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