[PhilPhys] Call for Participation: Quantum Computation, Quantum Information, and the Exact Sciences (January 30 - 31, 2015)

[Michael Cuffaro]

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QUANTUM COMPUTATION, QUANTUM INFORMATION, AND THE EXACT SCIENCES

LMU Munich

30-31 January 2015

http://www.qcompinfo2015.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de

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Quantum computation and quantum information theory (QCIT) are two 
burgeoning fields which are concerned with the ways in which the 
resources of quantum mechanics can be used to develop algorithms and 
protocols for handling information faster and more efficiently than is 
possible using conventional means. Since quantum computation and 
information theory combine and connect concepts from physics, 
mathematics, computer science, and information theory, they promise to 
illuminate the foundations of all of these sciences. The aim of this 
conference is to explore these connections; i.e., between the philosophy 
and foundations of quantum computation and information theory, and more 
traditional philosophical and foundational questions in these and other 
of the so-called "exact sciences." Some of the particular topics we aim 
to consider include: QCIT's relevance for our understanding of the 
structure and axiomatics of quantum theory; QCIT's relevance for our 
understanding of physical conceptions of computation and/or information; 
alternative formalisms and mathematical frameworks for characterising 
QCIT; methodological differences and commonalities between QCIT and more 
traditional approaches to the exact sciences; the metaphysical 
significance (or lack thereof) of the concepts and operational 
definitions of QCIT.

KEYNOTE TALKS:

- Hans Briegel: Towards quantum artificial intelligence

- Leah Henderson: Quantum information theory and the quantum state

- Rüdiger Schack: QBism and the Born rule

- Christopher Timpson: Quantum Information: ontological and conceptual 
aspects

CONTRIBUTED TALKS:

- Gemma De Las Cuevas, Toby Cubitt, David Perez-Garcia and Michael M. 
Wolf: Fundamental limitations of purification problems

- Lucas Dunlap: Would the Existence of CTCs Allow for Nonlocal Signaling?

- Adrien Feix and Časlav Brukner: Superposition of causal ordering 
between parties as a communication complexity resource

- Sam Fletcher: The Physical Basis of Computation and Computational 
Complexity

- Hector Freytes and Giuseppe Sergioli: Non-Separability in the 
Representation of Fuzzy Structures in Quantum Computation

- Alexei Grinbaum: If the observer is defined informationally, what is 
quantum theory?

- Ronnie Hermens: The relevance of Gleason’s Theorem for Bayesian 
interpretations of quantum probabilities

- Gerd Niestegge: Non-classical conditional probability, quantum 
measurement, and the no-cloning theorem

- Vasil Penchev: Quantum information as the information of infinite series

- Kohtaro Tadaki: A Refinement of Quantum Mechanics by Algorithmic 
Randomness

DATES AND REGISTRATION:

Conference Date: January 30-31, 2015

Everyone is welcome to attend, for a modest registration fee of 50€ (30€ 
for graduate students). Note that the fee includes the conference dinner 
on the evening of January 30.

Please e-mail one of the organizers in advance if you would like to 
attend the conference.

ORGANIZERS:

Michael Cuffaro <Michael.Cuffaro at lmu.de>
Samuel Fletcher <Samuel.Fletcher at lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
Johannes Kofler <johannes.kofler at mpq.mpg.de>