Dear colleagues (apologies for cross posting), On the 28th, 29th, and 30th of November, there will be two back-to-back philosophy of physics conferences taking place in the UK:
Relativity Meets Quantum Theory at the LSE, 28-29th November Irreversibility in Axiomatic Thermodynamics, Cambridge, 30th November The website, with speakers abstracts etc, is available here: http://lco2013.wordpress.com/. Registration is free and open to all. If you have any questions, please contact one of the organisers - Bryan Roberts, Adam Caulton, Eleanor Knox or David Wallace Let me add: For Cambridgeites who cannot get to London, here as raw email is the basics about the Saturday mtg. Location = Winstanley Lecture Theatre Trinity College, Cambridge. Get to it by netering Whewells Court of Trinity College opposite the Great Gat emain entrace to College. Speakers as follows: 10:00-11:30 Harvey Brown (Oxford), Remarks on the arrow of time and the behaviour of entropy in (order-theoretic) axiomatisations of thermodynamics 11:30-13:00 Leah Henderson (Pittsburgh), Can the second law be compatible with time reversal invariant dynamics? 14:30-16:00 Jos Uffink (Minnesota), Entropy, Entanglement, Utility 16:00-17:30 Jakob Yngvason (Vienna), The entropy concept for non-equilibrium states 17:45-18:30 Closing Discussion Best, Jeremy ------ Jeremy Butterfield: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Butterfield Homepage: http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/butterfield/ Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ Tel: 01223 761524 (office); 07557-668413 (mobile); NB: new mobile number. Visit the journal, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13552198 _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
