Name: Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics
Start: 2015-03-23T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2015-03-27T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Erice (Sicily) - Italy

Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics

from Monday, March 23, 2015 (8:00 AM) to Friday, March 27, 2015 (6:00 PM)

Monday, March 23, 2015
9:30 AM Quantum interferometry
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:30 AM Exploring the limits and applications of the quantum superposition principle: An introduction to matter wave interferometry with atoms, (bio)molecules and nanoparticles - Markus Arndt (University of Vienna)

10:15 AM Pulsed matter-wave interferometry for testing the mass limits of quantum mechanics - Jonas Rodewald (University of Vienna)

11:30 AM Talbot interferometry with a point-like source: rationale, technology, & experiment - James Bateman (University of Southampton)

12:15 PM Quantum Walks Disprove Theories Based on Classical Trajectories - Andrea Alberti (University of Bonn)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM Mathematical Physics & QFT
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chains and their approach to thermal equilibrium - Herbert Spohn (TU Munich)

3:15 PM Invariant Gibbs measures for Hamiltonian PDEs - Tadahiro Oh (University of Edinburg)

4:30 PM Dirac's Class Two problems and recent developments in external field QED - Dirk Deckert (LMU Munich)

5:15 PM Effective dynamics of a tracer-particle coupled to the ideal Fermi gas in the high-density limit - David Mitrouskas (LMU Munich)

5:35 PM Quantum jumps and spikes - Antoine Tilloy (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Ecole Normale Supérieure)
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
9:30 AM Testing fundamental principles
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:30 AM Testing the properties of the QED vacuum, a review. - Edoardo Milotti (University of Trieste)

10:15 AM Pauli Exclusion Principle tested with VIP2 - J. Marton for the VIP2 Collaboration - Johann Marton (Stefan Mayer Institute, Vienna)

11:30 AM Weak interactions: What foundational lessons can be learnt? - Beatrix Hiesmayr (University of Vienna)

12:15 PM A new upper bound on collapse models parameters from spontaneous radiation emission. - Kristian Piscicchia (LNF-Frascati) Sandro Donadi (University of Trieste)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM Quantum foundations
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Quantum Physics without Quantum Philosophy - Nino Zanghi (University of Genova)

3:15 PM Collapse models, the quantum-classical transition, and experimental searches - Mohammad Bahrami (University of Trieste)

4:30 PM Wave Functions on Space-Time - Sören Petrat (IST - Vienna)

5:15 PM Dissipative models of spontaneous wave-function collapse - Andrea Smirne (University of Ulm)
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
9:30 AM Quantum complex system
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:30 AM Quantum effects in complex materials: Determinism, statistics, structure - Andres Buchleitner (University of Freiburg)

10:15 AM Sensitized upconversion with sunlight - Jochen Zimmermann (University of Freiburg)

11:30 AM Quantum complexity in biological and material systems - Where do we stand? - Irene Burghardt (University of Frankfurt)

12:15 PM Quantum dynamics of large systems - challenges and possible solutions - Eli Pollack (Weizmann Institute - Rehovot)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Thursday, March 26, 2015
9:30 AM Quantum gravity
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:30 AM String Theory and Quantum Gravity - Luis Alday (University of Oxford)

10:15 AM The AdS/CFT duality - Agnese Bissi (University of Oxford)

11:30 AM Lessons for Quantum Foundations from Quantum Gravity - Fay Dowker (Imperial College London)

12:15 PM Cosmological and Dynamical Aspects of Quantum Gravity with Torsion - Nick Mavromatos (Kings College London)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM Ghirardi Fest - 80 years in science
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Nonlocality and Ontology: What Bell and Einstein, Bohm, and Ghirardi showed. - Shelly Goldstein (Rutgers University)

3:15 PM Correlations beyond entanglement - Vahid Karimipour (Sharif University)

4:30 PM The experimental test of GRW: interferometry and beyond - Hendrik Ulbricht (University of Southampton)

5:15 PM Talk 28
Friday, March 27, 2015
9:30 AM Gravity and Cosmology
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:30 AM Fundamental issues in gravity theory and its relation to Quantum Mechanics - Domenico Giulini (University of Hannover)

10:15 AM Prospects of experimental tests of a fundamentally semi-classical gravitation theory - Andre Grossardt (University of Trieste)

11:30 AM Must space-time be singular? - Ward Struyve (LMU Munich)

12:15 PM Gravity related spontaneous decoherence: from Wheeler-Bekenstein-Hawking to optomechanics - Lajos Diosi (Wigner Research Center for Physics)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

2:30 PM MC meeting of the Cost Action

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

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