Please join us this Wednesday, March 29, from 5-6 pm in LGRT 1528. We will hear from graduate student Filip Dul, who will speak about the Poincaré Recurrence Theorem. His abstract is below. Pizza and soda will be provided, as usual.
The Poincaré Recurrence Theorem
When air molecules are zooming around a room, can they all return to the locations they were in earlier? Can they all wind up in one corner of the room? In this talk we’ll learn about the Poincare Recurrence Theorem and its interesting implications for those two questions, which generated a big controversy in the late 19th century between physicists and mathematicians about the meaning of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.