The Quantum State as the Memory of a Quantum System

A Physical Inquiry and a Metaphysical Appraisal

Workshop

01-03 May, 2014

01 May: Anthropole 2064

02-03 May: Unithèque, Conference Room in the Library

Thursday 01 May (ANTH 2064)
17:00	Esfeld/Savona/Vassallo	Welcome address
17:15	Nicolas Gisin	Quantum nonlocality and realistic physics theories
18:15	Jeremy Butterfield	Remarks on particles, fields and waves
19:30		Dinner (Restaurant de Dorigny)
Friday 02 May (Unithèque)
09:00	Mario Hubert	Are Classical States Lagrangian or Hamiltonian?
10:00	Pui Him Ip	The ontology of Hamilton-Jacobi theory as an argument in favour of a dispositionalist view of the quantum state
11:00		Coffee Break
11:30	Michael Esfeld	Primitive ontology first
12:30		Lunch (on campus)
14:00	Nino Zanghì	The big wave function and the small wave function
15:00	Davide Romano	Decoherence and Bohmian Mechanics
16:00		Coffee Break
16:30	Andrea Oldofredi	Bohmian-type QFT and Malament no-go theorem
17:30	Vincent Lam	Primitive ontology and unitary inequivalence
19:30		Dinner (Le Pinocchio)
Saturday 03 May (Unithèque)
09:00	Guido Bacciagaluppi	The misleading equivalence of decoherence and branching
10:00	Matthias Egg	The role of the quantum state in the GRW matter density theory
11:00		Coffee Break
11:30	Antonio Vassallo	What is a quantum-gravitational state?
12:30	Vincenzo Savona	Concluding Remarks
13:00		Lunch (Restaurant de Dorigny)