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 23 March 2015 (08:00) to Friday 27 March 2015 (18:00)

Monday 23 March 2015
09:30
09:30 - 13:00
Contributions

09:30 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 Pulsed matter-wave interferometry for testing the mass limits of quantum mechanics - Jonas Rodewald (University of Vienna)

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

12:15 Quantum Walks Disprove Theories Based on Classical Trajectories - Andrea Alberti (University of Bonn)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 18:00
Contributions

14:30 Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chains and their approach to thermal equilibrium - Herbert Spohn (TU Munich)

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

16:30 Dirac's Class Two problems and recent developments in external field QED - Dirk Deckert (LMU Munich)

17:15 Effective dynamics of a tracer-particle coupled to the ideal Fermi gas in the high-density limit - David Mitrouskas (LMU Munich)

17:35 Quantum jumps and spikes - Antoine Tilloy (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Ecole Normale Supérieure)
Tuesday 24 March 2015
09:30
09:30 - 13:00
Contributions

09:30 Testing the properties of the QED vacuum, a review. - Edoardo Milotti (University of Trieste)

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

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

12:15 A new upper bound on collapse models parameters from spontaneous radiation emission. - Kristian Piscicchia (LNF-Frascati) Sandro Donadi (University of Trieste)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 18:00
Contributions

14:30 Quantum Physics without Quantum Philosophy - Nino Zanghi (University of Genova)

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

16:30 Wave Functions on Space-Time - Sören Petrat (IST - Vienna)

17:15 Dissipative models of spontaneous wave-function collapse - Andrea Smirne (University of Ulm)
Wednesday 25 March 2015
09:30
09:30 - 13:00
Contributions

09:30 Quantum effects in complex materials: Determinism, statistics, structure - Andres Buchleitner (University of Freiburg)

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

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

12:15 Quantum dynamics of large systems - challenges and possible solutions - Eli Pollack (Weizmann Institute - Rehovot)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Thursday 26 March 2015
09:30
09:30 - 13:00
Contributions

09:30 String Theory and Quantum Gravity - Luis Alday (University of Oxford)

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

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

12:15 Cosmological and Dynamical Aspects of Quantum Gravity with Torsion - Nick Mavromatos (Kings College London)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 18:00
Contributions

14:30 Nonlocality and Ontology: What Bell and Einstein, Bohm, and Ghirardi showed. - Shelly Goldstein (Rutgers University)

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

16:30 The experimental test of GRW: interferometry and beyond - Hendrik Ulbricht (University of Southampton)

17:15 Talk 28
Friday 27 March 2015
09:30
09:30 - 13:00
Contributions

09:30 Fundamental issues in gravity theory and its relation to Quantum Mechanics - Domenico Giulini (University of Hannover)

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

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

12:15 Gravity related spontaneous decoherence: from Wheeler-Bekenstein-Hawking to optomechanics - Lajos Diosi (Wigner Research Center for Physics)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30

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