Events

Date: 26 March 2026   Time: 13:00 - 14:00

Location: MB-503

Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanics is, together with Newton, Einstein and quantum mechanics, and Maxwell electromagnetism, one of the pillars of contemporary theoretical physics. This theory satisfactorily handles uncountably many physical systems. However, as is nowadays well known, it fails for wide classes of natural, technological, and social complex systems. Grounding statistical mechanics on nonadditive entropic functionals enables satisfactory handling of a plethora of such classes. Together with an introduction to the concept of complexity, the theoretical foundations and illustrative experimental and numerical validations will be presented. Bibliography: tsallis.cbpf.br/biblio.htm