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Book SynopsisThe book contains review articles on recent advances in first-passage phenomena and applications contributed by leading international experts. It is intended for graduate students and researchers who are interested in learning about this intriguing and important topic.
Table of ContentsArrival Statistics and Exploration Properties of Mortal Walkers (S B Yuste et al.); First-Passage of a Randomly Accelerated Particle (T Burkhardt); First-Passage Problems in Anomalous Diffusion (A Rosso and A Zoia); First-Passage Times of Intermittent Random Walks (O Benichou and R Voituriez); First-Passage Phenomena on Finite Inhomogeneous Networks (E Agliari and D Cassi); Effective Spectral Dimension in Scale-Free Networks (B Kahng et al.); First-Passage Statistics for Random Walks in Bounded Domains (R Voituriez and O Benichou); First-Passage Behavior of Multi-Dimensional Fractional Brownian Motion and Application to Reaction Phenomena (J-H Jeon et al.); Trajectory-to-Trajectory Fluctuations in First-Passage Phenomena in Bounded Domains (T G Mattos et al.); Exact Record and Order Statists of Random Walk via First-Passage Ideas (G Schehr and S Majumdar); First Passage in a Conical Geometry and Ordering of Brownian Particles (E Ben-Naim and P Krapivsky); First-Passage Time Problems in Biophysical Jump Processes with Fast Kinetics (Paul Bresslof and J Newby); First-Passage Problems in Biology (T Chou and M R D'Orsogna); The Effect of Detection Mechanisms on Spatial Search and Foraging (D Campos and V Mendez); Search in Random Media with Levy Flights (E Gelenbe and O H Abdelrahman); Exit Strategies: Visual Search and the Quitting Time Problem (T Horowitz); Statistical Physics of Evolutionary Trajectories on Fitness Landscapes (M Manhart and A Morozov); Some Applications of First-Passage Ideas to Finance (R Chicheportiche and J-P Bouchaud); First-Passage and Extremes in Socio-Economic Systems (J Masoliver and J Perello); Transport and the First-Passage Time Problem with Application to Cold Atoms in Optical Traps (E Barkai and D A Kessler); The Excursion Set Theory in Cosmology (M Maggiore and A Riotto); Self-Organized Escape Processes of Linear Chains in Nonlinear Potentials (L Schimanski-Geier et al.); Efficient Monte Carlo Methods for Simulating Diffusion-Reaction Processes in Complex Systems (D Grebenkov).
