Thermodynamics 2.0 Program: Sessions and Abstracts
Mon - Wed, June 22 - June 24 , 2020 , Massachusetts, USA
Session T22: Plenary V: Scientific Advances on Thermodynamics
8:30-10:30. Wednesday June 24, 2020
Chair: Bruce Boghosian
Title: A Path from Equilibrium to Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
Presenter:
(Dipartimento di Fisica, INFN, Universita' di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy )
Bio-sketch
0) Birthdate 29–December–1941, math 12) Full Professor with tenure successively since 1972 at the universities: Napoli (physics),Roma1(math),Roma2(math),Roma1(physics) 65) “Emeritus”, Univ. Roma1 since 2015 Professor at “Centro Interdisciplinare Linceo Beniamino Segre, Academies Accademia Lincei, 86/89 Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (socio Corrispondente: 1994) Isttuto nazionale di Studi Romani Academia Europaea Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (socio Nazionale: 2011) - Awards Lefschetz professor, Mathematics Dept., Princeton U., 1982 Prize Presidente della Repubblica, Accademia dei Lincei, 1997 Boltzmann Medal, IUPAP, 2007 Henri Poincaré Prize, IAMP, 2018 Courses and conferences (main) International Congress of mathematicians, Berkeley, ICM-1986 (parallel session speaker) Plenary speaker at “SIAM conf. on applic. of dynamical systems”, 1992, Snowbird, Utah Plenary speaker at M ∩ Φ, IAMP, sBrisbane, 1997 Plenary speaker at XXStatPhys, Paris, 1998. Plenary speaker at ICM-1998, Berlin, 1998. Plenary speaker at 15-th ”Conferencia Nacional de Fisica”, Portuguese Phys. Soc., 2006. Plenary speaker at XXIIIStatPhys, Genova, 2007. Plenary speaker at ICMP2018, Montreal, 2018. Books (3) The Elements of Mechanics, Springer–Verlag, p.1–575, New York, 1983. (5) Renormalization group, p. 1–143, Princeton University Press, 1995, (G. Benfatto). (8) Statistical Mechanics. A short treatise, p. 1-345, Springer–Verlag, Berlin, 1999. (9) Foundations of Fluid Mechanics, Springer–Verlag, p.1–513, 2002, 2005, ISBN: 978-3-540-41415-5. (10) Aspects of the ergodic, qualitative and statistical theory of motion, Springer–Verlag, p.1–434, 2004, (F.Bonetto, G.Gentile). (11) Foundations of Fluid Mechanics, 2d printi, revised, Springer–Verlag, p. 1–519, 2005 (ISSN 0172-5998, ISBN 3-540-41415-0). (12) The Elements of Mechanics, Ipparco Editore, p.1–587, II print, revised and enlarged Full CV, list of pub. and more in https://www.roma1.infn.it/~gallavot/giovanni or https://ipparco.roma1.infn.it
Author(s):
(Dipartimento di Fisica, INFN, Universita' di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy )
Abstract:T22.W172
Abstract
In the last decades new ideas have arisen in thermodynamics as a consequence of the advances in the applications of dynamical systems theory and results to evolution of macroscopic systems. A key question is whether it is possible to extend the domain of thermodynamics from a general theory of relations between equilibrium states to the much more general analysis of relations and properties of stationary states arising under steady forcing of mechanical systems in contact with heat reservoirs. The familiar description of equilibrium via probability distributions (like the microcanonical ensemble) which predicts relations between observables extending the ones of classical thermodynamics has been widely extended and under general assumptions an extension of the theory of ensembles has been proposed. The new theory contains classic thermodynamics, as derived from statistical mechanics, as a special case: it relies on ‘chaos’ and raises important questions that are still debated: is there a suitable extension of the ‘entropy’, are there universal relations that can be theoretically predicted?
Keywords: equilibrium, nonequilibrium, system theory, evolution, thermodynamics