Sunday Evening
Session 1. | Thermodynamics of Quantum Systems and Very Low Temperatures |
Discussion Leader: Janet Elliott (University of Alberta)
- Daniel M. Stamper-Kurn (University of California, Berkeley)
STUDIES OF NEW THERMAL SYSTEMS WITH ULTRACOLD ATOMS
- Ronnie Kosloff (Hebrew University)
THE QUANTUM REFRIGERATOR IN QUEST OF ABSOLUTE ZERO
- Andrej Vilesov (University of Southern California)
MOLECULES AND SUPERFLUID HELIUM DROPLETS
Monday Morning
Session 2. | Biothermodynamics |
Discussion Leader: John Schellman (University of Oregon)
- Ernesto Friere (Johns Hopkins University)
DRUG DESIGN BASED UPON THERMODYNAMIC METHODS
- Bruce Tidor (MIT)
SOLVATION EFFECTS ON PROTEIN FOLDING, BINDING AND DESIGN: EXPLORING THE ELECTROSTATIC BALANCE
- Angel Garcia (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
EXPLORING THE ENERGY LANDSCAPE OF LARGE PEPTIDES AND SMALL PROTEINS IN EXPLICIT SOLVENT
Monday Evening
Session 3. | Thermodynamics of Nonequilibrium, Nonlinear Systems |
Discussion Leader: Thor A. Bak (Denmark)
- John Ross (Stanford University)
ELECTROCHEMISTRY AND THE DETERMINATION OF STOCHASTIC POTENTIAL FROM MACROSCOPIC MEASUREMENTS
- Katherine Hunt (Michigan State University)
NON-NERNSTIAN ELECTROCHEMISTRY AND NONEQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS IN FLOW SYSTEMS
- Wojciech Zurek (LANL)
ALGORITHMIC RANDOMNESS AND PHYSICAL ENTROPY
Tuesday Morning
Session 4. | Efficient and Stable Thermodynamics; Computer-Based Knowledge Systems |
Discussion Leader: Ozer Arnas
- Sten Bay Jørgensen (Technical University of Denmark)
- Richard Gaggioli (Marquette University)
MODERN IMPLICATIONS OF GIBBS' AVAILABLE ENERGY
- George Tsatsaronis (TU Berlin)
EFFICIENCY IN THERMODYNAMICS
Tuesday Evening
Session 5. | New Choices of Control Variables in Engineering Thermodynamics |
Discussion Leader: Signe Kjelstrup
- Stanislaw Sieniutycz (Warsaw University of Technology)
VARIATIONAL FORMULATIONS IN CLASSICAL AND EXTENDED NON-EQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS
- Nikolaos Sahinidis (University of Illinois)
GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION: ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS
- Roland Winston (University of Chicago)
STATISTICAL OPTICS OF BLACK BODY RADIATION: THEORY AND MEASUREMENT
Wednesday Morning
Session 6. | Thermodynamics of Gravitational and Cosmological Systems |
Discussion Leader: Peter Landsberg (University of Southampton)
- Don Lamb (University of Chicago)
THERMODYNAMICS AND GALAXY CLUSTERS
- Stirling Colgate (LANL)
- Rafael Sorkin (Syracuse University)
TEN THESES ON BLACK HOLE ENTROPY
Wednesday Evening
Session 7. | Thermodynamics and Economics |
Discussion Leader: Robert Ayres
- Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota)
STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF ASSET MARKETS WITH PRIVATE INFORMATION
- Enrico Sciubba (University of Rome)
EXTENDED ENERGY ACCOUNTING: A PROPOSAL FOR A NEW MEASURE OF VALUE
- Geoffrey Heal (Columbia University)
THERMODYNAMIC METHODS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: CHAOS AND SELF-ORGANIZATION IN SOCIAL SYSTEMS
Thursday Morning
Session 8. | Thermodyanmics of Radiation |
Discussion Leader: L.C. Woods (Oxford University)
- Christopher Essex (University of Western Ontario)
RADIATION THERMODYNAMICS: TIMELESS IRREVERSIBILITY
- Dallas Kennedy (The MathWorks Inc.)
NEUTRINOS: THERMODYNAMICS OF FERMION RADIATION
- Harald Ries (Optics & Energy Concepts)
THERMODYNAMICS OF QUANTUM CONVERSION OF LIGHT
Thursday Evening
Session 9. | Thermodynamics and the Environment |
Discussion Leader: John Shiner
- F. Sherwood Rowland (University of California, Irvine)
THERMOCHEMISTRY OF THE ATMOSPHERE
- Lars O. Hedin (Cornell University)
THERMODYNAMIC CONSTRAINTS ON NUTRIENT FLUXES IN COMPLEX ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
- Noam Lior (University of Pennsylvania)
SOME SECOND LAW ASPECTS OF FUEL USE AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT
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