Cari amici,

This is a re-broadcast for our next visiting speaker, next Thursday. Francesco Buscemi from Nagoya University will tell us about the 2^nd law of thermodynamics.

Francesco Buscemi, Thursday 21.12.2023, D0.02, 11:00 - 12:00

Title and abstract below. Join us in person or online at https://meet.jit.si/CQISeminarTalks

(this time I will not forget it!)

Stay warm,

Will Schober

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SPEAKER: Francesco Buscemi

TITLE: Notes on the margin to the second law of thermodynamics

ABSTRACT: In the past few years I have had the opportunity to look at the second law of thermodynamics from various angles (feedback control protocols, fluctuation relations, mathematical statistics, information theory, expected utility theory -- all with a variable amount of quantum theory), but the main puzzle I am most interested in is: why is the second law "special" among the laws of physics? In this talk I will recall some ideas about this problem and offer a possible answer.