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For information: Geneva University Ecole de physique Lundi 16 janvier For over seventy years our understanding of irreversible processes has been based on Onsager's 1931 papers which have provided the tools to analyse experiments in physics and physical chemistry. Onsager's approach however is valid only near equilibrium. In particular it does not require the definition of non equilibrium thermodynamic functionals. Recently progress has been achieved via an extension of Einstein's theory of thermodynamic fluctuations to non equilibrium dynamical situations without the restriction of being close to equilibrium. We shall illustrate some of the basic ideas and results. © CERN 2006-2024 - CERN Publications, IR-ECO-CO
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