Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	Basic Concepts in Thermodynamics
2	Review of Equilibrium Thermodynamics Elements of Statistical Thermodynamics
3	The Gibbs Stability Theory
4	Stability, Critical Phenomena and Configurational Heat Capacity
5	Stability and Entropy Production
6	Midterm
7	Thermodynamic Theory of Fluctuations, Small Systems, Size –Dependent Properties, Nucleation
8	The Foundations of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
9	Linear Phenomenological Laws, Onsager Reciprocal Relations and the Symmetry Principle
10	Thermoelectric Phenomena, Diffusion, Heat Conduction in Anisotropic Solids
11	Electrokinetic Phenomena and the Saxen Relations, Thermal Diffusion
12	Far-from-Equilibrium Systems and and General Properties of Entropy Production
13	Stability of Nonequilibrium Stationary States and Linear Stability Analysis
14	Dissipative Structures