<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><div class=""><p class="">Dear Soft Matter Colleagues and Friends,</p><div class="">Please find below an interesting seminar announcement from our colleagues at MIM UW</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes,</div><div class="">Maciej</div><p class="">-----------------------------------------------<br class="">Koleżanki i Koledzy,</p><div class="">In the framework of the seminar Stochastic Models in Biology,</div><div class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="">on Monday 11-th of January at 16:15</div><div class=""></div><div class="">Christian Maes (Instituut voor <a rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" tabindex="-1" href="https://fys.kuleuven.be/itf" class="">Theoretische Fysica</a>, KU Leuven)</div></div><div class=""></div><div class="">will talk about</div><div class=""></div><div class="">Statistical mechanical foundation of Weber-Fechner laws<br class=""><br class=""><div class="">Join Zoom Meeting</div><div class=""><a rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" tabindex="-1" href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85714240676?pwd=alFkNGFCMk5BaW90Kzl4RUVDZVBGUT09" class="">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85714240676?pwd=alFkNGFCMk5BaW90Kzl4RUVDZVBGUT09</a></div><div class=""></div><div class="">Meeting ID: 857 1424 0676</div><div class="">Passcode: 27928</div></div><div class=""><br class="">Abstract below</div><div class=""><div class=""></div><div class="">Serdecznie zapraszamy, Jacek Miękisz i Grzegorz Rempała</div><div class=""></div><div class="">--------------------------------------------------</div></div></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class="">Statistical mechanical foundation of Weber-Fechner laws<br class=""><br class="">Even though the phenomenological relations between perception and stimulus have been firmly established, a theoretical argument for Weber's and Fechner's law in terms of relevant models or from statistical physics is largely missing. We present such a discussion in terms of response theory for nonequilibrium systems, where the induced displacement or current, which stands for the perceived stimulus, crucially depends on the change in time-symmetric reactivities. Stationary nonequilibria may indeed generate extra currents by changing the dynamical activity. The argument finishes by understanding how the extra dynamical activity logarithmically encodes the actual stimulus.</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><div class=""></div></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class="">------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
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