David Lacoste CNRS Researcher Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Théorique ESPCI, 10 rue Vauquelin. Escalier F, 3ème étage droite. 75231 Paris cedex 05. France. Tél.: +33 (0)1 40 79 51 40 Fax: +33 (0)1 40 79 47 31 Email: david@turner.pct.espci.fr

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• We are proposing a thesis, which would ideally start in the fall of 2013, on the topic of "Dissipation in model non-equilibrium system". Potential goal of this work is to extract relevant information in experimental data of non-equilibrium fluctuations in soft matter and biological systems".
  
  
• Stochastic thermodynamics: recently Gatien Verley defended his thesis done under my supervision and entitled "Fluctuations et réponse dans les systèmes hors d'équilibre" .
  
  In this thesis, we have investigated a modified fluctuation-dissipation theorem near general non-equilibrium states [PDF],
  and new second-law like inequalities for transitions between non-stationary states. For a short comment paper of these two works, see also [PDF].
  
  
• Biofilaments: we have been interested in modelling the coupling of hydrolysis to polymerization in biofilaments, which leads to rich dynamic behavior, both for actin and microtubules.
  

• On January 25th 2012 I have organized in ESPCI, a workshop entitled : "Fluctuations Theorems, where do we go from here"