Ninth International Workshop DICE2018 
 Castello Pasquini/Castiglioncello (Tuscany), September 17-21, 2018
Spacetime - Matter - Quantum Mechanics 

"From discrete structures and dynamics to top-down causation"


 
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Advisory Board
 
S. Adler (IAS, Princeton) J. Barbour (Oxford)
G. Casati (Como) G.C. Ghirardi* (Trieste)
C. Grebogi (Edinburgh) S. Haroche (Paris)
J. Hartle (Santa Barbara) B.-L. Hu (Maryland)
C. Isham (London) C. Kiefer (Cologne)
N. Mavromatos (London) C. Rovelli (Marseille)
C. Tsallis (Rio de Janeiro) G. Veneziano (CERN & ENS, Paris)
C. Wetterich (Heidelberg) W. Zurek (Los Alamos)
 
Founding and Supporting Members


T. Arecchi (Firenze)                         O. Bertolami (Lisboa)
I. Bialynicki-Birula (Warsaw) L. Davidovich (Rio de Janeiro)                             
J. Rafelski (Arizona) D. Stein (New York)
M. Tegmark (MIT, Cambridge)


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Organizers


    Massimo Blasone (Salerno) 
    Lajos Diosi (Budapest)
    Hans-Thomas Elze (Pisa, chair)
    Jonathan Halliwell (London)
    Leone Fronzoni (Pisa)
    Claus Kiefer (Cologne)
    Enrico Prati (Milano)
    Giuseppe Vitiello (Salerno)  
  
    Conference
secretaries:
   
    L. Fratino (Paris)   D. Gigli (Pisa)   L. Ristuccia (Pisa)      
    I. Pozzana (London)   F.  Di Lauro (Pisa)       
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Objectives

Following DICE2002 -- DICE2016, this biannual workshop addresses researchers in the fields of fundamental interactions, cosmology, general relativity, and quantum mechanics:
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The pillars of modern physics, quantum mechanics and general relativity, coexist very successfully, having in their respective domains impressive observational support. However, questionable unification of the known forces, cosmological constant problems, black hole entropy puzzle, and conceptual difficulties of quantum mechanics and its application to the Universe are stumbling blocks on the way to a deeper understanding.
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Attempts to quantize gravity continue to stimulate studies of classical and quantum dynamics and of statistical properties of "timeless" reparametrization-invariant systems. A central problem is to determine observables consistent with the constraints. New ideas attract attention that consider spacetime or gravity as emergent phenomena, much like hydrodynamics is seen to arise from atomic physics. Even quantum mechanics might reflect dynamics beneath, which is hidden by the coarse-graining to scales where quantum theory has been tested successfully, nineteen orders of magnitude away from the Planck scale.
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Classical behavior in complex quantum systems, attributed to decoherence, has recently been studied from atomic to mesoscopic systems, the motivation being largely the quest for quantum information processing. However, decohering degrees of freedom in subatomic and general relativistic systems are little understood. The control of quantum systems by classical means and the study of quantum-classical hybrid dynamics present new challenges of practical as well as of fundamental character. The related measurement problem, wave function collapse or objective reduction persist as unresolved issues. 
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The study of these topics may include an analysis of the kind of information that exists in systems with many degrees of freedom and typically long-range interactions and of the basic conditions under which it can be extracted. Corresponding measures of complexity have been elaborated and could play a role here.
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Topics for DICE2018 are defined but not constrained by overlapping interests in:

  • emergent spacetime, matter, and symmetries
  • quantum coherence from micro- to macroscopic     
  • new key experiments   
  • quantum mechanics interfacing with gravity  
  • quantum gravity / cosmology and high-energy physics

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Invited Lectures

S. Adler (IAS, Princeton)    <KEYNOTE LECTURE>
    Motivations for and Implications of Frame-Dependent Dark Energy 
P. Aschieri (Arnold-Regge Center & INFN, Torino)
    Quantum spacetime and noncommutative gravity
J. Butterfield (Univ. of Cambridge)
 
   Peaceful Coexistence? Examining Kent's Relativistic Solution
     to the Quantum Measurement Problem
 
S. Capozziello (Univ. di Napoli)
    Beyond Einstein's gravity. Addressing the missing matter problem
     in
galaxies through a new fundamental gravitational radius       
 
P. Chen (Univ. of Taipei & SLAC  <KEYNOTE LECTURE>
    Tabletop analog black holes to investigate
     the information loss paradox 

E. Cohen (Bar-Ilan Univ., Ramat-Gan)
 
L. Diosi (Wigner Research Center, Budapest) 
    Does Planck length challenge non-relativistic quantum mechanics 
     of large masses?   
   
