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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
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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
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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
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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
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Roderick Dewar(Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Bordeaux, France)
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11:45-14:00 |
Lunch |
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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
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Karel Netocny
(Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic)
The minimum entropy production principle from a dynamic fluctuation law |
15:30-16:00
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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
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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 |
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Session 3: Climate
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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 |
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Session 4: Ecosystems
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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
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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?
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16:00-16:30
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Group discussion |
16:30 |
End of the meeting |
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