Invited Speakers

JETC 2013

12th Joint European

Thermodynamics

Conference

Brescia, Italy, July 1-5, 2013

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Invited Speakers - Mini Symposia

Below is the list of mini-symposia, invited speakers, their titles, and the corresponding final papers or extended abstracts.

In the table below, the last column to the right contains the TITLE of the contribution.

Click on the symbol on the left to view the FULL PAPER or the EXTENDED ABSTRACT contributed by each panelist to the book of Proceedings.

Each panel discussion will have up to 9 invited experts and will last up to 150 minutes. Each panelist will speak 11 (max 12) minutes and write a 6-10 page paper or at least an extended abstract that will be published in the Proceedings of the conference. Each panel discussion will allow time for 20-25 minutes of discussion (i.e., questions and answers and possibly short statements from the audience).

All panelists should be aware that the 12 minutes limit is very strict and it will be enforced by switching off the microphone and giving immediately the floor to the next panelist or the discussion.

A	Entropy production minimization, constructal law, and other optimization techniques in energy and other technologies
	Bjarne	Andresen	Niels Bohr Inst, Copenhagen	Denmark	PRINCIPAL EQUATIONS OF STATE AND THEIR RELATION TO THE SECOND LAW AND TO THERMODYNAMIC GEOMETRY OPTIMIZATION
	Adrian	Bejan	Duke U, Durham, NC	USA	CONSTRUCTAL LAW: DESIGN AS PHYSICS
	Daniel	Favrat	EPFL Lausanne	Switzerland	THERMODYNAMICS AND THE OPTIMIZATION OF ENERGY SYSTEMS: STRENGTHS AND LIMITS
	Michel	Feidt	U Lorraine	France	DOES MINIMUM ENTROPY GENERATION RATE CORRESPOND TO MAXIMUM POWER OR OTHER OBJECTIVES?
	Ahmed	Ghoniem	MIT, Cambridge, MA	USA	FROM MACROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS TO MICRO-KINETIC MODELS OF SURFACE REACTIONS
	Karl Heinz	Hoffmann	U Chemnitz	Germany	APPLYING ENDOREVERSIBLE THERMODYNAMICS: THE OPTIVENT METHOD FOR SI-ENGINES
	Signe	Kjelstrup	NTNU Trondheim	Norway	Energy efficient reactor design simplified by application of the second law of thermodynamics
	Gregory	Kowalski	Northeastern U, Boston, MA	USA	ENTROPY PRODUCTION: INTEGRATING RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES INTO SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS

B	Non-equilibrium thermodynamics: the various approaches and their reasons
	Dick	Bedeaux	NTNU Trondheim	Norway	MESOSCOPIC NON-EQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS
	Peter	Daivis	RMIT U, Melbourne	Australia	STUDYING NON-EQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS USING NON-EQUILIBRIUM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS
	Denis	Evans	Australian NU, Camberra	Australia	DISSIPATION AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS
	Miroslav	Grmela	Polytechnique Montreal, Québec	Canada	Multiscale MESOSCOPIC Dynamics and Thermodynamics
	Jan	Naudts	U Antwerpen	Belgium	THERMODYNAMICS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF INFORMATION GEOMETRY
	Liliana	Restuccia	U Messina	Italy	NON-EQUILIBRIUM TEMPERATURES IN SYSTEMS WITH INTERNAL VARIABLES
	Miguel	Rubi	U Barcelona	Spain	MESOSCOPIC NON-EQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS FOR THE STOCHASTIC DYNAMICS OF SMALL-SCALE SYSTEMS

C	Biology and thermodynamics: where do we stand?
	Fernando	Bresme	Imperial College, London	UK	HEAT TRANSFER AND DISSIPATION IN BIOMLECULES: COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES
	Yasar	Demirel	U Nebraska, Lincoln, NE	USA	FLUCTUATION THEOREM, INFORMATION THEORY AND BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
	Axel	Kleidon	Max-Planck-Inst Biogeochemie, Jena	Germany	UNDERSTANDING LIFE FROM A THERMODYNAMIC EARTH SYSTEM PERSPECTIVE
	Michal	Kurzynski	U Adam Mickiewicz, Poznan	Poland	STOCHASTIC DYNAMICS OF PROTEINS AND THE ACTION OF BIOLOGICAL MOLECULAR MACHINES
	Fabio	Mavelli	U Bari	Italy	STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS OF MINIMAL CELL MODEL SYSTEMS
	Adam	Moroz	De Montfort U, Leicester	UK	ACCELERATION OF FREE ENERGY DISSIPATION BY BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
	Albrecht	Ott	U Saarbruecken	Germany	DRIVEN CHEMISTRY AND INCREASINGLY COMPLEX FORMS OF DYNAMIC ORDER
	Peter	Salamon	SU Sand Diego, CA	USA	NEARLY PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINES OF THE THIRD KIND
	Pasko	Zupanovic	U Split	Croatia	THE RELEVANCE OF MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRODUCTION PRINCIPLE AND MAXIMUM INFORMATION ENTROPY PRINCIPLE IN BIOLOGY

