Gian Paolo BERETTA 

 

 

 

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Conferenze sul futuro dell'energia e altri temi di attualità (idrogeno, cambiamenti climatici, termovalorizzazione dei rifiuti)

Talks on the future of energy and other general issues (hydrogen, cambiamenti climatici, waste-to-energy conversion)


Gestione razionale di rifiuti e biomasse
Convegno GSIRS, Milano, 29 Gennaio 2003

Termovalorizzazione a Brescia nel periodo 1998-2002
Convegno nazionale ATI-ATIA sull’utilizzazione termica dei rifiuti, Abano Terme (PD), 12 Giugno 2003

Il quadro energetico globale: consumi, riserve, prospettive
Convegno "Il Riordino del Settore Energetico", Aula Magna Ingegneria, Brescia, 4 Aprile 2003

Il Termoutilizzatore. Aspetti energetici e tecnologici
Presentazione per visita studenti UniBS al Termovalorizzatore Silla II, Milano, 14 Gennaio 2004

Tecnologie disponibili per la termovalorizzazione
Rapallo (GE), 20 Gennaio 2004

Gestione razionale di rifiuti e biomasse
Convegno "Il ciclo dei rifiuti: politiche, innovazioni, ambiente, salute", Macomer (NU), 30 Gennaio 2004

Prospettive energetiche del prossimo futuro
Keynote, XXII Congresso UIT sulla trasmissione del calore, Genova, 21 Giugno 2004

Il vettore idrogeno può avere un ruolo?
Convegno "Quali fonti e vettori per il futuro dell'energia?", Aula Magna Ingegneria, UniBS, Brescia, 26 November 2004

I vantaggi delle tecnologie mature di termovalorizzazione alla luce dell'esperienza bresciana
Visita al Termoutilizzatore di Brescia degli amministratori provinciali e comunali di Nuoro e Macomer, 17 Marzo 2005

Il contesto energetico globale
Conferenza nazionale sulla Politica Enegnetica in Italia, Bologna, 18 Aprile 2005

Quali fonti e vettori per il futuro dell’energia?
Aula Magna Ingegneria, UniBS, Brescia, 30 Maggio 2005

Che ruolo può avere l’idrogeno nell’autotrazione urbana?
Museo Mille Miglia, Brescia, 12 Novembre 2005

Gli scenari energetici per il prossimo futuro
Convegno ATI-FVG Trieste/Udine, Pordenone, 2 Dicembre 2005

Il contesto energetico globale. Prospettive future
Convegno "La cultura dell'energia", AEM, Milano, 4 Marzo 2006

Sviluppo sostenibile: Il vettore idrogeno può avere un ruolo?
Convegno ATI-UIT "L'idrogeno vettore energetico del futuro", Torino, 7 Luglio 2006

Il contesto energetico globale. Prospettive future
Innovaction, Fiera di Udine, 16 Febbraio 2007

Il contesto energetico globale: consumi, riserve, prospettive future
Convegno UCID, Centro Pastorale Paolo VI, Brescia, 9 Giugno 2007

A quantitative (out)look at the future of energy 
(sub-title: World energy consumption and resources: an outlook for the rest of the century)
(sub-sub-title: the numbers you should know before you adventure to talk about energy, let alone to take decisions)
MIT, IAP Lecture, January 11,  2008

Il contesto energetico globale: consumi, riserve, prospettive future
ICEI, Cesano Maderno (MB), 13 Marzo 2008

World energy consumption and resource: an outlook for the rest of the century (and the role of thermodynamic research)
Keynote, invited by the Advanced Energy Systems Division, ASME Congress, Boston, November 4, 2008

World Energy Consumption and Resources: an Outlook for the Rest of the Century and the Role of Research in Thermodynamics
Gas Technology Centre NTNU-SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway, November 3, 2009

Il contesto energetico globale: consumi, riserve, prospettive future
Rotary Milano Nord Ovest, Milano, 13 Ottobre 2011

Il contesto energetico globale: consumi, riserve, prospettive future
Conviviale Lions, Brescia, 24 Maggio 2012

A quantitative outlook at the future of energy. World energy consumption and resources: an outlook for the rest of the 21st century
Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series, Northeastern University, October 24, 2014

Are we sure that man-made CO2 is a main cause of climatic changes?
MIT, IAP Lecture, January 6, 2015

 

Talks on the definition of entropy and the nonequilibrium principle of steepest entropy ascent

Conferenze sulla definizione dell'entropia e sul principio della massima produzione locale di entropy negli stati di nonequilibrio


Microscopic foundations of entropy
XXII UIT congress, Genova, 21 Giugno 2004

Nonlinear dynamics of smooth, steepest-S-ascent, constrained approach to maximal-S equilibrium from far-nonequilibrium probability  distributions
Workshop on "Perspectives in Probability Theory and its Connections with Science and Society", 
Levico Terme (TN), December 6, 2006

Axiomatic definition of entropy for nonequilibrium states
JETC2007, St. Etienne, France, June 12, 2007

Time-Energy and Time-Entropy Uncertainty Relations in Steepest-Entropy-Ascent Dissipative Dynamics
X International Conference on "Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations", Bradford, UK, April 2, 2007 

Axiomatic definition of entropy for nonequilibrium states
Northeastern University, November 19, 2007

Entropy of nonequilibrium states: its definition, its time evolution, its role in unifying mechanics and thermodynamics
Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series, VirginiaTech, November 30, 2007

Thermodynamics in a nutshell (but rigorous!)
(subtitle: how to define entropy for nonequilibrium states)

