Co-sponsored by the Mathematical and Theoretical Physics group of the Institute of Physics
All sessions will
be held in room G045, Goodricke College.
Lunch will be in
the Roger Kirk Centre, dinner in Langwith College. The bar in
Langwith College will be open from 18:00 to 23:00.
Computer terminals
are available in room G169. Information about temporary accounts will
be given during the meeting.
If you want to
park on campus you should obtain a parking hanger at a cost of £2
per day.
Contact telephone numbers: Mathematics Departmental Office 01904 433070
Goodricke porter (for
urgent messages) 01904 433100
Programme
Monday afternoon
14.15 David BenDaniel: Definability in physics
15.00 Lucien Hardy: Quantum
axioms and composite
systems
15.45 Tea
16.15 Dean Rickles: Does background independence entail relationism?
17.00 -- 18.00 Round table discussion on axiomatisation of physics
19.00 Dinner
Tuesday morning15.45 Tea
16.15 Dean Rickles: Does background independence entail relationism?
17.00 -- 18.00 Round table discussion on axiomatisation of physics
19.00 Dinner
09.30
Richard
Dawid: Confirmation and final
theory claim -- a philosophical look at string theory
10.15 Christian deRonde: Complementary descriptions, quantum mechanics and modal interpretations
11.00
Coffee
11.30 Paul Busch: On quantum uncertainty
13.00 Lunch
11.30 Paul Busch: On quantum uncertainty
13.00 Lunch
Tuesday afternoon
14.15 Prashant Singh: Quantum digital signatures using quantum optics
14.45 Kong Wan:
Intrinsic magnetic flux of the
electron's orbital and spin motion
15.15
15.45 Tea
16.15 Simone Severini: Transition probability matrices as fundamental objects in quantum mechanics
17.00 -- 18.00 Round table discussion on time in quantum mechanics
15.15
15.45 Tea
16.15 Simone Severini: Transition probability matrices as fundamental objects in quantum mechanics
17.00 -- 18.00 Round table discussion on time in quantum mechanics
Wednesday morning
09.30
John Corbett: The ontology of
quantum space
10.15 George
Jaroszkiewicz:
Quantum register physics
11.00
Coffee
11.30 Sougato Bose: A duality in
entanglement and testing
quantum identicity of macroscopic objects
12.15
Michiel Seevinck: to be announced
13.00
Lunch
Wednesday afternoon
14.15
Jonathan
Walgate: The
nature of
nonlocality without entanglement
14.45 Soazig le Bihan: The nonlocality problem: a point of view
15.15 Jan-Åke Larsson: The Bell inequality and the coincidence-time loophole
15.45 Tea
16.15 Sibasish Ghosh: State estimation on a circle
17.00 -- 18.00 Round table discussion on nonlocality
19.00 Dinner
14.45 Soazig le Bihan: The nonlocality problem: a point of view
15.15 Jan-Åke Larsson: The Bell inequality and the coincidence-time loophole
15.45 Tea
16.15 Sibasish Ghosh: State estimation on a circle
17.00 -- 18.00 Round table discussion on nonlocality
19.00 Dinner
Thursday morning
09.30 Jaroslaw Pykacz: Macroscopic models of two-person quantum games
10.15 Tony Sudbery: Quantum Bell inequalities
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Thomas Durt: General solution for the mean king's problem in prime power dimensions, Bell states and
mutually unbiased bases
12.15 Gerry Goldin: Geometric characterization of a fundamental open problem in nonlinear quantum mechanics
13.00 Lunch
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Thomas Durt: General solution for the mean king's problem in prime power dimensions, Bell states and
mutually unbiased bases
12.15 Gerry Goldin: Geometric characterization of a fundamental open problem in nonlinear quantum mechanics
13.00 Lunch
Thursday afternoon
14.15 Bernard Kay: Gravitational induced decoherence
15.00 Andrew Whitaker: Some arguments on fine-tuning and many worlds
15.45 Tea
16.15 Angelo Cei: Supervening on the wave function
15.00 Andrew Whitaker: Some arguments on fine-tuning and many worlds
15.45 Tea
16.15 Angelo Cei: Supervening on the wave function
Round table discussion on "Bayes, Everett, decoherence or collapse?"
Friday morning
09.30 Rüdiger Schack: The frequency operator in quantum mechanics
10.15 Alastair Rae: The memetics of quantum theory