Stefano Ruffo — Università di Firenze #
Kuramoto model of synchronization: equilibrium and nonequilibrium aspects #
Recently, there has been considerable interest in the study of spontaneous synchronization, particularly within 
the framework of the Kuramoto model. The model comprises oscillators with distributed natural frequencies 
interacting through a mean-field coupling, and serves as a paradigm to study synchronization. In this talk, I 
will describe the model from a different point of view, emphasizing the equilibrium and nonequilibrium aspects 
of its dynamics from a statistical physics perspective. I will discuss in a unified way known results with more 
recent developments obtained for a generalized Kuramoto model that includes inertial effects and noise.