Abstract for the talk on 24.04.2018 (17:00 h)
Colloquium of the Faculty of Physics and GeosciencesJürgen Vollmer
Breaking Universality in Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics
Scaling is a key concept in statistical physics. It implies a universal form of scaling
functions and of scaling exponents – for instance, in the theory of equilibrium critical
phenomena and in the classical description of Ostwald ripening. For two examples,
droplet growth in binary fluid mixtures and jamming of granular flows, I describe how
this relation between scaling and universality is challenged. My findings are
underpinned by dedicated experimental and numerical studies.