CERN Accelerating science

Lundi 16 janvier
COLLOQUE DE LA SECTION DE PHYSIQUE
17h00 - Auditoire Stückelberg

Recent progress in understanding irreversible processes
Professeur G. Jona-Lasino / Institute: Université de Rome 'La Sapienza'

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.

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