Table of Contents
Preface v
1 Arrival Statistics and Exploration Properties of Mortal Walkers S. B. Yuste E. Abad K. Lindenberg 1
2 First Passage of a Randomly Accelerated Particle T. W. Burkhardt 21
3 First Passage Problems in Anomalous Diffusion A. Rosso A. Zoia 45
4 First-Passage Times of Intermittent Random Walks O. Bénichou R. Voituriez 70
5 First-Passage Phenomena on Finite Inhomogeneous Networks E. Agliari D. Cassi 96
6 Effective Spectral Dimension in Scale-Free Networks S. Hwang D.-S. Lee B. Kahng 122
7 First-Passage Statistics for Random Walks in Bounded Domains R. Voituriez O. Bénichou 145
8 First Passage Behavior of Multi-Dimensional Fractional Brownian Motion and Application to Reaction Phenomena J.-H. Jeon A. V. Chechkin R. Metzler 175
9 Trajectory-to-Trajectory Fluctuations in First-Passage Phenomena in Bounded Domains T. G. Mattos C. Mejía-Monasterio R. Metzler G. Oskanin G. Schehr 203
10 Exact Record and Order Statistics of Random Walks via First-Passage Ideas G. Schehr S. N. Majumdar 226
11 First Passage in Conical Geometry and Ordering of Browuian Particles E. Ben-Naim P. L. Krapivsky 252
12 First Passage Time Problems in Biophysical Jump Processes with Fast Kinetics P. C. Bressloff J. M. Newby 277
13 First Passage Problems in Biology T. Chou M. R. D'Orsogna 306
14 The Effect of Detection Mechanisms on Spatial Search and Foraging D. Campos V. Méndez 346
15 Search in Random Media with Lévy Flights E. Gelenbe O. H. Abdelrahman 366
16 Exit Strategies: Visual Search and the Quitting Time Problem T. S. Horowitz 390
17 Statistical Physics of Evolutionary Trajectories on Fitness Landscapes M. Manhart A. V. Morozov 416
18 Some Applications of First-Passage Ideas to Finance R. Chieheportiche J.-P. Bouchaud 447
19 First-Passage and Extremes in Socio-Economic Systems J. Masoliver J. Perelló 477
20 Transport and the First Passage Time Problem with Application to Cold Atoms in Optical Traps E. Barkai D. A. Kessler 502
21 The Excursion Set Theory in Cosmology M. Maggiore A. Riotto 532
22 Self-Organized Escape Processes of Linear Chains in Nonlinear Potentials T. Gross D. Hennig L. Schimansky-Geier 554
23 Efficient Monte Carlo Methods for Simulating Diffusion-Reaction Processes in Complex Systems D. S. Grebenkov 571
