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DY: Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 42: Statistical Physics (General) II

DY 42.1: Invited Talk

Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 14:00–14:30, TU H3010

Thermodynamics - Past, Present and Future — •Werner Ebeling — Institute of Physics, Humboldt-University Berlin, 12489 Berlin

We begin with historical remarks on the basic contributions to thermodynamics and statistics with some bias to scientists working in Berlin as Helmholtz, Clausius, Nernst and Einstein [1]. We underline the key role of thermodynamic ideas in the scientific revolutions in the 20th century. Further we discuss several recent applications to natural, evolutionary and informational systems [3] as well as perspectives [3].

[1] W. Ebeling, D. Hoffmann: The Berlin School of Thermodynamics. Eur.J.Phys. 12(1991)1-9.

[2] W. Ebeling, A. Engel, R. Feistel: Physik der Evolutionsprozesse. Akademie-Verlag Berlin (1990).

[3] W. Ebeling, I. Sokolov: Statistical Thermodynamics and Stochastic Theory of Nonequilibrium Systems, World Scientific (2005), to appear.