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Organizing Committee and Invited Keynote Speakers | p. ix |
Panel Discussion Speakers | p. xi |
Symposium Program | p. xiii |
Registered Participants | p. xv |
Preface | p. xix |
Introduction to the Keenan Symposium | p. 1 |
A Symposium on Thermodynamics; But Why? | p. 4 |
Professor Keenan's Contribution to Thermodynamics | p. 7 |
Autobiographical Notes | p. 11 |
Where Is the Entropy Challenge? | p. 34 |
The Second Law and Statistical Mechanics | p. 55 |
The Second Law and Quantum Physics | p. 66 |
The Second Law and Cosmology | p. 80 |
The Second Law and Biology | p. 90 |
Energy and the Second Law | p. 111 |
Building on the Legacy of Professor Keenan-Entropy: An Intrinsic Property of Matter | p. 124 |
Panel Discussion on "Foundations of the Second Law" | |
The Once and Future Second Law of Thermodynamics | p. 143 |
Maxwell through the Looking Glass: From Szilard to Landauer and Back Again | p. 153 |
Reversibility Paradox Revisited | p. 158 |
Emergence of Thermodynamics from Darwinian Dynamics | p. 164 |
Relaxation in Incompletely Observed Quantum Systems | p. 170 |
Particles, Scale, Time Construction, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics | p. 174 |
The Second Law from Locally Maximal Entropy Generation Quantum Dynamics | p. 180 |
The Second Law and Quantum Evolution: Lessons in Entanglement, Locality and Separability | p. 188 |
From Producing Entropy to Reducing Gradients to Spreading Energy: Understanding the Essence of the Second Law | p. 194 |
Discussion on "Foundations of the Second Law" | p. 198 |
Panel Discussion on "Frontiers of the Second Law" | |
The Constructal Law of "Designedness" in Nature | p. 207 |
The Need for Entropy in Finite-Time Thermodynamics and Elsewhere | p. 213 |
The Second Law for Small Systems | p. 219 |
Mesoscopic Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Biological Systems | p. 223 |
Generalized Transport Equations and Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics | p. 229 |
Contact Geometry of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics | p. 235 |
Demon and Valve-Information and Thermodynamics | p. 241 |
Thermodynmaics, Information and Ecosystems | p. 247 |
Discussion on "Frontiers of the Second Law" | p. 253 |
Panel Discussion on "Teaching the Second Law" | |
Teaching the Entropy Concepts of Thermodynamics | p. 265 |
The Evolving Second Law | p. 271 |
Entropy, the Second Law and the Concept of 'Bad' Energy! | p. 276 |
Teaching the Second Law: Statistical Mechanics of Biomolecular Systems | p. 283 |
Why Philosophical History Is Essential to Teaching the Second Law of Thermodynamics | p. 288 |
How to Tell the Stable from the Metastable | p. 293 |
Rigorous Axiomatic Definition of Entropy Valid Also for Non-Equilibrium States | p. 296 |
The Second Law: A Unified Approach to Thermodynamics Applicable to All Systems and All States | p. 302 |
Discussion on "Teaching the Second Law" | p. 309 |
Panel Discussion on "The Second Law and Energy" | |
Putting the Second Law to Work | p. 319 |
High-Speed Liquid Projectiles: An Efficient Energy Conversion Tool | p. 322 |
Rate-Controlled Constrained-Equilibrium Theory of Chemical Reactions | p. 329 |
The Exergy Fields in Processes | p. 335 |
Size Matters: Microscale Heat Engines and Thermodynamics | p. 345 |
Availability and Dissipativity in Networks: Foundations of Process Control | p. 350 |
Can the Infrared Radiation that Causes the Enhanced Greenhouse Effect Be Put to Better Use? | p. 356 |
Radiation Entropy and Near-Field Thermophotovoltaics | p. 361 |
Energy and the Entropy Challenge | p. 365 |
Discussion on "The Second Law and Energy" | p. 374 |
Author Index | p. 381 |
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