Dear colleagues:
(apologies for multiple posting)
Please join us for a one day conference on foundations of thermal physics,
to be held at Trinity College, Cambridge on Saturday 14 November.
(And please forward this announcement to colleagues and students!)
Registration costs just 5 pounds, to be paid on the day.
The speakers are: David Wallace, James Ladyman and Roman Frigg. To promote
both pedagogy and discussion, speakers have suggested papers to be read in
advance. Details, and registration, are at:
https://cambridgemasterclass.wordpress.com
The program is as follows.
9.45 Welcome
10 to 11. David Wallace (Oxford): Quantum Aspects of Statistical Mechanics
11.00 to 11.30 coffee.
11.30 to 12.30 David Wallace (Oxford): Two kinds of Maxwellâs Demon
12.30 to 14.00 lunch
14.00 to 3.00 ; James Ladyman (Bristol): Is thermodynamics a control
theory? If so what follows, and if not what is it?
3.00 to 3.30 tea
3.30 to 4.30: Roman Frigg LSE): Rethinking equilibrium
4.30 to 5.30: Closing discussion.
6.00 Pub.
Best, Jeremy Butterfield
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Jeremy Butterfield:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Butterfield
Homepage: http://trin-hosts.trin.cam.ac.uk/fellows/butterfield/
Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ
Tel: 07557-668413 (mobile)
Visit the journal, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13552198
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