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SUMMARY:Physics Colloquium: Zhiyue Lu
DESCRIPTION:Title: Mathematical Foundation and Extension of Statistical Mechanics\nAbstract:  How can simple macroscopic laws emerge from the chaotic motion of astronomically many microscopic degrees of freedom? Statistical mechanics answers this question with a mathematical structure of striking simplicity\, built around entropy\, Boltzmann weights\, and free energy. In this colloquium\, I will revisit why that structure appears and why it is so universal. Using simple examples from probability\, gases\, and random walks\, I will argue that equilibrium statistical mechanics is fundamentally a theory of counting\, additivity\, and typicality. I will then show how the same logic can be extended beyond equilibrium by shifting attention from probabilities of states to probabilities of entire dynamical trajectories. This broader viewpoint provides a natural language for irreversibility\, entropy production\, and modern fluctuation relations. The emphasis will be on concepts rather than technical detail\, with the goal of giving a broad physics audience a unified picture of how statistical mechanics is founded and how it continues to evolve.
URL:https://physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physics-colloquium-zhiyue-lu/
LOCATION:Riddick 301\, 2401 Stinson Drive\, Raleigh\, NC\, 27695\, United States
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SUMMARY:Preliminary Exam - Norman Hogan
DESCRIPTION:Numerically Efficient Methods for Embedding Calculations
URL:https://physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/preliminary-exam-norman-hogan/
LOCATION:Riddick 202 (Grad Suite conference room)
CATEGORIES:In The Department
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SUMMARY:McCormick Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Title and Abstract details are forthcoming
URL:https://physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/mccormick-symposium-7/
LOCATION:Riddick 301\, 2401 Stinson Drive\, Raleigh\, NC\, 27695\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Physics Colloquium: Daphne Klotsa
DESCRIPTION:Title and Abstract details are forthcoming.
URL:https://physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physics-colloquium-daphne-klotsa/
LOCATION:Riddick 301\, 2401 Stinson Drive\, Raleigh\, NC\, 27695\, United States
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