Standard, Textbook-Type Topics
- Chemical equilibrium (Kennett §6.4; Pathria & Beale §6.6) [Tong]
- Superfluidity (expand on Kennett §9.2; Pathria & Beale §§7.6, 11.6)
- Diamagnetism (Pathria & Beale §8.2)
- Statistical equilibrium of white dwarfs and neutron stars (Kennett §8.3) [Tanmayee]
- Thermodynamics of the early universe (Pathria & Beale Ch. 9)
- Cold boson gases using the method of quantized fields (from P&B Ch. 11)
- Non-ideal gases (Kennett §4.6)
- Brownian motion and diffusion (Kennett §§5.4, 5.5) [Samuel]
- Fluctuation-dissipation theorem (from Pathria & Beale Ch. 15)
- Phonons and magnons (Kennett §9.4) [Zahin]
- Landau theory of phase transitions (Kennett §10.7) [Harrison]
Special Topics
- Simple examples of steady-state non-equilibrium systems
- Non-extensive (Tsallis) entropy and thermodynamics
- Relativistic definition of temperature
- Quantum entropy [Gokul]
- Ferroelectric materials and negative capacitance
- Black-hole thermodynamics and information theory [Nancy]
- Thermodynamics of black-hole accretion disks [Bibek]
- Thermodynamics of quark-gluon plasmas [Logan]
- Gravity and upper bounds on the entropy of a system
- Experimental techniques for reaching the lowest temperatures
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