Eugene Y. S. Chua
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Eugene Y. S. Chua
@eugenechua.bsky.social
Nanyang Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Formerly postdoc faculty at Caltech.

I work on philosophy of physics and philosophy of science. More at https://eugenechua.com

BA Cambridge '17, PhD UC San Diego '23.
It's a wrap! Many thanks to participants of the 2025 Foundations of Thermodynamics workshop for making it a great success. Glad that the first workshop I organized went smoothly :) I got helpful feedback on some new work on the concept of quantum work, and learnt so much from the other speakers!
July 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Co-organized with @wmyrvold.bsky.social, the 2025 Foundations of Thermodynamics workshop will be held in NTU from 16-18 July 2025. We have a great slate of participants and I am very much looking forward to it!

Attendance is free and there will be a Zoom option. Details here: bit.ly/3SxvSNi
June 3, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Always nice to be back in Caltech. Looking forward to co-presenting with Craig Callender on the Tolman effect and the temperature concept in general relativity, at the &HPS10 conference this week!
March 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Looking forward to meeting colleagues and speaking on this paper on idealization, de-Idealization, and asymptotic reasoning I wrote with @yichenluo.bsky.social (UWO), at Lingnan and HKUST in Hong Kong next week!
February 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Finally back in Singapore: had a productive birthday week in California! Returned to Caltech to finish a manuscript on LLMs, ethics & psychiatry w/ collaborators at a writing retreat, then visited UC Davis to speak about my works on relativistic thermodynamics (received great questions/comments! 😄).
November 27, 2024 at 8:46 AM
Came across an idea generation spot on an evening walk -- no bad ideas here!
November 10, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Yichen Luo (UWO) will be presenting a poster on our joint work "Check, Please! De-Idealizing De-Idealization with Asymptotic Reasoning" at Rotman's Pragmatism and PhilSci Conference!

First draft will be ready in a few weeks' time (let us know if interested!). In the meantime, here's the poster!
September 26, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Will be giving a talk at NUS in a few weeks' time on the status of classical thermodynamic concepts in special and general relativity, and what this teaches us about classical thermodynamics (and non-fundamental reality)!
September 23, 2024 at 4:45 AM
Officially the first day as an assistant professor at NTU Singapore! I had a great time chatting with some of my new colleagues @chongminglim.bsky.social and @terumiyake.bsky.social, and I'm looking forward to meeting others in the coming weeks 😄
August 1, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Happy 2024 from LA!
January 1, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Turtles outside my office, having their time in the sun
October 5, 2023 at 10:07 PM