Programme

Monday: Foundations of Statistical Mechanics and Philosophy of probability.

09:00-09:30 Opening address. Franco Bassani, President of the Italian Physical Society, Gerardo Marotta, President of the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, and GianCarlo Ghirardi, President of the Societ\`a Italiana di Fondamenti della Fisica.
09:30-10:15 The rise of statistical mechanics. Carlo Cercignani
10:15-11:00 Boltzmann's approach to statistical mechanics. Sheldon Goldstein
11:00-11:30 Break.
11:30-12:15 Information and entropy. Christopher Fuchs
12:15-13:00 Non commutative probability. Enrico Beltrametti
13:00-15:00 Break.
15:00-16:30 Round table on Philosophy of probability I. Organizer: Tim Maudlin (with Lawrence Sklar, Frank Arntzenius, Simon Saunders)
16:30-17:00 Break.
17:00-18:30 Round table on Philosophy of probability II. Organizer: Maria Carla Galavotti (with Richard Jeffrey, Peter Clark, Patrick Suppes, Jeremy Butterfield)
18:30-19:00 Break.
19:00-20:00 Reception (Umtrunk).

Tuesday: Foundations of Quantum Mechanics.

09:00-09:45 Orthodox Quantum mechanics. Stephen Adler
09:45-10:30 Bohmian Mechanics. Detlef Dürr
10:30-11:00 Break.
11:00-11:45 The theory of spontaneous localisation. Alberto Rimini
11:45-12:30 The theory of decoherent histories. Roland Omnès
12:30-15:00 Break.
15:00-16:30 Round table on the foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Organizers: GianCarlo Ghirardi, Adrian Kent, Peter Holland (with Paolo Grigolini, Francesco Petruccione, Chris Dewdney and others)
16:30-17:00 Break.
17:00-18:30 Continuation of the round table on foundations of QM.

Wednesday: Chaos.

09:00-09:45 Classical Chaos. James Yorke
09:45-10:30 Quantum Chaos. Giulio Casati
10:30-11:00 Break.
11:00-11:45 Quantum Chaos. Andreas Knauf
11:45-12:30 Singular perturbations in classical and quantum mechanics: the case of constrained systems. Gianfausto Dell'Antonio
12:30-15:00 Break.
15:00-15:30 Probability and nonlocality in quantum mechanics. Augusto Garuccio
15:30-16:00 Relaxation times to statistical equilibrium.Stefano Ruffo
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-17:00 Quantum-like aspects of classical dynamical systems. Luigi Galgani
17:00-17:30 Entropic Analysis for Chaotic Systems. Angelo Vulpiani

Thursday: Chaos and probability.

09:00-09:45 The Boltzmann equation and irreversibility. Herbert Spohn
09:45-10:30 On the relevance of chaos for the foundations of statistical mechanics. Jean Bricmont
10:30-11:00 Break.
11:00-11:45 Direction of Time. Oliver Penrose
11:45-12:30 Title to be announced. Giovanni Jona-Lasinio
12:30-15:00 Break.
15:00-15:45 Thermodynamic Arrow of Time. David Albert
15:45-16:30 Stochastic mechanics. Francesco Guerra
16:30-17:00 Break.
17:00-19:00 Round table on Probability in Physics. Organizer: Nino Zanghì

Friday: Relativity.

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