Optimizing Thermodynamic Systems 2024
Dear colleagues,
We would like to invite you to our workshop "Optimizing Thermodynamic Systems" at the Telluride Science Research Center for the period July 16th - July 26th 2024.
Thermodynamics was the first topic at TSRC with the 1984 Horse-Carrot workshop, and its development has since led to numerous exiting insights.
The topics envisioned for this year fall into four major groups:
- Quantifying Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
- Endoreversible modelling of thermal processes
- Efficiencies and other thermodynamic optimization goals
- Description of irreversible chemical processes
- Optimal control of thermodynamic and similar systems
- Thermodynamic path optimization of irreversible processes
- Optimal quantum control and quantum friction
- Optimal control in economics
- Optimization in biology, chemistry, etc.
- Information use for efficiency enhancement
- Entropies in biology and ecology
- Nearly reversible cycles in biological systems
- Non-equilibrium thermodynamics in computing
- Thermodynamic behavior of computer programs, e.g. AI
- Thermodynamic design for computer programs
- Information engines
As in the past, the workshop will endeavour to give everyone an opportunity to share his/her current work or important issues of concern in the area of thermodynamics. The workshop will allow ample time for the crucial intensive but constructive quizzing of the speaker by the audience. This also allows the participants to exchange ideas in detail, and experience has shown that many collaborations have resulted from these meetings. Regarding the specific topics, this workshop has always attempted to bring people from different communities together; thus every contribution that addresses issues in the field of thermodynamics is welcome.
Hoping to see you in Telluride,
with best greetings,
Karl Heinz Hoffmann, Peter Salamon, and Bjarne Andresen
Details about arrival, board and lodging and possible activities in Telluride can be found on the web pages of TSRC.
Details about the participants and the program will be given as soon as available here.
