TY  - BOOK
AU  - Metzler,Ralf
AU  - Oshanin,Gleb
AU  - Redner,Sidney
TI  - First-passage phenomena and their applications
SN  - 9789814590280 (hardcover : alk. paper)
U1  - 530.13 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Singapore : 
PB  - World Scientific, 
KW  - Statistical mechanics
KW  - Study and teaching (Graduate)
KW  - Stochastic processes
KW  - Random walks (Mathematics)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 1. Arrival statistics and exploration properties of mortal walkers / S.B. Yuste, E. Abad and K. Lindenberg --
 2. First passage of a randomly accelerated particle / T.W. Burkhardt --
 3. First passage problems in anomalous diffusion / A. Rosso and A. Zoia --
 4. First-passage times of intermittent random walks / O. Benichou and R. Voituriez --
 5. First-passage phenomena on finite inhomogeneous networks / E. Agliari and D. Cassi --
 6. Effective spectral dimension in scale-free networks / S. Hwang, D.-S. Lee and B. Kahng --
 7. First-passage statistics for random walks in bounded domains / R. Voituriez and O. Benichou --
 8. First passage behavior of multi-dimensional fractional Brownian motion and application to reaction phenomena / J.-H. Jeon, A.V. Chechkin and R. Metzler --
 9. Trajectory-to-trajectory fluctuations in first-passage phenomena in bounded domains / T.G. Mattos [and others] --
 10. Exact record and order statistics of random walks via first-passage ideas / G. Schehr and S.N. Majumdar --
 11. First passage in conical geometry and ordering of Brownian particles / E. Ben-Naim and P.L. Krapivsky --
 12. First passage time problems in biophysical jump processes with fast kinetics / P.C. Bressloff and J.M. Newby --
 13. First passage problems in biology / T. Chou and M.R. D'Orsogna --
 14. The effect of detection mechanisms on spatial search and foraging / D. Campos and V. Mendez --
 15. Search in random media with Levy flights / E. Gelenbe and O.H. Abdelrahman --
 16. Exit strategies: Visual search and the quitting time problem / T.S. Horowitz --
 17. Statistical physics of evolutionary trajectories on fitness landscapes / M. Manhart and A.V. Morozov --
 18. Some applications of first-passage ideas to finance / R. Chicheportiche and J.-P. Bouchaud --
 19. First-passage and extremes in socio-economic systems / J. Masoliver and J. Perello --
 20. Transport and the first passage time problem with application to cold atoms in optical traps / E. Barkai and D.A. Kessler --
 21. The excursion set theory in cosmology / M. Maggiore and A. Riotto --
 22. Self-organized escape processes of linear chains in nonlinear potentials / T. Gross, D. Hennig and L. Schimansky-Geier --
 23. Efficient Monte Carlo methods for simulating diffusion-reaction processes in complex systems / D.S. Grebenkov
N2  - The 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
ER  -