Summer School
Physics and Philosophy
Program
16-22 July 2018| Monday, 16 July 2018 | ||
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| 9:30 – 10:15 | Registration | |
| 10:15 – 11:00 | Tim Maudlin | Introductory remarks |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Break | |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Franjo Sokolić | Thermodynamic Notion of Entropy |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | Tim Maudlin | Boltzmann Entropy |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Break | |
| 16:30 – 18:00 | Kevin Coffey | Gibbs Entropy |
| Tuesday, 17 July 2017 | ||
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| 09:30 – 11:00 | Shelly Goldstein | Gibbs vs. Boltzmann entropy, ensemblist vs. individualist approaches to statistical mechanics, and MITE vs. MATE |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Break | |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Wayne Myrvold | Gibbs and von Neumann |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | James Wills | What is even Gibbs' paradox? |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Jan Dziewior | Measurement of nonlocal Bohmian trajectories of photons in a double slit interferometer |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | David Ellerman | New logical foundations for 'classical' and quantum information theory |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Break | |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Dragan Poljak | Entropy in Classical Electromagnetism |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Optional session | Review of General Relativity with Daniel Sudarsky |
| Wednesday, 18 July 2018 | ||
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| 9:30 – 11:00 | David Albert | Reduction of Thermodynamics to Statistical Mechanics |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Break | |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Nino Zanghi | Convergence to Equilibrium |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | Denis Sunko | The story of Cain and Abel from the thermodynamic point of view |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Break | |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Eddy Chen | Time’s arrow in a quantum universe |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Fedde Benedictus | Entropy and the principle of indifference |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Optional session | Review of General Relativity with Daniel Sudarsky |
| Thursday, 19 July 2018 | ||
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| Visit to Trogir and then lunch and swimming at Drvenik. Boat leaves for Trogir at 8:00, return at 18:30. | ||
| Friday, 20 July 2018 | ||
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| 9:30 – 11:00 | Aurélien Perera | Entropy and Geometry |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Break | |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Marc Depuis | A twilight zone in natural language: between certainty and confusion |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Tim Maudlin | Shannon Entropy |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | Daniel Sudarsky | Black Hole Thermodynamics |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Break | |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Christian Wüthrich | Holography and Black Hole Entropy |
| 17:30 – 17:45 | Break | |
| 17:45 – 18:15 | Anne-Marie Grisogono | The emergence of semantic information |
| 18:15 – 18:45 | Antoine van de Ven | The principle of minimum relative entropy |
| Conference dinner on campus | ||
| Saturday, 21 July 2018 | ||
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| 9:30 – 11:00 | Barry Loewer | Probability and Typicality |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Break | |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Mario Hubert | The role of typicality in statistical explanations |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Wayne Myrvold | Reduction of Thermodynamics to Statistical Mechanics |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Daniel Sudarsky | On the nature of black hole entropy |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Break | |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Nick Wiggershaus | The ontological status of information in physics |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Maaneli Derakhshani | The inconsistency of state-vector collapse with Hawking's argument for black hole evaporation |
| 17:30 – 18:00 | Break | |
| 18:00 – 18:30 | Goran Senjanović | |
| Sunday, 22 July 2018 (TENTATIVE) | ||
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| 10:00 – 12:30 | General discussion | |