Thermodynamics Two Cultures Conference 2020

In conferences, Thermodynamics Two Cultures Conference, or “International Conference on Thermodynamics 2.0”, is a planed Jun 2020 international conference on thermodynamics focused on the topic of “identifying and connecting the dots of scientific revolutions in the natural and social sciences” (Poudel, 2019), themed on the growingly-divided “two cultures” rift in the world’s education systems, as opinionated famously by Judson Herrick (1930), John Dewey (1938), and Charles Snow (1959). [N1] Venue The conference is tentatively slated to occur on Jun 22-24, 2020 at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Ma, conceived as a joint effort of colleagues from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and University of Connecticut. [2] Forerunners The Thermodynamics Two Cultures Conference 2020 is precursored, thematically, in various ways, by the BPE 2016 conference, the Arthur Iberall lecture series (2003-present) (Ѻ), and the 1970 AAAS Symposium on Science and Human Values (in the context of thermodynamics). Speakers \| Confirmed The following is a tentative desired attendee listing, ordered alphabetically by country, shown with economic funding qualification, where applicable; named bolded being key desired speakers: [N2]

n conferences, Thermodynamics Two Cultures Conference, or “International Conference on Thermodynamics 2.0”, is a planed Jun 2020 international conference on thermodynamics focused on the topic of “identifying and connecting the dots of scientific revolutions in the natural and social sciences” (Poudel, 2019), themed on the growingly-divided “two cultures” rift in the world’s education systems, as opinionated famously by Judson Herrick (1930), John Dewey (1938), and Charles Snow (1959). [N1]

Venue
The conference is tentatively slated to occur on Jun 22-24, 2020 at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Ma, conceived as a joint effort of colleagues from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and University of Connecticut. [2]

Forerunners
The Thermodynamics Two Cultures Conference 2020 is precursored, thematically, in various ways, by the BPE 2016 conference, the Arthur Iberall lecture series (2003-present) (Ѻ), and the 1970 AAAS Symposium on Science and Human Values (in the context of thermodynamics).

Speakers | Confirmed
The following is a tentative desired attendee listing, ordered alphabetically by country, shown with economic funding qualification, where applicable; named bolded being key desired speakers: [N2]

		Country	Person	Talk	Affiliation / Notes / Fields
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A	1.	Australia
B	2.	Belgium
		Brazil
		Bulgaria
C	3.	Canada
	4.	China
	6.	Croatia
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F	7.	France
G	9.	Germany
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I	12.	India
	1#.	Israel
	13.	Italy
	14.	Italy
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M	15.	Mexico
N	16.	Nepal	Ram Poudel E: rcpoudel@ioe.edu.np	“Talk Title”	Topics: Economics, sociology, social field
	17.	Nigeria
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P	18.	Pakistan	Mirza Beg (P) [LMI]	“Socio-Physicochemical Theory on Terror and Terrorism” [4]	Topics: Physico-chemical sociology
	19.	Poland
	20.	Puerto Rico
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R	21.	Russia
S	23.	Spain
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U	24.	UK
		USA	Georgi Georgiev
	29.		Jon McGowan	“Talk Title”	Co-author with Poudel in his social field publications.
	30.		Libb Thims E: libbthims@gmail.com	“A Theoretical Torricelli Social Barometer to Measure Social Pressure” [3]
V	40.	Venezuela
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Speakers \| Draft list The following is a tentative desired attendee listing, ordered alphabetically by country, shown with economic funding qualification, where applicable; named bolded being key desired speakers: [N2]

Speakers | Draft list
The following is a tentative desired attendee listing, ordered alphabetically by country, shown with economic funding qualification, where applicable; named bolded being key desired speakers: [N2]