D	Maximum entropy production, steepest entropy ascent, dissipation potentials, and variational principles: how universal and interrelated?
	Gian Paolo	Beretta	U Brescia	Italy	STEEPEST-ENTROPY-ASCENT AND MAXIMAL-ENTROPY-PRODUCTION DYNAMICAL MODELS OF IRREVERSIBLE RELAXATION TO STABLE EQUILIBRIUM FROM ANY NON-EQUILIBRIUM STATE. UNIFIED TREATMENT FOR SIX NON-EQUILIBRIUM FRAMEWORKS
	Carlo	Cafaro	Max-Planck Institute, Erlangen	Germany	INFORMATION GEOMETRIC COMPLEXITY OF ENTROPIC MOTION ON CURVED STATISTICAL MANIFOLDS
	Robert	Niven	ADFA, U New South Wales, Canberra	Australia	MINIMUM FLOW POTENTIAL (MASSIEU FUNCTION) IN FLOW SYSTEMS AND CONNECTION TO ENTROPY PRODUCTION EXTREMA
	Hisashi	Ozawa	Hiroshima U	Japan	GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ENTROPY PRODUCTION IN NONLINEAR DYNAMIC SYSTEMS
	Jozsef	Verhas	UTE Budapest	Hungary	GYARMATI'S VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE OF DISSIPATIVE PROCESSES
	Qiang	Yang	Tsinghua U, Beijing	China	ON THE STRUCTURE OF MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRODUCTION PRINCIPLE: FROM NEAR TO FAR-FROM EQUILIBRIUM

E	Thermodynamic entropy: the various definitions and their reasons
	Adriano	Lezzi	U Brescia	Italy	“DEFINING ENTROPY BEFORE HEAT, NOT VICEVERSA” IN INTRODUCTORY THERMODYNAMICS: TWENTYFIVE-YEAR TEACHING EXPERIENCE IN ENGINEERING PROGRAMS
	Andre	Thess	UT Ilmenau	Germany	INTRODUCING THE LIEB-YNGVASON ENTROPY-DEFINITION INTO UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY AT ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
	Daniel	Tondeur	CNRS, Nancy	France	ENTROPY-LIKE FUNCTIONS IN MULTI-SCALE HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION
	Jakob	Yngvason	U Wien	Austria	COMPARABILITY OF STATES AND THE DEFINITION OF ENTROPY
	Enzo	Zanchini	U Bologna	Italy	RIGOROUS OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF ENTROPY NOT BASED ON THE CONCEPTS OF HEAT AND OF EMPIRICAL TEMPERATURE

F	Thermodynamics of interfacial phenomena: surface tension and non-equilibrium effects of Korteweg capillary forces
	Kirill	Glavatskiy	NTNU Trondheim	Norway	HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER DURING NUCLEATION
	Felix	Llovell	MATGAS, Bellaterra	Spain	INHOMOGENEOUS DENSITY THEORIES COUPLED INTO A MOLECULAR EQUATION OF STATE FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF THE FLUID-FLUID INTERFACE
	Roberto	Mauri	U Pisa	Italy	PHASE FIELD MODELING OF MULTIPHASE SYSTEMS
	Mathis	Plapp	Polytechnique Palaiseau Cedex	France	GRAND-CANONICAL FORMULATION OF PHASE-FIELD MODELS FOR ALLOY SOLIDIFICATION
	Leonard	Sagis	U Wageningen	Netherland	DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX FLUID-FLUID INTERFACES
	Wilhelm	Schneider	TU Wien	Austria	SURFACES AS NON-AUTONOMOUS THERMODYNAMIC SYSTEMS