MIT, IAP minicourse (3 x 2hr lectures), January 15-16-17, 2008 

Microscale heat transfer enhancement using spinodal decomposition
Workshop on Interfaces, Lorentz Center, Leiden, September 27, 2011

Steepest Entropy Ascent in Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
Calvin W. Rice Award Lecture, ASME IMECE Congress, Denver, November 15, 2011

Steepest Entropy Ascent in Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
30th UIT Heat Transfer Congress, Bologna, June 25, 2012

Steepest Entropy Ascent paths towards the Max-Ent distribution
MaxEnt2013 Congress, Canberra, December 17, 2013

Steepest-Entropy-Ascent and Maximal-Entropy-Production. Unified treatment for six frameworks
JETC2013 Congress, Brescia, July 2, 2013

Steepest Entropy Ascent models for the Boltzmann Equation
ASME Congress, San Diego, November 18, 2013

Steepest entropy ascent in strongly non-equilibrium thermodynamics and kinetics
Mechanical Engineering Colloquium, Stanford, November 25, 2013

Steepest entropy ascent principle unifies far-nonequilibrium dynamical theories
Physics Colloquium, University at Albany, SUNY, November 7, 2014

Steepest entropy ascent principle unifies far-nonequilibrium dynamical theories
JETC2015 Congress, Nancy, May 20, 2015

Rate-Controlled Constrained-Equilibrium approach to complex kinetics. A reduction scheme to make modeling accessible to engineers unspecialized in chemical kinetics
JETC2017 Congress, Budapest, May 25, 2017

ASVDADD algorithm for automatic selection of RCCE constraints
IWMRRF, 6th International Workshop on Model Reduction in Reactive Flow, Princeton, July 12, 2017

Mathematics helps engineers simplify chemical kinetics without understanding it
Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series, VirginiaTech, January 18, 2018

Freccia del tempo e gradiente dell'entropia
Convegno "La freccia del tempo", Aula Magna Ingegneria, Brescia, 12 Aprile 2018

Four rules of thermodynamic modeling reveal general laws of Nature. First: energy must be defined. Second: entropy must be defined. Third: stable equilibrium states of lowest energy must have zero temperature. Fourth: nonequilibrium dynamics of irreversible relaxation must be steepest entropy ascent with respect to some metric in state space
JETC2019 Congress, Barcelona, May 23, 2019

The Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: every nonequilibrium state is characterized by a metric in state space with respect to which its spontaneous attraction towards stable equilibrium is along the path of steepest entropy ascent
ENTROPY2021 Congress, Porto, May 7, 2021

The first, second, and fourth laws of thermodynamics support the definitions of energy, entropy, and nonequilibrium metric, respectively
JETC2021 Congress, Prague, June 17, 2021

Forty years of teaching thermodynamics by introducing entropy (equilibrium and nonequilibrium) before temperature and heat
JETC2021 Congress, Prague, June 18, 2021

 

Talks on quantum thermodynamics

Conferenze sulla termodinamica quantistica


Quantum Thermodynamics
Thermocon’05 – International Conference and Summerschool on Thermal Theories of Continua: Survey and Developments, Messina, September 30, 
2005

Nonlinear generalization of Schrödinger's equation uniting Quantum Mechanics and Thermodynamics
JETC2007 Congress, St. Etienne, France, June 13, 2007

Completing quantum mechanics with thermodynamics by assuming intrinsic entropy and intrinsic irreversibility at the fundamental level (Time-energy and time-entropy uncertainty relations)
Conference on "Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations", Växjö, Sweden, June 15, 2007 

Quantum thermodynamics
MIT Course no 2.997, FALL ’07 Special Offering, Advanced Topics in Mechanical Engineering, Series of 18 lectures, T-Th 9-11, Room 1-135, from 
September 11 to December 6, 2007

What if Quantum Thermodynamics were a fundamental extension of Quantum Mechanics?
Perimeter Institute, November 11, 2007. 
https://pirsa.org/07110008/ (Video and PDF of slides, Perimeter Institute Recorded Seminar Archive)

Steepest Entropy Ascent Quantum Dynamics
XL Symposium on Mathematical Physics "Geometry & Quanta" for the 70th birthday of A. Kossakowski, Torun, Poland, June 25, 2008
(abstract) (video)

Irreversible (quantum) dynamics needs not be mathematically irreversible
XIV International Symposium "Symmetries in Science", Bregenz, Austria, July 23, 2009

Mechanics and thermodynamics can be fundamentally united by density operators with an ontic status obeying a locally maximum entropy 
production dynamics. But at what price?

PIAF '09 "New Perspectives on the Quantum State", Perimeter Institute, October 1, 2009. 
https://pirsa.org/09100088/ (Video and PDF of slides, Perimeter Institute Recorded Seminar Archive)

Steepest-entropy-ascent non-equilibrium quantum dynamics is thermodynamically irreversible but mathematically reversible
SigmaPhi2011, International Conference on Statistical Physics, Larnaca, Cyprus, July 12, 2011

Steepest Entropy Ascent model for Quantum Thermodynamics
RMIT, Melbourne, December 12, 2013

Steepest entropy ascent in nonequilibrium quantum dynamics
IWNET2015, VII International Workshop on Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics, Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands, July 6, 2015

Steepest Entropy Ascent model for far-non-equilibrium dissipative evolution in quantum thermodynamics: a 1984 precursor of GENERIC (1997), gradient flows (1998), maximal entropy production (2001), and SEAQT (2014)
Workshop on Mathematical Aspects of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, RWTH Aachen University, March 7, 2018

No-signaling in nonlinear models for quantum thermodynamics: the composite-system version of steepest-entropy-ascent
JETC2023 Congress, Salerno, June 16, 2023





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