9th Meeting on Physics and Philosophy
Program
25 - 27 August 2021| Wednesday, 25 August 2021 | ||
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| 17:45 – 18:00 | Opening ceremonies | |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Giovanni Ciccotti | Foundations of (Classical) Statistical Mechanics up to Entropy |
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Tim W. E. Maudlin | Entropy, Entropy, Entropy, Entropy, Entropy and H |
| 20:00 – 21:00 | Ivica Aviani | Entropy from the point of view of an experimentalist |
| Thursday, 26 August 2021 | ||
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| 17:45 – 18:00 | Review and introduction | |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Giovanni Ciccotti | Entropy (and others Thermodynamical Potentials) in Statistical Mechanics: its uses and misuses |
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Tim W. E. Maudlin | S = k ln(B(W)): Boltzmann entropy, the Second Law, and the Architecture of Hell |
| 20:00 – 20:30 | Break | |
| 20:30 – 21:30 | Denis Sunko | Entropy of pure states: not all wave functions are born equal |
| 21:30 – 22:30 | David Ellerman | On Boltzmann, Logical, and Shannon Entropy |
| Friday, 27 August 2021 | ||
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| 17:45 – 18:00 | Review and introduction | |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Giovanni Ciccotti | Comments, questions and answers: a free session |
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Tim W. E. Maudlin | Classical Thermodynamics and Information Theory as Resource Theories: Resources for What? |
| 20:00 – 20:30 | Break | |
| 20:30 – 21:30 | Denis Sunko | Corporations, robots and animals: the role of human cognition in rational design |
| 21:30 – 22:00 | Dragan Poljak | Some Mathematical Analogies in Classical Physics, Entropy and Information |
| 22:00 – 22:30 | Franjo Sokolić | Entropy! Entropy? |