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Professor Bejan is ranked among the 100 most highly cited authors worldwide in engineering (all fields, all countries), the Institute for Scientific Information (http://isihighlycited.com/), 2001. Professor Bejan has received 15 honorary doctorates from universities in 10 countries.

Dr.
Lloyd is a principal investigator
at the Research Laboratory of Electronics.
He has performed seminal work in the
fields of quantum computation and
quantum communications, including
proposing the first technologically
feasible design for a quantum computer,
demonstrating the viability of quantum
analog computation, proving quantum
analogs of Shannon's noisy channel
theorem, and designing novel methods
for quantum error correction and noise
reduction.

This Nobel Prize-winning scientist admits to staying up late the night before his talk to bone up on thermodynamics. He puts his research to good use, discussing the history and application of the laws of thermodynamics, which have served as “the scientific foundation of how we harness energy, and the basis of the industrial revolution, the wealth of nations.”

By organizing an international symposium on the conceptual foundations of thermodynamics thirty years after the passing away of professor Joseph Henry Keenan, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology intends to honor this distinguished scientist who served on the faculty of its Mechanical Engineering Department for 43 years and effectively started an innovative school of thought on thermodynamics.

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“Biology is messy,” says Kenneth Dill, and it’s “heavily about entropy.” Just look at how biological systems repeat entropy at every possible turn: a parent cell making two daughter cells, sending one DNA molecule to each; and the process of biochemical reactions, with water getting stripped off the molecules. Dill is convinced that the “language of biology in the future will be nonequilibrium statistical mechanics.” He’s engaged in experiments that explore how dynamical laws apply to very small biological systems, such as those inside cells.