Speaker:
Senya Shlosman
Institution:
CNRS, Marseille
Time:
Monday, February 22, 2010 - 2:00pm
Location:
RH 340P orN
I will start with the definition of the metastable states as dynamical (temporal) states of the system, relaxing to equilibrium, before the equilibrium is reached. I will explain then that in general one should not expect these states to be Gibbs states.