Description: 1. Brownian Motion.- Dynamics of colloidal systems: beyond the stochastic approach.- Lattice-Boltzmann simulations of hydrodynamically interacting particles.- Orientational relaxation and Brownian motion.- Viscosity and diffusion of concentrated hard-sphere-like colloidal suspensions.- Interacting Brownian particles.- Spinodal decomposition kinetics: the initial and intermediate stages.- First Interlude.- Seventeenth century Dutch art: a brief guide to the Mauritshuis, The Hague, and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.- 2. Dynamical Systems.- Seventeenth century Dutch art: a brief guide to the Mauritshuis, The Hague, and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.- Multifractal phase-space distributions for stationary nonequilibrium systems.- A model of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics.- Statistical properties of chaotic systems in high dimensions.- Dynamical systems and statistical mechanics: Lyapunov exponents and transport coefficients.- Second Interlude.- Boltzmann and statistical mechanics.- 3. Granular Flows.- Kinetic theory of granular fluids: hard and soft inelastic spheres.- Inelastic Collapse.- Stationary states in systems with dissipative interactions.- Motion along a rough inclined surface.- Hydraulic theory for a granular heap on an incline.- Experimental studies of granular flows.- Model kinetic equations for rapid granular flows.- Velocity correlations in driven two-dimensional granular media.- Third Interlude.- G. E. Uhlenbeck on Paul Ehrenfest.- 4. Quantum Kinetic Theory.- Quantum kinetic theory: the disordered electron problem.- Quantum phase transitions.- Scattering, transport & stochasticity in quantum systems.- Some problems of the kinetic theory of mesoscopic systems.- Kinetic theory for electron dynamics in semiconductors and plasmas.- Kinetic theory for electron dynamics in semiconductors and plasmas.- Participants.

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