Recent developments in statistical physics have focused new attention on the relations between information theory and thermodynamics, and on experiments that characterize directly the violations of detailed balance in driven systems. This symposium will explore these ideas in simple model systems and in the full complexity of living systems, highlighting both theory and experiment.

Speakers will include:

John Becchofer, Simon Fraser University ⏐ From Maxwell's demon to information engines

Nikta Fakhri, MIT ⏐ Time's arrow - From Intracellular dynamics to the origin of multicellularity

David Sivak, Simon Fraser University ⏐ Information arbitrage in molecular machines