G	Equilibrium and non-equilibrium thermodynamics of small systems, multiscale methods, and energy harvesting from fluctuations
	Pietro	Asinari	Politecnico Torino	Italy	MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF CARBON NANO-BINDERS INTO ZEOLITE THERMAL STORAGE
	Ralph	Chamberlin	Arizona State U	USA	NANOTHERMODYNAMICS: SMALL-SYSTEM THERMODYNAMICS APPLIED TO LARGE SYSTEMS
	Luca	Gammaitoni	U Perugia	Italy	ENERGY HARVESTING AT MICRO AND NANOSCALE
	Pierre	Gaspard	UL Brussels	Belgium	THE FLUCTUATION THEOREM FOR CURRENTS AND NONEQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS
	Agustin	Perez-Madrid	U Barcelona	Spain	THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE BREAKDOWN OF THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY IN ENERGY GENERATION AND CONVERSION NANODEVICES
	Pietro	Poesio	U Brescia	Italy	HYBRID ATOMISTIC-CONTINUUM APPROACH TO DESCRIBE INTERFACIAL PROPERTIES BETWEEN IMMISCIBLE LIQUIDS
	Debra	Searles	U Queensland	Australia	FLUCTUATION RELATIONS FOR THE DISSIPATION

H	Conceptual analysis of the entropy principle in continuum physics
	Vito Antonio	Cimmelli	U Basilicata	Italy	CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE ENTROPY PRINCIPLE IN CONTINUUM PHYSICS: AN OVERVIEW
	Markus	Hütter	Eindhoven UT	Netherlands	NON-NEGATIVE ENTROPY PRODUCTION BY QUASI-LINEAR OR POTENTIAL-BASED FORCE-FLUX RELATIONS
	David	Jou	AU Barcelona	Spain	ENTROPY, ENTROPY FLUX, TEMPERATURE AND SECOND LAW IN EXTENDED IRREVERSIBLE THERMODYNAMICS
	Vittorio	Romano	U Catania	Italy	ON THE FORMULATION OF ENTROPY FOR A PARTIALLY QUANTIZED ELECTRON SYSTEM IN SEMICONDUCTORS
	Tommaso	Ruggeri	U Bologna	Italy	RECENT RESULTS IN RATIONAL EXTENDED THERMODYNAMICS: MACROSCOPIC APPROACH AND MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRINCIPLE FOR DENSE AND RAREFIED POLYATOMIC GASES
	Massimo	Trovato	U Catania	Italy	A PROPER NONLOCAL FORMULATION OF QUANTUM MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRINCIPLE FOR FERMI, BOSE AND FRACTIONAL ESCLUSION STATISTICS
	Peter	Ván	Budapest U	Hungary	THERMODYNAMICS OF CONTINUA: THE CHALLENGE OF UNIVERSALITY

I	Connecting second law analysis with economics, ecology, fluid mechanics, and more
	Richard	Gaggioli	U Marquette, Milwaukee, WI	USA	RELEVANCE OF THE DEAD STATE TO ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC ANALYSES
	Andrea	Lazzaretto	U Padova	Italy	FUEL AND PRODUCT DEFINITIONS IN COST ACCOUNTING EVALUATIONS: IS IT A SOLVED PROBLEM?
	Mauro	Reini	U Trieste	Italy	ENERGY/EXERGY BASED COST ACCOUNTING IN LARGE ECOLOGICAL-TECHNOLOGICAL ENERGY SYSTEMS
	Marc	Rosen	U Ontario IT, Oshawa	Canada	CORRELATING THERMODYNAMICS AND ECONOMIC INVESTMENTS TO IMPROVE THE RATIONALE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH
	Enrico	Sciubba	U Roma 1	Italy	USE OF EXERGY ANALYSIS TO COMPUTE THE RESOURCE INTENSITY OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS AND HUMAN SOCIETIES
	George	Tsatsaronis	TU Berlin	Germany	ADVANCED EXERGY-BASED METHODS
	Antonio	Valero	U Zaragoza	Spain	THERMODYNAMIC ACCOUNTING OF THE GLOBAL DEPLETION OF THE MINERAL CAPITAL ON EARTH. A PROPOSAL TO THE U.N.
	Vittorio	Verda	Politecnico Torino	Italy	THERMOECONOMICS AS A REGULATION TOOL IN FUTURE DISTRICT HEATING NETWORKS

J	Model order reduction of complex combustion thermodynamics and kinetics
	Alexander	Gorban	U Leicester	UK	DOMINANT PATHS AND SYSTEMS IN MULTISCALE REACTION NETWORKS
	Alexander	Klimenko	U Queensland	Australia	CPT INVARIANCE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THERMODYNAMICS AND KINETICS
	Ulrich	Maas	Karlsruhe IT	Germany	HIERARCHICAL CONCEPTS FOR MODEL REDUCION FOR REACTING FLOWS BASED ON LOW-DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLDS
	Hameed	Metghalchi	Northeastern U, Boston, MA	USA	THE RATE-CONTROLLED CONSTRAINED-EQUILIBRIUM (RCCE) METHOD: A REDUCTION TECHNIQUE FOR COMPLEX KINETIC MODELS
	Habib	Najm	Sandia National Lab, Livermore, CA	USA	MODEL REDUCTION IN REACTING FLOW
	Mauro	Valorani	U Roma 'La Sapienza'	Italy	ENTROPY PRODUCTION AND THE G-SCHEME
	Gregory	Yablonsky	U St. Louis, MO	USA	GRASPING COMPLEXITY IN CHEMICAL KINETICS: TOP-DOWN, BOTTOM-UP AND SOME MORE...