		Country	Person	Go	Fields	Talk	Email	Affiliation / Notes
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A	1.	Australia	Ramil Nigmatullin (P)				ramil.nigmatullin@sydney.edu.au	University of Sydney profile.
B	2.	Belgium	Serban Scrieciu (P)		Energy policy, sustainability		scrieciu@gmail.com	ResearchGate profile.
		Brazil	Jaime Aguilar-Arias (T)
		Bulgaria	Roumen Tsekov (T)
C	3.	Canada	Vaclav Smil (P)		History
	4.	China	Yi-Fang Chang (P)		Sociology, social field		yifangchang1030@hotmail.com
	5.	China	Ao Ping (P)				aoping@situ.edu.cn	ResearchGate profile.
	6.	Croatia	Josip Stepanic (P)		Sociology
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F	7.	France	Francois Roddier (P)		Evolution, economics, sociology			Reddit post (Mar 2019).
	8.	France	Robert Ayers (P)
G	9.	Germany	Ingo Muller (P)		Economics, sociology
	10.	Germany	Dirk Helbing (P)		Social field
	11.	Germany	Hermann Haken (P) (↓)
		Germany	Frank Schweitzer (T)					ETH Zurch
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I	12.	India	Ashok Sengupta				osegu@iitk.ac.in	Website homepage.
	1#.	Israel	Alec Groysman (T)					Website homepage.
	13.	Italy	Tommamso Ruggeri (P)		?			(CV) (website)
	14.	Italy	Corrado Giannantoni (P)
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M	15.	Mexico	Karo Michaelian (P)		Evolution, origin of life
N	16.	Nepal	Ram Poudel		Economics, sociology, social field	“Talk Title”	rcpoudel@ioe.edu.np
	17.	Nigeria	Nathaniel Umukoro (T) [LMI]		Culture, border conflict		numukoro@yahoo.co.uk	Reddit post (Ѻ) (Apr 2019).
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P	18.	Pakistan	Mirza Beg (P) [LMI]		Sociology	“Socio-Physicochemical Theory on Terror and Terrorism” [4]
	19.	Poland	Mieczyslaw Dobija (P)		Economics
	20.	Puerto Rico	Luis Arroyo (P)		Economics
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R	21.	Russia	Georgi Gladyshev (P) (↓)		Evolution
	22.	Russia	Octavian Ksenzhek (P)		Economics
S	23.	Spain	Mateo Gil (T)		Relationships, film			Reddit post (2018).
		Spain	Stefan Pohl-Valero (T)
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U	24.	UK	Erich Muller (T)				e.muller@imperial.ac.uk
		UK	Philip Ball (T)		Physics of society			Email associate of Thims since 2010
	25.	UK	Amir Shirzadi (T) ?					Reddit post (Jun 2018).
	26.	UK	Benjamin Sovacool (P)		Energy policy			Wikipedia article; 2006 PhD (pdf)
	27.	UK	Michael Joffe (P)		Economics		m.joffe@imperial.ac.uk	LinkedIn profile.
	28.	USA	Jacob Leachman (T)		Sociology		jacob.leachman@wsu.edu

