[PhilPhys] Wed July 15 12-4pm - Harvard Mini-Workshop on the Foundations of Thermodynamics (via Zoom)

[Jacob Barandes]

For the next event in the Harvard Foundations of Physics series, I'm
organizing an afternoon mini-workshop on the foundations of thermodynamics
(via Zoom):

Wednesday, July 15
12–4pm, with informal introductions at 11:45 (East Coast time)
https://harvardfop.jacobbarandes.com/20200715thermo
(The Zoom link and password will be sent out to those who register:
https://forms.gle/dLqx9aQDhty3KEV57)

Here's the detailed schedule:

11:45–12:00 – Informal introductions
12:00–1:00 – Orly Shenker – Hebrew University of Jerusalem – “Is everything
physical? The entropy of computation and the computational theory of mind”
1:00–2:00 – Katie Robertson – University of Birmingham – “In Search of the
Holy Grail: How to Reduce the Second Law of Thermodynamics”
2:00–3:00 – Eddy Keming Chen – University of California, San Diego – “Nomic
Vagueness, the Past Hypothesis, and Time’s Arrow in a Quantum Universe”
3:00–4:00 – Open discussion

Each talk will be 45 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of discussion.

Best wishes,
Jacob Barandes
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Department of Physics
Harvard University
jacobbarandes.com
barandes at physics.harvard.edu
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