G. Dvali (Max-Planck-Inst. fuer Physik, Muenchen & New York Univ.)
    Black holes as brains: Holographic neural networks with
     area-law entropy
       
A. Eichhorn (Univ. Heidelberg)
    Towards Lorentzian quantum gravity with causal sets  
A.C. Elitzur (IYAR- Israeli Inst. Adv. Research, Rehovot)
    The nega-particle: The missing link for understanding the quantum world     
G.F.R. Ellis (Univ. of Cape Town)    <KEYNOTE LECTURE>
    Foundational Issues Relating Spacetime, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics   
F. Finster (Univ. Regensburg)
    Causal fermion systems and the emergence of
     discrete space-time structures
 
M. Genovese (INRIM, Torino) 
    Towards testing Planck scale on an optical bench:
     results from a quantum enhanced holometer 
   
T. Geszti (Eoetvoes Lorand Univ., Budapest) 
    Nonlinear unitary quantum collapse model 
     with self-generated noise 
   
G. Groessing (AINS, Wien) 
    
 
J.J. Halliwell (Imperial College, London) 
    Aspects of the Leggett-Garg Inequalities        
J. Harms (Gran Sasso Science Inst.) [LIGO/VIRGO Collab.]
    Beating the standard quantum limit in GW
     through EPR entanglement 
   
B.-L. Hu (Univ. of Maryland) 
    Quantum thermodynamics from the nonequilibrium
     dynamics of open systems
     
A. Iorio (Charles Univ., Prague
    Bekenstein bound, black hole evaporation and
     the emergence of everything
P. Jizba (Czech Technical Univ. in Prague)  
    Information scan of quantum states based on
     entropy-power uncertainty relations
    
A. Kempf (Univ. of Waterloo & Perimeter Institute) 
    The Planck length as the regime of poor statistics  
A. Khrennikov (Linnaeus Univ., Vaxjoe-Kalmar) 
    Applications of the mathematical apparatus of quantum theory to
     cognition and decision making: open quantum systems approach
   
C. Kiefer (Univ. zu Koeln) 
    Singularity avoidance in anisotropic cosmology  
J. Klauder (Univ. of Florida, Gainesville FL)
    A new rule of quantization that resolves all problems  
F.R. Klinkhamer (Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology) 
    Spacetime defects
S. Lloyd (MIT, Cambridge MA)    <KEYNOTE LECTURE>
 

C. Marletto (Univ. of Oxford)
    How to witness quantum effects in gravity
    via quantum entanglement 
 
K. Meissner (Univ. of Warsaw) 
    Conformal Standard Model         
M. Paternostro (Univ. of Belfast)
    Reveiling quantumness without looking
S. Popescu (Univ. of Bristol)    <KEYNOTE LECTURE>
   
E. Prati (IFN - CNR, Milano
    Reinforcement learning-based control of quantum systems   
S. Reynaud (Lab. Kastler Brossel & College de France, Paris)
    
  
F. Scardigli (Politecnico di Milano) 
    The deformation parameter of the generalized uncertainty principle         
A.D. Shapere (Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington)    
          
A. Tilloy (Max-Planck-Inst. for Quantum Optics, Garching)
    Does gravity have to be quantized?   
C.A. Trugenberger (SwissScientific Technologies SA, Geneva)
    Combinatorial quantum gravity: emergence of space(-time)
     from random bits
    
M.R. Vanner (Imperial College, London)
    Cavity Quantum Optomechanics: a tabletop experimental
     platform to test the foundations of physics 
             
