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CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND THEORETICAL PHYSICS
UNIVERZA V MARIBORU UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR
KREKOVA 2 SI-2000 MARIBOR SLOVENIA
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PROF.DR. MARKO ROBNIK, DIRECTOR

Seminarsko predavanje
Centra za uporabno matematiko in teoreticno fiziko

Introduction to Sociophysics - Social Free Energy

Doc. Dr. Josip Stepanic

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Croatia


Abstract: Social and other complex systems show a myriad of interesting phenomena. Presently, there exists a tendency to link these phenomena to a small number of underlying principles. One of the ways to develop the tendency - often referred to as the sociophysics - is to utilise concepts from theoretical physics, in particular thermodynamics. In this presentation, the basis for sociophysics is given. Special care is given to description of the social free energy. It is the measure of all resources which can be transferred within the system without changing its state significantly, and a quantity analogue to free energy in physics.

Seminarsko predavanje bo v torek, 25. aprila 2006 ob 15:15 uri v seminarski sobi CAMTP, Krekova 2, pritlicje. Vljudno vabljeni vsi zainteresirani, tudi študenti.

Prof.Dr. Marko Robnik
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