- Series
- CDSNS Colloquium
- Time
- Monday, March 9, 2009 - 4:30pm for 2 hours
- Location
- Skiles 255
- Speaker
- Mark Pollicott – University of Warwick
- Organizer
- Yingfei Yi
The Cohen-Gallavotti Fluctuation theorem is a result describing the behaviour of simple hyperbolic dynamical systems. It was introduced to illustrate, in a somewhat simpler context, anomalies in the second law of thermodynamics. I will describe the mathematical formulation of this Fluctuation Theorem, and some variations on it.