V. Vedral (Univ. of Oxford)
    The pseudo-density matrix description of space-time correlations       
A. Vinante (Univ. of Southampton)
    Testing spontaneous collapse models with mechanical experiments                   
G. Vitiello (Univ. di Salerno)
    The molecular dynamics underlying the hurricane-
     environment interaction 
          
C. Wetterich (Univ. Heidelberg)
 
    Quantum computing with classical bits          
J. Yearsley (Univ. of London)
    An introduction to the use of quantum theory as
     a model of human decision making 
 
J. Zaanen (Univ. of Leiden)
    

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Contributed Papers

P:  poster presentation  (max. 95cm wide x 105cm high)
C:  oral communication (15min) 

T:  talk (20min)


(abstract submission closed by >> July 6th
<<
 
- all presented papers will have equal status for Proceedings)
 
M. Akman (Univ. Regensburg)  
  --
R.E. Allen (Texas A&M Univ., College Station)  
  T: Predictions of a fundamental statistical picture
T. Andersen (Univ. of Guelph & NSciR) 
  T: Do gravitational waves form a way to expose the
        beables of quantum mechanics?    
A. Ashton (Institute of Physics Publ., Bristol) 
 
-- Books and journals exhibition
A.W. Beckwith (Chongqing Univ.)  
  C: Initial conditions for defining an arrow of time at
        the start of inflation?
  P: Enhanced Quantization for bounding the cosmological constant, 
        and production of mini black holes in
emergent space-time [abbrev.]      
A.E. de Bernardini (Univ. Federal  de Sao Carlos)  
  T: Phase-space continuity equations for quantum decoherence,
        purity and von Neumann entropy
V. Bittencourt (Max Planck Inst. Sci. of Light, Erlangen)   
  T: Dirac bispinor global entanglement under Lorentz boosts
J. Brister (Sichuan Univ., Chengdu)  
  P: t.b.a.
K.L.H. Bryan (Rhodes Univ., Grahamstown)  
  T: No time for isolated clocks in the timeless Universe
L. Buoninfante (Univ. di Salerno & Univ. of Groningen)  
  C: Towards nonsingular metric solutions in ghost-free
        infinite derivative theories of gravity
A. Burinskii (Nucl. Safety Inst. Russian Acad. Sci., Moscow)  
  C: Weakness of gravity as illusion which hides true path to
        unification of gravity with particle physics
  C: Extended model of spinning electron induced by
        the Kerr-Newman gravitational solution
A. Capolupo (Univ. di Salerno)      Second Prize of MDPI Best Poster Awards  
  P: Differences between Dirac and Majorana neutrinos and geometric phase *    
  P: Kinetic theory of Jeans instability in Eddinton-inspired Born-Infeld gravity 
E. Celeghini (Univ. di Firenze)  
  T: Classical Optics and Quantum mechanics, the same paradigma 
E. Cerven (Krokbacksv., Likenas)   
  P: From microscopic-quantum to cosmological-classical in
        the 1-D momentum axis universe of a particle 
B. Cocciaro (Univ. di Pisa)  
  T: Improved lower bound on superluminal quantum communication
G. Doyen (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ., Munich)  
  C: Reconciling reality, space and time: A graviton driven
        quantum mechanism of cosmic expansion and redshift
D. Drakova (Sofia Univ., Sofia)  
  P: Localized gravitons as essence of dark energy:
       Implications for accelerated cosmic expansion
S. Faetti (Univ. di Pisa)  
  -- Joint paper presented by B. Cocciaro 
L. Fratino (ESPCI / LPEM, Paris)  
  T: Physics of the Hubbard model solved with the cluster method 
G. Garcia-Calderon (UNAM, Mexico)  
  T: Time evolution of tunneling decay of
        symmetry entangled identical particles
G. Gervino (Univ. di Torino)  
  P: Quantum instabilities in compact stars
G. Gionti (Specola Vaticana, Castel Gandolfo)  
  T: Bouncing and emergent cosmologies from
        Hamiltonian analysis of asymtotically safe gravity
M. Hadad (The Open Univ. of Israel, Raanana)  
  T: Deriving quantum theories using non-Cauchy surface foliations
        and their expected connection to quantum gravity theories
W. Hahn (Univ. of Technology, Delft)  
  C: Thermalization as an invisibility cloak for
        fragile quantum superpositions 
M. Jokel (Univ. Regensburg)  
  -- 
I. Kanatchikov (Univ. of St. Andrews)  
  C: Quantum gravity as a spin connection foam
C. Kelly (Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh)     Second Prize of MDPI Best Poster Awards  
  P: Emergent spacetime from phase transitions in graphs
S.P. Kim (Kunsan Nat. Univ.)  
  P: Simulation of Quantum Universe
A. Kryukov (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)  
  T: Mathematics and Physics of consistency of the Born rule
       with normal probability 
J. Laessig (Univ. Applied Sciences, Zittau/Goerlitz)  
  -- 
A. Lahee (Springer Verlag, Heidelberg)
 
