Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society

ISBN-13: 9783319884899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 418 str.

Armin Bunde; Jurgen Caro; Jorg Karger

Recenzje

"It is this new view on a subject, to which also the reader of this book is cordially invited during his walk through the most diverse realms of spreading phenomena, with manifold, excellent opportunities provided by the individual chapters and with a wealth of correlations between these chapters, by which the book has become much more than their simple sum." (Armin Uhlmann, zbMATH 1405.00009, 2019)
"This book provides a broad overview of the state of the art in understanding and studying diffusive spreading throughout an impressive array of subjects. ... The book has numerous examples that will be useful to instructors in a mass transfer class, and the book should be of interest to a wide audience of chemical engineers. It is genuinely enjoyable reading in that hazy area between work-related and leisure reading." (Randall Q. Snurr, AIChE Journal, January, 2019)
"The book covers topics related to nature, technology and society, as promised by the book title. The key messages of the various chapters, twenty in total, are thoroughly elaborated and presented addressing a broad readership. The boundaries among the individual scientific disciplines are crossed. ... it is the wide scope considered in the book and the scholarly presentation which makes me warmly recommend the book for a broad audience, within and beyond the readership of our journal." (K. Hammer, Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, September, 2018)
"This book is a nicely edited and well-presented compilation of the papers given at the Sixth International Diffusion conference, held at the Technical University of Dresden in August 2015. ... this is an excellent book which should be of lasting value to anyone who is interested this important subject." (Douglas Ruthven, Adsorption - Journal of the International Adsorption Society, Vol. 24 (04), May, 2018)

Spis treści

 Confirmed Invited Speakers and Tentative Titles of Talks and Book ContributionsBook Editors and Introduction “Spreading Fundamentals”, Armin Bunde (Gießen), Jürgen Caro (Hannover), Jörg Kärger (Leipzig), Gero Vogl (Wien)

 Dirk Brockmann (Berlin) 

Epidemics Spreading 

 Frank Cichos (Leipzig) 

Hot Brownian Motion: Experiment 

 Marc-Olivier Coppens (London) 

Nature-Inspired Transport Optimization 

 Joaquim Fort (Girona) 

The Neolithic Transition: Diffusion of People or Diffusion of Culture?

 Albrecht Fritzsche (Erlangen) 

Spreading Innovations 

 Russel Gray (Auckland) 

Expansion of Langu

age Families 

 Detlef Gronenborn (Mainz) G

 and Carsten Lemmen (Geesthacht)

The Expansion of Farming as Seen from Archaeology and Related Disciplines S

 Shlomo Havlin (Ramat Gan) 

Spreading of Failures in the Internet and in Power Grids

 Anne Kandler (London) 

Analysing Language Shift:

The Example of Scottish Gaelic 

 Rainer Klages (London) 

Search for Food of Birds, Fish and Insects 

 Rajamani Krishna (Amsterdam) 

Uphill Diffusion 

 Klaus Kroy (Leipzig) 

Hot Brownian Motion: Theory 

 Ingolf Kühn

 

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Plan

ts and Animals: Biological Processes 

 Michael Leitner (Munich) 

Dispersal in Plants and Animals: Modelling 

 Philipp Maass (Osnabrück) 

Diffusive Transport in Non-Equilibrium Steady State 

 Hernán Makse (New York) 

A New Class of Superspreader: From Twitter, Cities and  the Brain 

 Christoph Neinhuis (Dresden) 

Transport Systems in Living Organisms 

 Charles Nicholson (New York) 

Brain Structure Revealed by Diffusive Spread of Molecules 

 William S. Price (Sydney) 

NMR Versatility 

 Mart

in Schnittler

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p>ald) 

Spore Dispersal in Lower Organisms: From Model Assumptions to Reality  

 Manfred Wendisch (Leipzig) 

Diffusion Processes in Atmospheric Physics 

 Søren Wichmann (Leiden) 

Language Migration: Empirical Data and Modelling  

O autorze

Prof. Jörg Kärger

Professional Career

1962 – 1968 Studying Physics at Leipzig University

1968 – 1970 PhD-fellow Leipzig University, Dr. rer. nat. in Physics 1970

1970 – 1977 Scientific co-worker, Leipzig University

1977 – 1982 Senior scientific co-worker, Leipzig University

1978 Habilitation ("Promotion B")

1982 – 1989 Lecturer, Leipzig University

1989 – 1994 extraordinary Professor, Leipzig University

1994 – April 2009 Professor with full chair (Interface Physics), Leipzig University

since April 2009 Professor emeritus, Leipzig University

Professional Activities and Memberships

1996 – 1999 Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences at Leipzig University

