Thermodynamics 2.0 – Integrate Sciences • Empower Humanity

where Natural Sciences meet Social Sciences

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Event Date

August 5-7, 2024

Event Location

Boone, NC, USA

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info@iaisae.org

WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THERMODYNAMICS 2.0?

The International Conference on Thermodynamics 2.0 is all about coevolution of sciences – identifying and connecting dots of scientific revolutions in natural and social sciences.

Thermodynamics 2.0 conference aims to empower science, engineering and humanity. A short-term objective of the conference is a blueprint of bridge between two cultures commonly referred to as natural science and social science.

WHAT IS Thermodynamics 2.0 ?

Thermodynamics 2.0 is a platform where the natural sciences meet the social sciences.

Thermodynamics is a universal science. Thermodynamics 2.0 is about bisociation of thermodynamics with other academic disciplines such as physics, chemistry, biology, sociology, economics and many more. Thermodynamics 2.0 builds on ideas of Ostwald and Helm, known also as energetics. The fable about energetics is brought through times in many forms by many progenitors. This fable can be traced back to Heraclitus: πάντα ῥεῖ (panta rhei) – Everything Flows. The language of Thermodynamics 2.0 is energy or its derivatives such as power, entropy, information which could be more fundamental than energy in time.

Thermodynamics 2.0 is about reshaping and raising the platform of human knowledge rather than building consensus on how do we connect the dots of human knowledge. It is about merging two cultures, not just bridging the gap. We plan to share coming generation new avenues thermodynamics has opened up in the 21^st century. We count on the next generation to take thermodynamics to the next level. The forthcoming generation will always be better than the passing generation and also be equipped with the advantage of time-tested ideas.

In a nutshell, Thermodynamics 2.0 is “Thermodynamics in the 21st Century.”

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES:

We plan to promote scientific exchange towards reshaping and raising thermodynamics platform — Thermodynamics 2.0. Scientific Revolutions on Thermodynamics alone are not enough, we also need a concurrent revolution in training and education for the coming generations. A curriculum, however, is not our end-goal. This conference also aims to lay a structure toward innovations synthesis, and enhance cooperation across its members, member universities and scholars contributing to take thermodynamics to another levels. We count on the next generations to decide what the next level is. What make more sense to them?

This conference will possibly bring together scholars all over the world who are contributing to broaden the boundaries of the classical thermodynamics one way or the other. Let’s work together so that the 21st century will be defined by Thermodynamics 2.0.

We need your help to make this effort a grand success. Together we can take this inter-disciplinary effort to the next level!

OPEN QUESTIONS: THERMODYNAMICS 2.0

Some sample open questions in this field are:

1. How did cooperative behavior evolve? [1]
2. What is life?
3. What is the physical principle underlying Evolution?
4. What is Money?
5. Why is there Poverty?
6. What are the organizational forces and principles that lead to emergence, by which the whole can be greater or less than the sum of the parts, etc?

A monolithic culture, be it either natural science or social science, finds such questions elusive. Thermodynamics 2.0 plans to integrate the engines of human ingenuity across two cultures to address such issues challenging humanity in 21st century and beyond. This conference will provide a venue in which new insights into what the thermodynamics has to offer will be applied toward some of these questions.

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/309/5731/93