Kinetic View of Statistical Physics

Together with Paul Krapivsky (BU) and Eli Ben-Naim (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Professor Sid Redner recently completed a graduate text on non-equilibrium statistical physics, entitled A Kinetic View of Statistical Physics that will appear in October 2010. Aimed at graduate students, this book explores some of the core phenomena in non-equilibrium statistical physics. It focuses on the development and application of theoretical methods to help students develop their problem-solving skills, covering topics such as the kinetics of aggregation, fragmentation, adsorption, kinetic spin systems, from both a discrete and a continuum perspective, the role of disorder in non-equilibrium processes, hysteresis from the non-equilibrium perspective, the kinetics of chemical reactions, and the properties of complex networks.

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