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.
Registration costs just 5 pounds, to be paid on the day.
PLEASE REGISTER SO THAT WE CAN GET THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF COFFEE AND TEA
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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