What are your plans for the second week of July? The correct answer is: to participate in the Sigma Phi Conference in Chania! From 6 July to 10 July, a huge event covering all topics of interest in Statistical Physics. And, there will be also a special workshop on Mathematical Ideas across Multiple Scales in Networks (or MAIMUN, for short), organized by yours truly and with an impressive lineup of speakers, including Ginestra Bianconi, Stefano Boccaletti, Sebastian Contreras, Piero De Lellis, Tiziana Di Matteo, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, Sarika Jalan, José Mendes, Osnat Mokryn and Punit Parmananda!

Please boost far and wide, and spread the news to students, colleagues, and anyone who may be interested!

http://www.sigmaphi.polito.it/index.php

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I have a steam powered tea pot let me explain

It's one of those translucent plastic cylinders molded with a tight fitting lid that has two spouts: one with a square opening and another with a grate that doesn't filter small things like broken leaf tea.

Hot tea in this tea pot contains water with a high vapor pressure, one that is high enough to evaporate enough water to create a pressure large enough to lift the lid. The pressure inside and out was atmospheric pressure until water began evaporating from the tea I put in the tea pot.

The lid doesn't lift very far, but the bearing surface is tea, so the friction is low enough for the lid to move up.

Or conversely there is a small passage, albeit larger than all the rest, through which I can hear bubbles popping as the evaporated water leaves the tea pot. What was initially a flat interface between the membrane of tea and the external atmosphere was pushed out by this pressure difference. The push was the water vapor and air pushing against the surface tension of the tea membrane. It takes force to deform a fluid membrane.

So my steam powered tea pot is running on the heat energy in the hot tea inside it. The work it is doing could be lifting the lid but it surely is popping water bubbles that I can hear.

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Using Antigravity for Statistical Physics in JavaScript

https://christopherkrapu.com/blog/2025/antigravity-stat-mech/

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Flatiron Research Fellow, Statistical Biophysics, Center for Computational Biology
Simons Foundation

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/simons-foundation-27778-flatiron-research-fellow-statistical-biophysics-center-for-computational/

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https://jobrxiv.org/job/simons-foundation-27778-flatiron-research-fellow-statistical-biophysics-center-for-computational/?fsp_sid=5296

Flatiron Research Fellow, Statistical Biophysics, Center for Computational Biology
Simons Foundation

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/simons-foundation-27778-flatiron-research-fellow-statistical-biophysics-center-for-computational/

#biophysics #computationalbiology #statisticalphysics #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/simons-foundation-27778-flatiron-research-fellow-statistical-biophysics-center-for-computational/?fsp_sid=4862

Glad to be granted a patent on prediction & control of blowout in combustion systems by United States Patent and Trademark Office. Our invention predicts the exact blowout time significantly earlier using a log periodic power law & performs control action to prevent the blowout.

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Fun fact, Temperature is weird. Like, what do you mean that the tempurature is equal to the boltzmann constant times the inverse of the change in the natural log of the amount of states in a system per change in the energy? What does that even mean? Why are my eyes bleeding while I look at this equation? What the hell even is statistical physics?

#physics #statisticalphysics #thermodynamics

Statistical Physics with R: Ising Model with Monte Carlo

https://github.com/msuzen/isingLenzMC

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