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New Directions in the Foundations of Physics
MAA Carriage House, Washington, DC, April 30 - May 2, 2010
Sponsored by the University of Maryland, College Park (College of Arts and Humanities, Committee for Philosophy and the Sciences, Institute for Physical Science and Technology), Georgetown University (Graduate School, Georgetown College, Philosophy Department), and coordinated through the Foundations of Physics Group (University of Maryland - College Park, Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University).
Friday, April 30
Session 1 (Morning): Early History of Quantum Mechanics and its Relevance to Current Debates on Quantum Foundations
Chair :
JEFFREY BUB
Philosophy and IPST, Maryland |
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9:30 - 10:50
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"(Never) Mind your p's and q's: von Neumann versus Jordan on the Foundations of Quantum Theory" |
MICHEL JANSSEN
Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
University of Minnesota
TONY DUNCAN
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pittsburgh
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10:50 - 11:10
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Coffee Break |
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11:10 - 12:30
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"Heisenberg's Response to EPR" |
ELISE CRULL
Department of Philosophy
Notre Dame University |
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12:30 - 2:30
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Lunch |
Session 2 (Afternoon): Entanglement Thermodynamics and Black Hole Thermodynamics
Chair :
ALLEN STAIRS
Philosophy, Maryland |
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2:30 - 3:50
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"A Reversible Framework for Entanglement and General Resource Theories" |
FERNANDO BRANDAO
Department of Physics
Imperial College, London |
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3:50 - 4:10
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Coffee Break |
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4:10 - 5:30
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"Black Hole Thermodynamics" |
BILL UNRUH
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of British Columbia |
| 7:00 - midnight |
Buffet Party |
Saturday, May 1
Session 3 (Morning): Correlations, Complexity, and Computational Power
Chair :
JAMES MATTINGLY
Philosophy, Georgetown |
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9:30 - 10:50
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"The Computational Power of Correlations" |
DAN BROWNE
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University College, London |
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10:50 - 11:10
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Coffee Break |
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11:10 - 12:30
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"Quantum Computing with Closed Timelike Curves" |
SCOTT AARONSON
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
MIT |
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12:30 - 2:30
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Lunch |
Session 4 (Afternoon): Characterizing Quantum Mechanics in the Class of No-Signaling Theories
Chair :
MATHIAS FRISCH
Philsophy, Maryland |
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2:30 - 3:50
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"Information Causality as a New Physical Principle" |
VALERIO SCARANI
Center for Quantum Technologies and Department of Physics
National University of Singapore |
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3:50 - 4:10
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Coffee Break |
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4:10 - 5:30
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"Beyond the Quantum Model" |
MIGUEL NAVASCUES
Department of Physics
Imperial College, London |
| 7:00 - midnight |
Buffet Party |
Sunday, May 2
Session 5 (Morning): Lorentz Invariant 'Collapse' Theories and the 'Free Will' Theorem
Chair :
ROB RYNASIEWICZ
Philosophy, Johns Hopkins |
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9:30 - 10:50
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"Nonlocal Setting and Outcome Information for Violation of Bell's Inequality" |
CASLAV BRUKNER
Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics, Quantum Information
Faculty of Physics
University of Vienna |
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10:50 - 11:10
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Coffee Break |
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11:10 - 12:30
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"The GRW Flash Theory and the Conway-Kochen "Free Will" Theorem" |
RODERICH TUMULKA
Department of Mathematics
Rutgers |
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