[PhilPhys] forthcoming FoundPhys events in Paris

[GRINBAUM Alexei]

Projet ANR "FoundPhys" (information <http://iramis.cea.fr/spec/Phocea/Vie_des_labos/Ast/ast_visu.php?id_ast=761> )

*	Workshop "Conceptual questions in statistical physics" (no registration needed, further information on website <http://iramis.cea.fr/spec/Phocea/Vie_des_labos/Ast/ast_visu.php?id_ast=1076> )

Date: 22 October 2008
Place: Ecole Normale Supérieure, Salle Weill, entrée au 45 rue d'Ulm, Paris 5ème

Programme
9:30  Alexei Grinbaum (CEA-Saclay). Welcome remarks
9:45 Jos Uffink (University of Utrecht). TBA
11:00 Chris Timpson (Oxford University). Thinking about information in the classical and quantum worlds
14:30 Tony Short (University of Cambridge). A quantum approach to thermal equilibrium
15:45 Owen Maroney (University of Sydney). Justifying Landauer's Principle
17:00 Discussion 

*	Workshop-related seminars

Date and time: 21 October 2008, 14:15
Place: LARSIM, bâtiment 774, salle 50 (plan <http://ipht.cea.fr/Phocea-SPhT/ast_visu_spht.php?id_ast=352> )
Speaker: Tony Short (University of Cambridge)	 " <http://iramis.cea.fr/spec/Phocea/Vie_des_labos/Ast/ast_visu.php?id_ast=761> The use of information theoretic entropy in thermodynamics"
 
Date and time: 23 October 2008, 14:15
Place: LARSIM, bâtiment 774, salle 50 (plan <http://ipht.cea.fr/Phocea-SPhT/ast_visu_spht.php?id_ast=352> )
Speaker: Owen Maroney (University of Sydney)	 "Computation  <http://iramis.cea.fr/spec/Phocea/Vie_des_labos/Ast/ast_visu.php?id_ast=761> and Thermodynamics (not Statistical Mechanics)"	
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