Math Courses

A scaling limit approach to thermodynamics

Name: A scaling limit approach to thermodynamics
Start: 2025-10-02T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-23T17:00:00+02:00
Location: GSSI

by Prof. Stefano Olla

Thursday 2 Oct 2025, 09:00 → Thursday 23 Oct 2025, 17:00 Europe/Rome

GSSI

Description

I will illustrate a mathematical program that would allow us to obtain the law of thermo-dynamics from certain microscopic, large-scale dynamics through space-time rescaling limits. Few rigorous results are already obtained, but most of the mathematical problems are still open.