Dresden 2009 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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SYDI: Symposium SKM Dissertation Prize 2009

SYDI 1: SKM Dissertation Prize 2009

SYDI 1.1: Vortrag

Montag, 23. März 2009, 10:30–11:00, BAR SCHÖ

Relativistic Brownian motion and thermodynamics — •Jörn Dunkel — Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, UK

Over the past century Brownian motion theory has vastly contributed to our understanding of microscopic and mesoscopic phenomena. Originally proposed as a phenomenological paradigm of atomistic matter interactions, the original theory has since evolved into a vivid research area, with an ever increasing number of applications in biology, chemistry, finance, and physics. In this talk, I am going to discuss how Brownian motion concepts can be embedded into a relativistic framework. I will provide a brief historical survey, summarize applications, and compare different theoretical approaches and their respective implications. Finally, I intend to address closely related, basic questions in relativistic thermodynamics, such as the definition and the Lorentz transformation behavior of relativistic thermodynamic quantities.