Meeting the entropy challenge : an international thermodynamics symposium in honor and memory of Professor Joseph H. Keenan, Cambridge (Massachusetts), 4-5 October 2007 /
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| Imprint: | Melville, N.Y. : American Institute of Physics, 2008. |
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| Description: | xix, 381 pages : illustrations. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | AIP conference proceedings, 1551-7616 ; 1033 AIP conference proceedings ; no. 1033. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7260666 |
Table of Contents:
- Organizing Committee and Invited Keynote Speakers
- Panel Discussion Speakers
- Symposium Program
- Registered Participants
- Preface
- Introduction to the Keenan Symposium
- A Symposium on Thermodynamics; But Why?
- Professor Keenan's Contribution to Thermodynamics
- Autobiographical Notes
- Where Is the Entropy Challenge?
- The Second Law and Statistical Mechanics
- The Second Law and Quantum Physics
- The Second Law and Cosmology
- The Second Law and Biology
- Energy and the Second Law
- Building on the Legacy of Professor Keenan-Entropy: An Intrinsic Property of Matter
- Panel Discussion on "Foundations of the Second Law"
- The Once and Future Second Law of Thermodynamics
- Maxwell through the Looking Glass: From Szilard to Landauer and Back Again
- Reversibility Paradox Revisited
- Emergence of Thermodynamics from Darwinian Dynamics
- Relaxation in Incompletely Observed Quantum Systems
- Particles, Scale, Time Construction, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
- The Second Law from Locally Maximal Entropy Generation Quantum Dynamics
- The Second Law and Quantum Evolution: Lessons in Entanglement, Locality and Separability
- From Producing Entropy to Reducing Gradients to Spreading Energy: Understanding the Essence of the Second Law
- Discussion on "Foundations of the Second Law"
- Panel Discussion on "Frontiers of the Second Law"
- The Constructal Law of "Designedness" in Nature
- The Need for Entropy in Finite-Time Thermodynamics and Elsewhere
- The Second Law for Small Systems
- Mesoscopic Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Biological Systems
- Generalized Transport Equations and Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics
- Contact Geometry of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
- Demon and Valve-Information and Thermodynamics
- Thermodynmaics, Information and Ecosystems
- Discussion on "Frontiers of the Second Law"
- Panel Discussion on "Teaching the Second Law"
- Teaching the Entropy Concepts of Thermodynamics
- The Evolving Second Law
- Entropy, the Second Law and the Concept of 'Bad' Energy!
- Teaching the Second Law: Statistical Mechanics of Biomolecular Systems
- Why Philosophical History Is Essential to Teaching the Second Law of Thermodynamics
- How to Tell the Stable from the Metastable
- Rigorous Axiomatic Definition of Entropy Valid Also for Non-Equilibrium States
- The Second Law: A Unified Approach to Thermodynamics Applicable to All Systems and All States
- Discussion on "Teaching the Second Law"
- Panel Discussion on "The Second Law and Energy"
- Putting the Second Law to Work
- High-Speed Liquid Projectiles: An Efficient Energy Conversion Tool
- Rate-Controlled Constrained-Equilibrium Theory of Chemical Reactions
- The Exergy Fields in Processes
- Size Matters: Microscale Heat Engines and Thermodynamics
- Availability and Dissipativity in Networks: Foundations of Process Control
- Can the Infrared Radiation that Causes the Enhanced Greenhouse Effect Be Put to Better Use?
- Radiation Entropy and Near-Field Thermophotovoltaics
- Energy and the Entropy Challenge
- Discussion on "The Second Law and Energy"
- Author Index