[PhilPhys] Workshop: "Foundations of Quantum Statistics", Vienna, 19-20 Sept 2024

[Philip Goyal]

Call for participation  

Workshop: Foundations of Quantum Statistics 2024 <https://quantumstatistics.univie.ac.at/>, September 19-20, Vienna

Application to attend: Please join us for this two-day workshop on the origin of quantum statistics and its implications.  We are able to accommodate a small number (~10) of participants. If interested, please send a 150-word statement of interest to Philip Goyal (pgoyal at albany.edu <mailto:pgoyal at albany.edu>) in an email with the subject line “Workshop: Foundations of Quantum Statistics”.

Application deadline: 2 Sept 2024

Decision communication: 9 Sept 2024

Topic:

Systems of identical quantum particles exhibit non-classical particle statistics, which is normally categorized into two types: bosonic and fermionic. This classification is established either through the symmetrization postulate or through (anti)commutation constraints on creation and annihilation operators.  Despite its centrality in the application of quantum theory, foundational understanding of quantum statistics remains elusive, triggering continuous debate since the advent of quantum mechanics.  

This workshop brings together experts from quantum foundations, quantum information, mathematical physics, and philosophy of physics who are approaching the vexing question of the origin and meaning of the quantum rules for handling identical particles from a variety of different theoretical and conceptual standpoints.  

A key goal of the workshop is to stimulate collaborative reflection on the relationship between these different approaches and on the implications of the newly-developed perspectives of the origin of quantum statistics—for example, the implications for the nature of entanglement in identical particle systems.


Confirmed speakers:

Gerardo Adesso
University of Nottingham

Pablo Arrighi
Université Paris-Saclay

Tomasz Bigaj
University of Warsaw

Borivoje Dakić
University of Vienna

Gabriel Dufour
University of Freiburg

Philip Goyal
University at Albany

Ugo Marzolino
University of Trieste

Paolo Perinotti
Pavia University
Kind regards,

Philip Goyal
(on behalf of the workshop organizers)

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Philip Goyal
Assoc. Professor of Information Physics
Department of Physics
University at Albany (SUNY)
Albany, NY 12222, USA.
https://www.philipgoyal.org <https://www.philipgoyal.org/>
https://www.albany.edu/physics/pgoyal.shtml
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