Topics in Non-Equilibrium Physics Reading Group
We are meeting on Wednesdays, 5-6pm, in the seminar room D1.07.
At present we are reading the review article "" by Hugo Touchette. (arXiv version )
Everybody is welcome to come along! To support the learning process biscuits are provided by the department.
(Credits to xkcd.com, for full comic see )
Upcoming meetings:
- 16th December 2015: Large deviations, part VII (Jonathan)
- 17th December 2015: Addendum on entropy (Andrea)
Previous meetings:
Material: "The large deviation approach to statistical mechanics" by H. Touchette
- 4th November 2015: Large deviations, part I (Joel)
- 11th November 2015: Large deviations, part II (Fede)
- 18th November 2015: Large deviations, part III (Tom)
- 25th November 2015: Large deviations, part IV (Tom)
- 2nd December 2015: Large deviations, part V (Diana)
- 9th December 2015: Large deviations, part VI (Jonathan)
Material: "Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics: Linear irreversible processes" by N. Pottier
- 28th October 2015: Chapters 3-5, Introduction to kinetic theory (Diana)
Material: "Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics" by S.R. de Groot and P. Mazur.
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20th April 2015: Introduction, Chapter II: Conservation Laws (Diana)
- 27th April 2015: Chapter III: Entropy Law and Entropy Balance (Tom R.)
- 20th May 2015: Summary and remainder of Chapter III (Jonathan)
- 15th June 2015: III.4 (Jonathan) , Chapter IV: The phenomenological equations - part 1 (Diana)
- 29th June: Ch. IV - part 2 (Diana)
- 6th July: Chapter V: The stationary states (Neil J.)
- 13th July: start of Chapter VI: Properties of the Phenom. Equations and the Onsager Relations (Federico)
- 20th July: Ch. VII Discussion of the Statistical Foundations - Part 1 (Gwilym)
- 27th July: Ch. VII Discussion of the Statistical Foundations - Part 2 (Gwilym)
Further reading:
- Nature Physics Insight (Feb. 2015) -
- inaugural lecture by Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977: (fist 5 pages are a good summary of linear non-eq. thermodyn.)