K	Quantum thermodynamics: what is it and what can be done with it
	Sumiyoshi	Abe	Mie U, Mie	Japan	QUANTUM-MECHANICAL ANALOG OF THE CARNOT CYCLE: GENERAL FORMULA FOR EFFICIENCY AND MAXIMUM-POWER OUTPUT
	Subhash	Chaturvedi	U Hyderabad	India	MICROSCOPIC BROWNIAN HEAT ENGINES: A QUANTUM DYNAMICAL FRAMEWORK
	Jochen	Gemmer	U Osnabrück	Germany	TYPICALITY APPROACH TO QUANTUM THERMODYNAMICS
	Ronnie	Kosloff	The Hebrew U, Jerusalem	Israel	QUANTUM REFRIGERATORS AND THE III-LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
	Altug	Sisman	TU Istanbul	Turkey	THERMODYNAMICS UNDER QUANTUM SIZE EFFECTS
	Michael	von Spakovsky	Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA	USA	INTRINSIC QUANTUM THERMODYNAMICS: WHAT IS IT AND WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH IT

L	Computation of thermodynamic properties, phase equilibria, and mixing and separation dynamics of industrial blends and nanostructured fluids
	Neima	Brauner	Tel-Aviv U	Israel	COMBINING CONSTANT PROPERTY PREDICTION TECHNIQUES FOR WIDER APPLICABILITY AND IMPROVED ACCURACY
	Sebastiano	Correra	ENI, Milano	Italy	ASPHALTENE OR HOW AND WHY I BECAME A FAN OF THE REGULAR SOLUTIONS THEORY
	Ulrich	Deiters	U Koeln	Germany	THERMODYNAMICS -- OLD SCIENCE AND NEW CHALLENGES
	Jean-Noel	Jaubert	INPL, Nancy	France	USE OF A UNIQUE SET OF TEMPERATURE–DEPENDENT BINARY INTERACTION PARAMETERS TO SIMULTANEOUSLY DESCRIBE EXCESS PROPERTIES AND FLUID–PHASE EQUILIBRIUM WITH A CUBIC EQUATION OF STATE
	Bernard	Rousseau	CNRS, U Paris-Sud 11	France	COARSE-GRAINED SIMULATIONS OF OIL-WATER-SURFACTANT MIXTURES
	Doros	Theodorou	National TU, Athens	Greece	STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS-BASED SIMULATION METHODS FOR THE PREDICTION OF POLYMER PROPERTIES
	Andrei	Zvelindovsky	U Central Lancashire	UK	BLOCK COPOLYMERS IN CONFINEMENTS AND UNDER EXTERNAL FIELDS

Invited Speakers

JETC 2013

12th Joint European

Thermodynamics

Conference

Brescia, Italy, July 1-5, 2013

Invited Speakers - Mini Symposia

Below is the list of mini-symposia, invited speakers, their titles, and the corresponding final papers or extended abstracts.

In the table below, the last column to the right contains the TITLE of the contribution.

Click on the symbol on the left to view the FULL PAPER or the EXTENDED ABSTRACT contributed by each panelist to the book of Proceedings.

All panelists should be aware that the 12 minutes limit is very strict and it will be enforced by switching off the microphone and giving immediately the floor to the next panelist or the discussion.

A

Entropy production minimization, constructal law, and other optimization techniques in energy and other technologies

B

Non-equilibrium thermodynamics: the various approaches and their reasons

C

Biology and thermodynamics: where do we stand?

D

Maximum entropy production, steepest entropy ascent, dissipation potentials, and variational principles: how universal and interrelated?

E

Thermodynamic entropy: the various definitions and their reasons

F

Thermodynamics of interfacial phenomena: surface tension and non-equilibrium effects of Korteweg capillary forces

G

Equilibrium and non-equilibrium thermodynamics of small systems, multiscale methods, and energy harvesting from fluctuations

H

Conceptual analysis of the entropy principle in continuum physics

I

Connecting second law analysis with economics, ecology, fluid mechanics, and more

J

Model order reduction of complex combustion thermodynamics and kinetics

K

Quantum thermodynamics: what is it and what can be done with it

L

Computation of thermodynamic properties, phase equilibria, and mixing and separation dynamics of industrial blends and nanostructured fluids