In his first faculty job 46 years ago, he taught thermodynamics at Yale University. “That’s when I first really became enamored of the foundations of thermodynamics and statistical physics, when I ...

In fields ranging from immunology and ecology to economics and thermodynamics, multi-scale complex systems are ubiquitous. They are also notoriously difficult to model. Conventional approaches ...

In fields ranging from immunology and ecology to economics and thermodynamics, multi-scale complex systems are ubiquitous. They are also notoriously difficult to model. Conventional approaches ...

If the MaxEnt theory of ecology can give good estimates in a wide variety of scenarios, ... In his first faculty job 46 years ago, he taught thermodynamics at Yale University.

They were also the first testing ground of an unusual new theory in ecology that applies insights from physics to the study of the environment. Read Full Article » Related Topics: Thermodynamics, ...

Landauer's principle is a thermodynamics concept also relevant in information theory, which states that erasing one bit of information from an information system results in the dissipation of at ...

In landscape ecology, entropy is employed to assess spatial heterogeneity, ... Entropy: A measure of randomness or disorder within a system, originally derived from thermodynamics.

Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law of thermodynamics, an international team of researchers has unveiled an analogous law for the quantum ...

ABSTRACT. The concept of resilience continues to crescendo since the 1990s, touching on multiple fields with multiple interpretations and uses. Here, we start from its origins in systems ecology, ...