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SUMMARY:Trying to catch up with Gibbs: How simulators run into problems th
 at Gibbs had already solved - Prof. Daan Frenkel\, Cambridge
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CONTACT:Dr Christoph Schran
DESCRIPTION: In 1990\, the historian Martin Klein wrote an article about J
 . Willard Gibbs that contains the following passage:\n\n \n\nIn 1892 Rayle
 igh wrote to Gibbs urging him to expand on his ideas [DF: formulated in: 
 “On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances – 1876/1878]\, saying 
 that the original memoir was "too condensed and too difficult for most\, I
  might say all\, readers." Gibbs's answer strikes an unexpected note: He n
 ow thought that his memoir seemed "too long" and showed a lack of a "sense
  of the value of time\, of my own or others\, when I wrote it."\n\n \n\nSh
 ortly before his death\, however\, Gibbs did agree to a republication of h
 is writings on thermodynamics\, to which he planned to add some new materi
 al in the form of supplementary chapters. […] Unfortunately we have only
  the bare titles\, "On Similarity in Thermodynamics" and "On Entropy as Mi
 xed-up-ness\," and we shall never know what Gibbs planned to write on eith
 er subject.\n\n \n\nIn my talk\, I will discuss some aspects of colloidal 
 crystal nucleation\, illustrating that one ignores Gibbs at ones peril.
LOCATION:Department of Chemistry\, Cambridge\, Wolfson Lecture Theatre
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