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Gavin Crooks
Friday, October 30, 2015, 02:30pm - 03:30pm
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Contact Hosts: Jason Wagoner & Ken Dill
Physical Biosciences
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Optimal Thermodynamic Control and the Dynamic Riemannian Geometry of Ising magnets
A major impediment to a quantitative understanding of molecular-scale machines is that they operate out of thermodynamic equilibrium. However, if the system is not too far from equilibrium, then optimal (minimum dissipation) thermodynamic control is governed by a fiction metric that generates a Riemannian geometry on thermodynamic state space. I’ll discuss the Riemannian geometry of the Ising model, a quintessential model of statistical mechanics that described the thermodynamics of ferromagnetic and fluid systems.
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Location Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101