MIT World Series: Meeting the Entropy Challenge

MIT World Series: Meeting the Entropy Challenge

9 Videos · Oct 4, 2007

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By organizing an international symposium on the conceptual foundations of thermodynamics thirty years after the passing away of professor Joseph Henry Keenan, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology intends to honor this distinguished scientist who served on the faculty of its Mechanical Engineering Department for 43 years and effectively started an innovative school of thought on thermodynamics.

The symposium featured open discussions among international experts about conceptual, foundational and philosophical issues, enigmas, paradoxes and open questions regarding the role that the second law of thermodynamics plays in natural sciences, including physics, biology, energy, engineering, quantum information, micro and nanotechnology, and cosmology.

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The Second Law and Statistical Mechanics

Dick Bedeaux

Jul 24, 2013

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3263 views

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44:31

The Second Law and Quantum Physics

Charles H. Bennett

Jul 24, 2013

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3449 views

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41:13

The Second Law and Cosmology

Max Tegmark

Jul 24, 2013

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6836 views

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01:30:51

Foundations of the Second Law

Bernard Guy,

Gian Paolo Beretta,

Jochen Gemmer,

Speranta Gheorghiu-Svirschevski,

Owen Maroney,

Silviu Guiasu,

Ping Ao,

Dorion Sagan,

Seth Lloyd

Jul 24, 2013

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4018 views

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01:24:46

Teaching the Second Law

Enzo Zanchini,

Howard Butler,

Bernhardt Trout,

Andrew Foley,

Joseph Smith,

Jeffrey Lewins,

Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli,

Michael von Spakovsky

Jul 24, 2013

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3142 views

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48:47

The Second Law and Biophysics

Kenneth Dill

Jul 24, 2013

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2741 views

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55:24

J.H. Keenan’s Contribution to Thermodynamics

Ahmed F. Ghoniem,

George N. Hatsopoulos,

Susan Hockfield

Jul 24, 2013

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2958 views

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01:28:44

Frontiers of the Second Law

Adrian Bejan,

Miguel Rubi,

David Jou,

Lyndsay Gordon,

Signe Kjelstrup,

Bjarne Andresen,

Miroslav Grmela,

Eric Schneider,

George N. Hatsopoulos

Jul 24, 2013

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3244 views

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01:30:52

The Second Law and Energy (Panel)

Ahmed F. Ghoniem,

Thomas Widmer,

Ron Zevenhoven,

Richard Peterson,

Noam Lior,

James Keck,

Debjyoti Banerjee,

Ernest S. Geskin,

Erik Ydstie,

Zhuomin Zhang

Jul 24, 2013

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3336 views