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New Directions in the Foundations of Physics
American Center for Physics, College Park, April 13 - 15, 2007
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), Johns Hopkins University (Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Philosophy Department), Georgetown University (Graduate School, Georgetown College, Philosophy Department), and coordinated through the Foundations of Physics Group (UMCP, UMBC, JHU, Georgetown University).
Friday, April 13
Session 1 (Morning): Quantum Mechanics: Interpretation and Reconstruction
Chair :
HARVEY BROWN
Philosophy, Oxford |
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9:00 - 10:00
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Breakfast Buffet |
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10:00 - 11:20
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"Effects and Propositions" |
WILLIAM DEMOPOULOS
Philosophy
Western Ontario |
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11:20 - 11:40
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Coffee Break |
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11:40 - 1:00
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"Construction and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics from a Universal Principle" |
SIMON KOCHEN
Mathematics
Princeton |
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1:00 - 2:30
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Lunch |
Session 2 (Afternoon): Quantum Information and Bohm's Theory
Chair :
ITAMAR PITOWSKY
Philosophy, Hebrew U, Jerusalem |
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2:30 - 3:50
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"Bohm’s Implicate Order: An Overarching Philosophy for Non-Commutative Geometry?" |
BASIL HILEY
Theoretical Physics
Birkbeck |
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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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"Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Information" |
SHELDON GOLDSTEIN
Mathematics
Rutgers |
| 7:00 - 12:00 |
Buffet Party |
Saturday, April 14
Session 3 (Morning): Quantum Information and Quantum Foundations
Chair :
CHRIS FUCHS
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies |
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9:00 - 10:00
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Breakfast Buffet |
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10:00 - 11:20
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"Quantum Foundations in the Light of Quantum Information" |
GILLES BRASSARD
IRO
U Montreal |
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11:20 - 11:40
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Coffee Break |
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11:40 - 1:00
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"Physical Foundations and the Computational Power of Theories" |
RICHARD JOZSA
Computer Science
Bristol
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1:00 - 2:30
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Lunch |
Session 4 (Afternoon): No-Cloning and Non-Locality in Quantum and Super-Quantum Theories
Chair :
ALEX WILCE
Mathematical Sciences, Susquehanna University |
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2:30 - 3:50
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"Limits to Non-locality" |
SANDU POPESCU
Physics
Bristol |
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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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"Cloning and Broadcasting in Generic Probabilistic Theories" |
HOWARD BARNUM
LANL |
| 7:00 - 12:00 |
Buffet Party |
Sunday, April 15
Session 5 (Morning): What the Quantum World is Like
Chair :
JEFF TOLLAKSEN
Center for Quantum Studies, George Mason University |
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9:00 - 10:00
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Breakfast Buffet |
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10:00 - 11:20
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"Rovelli's World" |
BAS
VAN FRAASSEN
Philosophy
Princeton |
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11:20 - 11:40
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Coffee Break |
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11:40 - 1:00
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"What is Really There in the Quantum Domain? " |
YAKIR AHARONOV
Center for Quantum Studies
George Mason |
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1:00 - 2:30
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Lunch |
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Discussants include: David Albert (Philosophy, Columbia), Carrol Alley (Physics, UMD), Valia Allori (Philosophy, Rutgers), David Baker (Philosophy, Princeton), Jonathan Barrett (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo), Howard Brandt (US Army Research Lab, MD), Harvey Brown (Philosophy, Oxford), Jeffrey Bub (Philosophy, UMCP), Michael Cifone (Philosophy, UMCP), Maaneli Derakhshani (Physics, Stony Brook), Armond Duwell (Philosophy, Montana), Michael Fisher (Physics & IPST, UMCP), Gordon Fleming (Physics, Penn State), Mathias Frisch (Philosophy, UMCP), Chris Fuchs (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), Hilary Greaves (Philosophy,Rutgers), Alexei Grinbaum (CEA, Paris), Amit Hagar (Philosophy, Indiana), Charles Helou (IRO, Montreal), Meir Hemmo (Philosophy, Haifa), Leah Henderson (Philosophy, MIT), Bei-Lok Hu (Physics, UMCP), Jenann Ismael (Philosophy, Arizona and Center for Time, Sydney), Ted Jacobson (Physics, UMCP), Michel Janssen (History of Science, Minnesota), William Kallfelz (Philosophy, UMCP), Ruth Kastner (Philosophy, UMCP), Fred Kronz (Philosophy, U Texis-Austin and NSF), Matthew Leifer (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo), Boaz Leslau (Physics, Tel Aviv U), Peter Lewis (Philosophy, U Miami), Paul Lopata (US Army Research Lab, MD), David Malament (LPS, UC-Irvine), James Malley (NIH), Owen Maroney (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo), James Mattingly (Philosophy, Georgetown), Tim Maudlin (Philosophy, Rutgers), Robert McFarland (Physics, UMCP), George Musser (Scientific American), Wayne Myrvold (Philosophy, Western Ontario), Jill North (Philosophy, NYU), John Norton (HPS, U Pittsburgh), Itamar Pitowsky (Philsophy, Jerusalem), Daniel Parker (Philosophy, Virginia Tech), Rob Rynasiewicz (Philosophy, JHU), Michael Silberstein (Philosophy, Elizabethtown), Allen Stairs (Philosophy, UMCP), Ward Struyve (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo), Paul Teller (Philosophy, UC-Davis), Jeff Tollaksen (Quantum Studies, GMU), Jos Uffink (Foundations of Math and Natural Sciences, Utrecht), Giovanni Valente (Philosophy, UMCP), Wes Van Camp (Philosophy, UMCP), David Wallace (Philosophy, Oxford), Steve Weinstein (Philosophy, U Waterloo), Alex Wilce (Math Sciences, Susquehanna U), Eric Winsberg (Philosophy, South Florida), .
The conference will take place at the American Center for Physics, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, a few minutes walk from the College Park metro station. For a map and directions, see directions. For general information about Washington, DC, see WashingtonInfo.
The number of participants is limited by ACP regulations, so we regret that participation is by invitation only.
For further information, contact Rob Rynasiewicz at ryno@jhu.edu
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