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SUMMARY:Ratchets\, Pawls\, and Maxwell's Demon
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Manoj Gopalkrishnan\nTata Institute of Fundamental Res
 earch\nSchool of Technology and Computer Science\nHomi Bhabha R\n\nAbstrac
 t: \nI will describe Maxwell's demon\, the Smoluchowski ratchet and pawl\,
  the Szilard engine that relates information and heat\, and some work of B
 rillouin\, Landauer\, Bennett and others on these topics. These topics lie
  at the intersection of thermodynamics and information and computer scienc
 e\, and I will aim to bring out this connection. On the biology side\, it 
 has been suggested that the molecular motors dynein and kinesin can be mod
 eled as  flashing ratchets. \n\nPrerequisites: Not strictly necessary\, bu
 t it will help to know a little about random variables\, Shannon entropy\,
  and the ideal gas law.\n\nUrl http://tifrbiobytes.blogspot.com/\n
URL:https://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/web/events/172
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110310
LOCATION:A-212 (STCS Seminar Room)
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