The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
The Weizmann Institute of Science
announces the eighteenth

Chaim Leib Pekeris Memorial Lecture


to be delivered by

Professor Cedric Villani

University of Lyon & Institute Henri Poincaré

Sponsored by the Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science
at The Weizmann Institute of Science


The title:

Entropy and H Theorem:
The Mathematical Legacy of Ludwig Boltzmann


on Tuesday, 8 March 2011, at 16:00
in the Wolfson Lecture Hall, on campus

A reception in honor of Prof. Villani will be held after the lecture

Abstract

This talk is devoted to the presentation of some of the most important concepts in statistical mechanics, including Boltzmann's statistical entropy, the notion of macroscopic irreversibility and molecular chaos, and the Boltzmann equation. These concepts were at the basis of a little conceptual revolution at the end of the nineteenth century. [an error occurred while processing this directive]