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06/06/2023
ENTROPY PRINCIPLE: DS ≥ 0 – Tuesday, 6th June 2023 – Seminar by Rinaldo Rui and Tommaso Luzzati
150 years from its first formulation, Entropy is still object of discussion. What is Entropy? Is it a measure of useful Energy? An amount of "order"/"disorder"? A probabilistic concept? We know for sure that in order to reduce their impact on the environment, we must try to make all transformations in a reversible way. It means to produce items that must be totally reciclable. But since reversibility in nature is impossible, then we are left with only one option: try to minimize such impact.
26/05/2023
FROM GUTENBERG TO INTERNET: COMPUTER-AIDED TOOLS FOR IDENTIFYING BIODIVERSITY – Friday, 26th of May 2023 – Seminar by Pier Luigi Nimis
The main features of the hundreds of identification tools created by the Dept. of Life Sciences of the University of Trieste will be discussed, with some practical examples of their use carried out by the audience. The Collegio Fonda students will have an opportunity to test some of these tools during an excursion to Val Rosandra.
11/05/2023
CONVERSATIONS AROUND INFINTE, ZERO, AND NOTHINGNESS IN PHYSICS AND LITERATURE – Thursdays, 11th, 18th and 25th of May 2023 – Short Course by Fulvio Parmigiani
These conversations intersect opposing concepts such as Infinite, Zero, and Nothingness and their significance that rises from logical-relational topics versus their emotional-creative representations.
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