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Programme

 

Sunday, September 25, 2005

   

16:00-19:00

Registration at Jolly Hotel.

19:00-20.00

Welcome cocktail at Jolly Hotel.

   

Monday, September 26, 2005, morning session

 

   

8.30-9.30

Registration at the “ Aula Tommaso Cannizzaro ”, University of Messina

9.30-10.30

Open Cerimony

10.30-11.30

G. A. Maugin (Laboratorie de Modélisation en Mécanique, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, France): An introduction to the thermodynamics of configurational forces .

11.30-12.00

Coffee break

12.00-13.00

D. Bedeaux (Dept. of Chemistry, Norwegian Univ. for Science and Tech, Trondheim , Norway): Non-equilibrium thermodynamics for the two phase surfaces.

   

Monday, September 26, 2005, afternoon session

 

   

15.00-15.30

S. Hess (Inst. of Theor. Physics, Technical Univ. of Berlin , Germany) : Thermodynamic and mesoscopic modeling of tumbling nematics, of shear-thickening fluids and of stick-slip-like flow behavior.

15.30-1600

A. Berezovski (Inst. of Cybernetics, Tallinn Univ. of Technology, Estonia): Moving fronts in solids: a non-equilibrium description.

16.00-16.30

F. D. Fischer (Inst. of Mechanics , Montanuniversität Leoben , Austria): Convexity of energy dissipation and stability of propagating interfaces.

16.30-1700

Coffee break

17.00-17.30

S. Preston (Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Portland State University , OR , USA): Thermodynamical metric of R. Mrugala and the geometry of the energy-phase space.

17.30-18.00

H. Hermann (Inst. of Theor. Physics, Technical Univ. of Berlin , Germany): Close to Fourier heat conduction equation of solids of constant mass density.

18.00-18.30

J. Jankovski (Inst. of Applied Mechanics, Poznan Univ. of Technology, Poland): A method of temperature sources in heat conduction.
   

Tuesday, September 27, 2005, morning session

 

 

9.30-10.30

W. Muschik (Inst. of Theor. Physics, Technical Univ. of Berlin, Germany): Why so many "schools" of thermodynamics ?

10.30-11.30

D. Jou (Dept. of Physics, Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona , Spain): Introduction to extended irreversible thermodynamics.

11.30-12.00

Coffee break

12.00-13.00

T. Ruggeri  (Research Center of Applied Mathematics, C.I.R.A.M, Univ. of Bologna , Italy): Remarks on rational extended thermodynamics.

13.00

Lunch

 

 

   

Tuesday, September 27, 2005, afternoon session

 

 

15.00-15.30

G. Lebon (Dept.Thermomechanics , Univ. Liege, Belgium): From diffusive to ballistic heat transport in micro and nano-systems. An extended thermodynamic approach.

15.30-16.00

J. Verhas (Dept. of Chemical Physics, Univ. of Budapest , Hungary): White areas on the map of applying non-equilibrium thermodynamics; On the self accelerating electron.

16.00-16.30

B. T. Maruszewski (Inst. of Applied Mechanics, Poznan Univ. of Technology,Poland): A stress field in the vortex lattice in the II-type superconductor.

16.30-17.00

Coffee break

17.00-17.30

C. Papenfuss (Inst. of Theor. Physics, Technical Univ. of Berlin, Germany): Thermodynamical framework for higher grade material theories.

17.30-18.00

P. Van (Dept. of Chemical Physics, Univ. of Budapest , Hungary): Frame independent time derivatives?

18.00-18.30

R. Starosta (Inst. of Applied Mechanics, Poznan Univ. of Technology,Poland): An influence of the initial condition on the plane state of temperature.

   
   

Wednesday , September 28, 2005, morning session

 

9.30-10.30

V. Ciancio (Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Messina , Italy): Non- equilibrium thermodynamics with internal variables in Kluitenberg's theory.

10.30-10.45
D.N. Kluitenberg-van den Hoff and C. Kluitenberg : Memorial speech

10.45-11.45

K. H. Hoffmann (Inst. of Physics, Tecnische Univ. Chemnitz, Germany): Endoreversible thermodynamics.

11.45-12.15

Coffee break

 

 
 

Thursday, September 29, 2005, morning session

 

9.30-10.30

J. M. Rubi (Dept. Fundamental Physics, Univ. of Barcelona, Spain): Thermodynamics of mesoscopic systems.

10.30-11.30

A. N. Beris (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Delaware , Newark , USA): One generator bracket-based approach to non-equilibrium thermodynamics: overview and current applications.

11.30-12.00

Coffee break

12.00-13.00

M. Fabrizio (Dept. of Matematics, Univ. of Bologna , Italia): Ginzburg-Landau equation and phase transitions .

13.00

Lunch

   
   

Thursday, September 29, 2005, afternoon session

 

 

15.00-15.30

L. Restuccia (Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Messina, Italy): Ferroelastic crystals as heterogeneous and anisotropic materials with internal variables: some specific examples.

15.30-16.00

B. Andresen (Niels Bohr Inst., Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark): Modelling transport of O2 from arterioles.

16.00-16.30

M. S. Mongiovì (Dept. of Mathematical Methods and Models , Univ. of Palermo , Italy): Non local effects in superfluid turbulence.  

16.30-17.00

coffee break

17.00 -17.30

V. A. Cimmelli (Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Univ. of Basilicata , Italy): Balance laws for higher order fluxes in non-equilibrium thermodynamics: local and non-local theory  .

17.30-18.00

J. Svoboda (Inst. of Physics of Materials, Dept. of Mechanical Properties, Brno , Czech Republic): Thermodynamic extremal principle – a handy tool in modelling of thermodynamic processes.

18.00-18.30

R. A. Peruzza (Dept. of Mathematical Methods and Models, Univ. of Palermo , Italy): Waves propagation in superfluid helium in presence of combined rotation and counterflow .

20.30 Social dinner at the Jolly Hotel
   

Friday, September 30, 2005, morning session

 

 

9.30-10.30

H.C. Öttinger (Dept. of Materials, Inst. of Polymers, Zürich, Switzerland): GENERIC applied to hydrodynamics: illustration of a thermodynamic framework with surprising perspectives

10.30-11.30

E. P. Gyftopoulos (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, USA): Unified quantum theory of mechanics and thermodynamics.

11.30-12.00

Coffee break

12.00-13.00

H. H. v. Borzeszkowski  (Inst. of Theor. Physics, Technical Univ. of Berlin, Germany) : Remarks on relativistic thermodynamics.

13.00

Lunch

 

 

   
Friday, September 30, 2005, afternoon session

 

   

15.00-16.00

D. Jou - W. Muschik : Non-equilibrium temperature?!. Introduction and discussion.

16.00-16.30

G. Capriz (Dept. of Mathematics, Univ.of Pisa, Italy.): How to gauge substructural want of order.

16.30-17.00

Coffee break

17.00-17.30

S. Kjelstrup (Dept. of Chemistry, Norwegian Univ. for Science and Tech,Trondheim, Norway): Energy dissipation in active transport.

17.30-18.00

T. Walczak (Inst. of Applied Mechanics, Poznan Univ. of Technology, Poland): An action of a concentrated line heat source.

18.00-18.30

D.Carfì (Dept. of Economics, Statistics, Mathematics and Sociological Sciences "Vilfredo Pareto" Univ. of Messina, Italy) : Thermodinamical systems with a continuous range of states.

18.30-19.00 A.Georgescu (Dept. of Applied Math., Univ. of Pitesti,
Romania): Some results on dynamics generated by Bazykin model .

19.00

Closing