Monday 22 July | |
17:00 | Welcome and Registration |
18:30 | Dinner |
20:00 | John Norton: The Impossible Process: Thermodynamic Reversibility |
Tuesday 23 July | |
09:00 | Katie Robertson: In search of the holy grail: how to reduce the second law of thermodynamics |
10:30 | Coffee Break |
11:00 | Jean Bricmont: Boltzmann’s Explanation of Irreversibility |
12:30 | Lunch |
14:00 | Tim Maudlin: Shannon Entropy |
15:30 | Coffee Break |
16:30 | Tutorial: Statistical Mechanics – Boltzmann vs. Gibbs (Lazarovici) |
Tutorial: The role of typicality in probabilistic reasoning (Dürr) | |
18:30 | Dinner |
20:00 | Barry Loewer: The Mentaculus Vision |
Wednesday 24 July | |
09:00 | Anna Marmodoro: Potentiality, structure, and the possibility of entropy in an Aristotelian system (Introduction: Michael Esfeld) |
10:30 | Coffee Break |
11:00 | Daniel von Wachter: Laws of Nature without Regularities of Succession |
12:30 | Lunch |
14:00 | Free Afternoon |
18:30 | Barbeque |
Thursday 25 July | |
09:00 | Hans Westman: Quantum Statistics |
10:30 | Coffee Break |
11:00 | Sheldon Goldstein: Relational Mechanics, classical and quantum |
12:30 | Lunch |
14:00 | Nino Zanghì: Relational Mechanics and Relativity |
15:30 | Coffee Break |
16:30 | Tutorial: Relational mechanics (Tokasi) |
Tutorial: Entropy in quantum mechanics (Tilloy) | |
18:30 | Dinner |
20:00 | Julian Barbour: A Gravitational Arrow of Time and New Entropy Concept |
Friday 26 July | |
09:00 | Daniel Sudarsky: Essential tools for Black Hole Physics: ADM, Horizons and all that |
10:30 | Coffee Break |
11:00 | Aron Wall: The Generalized Second Law |
12:30 | Lunch |
14:00 | Erik Curiel: What Is Black Hole Entropy? |
15:30 | Coffee Break |
16:30 | Discussion Group: Typicality and Probability (Goldstein, Loewer. Chair: Valia Allori) |
Discussion Group: Information Loss Paradox (Maudlin, Wall, Curiel. Chair: Sudarsky) | |
18:30 | Dinner |
20:00 | Roundtable Discussion: Metaphysics of Cosmology – Beyond Naturalism? (Wall, von Wachter, Esfeld, Loewer. Chair: Dustin Lazarovici) |
Saturday 27 July | |
09:00 | Student Presentations
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11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:30 | Antoine Tilloy: How many degrees of freedom does nature exploit? |
13:00 | Final Discussion |
13:30 | Lunch |