The 2nd Law: History and Fiction (Prof. Assa Auerbach)
The 2nd Law: History and Fiction
- Date: Dec 5, 2018
- Time: 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Prof. Assa Auerbach, Technion, Haifa, Israel
- Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik
- Room: Hörsaal, Raum B 0.32 / New lecture hall, Room B 0.32
- Host: MPQ, IMPRS-QST
The talk The 2nd Law: History and Fiction discusses the history of Maxwell’s Demon, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and its connection to Information Theory. It shows how these concepts can be explained to non-physicists in a comic book of an adventure story called “Max the Demon vs Entropy of Doom’’.