First Steps in Random Walks

Professor Klafter is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and has won the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Prize, the Weizmann Prize for Sciences, the Rothschild Prize in Chemistry, and the Israel Chemical Society Prize. He also holds an honorary doctorate from Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland. He has been the President of Tel Aviv University since 2009. Professor Klafter has published close to 400 scientific articles and edited 18 books. He is a member of the editorial boards of six scientific journals, and has been a member of the scientific committee of dozens of conferences. Professsor Sokolov has taught at the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the University of Bayreth (Germany), the University of Freiburg (Germany). Professor Sokolov currently holds the Chair for Statistical Physics and Nonlinear Dynamics at the Institute of Physics at Humboldt University in Berlin. He is the author of more than 200 publications in statistical physics as well as physical chemistry of condensed and soft matter, especially problems regarding disordered systems and polymers.

1. Characteristic Functions ; 2. Generating Functions and Applications ; 3. Continuous Time Random Walks ; 4. CTRW and Aging Phenomena ; 5. Master Equations ; 6. Fractional Diffusion and Fokker-Planck Equations for Subdiffusion ; 7. Levy Flights ; 8. Coupled CTRW and Levy Walks ; 9. Simple Reactions: A+B->B ; 10. Random Walks on Percolation Structures