1996 – 1999 President of the German Zeolite Association, member of t

he FEZA Board (Federation of European Zeolite Associations)

1997 – 2000 Ombudsman of Leipzig University

2002 – 2006 Editorship www.diffusion-fundamentals.org (since 2003),

Microporous and Mesoporous Materials (European Editor 2004 – 2008)

Membership in Editorial Boards

Zeolites (1992 – 1997), Adsorption (since 1993), Microporous and

Mesoporous Materials (since 1993)

Honours

1978 Gustav-Hertz-Award

of the German Physical Society

1980 Leibniz-Medal of the German Academy of Sciences

1986 Donald-W.-Breck Award of the International Zeolite Association (together

with H. Pfeifer, D. Freude and M. Bülow)

1993 Max Planck Research Award of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation and the Max-Planck-Society

2000 Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences

2005 Theodor-Litt-A

ward of Leipzig University

Research Interest

Experiment and

theory of mass transfer and matter conversion in complex systems

Prof. Dr. Gero Vogl, Wien Dr.phil. (Physik, Universität Wien), Dr. rer.nat.habil. (TU München) Emer. Professor 

1965 Dr.phil.
1966 assistent physics department TU München
1970 head low temperatur lab TU München
1974 Habilitation
1975 associate professor TU München
1977 professor physics (C3) FU Berlin
1985-2009  prof.  physics University Wien
1999 department head Hahn-Meitner-Instituts Berlin
1990-1991 member scientific couoncil integration AdW of DDR 
1991-1993 responsible for evaluation der physics research Autria
1991-1998 speaker „Nuclear Solid State Sciences Austsria
2002  coordinator net Materials Dynamics  BMWFT, international collaboration
2002-2004 president Austrian Physical Society 

CV of Jürgen Caro

Po

sition: Professor (W3) for Physical Chemistry (chair)

Academic education and degrees

1992 Dr. rer. habil. on the application of zeolitic molecular sieves as catalysts,

adsorbents, nonlinear optical materials, sensor, membrane

1989 Dr. sc. nat. on the diffusion influence in heterogeneous catalysis

1977 Dr. rer. nat. on NMR studies of molecular diffusion in porous materials (Mentor: J. Kärger), „summa cum laude“

1970-1977 Study of Chemistry, University Leipzig, American model: direct after Bachelor, start of

PhD study

Scientific career

since 2001 W3 Professor for Physical Chemistry, Leibniz University Hannover

1994-2001 Leader of the Department „Advanced Materials“ at the Institute for Applied

Chemistry in Berlin-Adlershof with the working fields ceramics, polymers,

composites

1992-1993 Formation of the new group „Nano-composites- molecular sieves as

high-tech

materials“ at Center for Heterogeneous Catalysis of the KAI in Berlin-Adlershof

1977-1991 Central Institute for Physical Chemistry of the former East German Academy of

Sciences with the working fields adsorption, catalysis, porous materials, gas

separation, supercritical fluids

Further activities and honours

2013 Breck Award of the International Zeolite Association

2013 Ostwald-Medal of the Saxonian Academy of Scien

ces at Leipzig

2013-2016 Pr

ofessor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences at Ningbo, China

2014-2017 Visiting Professor at Dalian University of Technology, China

2014-2017

P

art-time Professor of the University at Panjin, China

Blurb

This book deals with randomly moving objects and their spreading. The objects considered are particles like atoms and molecules, just as living beings like humans, animals, plants, bacteria and even abstract entities like ideas, rumors, information, innovations and linguistic features. The book explores and communicates the laws behind these movements and reports about astonishing similarities and very specific features typical of the given object under considerations. Leading scientists in disciplines as different as archeology, epidemics, linguistics and sociology, in contact with their colleagues from engineering, natural sciences and mathematics, introduce into the phenomena of spreading as relevant for their fields. An introductory chapter on “Spreading Fundamentals” provides a common basis for all these considerations, with a minimum of mathematics, selected and presented for enjoying rather than frustrating the reader.