	29.		Jon McGowan			“Talk Title”		Co-author with Poudel in his social field publications.
	30.	USA	Libb Thims		[everything]	“A Theoretical Torricelli Social Barometer to Measure Social Pressure” [3]
	31.		James Ferri (T)
	32.		Donna Riley (T)
	33.		Curtis Blakely (T)
	34.		Alan Sica (T)
	35.		Leon Warshay (T)
	36.		Timothy Kueper (T)		Morality, Religion
	37.	USA	Melvin Klegerman (T)		War		melvin.e.klegerman@uth.tmc.edu	23 Oct 2018 email dialogue with Thims and Leachman on his 1976 thermodyamics of war article
	38.	USA	Mehrdad Massoudi (T)		Morality; ethics			Reddit post (May 2019).
	39.	USA	Seth Lloyd (P)		Information theory		libbthims@gmail.com	YouTube vid (2018).
V	40.	Venezuela	Klaus Jaffe (T)		Sociology		kjaffe@usb.ve
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The "Go" column, with check mark , indicates committed attendees and or speakers. As of Nov 2019, about 15 abstracts have been submitted; but these are not yet updated with check marks (above). Funding The venue will likely be able to provide financial aid of about $500 to $1,000 per person, per country, for those countries listed on the World Bank (Ѻ)(Ѻ) as “low income” [LI], i.e. less than $995 GNI per capita (2017) or “lower middle income” [LMI], i.e. $996-$3,895 GNI per capita (2017) economies. Focuses The following are conference focuses: ● Adequate apeaker time allotment: 30-45 min (+ Q/A) (compare the: 2016 BPE sloppy 15-min speaker window disaster scheduling result) ● Published conference proceedings (low cost), available for purchase, and in Google Books ● Full conference lectures video recorded and available on YouTube (add) See also ● Two cultures calls Notes N1. A tentative 24-person potential attendee listing was compiled by Ram Poudel (Jun 2019), as indicated by the letter "P" by potential attendees; those potential attendee additions shown with letter "T" were added by Libb Thims; the up-arrows (↑) and down-arrows (↓) were added, by Thims, via intuition (e.g. age, health, funding, etc., issues), based on the relative likelihood of each person’s attending or not attending, respectively. References 1. (a) Poudel, Ram. (2019). “Email to Libb Thims”, Apr 10. (b) Poudel, Ram. (2019). “Email to Libb Thims”, Jun 19. 2. International Conference on Thermodynamics 2.0 (2020) – IAISAE.org. 3. Thims, Libb. (2019). “A Theoretical Torricelli Social Barometer to Measure Social Pressure” (pdf), Article for Talk at 22-24 Jun 2020 International Conference on Thermodynamics 2.0 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Ma. 4. Beg, Mirza. (2020). “Email to Ram Poudel and Libb Thims”, Apr 1. Videos ● Thims, Libb. (2019). “Interview of Mirza Beg: Physico-Chemical Sociology” (Chair of Physio-Chemical Sociology, 0-9:49; Thermodynamics 2.0 Conference, 9:50-20:00) (Ѻ), Day 2.6, Sep 17.

The "Go" column, with check mark

, indicates committed attendees and or speakers.

As of Nov 2019, about 15 abstracts have been submitted; but these are not yet updated with check marks (above).

Funding
The venue will likely be able to provide financial aid of about $500 to $1,000 per person, per country, for those countries listed on the World Bank (Ѻ)(Ѻ) as “low income” [LI], i.e. less than $995 GNI per capita (2017) or “lower middle income” [LMI], i.e. $996-$3,895 GNI per capita (2017) economies.

Focuses
The following are conference focuses:

● Adequate apeaker time allotment: 30-45 min (+ Q/A) (compare the: 2016 BPE sloppy 15-min speaker window disaster scheduling result)
● Published conference proceedings (low cost), available for purchase, and in Google Books
● Full conference lectures video recorded and available on YouTube

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See also
● Two cultures calls

Notes
N1. A tentative 24-person potential attendee listing was compiled by Ram Poudel (Jun 2019), as indicated by the letter "P" by potential attendees; those potential attendee additions shown with letter "T" were added by Libb Thims; the up-arrows (↑) and down-arrows (↓) were added, by Thims, via intuition (e.g. age, health, funding, etc., issues), based on the relative likelihood of each person’s attending or not attending, respectively.

References
1. (a) Poudel, Ram. (2019). “Email to Libb Thims”, Apr 10.
(b) Poudel, Ram. (2019). “Email to Libb Thims”, Jun 19.
2. International Conference on Thermodynamics 2.0 (2020) – IAISAE.org.
3. Thims, Libb. (2019). “A Theoretical Torricelli Social Barometer to Measure Social Pressure” (pdf), Article for Talk at 22-24 Jun 2020 International Conference on Thermodynamics 2.0 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Ma.
4. Beg, Mirza. (2020). “Email to Ram Poudel and Libb Thims”, Apr 1.

Videos
● Thims, Libb. (2019). “Interview of Mirza Beg: Physico-Chemical Sociology” (Chair of Physio-Chemical Sociology, 0-9:49; Thermodynamics 2.0 Conference, 9:50-20:00) (Ѻ), Day 2.6, Sep 17.

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