How cold can it really get? or Do negative absolute temperatures exist?

2015-12-04 14:00:00 2015-12-04 15:00:00 Europe/Helsinki How cold can it really get? or Do negative absolute temperatures exist? COMP Seminar -- Speaker: Vili Heinonen http://old.cmat.aalto.fi/en/midcom-permalink-1e5c508a5bd7d2ec50811e583fd4385ca6be176e176 Otakaari 1, 02150, Espoo

COMP Seminar -- Speaker: Vili Heinonen

04.12.2015 / 14:00 - 15:00
Otakaari 1, 02150, Espoo, FI

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In this talk, Vili will review recent research on consistent thermostatistics -- an area normally outside of his expertise. The main question is: how should we define entropy of a closed system in order to make some sense of thermodynamics?