, and the VT Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science


  12. International Seminar Large Fluctuations in Non-Equilibrium Systems (Dresden, Germany, July 4-15, 2011)

  13. funded by the Max-Planck Insitut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden (Germany)


  14. 2nd Washington & Lee - Virginia Tech Research Symposium (Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, July 26, 2011)


  15. The 78th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society (Virginia Tech, Roanoke, VA, October 19-22, 2011)


  16. Focus Sessions Stochastic Population Dynamics I: Cyclic Competition and Population Stability and Stochastic Population Dynamics II: Games and Spatial Dynamics (APS March Meeting 2012, Boston, MA, February 27 - March 2, 2012)


  17. Focus Sessions Population and Evolutionary Dynamics I and Population and Evolutionary Dynamics II (APS March Meeting 2013, Baltimore, MD, March 18-22, 2013)


  18. International Seminar Small Systems far from Equilibrium: Order, Correlations, and Fluctuations (Dresden, Germany, October 14-18, 2013)

  19. funded by the Max-Planck Insitut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden (Germany)