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]