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<span style="color: rgb(28, 41, 87);">The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh invites you to join us for our 64th Annual Lecture Series Talk. Attend in person in room 1008 in the Cathedral of Learning or visit our live stream on
YouTube at </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 86, 172);"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" id="OWAc576954b-afc6-9c59-281e-deca8f1ce6ac" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-linkindex="0" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(0, 86, 172); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg</a></span><span style="color: rgb(28, 41, 87);">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(28, 41, 87);">The Annual Lecture Series, the Center’s oldest program, was established in 1960, the year when Adolf Grünbaum founded the Center. Each
year the series consists of six to eight lectures, about three quarters of which are given by philosophers, historians, and scientists from other universities.</span></p>
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</b></span><span style="font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 86, 172);"><b>Nicole Yunger Halpern</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(28, 41, 87);">Friday, March 22 @ 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm EDT</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(28, 41, 87);"><b>Title:</b> <b>Field notes on the second law of thermodynamics from a quantum physicist</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(28, 41, 87);"><b>Abstract:</b> Thermodynamics reigns as queen of the physical theories, governing everything from biophysics to cosmology. The second
law of thermodynamics heads her court, stipulating that time appears to flow in only one direction and limiting engines’ efficiencies. However, idealizations curtail the original second law’s applicability: small systems violate simple, early formulations
of the law, which imply quantitative predictions only about equilibrium states. The nineteenth-century law has been tightened, including within quantum thermodynamics, a field that has taken off in the past decade. I will illustrate this progress with examples.
As a spoiler alert: I know of no ways to leverage quantum phenomena to break the second law. However, quantum and other resources enable us to “bend around” the second law: we can appear to violate the law while, in fact, subtly avoiding assumptions behind
modern formulations of the law. Reference: Yunger Halpern, Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday’s Tomorrow, Johns Hopkins University Press (2022).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(28, 41, 87);">Can’t make it in-person? This talk will available online with the following Zoom link:
</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 86, 172);"><a href="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/99729209600" id="OWA10828498-9fd3-30e9-fd42-0412c0315490" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-linkindex="2" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(0, 86, 172); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;">https://pitt.zoom.us/j/99729209600</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(28, 41, 87);">This talk will also be available live streamed on YouTube at
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