Harvard Foundations of Physics Mini-Workshop: Foundations of Thermodynamics

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Wednesday, July 15, 2020
12:00pm (noon)–4:00pm (East Coast time)

Website: https://harvardfop.jacobbarandes.com/20200715thermo

This is a free Zoom event (no registration fee)

The meeting ID and password will be shared with those who fill out this registration form

Questions or comments: Jacob Barandes, <lastname>(at)physics.harvard.edu (Organizer)

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

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