BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260917T190240Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150512T050000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150512T130000 SUMMARY:The History of Thermodynamics and Scientific Realism Workshop UID:20260917T193248Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:20f6:41ff:fe59:be4a%3 TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:College of St Hild and St Bede\, St Hild’s Lane\, Durham\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:

The History of Thermodynamics and Scientific Realism

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A one-day workshop\, to be held on Tuesday 12th May 2015\, at Durham University\, Durham\, UK.

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9-10: Tim Lyons and Peter Vickers\, 'Scientific Realism and the Challenge from Thermodynamics'

10-11.20: Keith Hutchison\, 'No Miracle at all: The Thomson Brothers' Prediction that Pressure Depresses the Freezing Point of Water'

11.20-11.45: Refreshments

11.45-12.35: Barrie Tonkinson\, \;'Carnot\, his Two Theorems\, and a Phenemenological Context Relating Thermodynamics to Einstein'

12.35-1.35: Lunch

1.35-2.55: Ben Marsden\, Title TBC

2.55-3.45: Vasil Penchev: 'Reality in a Few Thermodynamic Reference Frames: Statistical Thermodynamics from Boltzmann via Gibbs to Einstein' \;

3.45-4.10: Refreshments

4.10-5.30: Owen Maroney\, 'What is Temperature\, Really?'

6.30: Drinks and dinner

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