MIT World Series: Meeting the Entropy Challenge

MIT World Series: Meeting the Entropy Challenge

9 Lectures · Oct 4, 2007

About

By organizing an international symposium on the conceptual foundations of thermodynamics thirty years after the passing away of professor Joseph Henry Keenan, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology intends to honor this distinguished scientist who served on the faculty of its Mechanical Engineering Department for 43 years and effectively started an innovative school of thought on thermodynamics.

The symposium featured open discussions among international experts about conceptual, foundational and philosophical issues, enigmas, paradoxes and open questions regarding the role that the second law of thermodynamics plays in natural sciences, including physics, biology, energy, engineering, quantum information, micro and nanotechnology, and cosmology.

Related categories

Uploaded videos:

video-img
01:30:52

The Second Law and Energy (Panel)

Ahmed F. Ghoniem,

Thomas Widmer,

Ernest S. Geskin,

James Keck,

Noam Lior,

Debjyoti Banerjee,

Richard Peterson,

Erik Ydstie,

Ron Zevenhoven,

Zhuomin Zhang

Jul 24, 2013

 · 

3329 Views

Panel
video-img
01:24:46

Teaching the Second Law

Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli,

Joseph Smith,

Howard Butler,

Andrew Foley,

Bernhardt Trout,

Jeffrey Lewins,

Enzo Zanchini,

Michael von Spakovsky

Jul 24, 2013

 · 

3134 Views

Debate
video-img
48:47

The Second Law and Biophysics

Kenneth Dill

Jul 24, 2013

 · 

2735 Views

Lecture
video-img
01:28:44

Frontiers of the Second Law

Adrian Bejan,

Bjarne Andresen,

Miguel Rubi,

Signe Kjelstrup,

David Jou,

Miroslav Grmela,

Lyndsay Gordon,

Eric Schneider,

George N. Hatsopoulos

Jul 24, 2013

 · 

3235 Views

Debate
video-img
01:30:51

Foundations of the Second Law

Seth Lloyd,

Owen Maroney,

Silviu Guiasu,

Ping Ao,

Jochen Gemmer,

Bernard Guy,

Gian Paolo Beretta,

Speranta Gheorghiu-Svirschevski,

Dorion Sagan

Jul 24, 2013

 · 

4010 Views

Debate
video-img
41:13

The Second Law and Cosmology

Max Tegmark

Jul 24, 2013

 · 

6822 Views

Lecture
video-img
44:31

The Second Law and Quantum Physics

Charles H. Bennett

Jul 24, 2013

 · 

3436 Views

Lecture
video-img
53:00

The Second Law and Statistical Mechanics

Dick Bedeaux

Jul 24, 2013

 · 

3252 Views

Lecture
video-img
55:24

J.H. Keenan’s Contribution to Thermodynamics

Susan Hockfield,

Ahmed F. Ghoniem,

George N. Hatsopoulos

Jul 24, 2013

 · 

2950 Views

Lecture