The Chimera of Entropy II

Summer School

July 14 – 20, 2019

Faculty

David Albert

Barry Loewer

Tim Maudlin

Wayne Myrvold

Daniel Sudarsky

Contributed Talks

Maaneli Derakhshani

David Ellerman

Dustin Lazarovici

Dragan Poljak

Talks and Material

Barry Loewer

Probability and Typicality in Statistical Mechanics (and elsewhere)

[slides] - [video]

Tim Maudlin

Entropy Recap

[slides] - video [part 1][part 2]

Wayne Myrvold

A Tale of Four Entropies

[slides] - [video]

Beyond Chance and Credence

[slides] - [video]

The Minus-First Law in Thermodynamics

[paper]

Daniel Sudarsky

Black Hole Entropy Puzzle

[slides] - video [part 1] [part 2]

A Novel Account for the Nature and Magnitude of Dark Energy

[slides] - [video]

Maaneli Derakhshani

Quantum Boltzmann Entropy

[paper] - [video]

David Ellerman

On Shimony’s Objective Indefiniteness or Literal Interpretation of QM

[slides] - [video]

Dustin Lazarovici

Typicality versus Humean Probabilities as the Foundation of Statistical Mechanics

[paper] - [video]

Dragan Poljak

A Note on Classical Electromagnetics: Information Theory, Entropy, and Channel Capacity

[slides] - [video]