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List of upcoming seminars
List of upcoming seminars
Our seminars are scheduled on Monday, at 2.30 pm (Italian time), unless specified. CT For the list of upcoming seminars, expand the menu ticking on the arrow.
March 16th, Monday, 2026 - 14.30
title: "Anisotropic Hastings-Levitov growth "
The seminar will be held at the GSSI Main Lecture Hall
and will also be streamed through Zoom at the link:
https://gssi-it.zoom.us/j/87571297606?pwd=uaKzpEsOHBPbP9D2XxbNsbnYGoBbsk.1
Meeting ID: 875 7129 7606
Passcode: SMAQ2526
March 23th, Monday, 2026 - 14.30
title: "Hydrodynamic limit for a TASEP with space-time discontinuous jump rates "
The seminar will be held at the Sala Seminari del blocco zero (DISIM, UnivAq)
and will also be streamed through Zoom at the link:
https://gssi-it.zoom.us/j/87571297606?pwd=uaKzpEsOHBPbP9D2XxbNsbnYGoBbsk.1
Meeting ID: 875 7129 7606
Passcode: SMAQ2526
March 30th, Monday, 2026 - 14.30
title: "Rapid thermalization of lattice CSS codes "
The seminar will be held at the GSSI Main Lecture Hall
and will also be streamed through Zoom at the link:
https://gssi-it.zoom.us/j/87571297606?pwd=uaKzpEsOHBPbP9D2XxbNsbnYGoBbsk.1
Meeting ID: 875 7129 7606
Passcode: SMAQ2526
April 27th, Monday, 2026 - 14.30
title: " Beyond linear response: an Ohm’s law for quantum Hall currents "
The seminar will be held at GSSI - Conference Room (Zenith building, floor -1)
and will also be streamed through Zoom at the link:
https://gssi-it.zoom.us/j/87571297606?pwd=uaKzpEsOHBPbP9D2XxbNsbnYGoBbsk.1
Meeting ID: 875 7129 7606
Passcode: SMAQ2526
May 18th, Monday, 2026 - 14.30
title: "Entropic fluctuations in quantum two-time measurement framework with direct or indirect (ancilla coupling) protocol "
The seminar will be held at GSSI - Main Lecture Hall
and will also be streamed through Zoom at the link:
https://gssi-it.zoom.us/j/87571297606?pwd=uaKzpEsOHBPbP9D2XxbNsbnYGoBbsk.1
Meeting ID: 875 7129 7606
Passcode: SMAQ2526
May 25th, Monday, 2026 - 14.30
title: "Local thermal equilibrium in experiments, theory, and computer simulations "
The seminar will be held at the Sala Seminari del blocco zero (DISIM, UnivAq)
and will also be streamed through Zoom at the link:
https://gssi-it.zoom.us/j/87571297606?pwd=uaKzpEsOHBPbP9D2XxbNsbnYGoBbsk.1
Meeting ID: 875 7129 7606
Passcode: SMAQ2526
June 1th, Monday, 2026 - 14.30
title: " "
The seminar will be held at
and will also be streamed through Zoom at the link:
https://gssi-it.zoom.us/j/87571297606?pwd=uaKzpEsOHBPbP9D2XxbNsbnYGoBbsk.1
Meeting ID: 875 7129 7606
Passcode: SMAQ2526
"Local thermal equilibrium in experiments, theory, and computer simulations ".
Date: May 25, 2026 (Monday) at 14.30.
on site: at the Sala Seminari del blocco zero (DISIM, UnivAq)
zoom: https://gssi-it.zoom.us/j/87571297606pwd=uaKzpEsOHBPbP9D2XxbNsbnYGoBbsk.1
Meeting ID: 875 7129 7606
Passcode: SMAQ2526
Abstracts
Abstracts
In 1962, Terrell Hill introduced the theory of small-system thermodynamics. Since 1996, we have been adapting Hill’s theory to study the thermal equilibrium of nanoscale subsystems inside larger systems, which we call nanothermodynamics. After a brief review of the experimental and theoretical foundations of nanothermodynamics, I will focus on some specific examples. One example is to derive the true thermal equilibrium of Ising’s original model for finite chains of interacting spins, a result that Ising could not have found 40 years before Hill’s work. Another example is to extend Fermi’s study of statistical mechanics using MD simulations to test whether local fluctuations obey the fluctuation relation that comes from the equipartition theorem. Surprisingly, we found that at very low temperatures potential energy fluctuations can exceed this fluctuation relation by an order of magnitude, or more. To model these excess fluctuations, we combine the Einstein and Debye theories for specific heat, then add conservation of local energy to characterize the simulations. I speculate that similar ideas may also explain the excess specific heat measured at low temperatures in many glasses and crystals. In the end, I hope to briefly describe other examples that have been solved (or resolved) using nanothermodynamics, including Gibbs’ paradox for extensive entropy and Loschmidt’s paradox for the arrow of time.
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