INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SIR C V RAMAN MEMORIAL LECTURE SCIENCE The disorder created by entropy is in the mind PROFESSOR DAAN FRENKEL Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University, UK ABSTRACT BIOGRAPHY So much has been said about entropy that Daan Frenkel was appointed 1968 Chair of Chem- it is probably best to remain silent on the istry (Cambridge) in 2007. He was Head of the De- subject. Somewhat unwisely, I will never- partment of Chemistry from 2011 to 2015. Fren- theless talk about this dangerous subject kel is a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, the because in numerical simulations one is American Academy of Arts & Science and the US confronted very directly with what entropy National Academy of Sciences (USA). He is also a is – and, more importantly, with what it is member of the Netherlands Academy of Sciences, not. I will therefore talk about entropy from TWAS and the Academia Europaea. He is an Hon- the perspective of numerical simulations. orary Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. He is the Specifically, I will discuss (well known) recipient of the Boltzmann Medal in 2016 and the examples where entropy increases with ‘Aneesur Rahman Prize’ of the APS and many oth- increasing order, I will briefly touch on a er honours. Frenkel received his PhD in Physical common misinterpretation Gibbs’ paradox Chemistry from University of Amsterdam 1977. He and I will discuss how recent numerical then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA and tools allow us to compute close and dis- later at Shell Research (Amsterdam), the Universi- tant relatives of the Statistical Mechani- ties of Utrecht and Amsterdam, and at the FOM In- cal entropy. situte for Atomic and Molecular Physics. TUESDAY, 4TH SEPT. 2018 Director, IISc FACULTY HALL, MAIN BUILING AT 4.00 PM will preside IISC. HIGH TEA: 5.00 PM ALL ARE WELCOME.