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Joseph Henry Keenan, whom this symposium honors, died in 1977, but his groundbreaking work continues to influence the field of thermodynamics, as his colleagues, protégés and scientific descendants attest. Keenan’s efforts had practical outcomes, such as determining the properties of steam, which bo ...

William Green frames this round-up of near-term pressing issues in energy research with a sobering observation: global demand for energy will increase 50% by 2025, because “most of the world wants to live like us.” The panel reports on five different domains of research to meet this demand, ranging ...

In this valedictory panel to the two-day symposium, 10 speakers offer brief takes on how the Second Law of Thermodynamics might prove useful in seeking answers to our current energy challenge. Even before the oil embargo of 1973, Thomas Widmer recalls, Joe Keenan and his MIT colleagues wrote of an ...