Touring India 2026: Short courses/workshops/talks at Kanpur, Pune, and Bombay to discuss how many features of climate can be better understood with a little bit of more thermodynamics…

Again we were in India in March. This year, we visited Sarosh at IIT Kanpur with a short course on “Thermodynamics for Climate, Water, and Urban Systems sustainability”, discussed thermodynamics, maximum power, glaciers and climate change in Pune at IITM and IISER, and visited IIT Bombay for a workshop and seminar. And talked a lot with colleagues and students. More in this blogpost.

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Touring India 2025: A short course in Roorkee, and visits with talks in Gandhinagar, Bombay, and Pune to discuss and interact on entropy and the powers of the Earth system


We were back in India, spending a week at the IIT Roorkee to teach a short course on the Second Law in the Earth System Science, giving talks and having discussions at IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Bombay, IISER Pune and IITM. Find out more on what we did and discussed, look at a few photos, and some related papers in this blogpost.

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