[Mitworld] New: Bedeaux on Statistical Mechanics, Barry on Flu Epidemics

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 14 | November 27, 2007
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[THE SECOND LAW AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS]

Dick Bedeaux traces the evolution of the second law of thermodynamics
from its formulation in the mid-19th century through today, from the
perspective of statistical mechanics.

SPEAKER:
Dick Bedeaux
Professor II of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Norwegian
University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/498/>

[QUOTE]
"In order to understand exactly where the laws come from, we must go to
a more fundamental, microscopic description. This implies that at the
start of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics also became a subject of
importance that the subject started to develop at that moment long ago."
-- Dick Bedeaux


EVENT HOST: Department of Mechanical Engineering <http://meche.mit.edu/>

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[A CONVERSATION WITH JOHN M. BARRY]

In conversation with Richard Larson and Sanford Weiner, John Barry,
author of The Great Influenza, discusses current understanding of the
dynamics of a flu outbreak, and our general state of preparedness.

SPEAKER:
John M. Barry
Author, The Great Influenza and Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi
Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/499/>

[QUOTE]
"When did the transition occur from an anaerobic world to aerobic world,
as catalyzed by biological processes that produced oxygen.... The
geochemical evidence is persuasive: around 2.4 billion years ago, we did
transition into a world with an ozone layer, with appreciable oxygen in
the atmosphere. But the intervening period is ambiguous, to say the
least."
-- Dianne K. Newman


EVENT HOST: Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals
<http://cesf.mit.edu/>

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