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This collection of lectures and tutorial reviews by renowned experts focusses on the common computational approaches in use to unravel the static and dynamical behaviour of complex physical systems at the interface of physics, chemistry and biology. Paradigmatic examples of condensed matter physics are spin and structural glasses and protein folding, as well as their aggregation and adsorption to hard and soft surfaces, in physico-chemical biology. Among the most prominent joint key features of the systems considered in this volume are rugged free-energy landscapes. These generate metastability and are often responsible for very slow dynamics allowing for the system to be trapped in one of the many available local minima. The challenge set forth by the authors of this volume is to provide a common basis and technical language for the (computational) technology transfer between the fields and systems considered.

Condensed matter --- Spin glasses --- Protein folding --- Atomic Physics --- Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Mathematical models --- Mathematical models. --- Folding of proteins --- Proteins --- Glasses, Magnetic --- Glasses, Spin --- Magnetic glasses --- Condensed materials --- Condensed media --- Condensed phase --- Materials, Condensed --- Media, Condensed --- Phase, Condensed --- Folding --- Physics. --- Condensed matter. --- Phase transitions (Statistical physics). --- Biophysics. --- Biological physics. --- Statistical physics. --- Dynamical systems. --- Condensed Matter Physics. --- Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems. --- Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity. --- Numerical and Computational Physics. --- Biophysics and Biological Physics. --- Magnetic alloys --- Nuclear spin --- Solid state physics --- Liquids --- Matter --- Solids --- Conformation --- Complex Systems. --- Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation. --- Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics. --- Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems. --- Mathematical statistics --- Statistical methods --- Biological physics --- Biology --- Medical sciences --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mathematics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Mechanics --- Statics --- Phase changes (Statistical physics) --- Phase transitions (Statistical physics) --- Phase rule and equilibrium --- Statistical physics

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This proceedings volume contains selected talks and poster presentations from the 9th International Conference on Path Integrals - New Trends and Perspectives, which took place at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany, during the period September 23-28, 2007. Continuing the well-developed tradition of the conference series, the present status of both the different techniques of path integral calculations and their diverse applications to many fields of physics and chemistry is reviewed. This is reflected in the main topics in this volume, which range f

Path integrals --- Quantum field theory.

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The application to Biology of the methodologies developed in Physics is attracting an increasing interest from the scientific community. It has led to the emergence of a new interdisciplinary field, called Physical Biology, with the aim of reaching a better understanding of the biological mechanisms at molecular and cellular levels. Statistical Mechanics in particular plays an important role in the development of this new field. For this reason, the XXth session of the famous Sitges Conference on Statistical Physics was dedicated to "Physical Biology: from Molecular Interactions to Cellular Behavior". As is by now tradition, a number of lectures were subsequently selected, expanded and updated for publication as lecture notes, so as to provide both a state-of-the-art introduction and overview to a number of subjects of broader interest and to favor the interchange and cross-fertilization of ideas between biologists and physicists. The present volume focuses on three main subtopics (biological water, protein solutions as well as transport and replication), presenting for each of the them the on-going debates on recent results. The role of water in biological processes, the mechanisms of protein folding, the phases and cooperative effects in biological solutions, the thermodynamic description of replication, transport and neural activity, all are subjects that are revised in this volume, based on new experiments and new theoretical interpretations.

Fluid mechanics --- Statistical physics --- General biophysics --- materie (fysica) --- biofysica --- statistiek --- fysica --- vloeistoffen

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Published under the auspices of the Royal Astronomical Society, this volume contains a set of extensive school tested lectures, with the aim to give a coherent and thorough background knowledge of the subject and to introduce the latest developments in N-body computational astrophysics. The topics cover a wide range from the classical few-body problem with discussions of resonance, chaos and stability to realistic modelling of star clusters as well as descriptions of codes, algorithms and special hardware for N-body simulations. This collection of topics, related to the gravitational N-body problem, will prove useful to both students and researchers in years to come.

Astrophysics --- Mathematical physics --- Classical mechanics. Field theory --- Plasma physics --- Atomic physics --- astrofysica --- plasmafysica --- wiskunde --- fysica --- mechanica