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Quantum Theory Without Observers II

February 2 – 6, 2004

 

 

Scientific organization: D. Dόrr (Mόnchen), Ph. Blanchard (Bielefeld), G. Ghirardi (Trieste),
S. Goldstein (Piscataway) and T. Maudlin (New Brunswick)

 

 

Program

 

Monday, February 2:

  9:00

Welcome Address by Martin Carrier, director of ZiF
Introduction

 

 

  9:30 – 10:30

Stephen Adler: Quantum theory as an emergent phenomenon

10:30 – 11:15

Lev Vaidman: The many worlds interpretation as a quantum theory
without observers

 

 

11:30 – 12:00

           - Coffee Break -

 

12:00 – 12:40

James Hartle: Introduction to decoherent histories

 

13:00

           - Lunch -

 

15:00 – 16:00

Angelo Bassi: A model of spontaneous wave-function collapse

16:00 – 17:00

Nino Zanghi: Quantum theory without observers, but with what?

 

17:00 – 18:30

Discussions

 

18:30

Reception by the Lord Mayor of Bielefeld and the Rektor of Bielefeld University and Dinner

 

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Tuesday, February 3:

  9:00 – 9:45

Lodovico Lanz: Consistency of quantum theory and macroscopic objectivity

 

  9:45 – 10:30

Jonathan Halliwell: Decoherence of histories by local conservation and
the emergence of hydrodynamic equations

 

11:00 – 11:30

           - Coffee Break -

 

11:30 – 12:15

Alberto Rimini: Quantitative theory of reduction: relativistic perspectives

12:15 – 13:00

Roderich Tumulka: Extension of Bohmian mechanics to quantum field theory

 

13:15

           - Lunch -

 

15:00 – 15:30
Federico Laudisa: Nonlocality: directions for use and misuse

15:30 – 16:10
Valerio Scarani: Probing the inadequacy of communication as a mechanism for quantum correlations

 

16:30 – 17:00

           - Coffee Break -

 

17:00 – 19:00

Discussions

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, February 4:

  9:00 –   9:30

Tilo Moser: Scattering theory from first principles

  9:30 – 10:00

James Taylor: Topology and identical particles

10:00 – 10:45

Fay Dowker: Causal dynamical collapse models on a lattice

 

11:15 – 11:45

           - Coffee Break -

 

11:45 – 12:30

Antony Valentini: Black holes, information loss, and hidden variables

12:30 – 13:00

Robert Olkiewicz: Decoherence in CCR algebras

 

 

13:15

           - Lunch -

 

 

 

15:00

BREAK

 

19:00

         - Drinks -

20:00

Concert with Peter Finger

 

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Thursday, February 5:

  9:15 – 10:15

James Hartle: Review the issues about generalizing quantum mechanics for gravity

 

10:45 – 11:15

           - Coffee Break -

 

11:15 – 12:15

Julian Barbour: How general relativity eliminates time from dynamics
and implications for quantum cosmology and Bohmian dynamics

 

13:00

           - Lunch -

 

15:00 – 16:00
Fotini Markopoulou/Lee Smolin: Quantum theory from quantum gravity

 

16:00 – 16:30

           - Coffee Break -

 

16:30 – 18:30

Discussions

 

19:00

         - Snack -

 

 

 

 

Friday, February 6:

  9:00 – 10:00

Michael Kiessling: Born-Infeld-electromagnetism

10:00 – 10:30

Gernot Bauer: Bohmian mechanics and action at a distance quantum electrodynamics

 

11:00 – 11:30

           - Coffee Break -

 

11:30 – 12:30

Jayant V. Narlikar: Action at a distance quantum electrodynamics

 

 

12:30 – 13:30

Concluding discussions

 

13:30

           - Lunch -