Quantum Computation and Information Seminar 

30/05/2006, 14:00 — 15:00 — Room P6, Mathematics Building
Vítor Rocha Vieira, Instituto Superior Técnico

Transport, relaxation and entropy in physical systems

The work of Ludwig Boltzmann, the founder of modern atomism and of statistical reasoning in physics, is reviewed and analyzed, in the context of his time, its implications and some modern developments. (Invited talk of the Colloquium "O Legado de Boltzmann", organized by the Department of Physics of Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto).