[PhilPhys] Workshop Lausanne 1-3 May

[Esfeld Michael]

Workshop “The quantum state as the memory of a quantum system: A physical inquiry and a metaphysical appraisal”

University of Lausanne, 1-3 May 2014

 

Thursday 1 May 14

17h00 Welcome

17h15 Nicolas Gisin (Geneva): Quantum nonlocality and realistic physics theories

18h15 Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge): Classifications of quantum states

 

Friday 2 May 14

Morning 9h-12h30

9-10h Mario Hubert (Uni Lausanne): Why metaphysics needs primitive ontologies

10-11h Pui Him Ip (London): The ontology of Hamilton-Jacobi theory as an argument in favour of a dispositionalist view of the quantum state

11h-11h30 coffee break

11h30-12h30 Michael Esfeld (Uni Lausanne): Primitive ontology first

12h30 Lunch (on campus)

 

Afternoon 14h00-18h30

14h00-15h00 Nino Zanghì (Genova): The big wave function and the small wave function

15h00-16h00 Davide Romano (Uni Lausanne): The ontology of the effective wave function

16h00-16h30 coffee break

16h30-17h30 Vincent Lam (Uni Lausanne): Primitive ontology and unitary inequivalence

17h30-18h30 Andrea Oldofredi (Uni Lausanne): Bohmian-type QFT and Malament/Haag no-go theorem

 

Saturday 3 May 14

Morning 9h00-13h00

9h00-10h Guido Bacciagaluppi (Aberdeen): The misleading equivalence of decoherence and branching

10h00-11h Matthias Egg (Uni Lausanne): The role of the quantum state in the GRW matter density theory

11h-11h30 coffee break

11h30-12h30 Antonio Vassallo (Uni Lausanne): What is a quantum-gravitational state?

12h30 Vincenzo Savona (EPF Lausanne): Concluding remarks

 

For further information, see

http://www.unil.ch/philo/page42475.html

 

Michael Esfeld

Full professor of philosophy of science

University of Lausanne, Switzerland

http://www.unil.ch/philo/page43600.html

 
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