Speakers

Thermodynamics 2.0: List of Speakers

Keynote Speakers

• Terrence Deacon, University of California, Berkeley
  • Title: Teleodynamics.
• Adrian Bejan, Duke University
  • Title: Freedom and Evolution.
• Katalin Martinas, ELTE, Budapest
  • Title: Thermodynamics for Evolution
• Steve Keen, ISRS, University College London, UK
  • Title: Why System Dynamics must Supplant Equilibrium Modelling
• Giovanni Gallavotti, Universita’ di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
  • Title: A path from equilibrium to nonequilibrium thermodynamics

Plenary Speakers: Thermodynamics 2.0

Featured Speakers: Thermodynamics 2.0

• Miroslav Grmela, Ècole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
  • Title: Multiscale Thermodynamics: A Theory of Relations Among Mesoscopic Dynamical Models of Complex Systems
• Todd Hylton, University of California San Diego, USA
  • Title: Thermodynamic Neural Network
• Themis Matsoukas, Pennsylvania State University, University Par
  • Title: Thermodynamics and the Evolution of Stochastic Populations
• Cemal Basaran, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
  • Title: Unified Mechanics Theory: Unification of Thermodynamics and Newtonian Mechanics
• James Thornton, Health First, Melbourne, Florida
  • Title: Why is there Life?
• Erald Kolasi
  • Title: The Physics of Capitalism
• Libb Thims, The Institute of Human Thermodynamics
  • A Theoretical Torricelli Social Barometer to Measure Social Pressure
• Mieczyslaw Dobija, Cracow University of Economics, Poland
  • Title: A physical basis of Economics
• Venkat Venkatasubramanian, Columbia University
  • Title: How Much Income Inequality is Fair?
• Carey King, Energy Institue, The Univeristy of Texas at Austin
  • Title: HARMONEY: A Biophysical And Economic Growth Model
• Gian Paolo Beretta, Brescia State University
  • Title: The Fourth Law of Thermodynamics
• Klaus Jaffe, Universidad Simón Bolívar
  • Title: Synergy Increases Free Energy and Reduces Entropy
• Cal Abel, Statistical Economics, Atlanta, GA
  • Title: Generalizing Statistical Mechanics

Pre-conference Workshop: Coordinator

• Bernard Guy, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne
  • Topic: Space, Time and Movement: A Trilogy
• Miroslav Grmela, Polytechnique Montréal
  • Topic: Multiscale Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics