[PhilPhys] Registration for Second Annual Bristol-MCMP Workshop on the Foundations of Physics

[Erik Curiel]

SECOND ANNUAL BRISTOL-MCMP WORKSHOP ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS
"Problems in Classical and Quantum Statistical Mechanics"
MCMP, LMU Munich
27. Jan 2018
http://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/events/workshops/container/bristolmcmpworkshop2018/index.html


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Statistical mechanics plays a central in almost every field of
physics: solid state, fluid mechanics, cosmology, astrophysics, the
study of black holes, every major program of quantum gravity, low
temperature physics, the Standard Model, experimental error analysis,
and on and on.  Its conceptual and foundational problems---among them,
the role and interpretation of probabilities, the nature of entropy
and the Second Law, the root of irreversibility, its relation to
thermodynamics---are as deep and unresolved as those of any other
field of physics as well.  All of these are active and central areas
of research in contemporary work on the foundations of physics.
Indeed, in recent decades the scope of statistical mechanics has grown
to encompass fundamental work in such diverse fields as economics and
formal epistemology as well.  This workshop will address problems
pertaining to a wide spectrum of such issues with an emphasis on
technical work, with the aim both of examining the problems in their
own right and of investigating whether approaches and techniques from
some areas can be of use in others.


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REGISTRATION:

Please send registration requests by 23. Jan 2018 to the co-organizer
Erik Curiel (erik.curiel at lmu.de). The email should have the subject:
"register" .  Also please indicate whether you plan to attend the
conference dinner (27 Jan, 2016).  There is no fee for the conference.
The conference dinner is on a Dutch-treat basis.



-- 
Erik Curiel

Assistant Professor
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftstheorie
Fakultät für Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Ludwigstraße 31
80539 München, Deutschland

BHI Research Fellow
Black Hole Initiative
Harvard University
20 Garden Street, 2nd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA

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