PROGRAM | EmQM15 - Emergent Quantum Mechanics 2015

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23rd

VARIETIES OF REALIST APPROACHES TO QUANTUM MECHANICS

: Chair: Gerhard Grössing
8:00–8:45: Registration
8:45–9:00: Welcome Address
9:00–9:30: Jan Walleczek and Gerhard Grössing (Introduction EmQM15); Is the World Local or Nonlocal? – Towards an Emergent Quantum Mechanics
80 Years after EPR
9:30–10:15: KEYNOTE LECTURE
Yakir Aharonov (Tel Aviv University, IL, and Chapman University, Orange, USA)
Time Symmetric Reformulation of Quantum Mechanics
10:15–10:30: Coffee break
10:30–11:00: Matt Leifer (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, CA)
The reality of the quantum state from Kochen-Specker contextuality
11:00–11:30: Martin Ringbauer (Griffith University, Brisbane, AU)
Measurements on the Reality of the Wavefunction
11:30–12:00: Eric Cavalcanti (Griffith University, Brisbane, AU)
The Two Bell’s Theorems of John Bell and Causal Emergence
12:00–14:00: Lunch break
: Chair: Markus Arndt
14:00–14:45: KEYNOTE LECTURE
Nicolas Gisin (Université de Genéve, CH)
Quantum correlations in Newtonian space and time:
arbitrarily fast communication or nonlocality
14:45–15:15: Travis Norsen (Smith College, Northampton, USA)
Bohmian conditional wave functions and the reality of the quantum state
15:15–15:30: Coffee break
15:30–15:50: Xavier Oriols (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ES)
Can Decoherence make quantum theories unfalsifiable?
Understanding the quantum-to-classical transition without it
15:50–16:20: Jan Walleczek (Phenoscience Laboratories, Berlin, DE)
Free Will Theorems in Nonlocal Information Transfer
without Nonlocal Communication
16:20–16:50: Gerhard Grössing (Austrian Institute for Nonlinear Studies, Vienna, AT)
Conditions for Lorentz-invariant superluminal information
transfer without signaling
16:50–17:05: Coffee break; Chair: Theo Nieuwenhuizen
17:05–17:25: Herman Batelaan (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA)
Double slit electron diffraction
17:25–17:45: Ana María Cetto (Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México, MX)
Two-electron system correlated by the zero-point field:
physical explanation for the spin-statistics connection
17:45–18:05: Hrvoje Nikolić (Ruder Bošković Institute, Zagreb, HR)
How to reconcile non-local reality and local non-reality
18:05–18:25: Ariel Caticha (University at Albany, USA)
Trading drift and fluctuations in entropic dynamics:
a new symmetry for quantum mechanics
18:30-20:00: Dinner Buffet and Poster Presentations
20:00–22:00: Poster Presentations and Discussion

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24th

NEW EXPERIMENTS AND THEORIES IN QUANTUM FOUNDATIONS

: Chair: Jan Walleczek
9:00–9:45: KEYNOTE LECTURE
Aephraim Steinberg (University of Toronto, CA)
Probing “surreal” elements of quantum physics using weak measurements
9:45–10:15: Markus Arndt (University of Vienna, AT)
Quantum optics with nanobiological matter
10:15–10:30: Coffee break
10:30–11:00: Jeff Tollaksen (Chapman University, Orange, USA)
The Quantum pigeonhole principle and localizing
Kochen-Specker contextuality with weak measurements
11:00–11:20: Yuji Hasegawa (Atominstitut, TU Vienna, AT)
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics studied in Matter-Wave Optics.
Quantum Cheshire-Cat and Uncertainty Relations
11:20-11:40: Gregor Weihs (University of Innsbruck, AT)
Multipath Interference Tests of Quantum Mechanics
11:40–12:10: Konstantin Y. Bliokh (CEMS, RIKEN, JP)
Field-Theory Revolution for Optics:
Revisiting Momentum and Angular Momentum of Light
12:10–14:00: Lunch break
: Chair: Jeff Tollaksen
14:00–14:45: KEYNOTE LECTURE
Howard Wiseman (Griffith University, Brisbane, AU)
Ensembles of Bohmian trajectories: Real, Surreal, and Hyper-real
14:45–15:15: Basil Hiley (University of London, UK)
Weak Values, Local Momentum and Tangent Groupoids
15:15–15:35: Robert Flack (University College London, UK)
Measuring the weak value of atomic spin
15:35–15:50: Coffee break
: Chair: Nicolas Gisin
15:50–16:20: Peter F. Barker (University College London, UK)
Weak measurements of atomic momentum in a matter-wave interferometer
16:20–16:40: Maurice de Gosson (University of Vienna, AT)
Weak values and the reconstruction problem in Born-Jordan quantization
16:40–17:00: Angelo Bassi (Univ. Trieste and INFN, Trieste, IT)
Models of spontaneous wave function collapse:
what they are, and how they can be tested
17:00–17:15: Coffee break
17:15–17:45: Helmut Rauch (Atominstitut, TU Vienna, AT)
Ignorance governs quantum experiments
17:45–18:05: Bill Poirier (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA)
Quantum Mechanics Without Wavefunctions: When quantum worlds collide
19:00–23:00: Gala Dinner

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25th

EMERGENT SPACE-TIME, GRAVITY, AND THE MEASUREMENT PROBLEM

: Chair: Lajos Diósi
9:00–9:45: KEYNOTE LECTURE
Gerard ´t Hooft (Spinoza Institute and Utrecht University, NL)
How quantization of gravity leads to a discrete space-time
9:45–10:15: Bei-Lok Hu (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
Gravitational Cat State
10:15–10:30: Coffee break
10:30–11:00: Časlav Brukner (University of Vienna, AT)
Quantum Clocks and Time
11:00–11:30: Silke Weinfurtner (University of Nottingham, UK)
Hydrodynamic simulations of rotating and non-rotating black holes
11:30–11:50: Hans-Thomas Elze (University of Pisa, IT)
Quantum Features of Natural Cellular Automata
11:50–14:00: Lunch break
: Chair: Časlav Brukner
14:00–14:45: KEYNOTE LECTURE
Thanu Padmanabhan (Pune University, IN)
Atoms of Spacetime and the Nature of Gravity
14:45–15:05: Lajos Diósi (Wigner Center for Physics Research, Budapest, HU)
Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation in Foundations: Summary of 4 Catches
15:05–15:25: Lev Vaidman (Tel Aviv University, IL)
Ontology of the wave function
15:25–15:40: Coffee break
: Chair: Hans-Thomas Elze
15:40–16:00: Hans De Raedt (University of Groningen, NL)
The unreasonable effectiveness of quantum theory:
a logical inference approach
16:00–16:20: Marian Kupczynski (Université de Québec, CA)
EPR Paradox, Quantum Nonlocality and Physical Reality
16:20–16:40: Theo Nieuwenhuizen (Univ. of Amsterdam, NL)
“Walking on quantum foundations”
16:40–17:00: Closing Ceremony