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SUMMARY:Luca D'Alessio - Preliminary Oral Exam
DESCRIPTION:\nPart of the Preliminary Oral Exam.\n\nTitle: "Universal 
	Energy Fluctuations in Thermally Isolated Driven Systems"\n\n Examinin
	g Committee:  Anatoli Polkovnikov\, Claudio Chamon\, Sid Redner\, Robe
	rt Carey\n\n Abstract:\n Understanding equilibrium and non-equilibrium prop
	erties of thermally\n isolated systems has become a forefront of research d
	ue to experimental\n developments over the past decade\, particularly in co
	ld atom systems\,\n trapped ions\, and nuclear spins. In these systems the 
	coupling to external\n dissipative degrees of freedom is strongly suppresse
	d and irrelevant on\n accessible time scales. I will describe the energy di
	stribution of a\n thermally isolated system which is repeatedly driven out-
	of-equilibrium. I\n will show that two qualitatively different regimes can 
	be realized with a\n universal continuous transition between them as a func
	tion of the driving\n parameters. This transition bears many similarities w
	ith equilibrium\n second order phase transitions.\n\n Best wishes to Luca!!
LOCATION:SCI 328\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
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