Program Day by Day

Wedensday, May 28

09:00-11:00
Panorama room

Special Session on
Thermodynamics of Small Systems


09:00 – 09:40
Gian Paolo Beretta: Defining the Euler Free Energy (or Should We Call It Hill Free Energy?): a General Stable-equilibrium Property, Non-trivial for Small-systems  



09:40 – 10:20
Jan Korbel: Thermodynamics of Structure-forming Systems



10:20 – 10:40
Alhun Aydın: Unconventional Thermodynamic Spontaneity Due to Nonuniform Level Scaling  



10:40 – 11:00
Ralph V. Chamberlin: Small and Simple Systems that Favor the Arrow of Time  

09:00-11:00
Club room

Topical Session on Heat Conduction 1

09:00 – 09:20
Vito Antonio Cimmelli: Electron and Phonon Temperatures: Application to the Thermal-shock Propagation in Nano-systems  

09:20 – 09:40
Patrizia Rogolino: Analytical Solution Of Maxwell-Cattaneo Heat Equation with Nonhomogeneous Boundary Conditions  

09:40 – 10:00
Daniele La Pegna: Nonlinear Effects in the Microstructure-induced Finite Speed Heat Propagation  

10:00 – 10:20
Michal Pavelka: Vorticity in Hyperbolic Heat Conduction  

10:20 – 10:40
Matt Western: Beyond the Carnot Limit: Perpetual Heat Flow in Gravitational and Rotational Non-equilibrium Systems  

10:40 – 11:00
Martina Costa Reis: Gravity-induced Symmetry Breaking in Chemical Gardens  

10:40-11:10
Coffee break

11:10-13:10
Panorama room

Special Session on Physics of Life


11:30 – 12:10
Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi: Crossing the Potential Barriers  


12:10 – 12:30
Artemy Kolchinsky: Generalized Free Energy and Excess Entropy Production for Active Systems  


12:30 – 12:50
Dimitrios Fessas: Protein Conformational Stability and Interactions: Thermodynamic Exploitation of Calorimetric Data  


12:50 – 13:10
Vítor A. F. Costa: A Thermodynamic Approach of Economics  

11:10-13:10
Club room

Topical Session on Heat Conduction 2

11:30 – 11:50
Antonio Sellitto: On the Possibility of Spatial Interactions in Higher-grade Materials  

11:50 – 12:10
Carmelo Filippo Munafò: Coupling of Non-Fourier Thermal and Mechanical Effects in 2D Isotropic Materials  

12:10 – 12:30
Paolo Maria Mariano: A New Additional Role for The Clausius-Duhem Inequality  

12:30 – 12:50
Kazuhiko Seki: Grahame Equation Generalized to Study Ionic Thermoelectric Supercapacitors  

12:50 – 13:10
Stefano Iubini: Effective Grand-canonical Description of Condensation in Negative-temperature Regimes  

13:10-15:00
Lunch break

15:00-17:00
Panorama room

Plenary talk

15:00 – 15:40
Johann Rafelski: Thermal Non-equilibrium and Quark-gluon Plasma  

Mini-syposium on Thermodynamics in High Energy Physics

15:40 - 15:48
Trambak Bhattacharyya & Airton Deppman: Introduction

15:48 – 16:00
Maciej Rybczyński: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Statistical Approaches to High-Energy Collisions  

16:00 – 16:12
Leonardo Tinti: The Puzzle of Hydrodynamics in Heavy-ion Collisions

16:12 – 16:24
Sushanta Tripathy: Key Experimental Features of Quark-gluon Plasma in Heavy-ion Collisions  

16:24 – 17:00
Panel discussion