4th international meeting on maximum entropy production in physics and biology
6-7 July 2006
Split, Croatia
Organized by the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Education, University of Split & the Physical Society of Split

 

Programme

 

Day 1

Thursday 6 July 2006 

 

09:00-09:15

Opening of the meeting

Chairman: Davor Juretić ( University of Split, Croatia)

Session 1: Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and entropy production principles

09:15-09:45

 

Paško Županović
(University of Split,Split,Croatia)

Relaxation processes, MaxEnt formalism and Einstein's formula for the probability of fluctuations

09:45- 10:15

 

Leonid M. Martyushev
(Institute of Industrial Ecology, Ekaterinburg, Russia)

Maximum entropy production principle and some problems of non-equilibrium physics

10:15-10:45

Coffee break

10:45-11:15

 

Hisashi Ozawa
(Department of Natural Environmental Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan)

Maximum entropy production and regular pattern formation in nonlinear non-equilibrium phenomena

11:15-11:45

 

Roderick Dewar(Institut National de la Recherche  Agronomique, Bordeaux, France)

11:45-14:00

Lunch

 

Chairman : Paško Županović ( University of Split, Croatia)

14:00:14:30

Mladen Martinis
(Institute Rudjer Bošković, Zagreb, Croatia)

Dynamical state of homeostasis and entropy production

14:30-15:00

Coffee break

15:00-15:30

 

Karel Netocny
(Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic)

The minimum entropy production principle from a dynamic fluctuation law

15:30-16:00

 

Stijn Bruers
(Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)

Comments and review on some macroscopic entropy production principles

19:00
Dinner

 

Day 2

Friday 7 July 2006


 Chairman :   Axel Kleidon (Max-Planck Institute, Jena, Germany) 

 Session 2: Evolution

 

09:00-09.30

 Davor Juretić
(University of Split, Split, Croatia)

Kinetic design of the rotary enzyme ATP synthase is consistent with maximal entropy production principle

 

 

Session 3: Climate

 

09:30-10:00

Shinya Shimokawa
(National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan)

A thermodynamic explanation for irreversible transitions of the oceanic general circulation

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

10:30-11:00

Ralph D. Lorenz
(Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA)

Application of MEP to planetary science problems

 

 

Session 4: Ecosystems

 

 

Chairman :  Roderick Dewar(Institut National de la Recherche  Agronomique, Bordeaux, France)

11:00-11:30

Axel Kleidon
(Max-Planck Institute, Jena, Germany)

Can MEP provide useful insights into the role of human activity in
the Earth system?

11:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-14:00

Ryan Pavlick
(University of Maryland, College Park,USA)

Maximum entropy production and optimally adapted vegetation

14:00-14:30

Coffee break

14:30-15:00

Filip Meysman
(The Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Yerseke, The Netherlands)

How well does thermodynamics explain whole-ecosystem metabolism?

15:00-16:00

Poster session

      Leonid M. Martyushev, Anastasiya S. Nazarova (Institute of Industrial Ecology, Ekaterinburg, Russia)

           Is non-local minimum production entropy principle true?

16:00-16:30

Group discussion

16:30

End of the meeting