Past talk · AI/ML Seminar Series
Stochastic thermodynamics: Diffusion models for information and energy transfer
Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine
- Date & time
- Monday, November 27, 2023 · 1:00 PM
- Location
- Donald Bren Hall 4011
Abstract
The energetic cost of information erasure and of energy transduction can be cast as the stochastic problem to minimize entropy production during thermodynamic transitions. This formalism of Stochastic Thermodynamics allows quantitative assessment of work exchange and entropy production for systems that are far from equilibrium. In the talk we will highlight the cost of Landauer's bit-erasure in finite time and explain how to obtain bounds on the performance of Carnot-like thermodynamic engines and of processes that are powered by thermal anisotropy.
About the speaker
Tryphon T. Georgiou was educated at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (1979) and the University of Florida, Gainesville (PhD 1983). He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine. He is a Fellow of IEEE, SIAM, IFAC, AAAS and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.