-- Books and journals exhibition
G. Lambiase (Univ. di Salerno)  
  P: Dark matter in modified cosmologies 
S. Lidstroem (Texas A&M Univ., College Station)  
  C: A global survey of the biggest questions
G. Luciano (Univ. di Salerno)  
  T: Modified Unruh effect from generalized uncertainty principle
O. Lychkovskiy (Skolkovo Inst. Science and Technology, Moscow)  
  T: Quantum adiabaticity and orthogonality catastrophe 
        in many-body systems
P. A. Mandrin (Univ. of Zurich)  
  P: A multi-layer statistical perspective for (quantum) gravity with matter
J. Marton (Stefan Meyer Inst., Vienna) [VIP2 Collab.]   
  T: VIP2 in LNGS - Testing the Pauli Exclusion Principle for
        electrons with high sensistivity
A. Melkikh (Ural Federal Univ., Yekaterinburg)  
  P: A pure quantum universe as an alternative to inflation
S. Mignemi (Univ. di Cagliari)  
  P: QFT in Snyder spaces
P. Millington (Univ. of Nottingham)  
  T: Influence functionals, decoherence and
        conformally-coupled scalars
E. Minguzzi (Univ. di Firenze)  
  T: The distance formula in algebraic spacetime theories 
K. Morawetz (Muenster Univ. of Applied Sciences & MPIKS, Dresden)  
  T: Nonlocal quantum kinetic theory and dynamical constraints 
        on phase transitions in the early universe
  P: A relation between many-body classical and quantum systems
G.A. Nistico (Univ. della Calabria, Rende & Lab. Naz. di Frascati)  
  T: Single particle relativistic quantum theories settled by symmetry,
        via group theoretical methods
J. Noldus (Ghent Univ.)  
  T: Quantum gravity from generally covariant quantum mechanics 
R. Oeckl (UNAM, Morelia)  
  C: Predictions in quantum gravity
P. Pais (Charles Univ., Prague & KU Leuven)   
  P: Generalized Dirac structure beyond linearized regime in graphene
F. Payandeh (Payame Noor Univ., Tabriz)  
  P: Novel solvable dynamical systems 
L. Petruzziello (Univ. di Salerno)     First Prize of MDPI Best Poster Awards 
  P: On the role of neutrino mixing in accelerated proton decay
A. Platzer (Univ. Regensburg)  
  -- 
I. Pozzana (Birkbeck, Univ. of London)  
  T: Complex networks: how physics took a good idea from
        social science and made it even better
J. Pye (Univ. of Waterloo, ON)  
  T: Lorentz-covariant generalized uncertainty principles
  P: A universal training algorithm for quantum deep learning
M. Reginatto (Physikal. Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig)  
  T: Quantum-classical interactions: entanglement via
        a classical gravitational field? 
T. Reynolds (Univ. at Albany, NY) 
  -- 
R. Riek (ETH Zurich)  
  P: On the time continuous evolution of the universe
        if time is discrete and irreversible in nature           
R. da Rocha (ABC Federal Univ., Santo Andre)  
  P: SU(N) dark glueball condensates in the membrane paradigm
        and observational signatures 
M. Rotondo (Nagoya Univ.)   
  P: Decoherence and interference of cosmological arrows of time 
        for a de Sitter universe with quantum fluctuations
S. Sahebdivan (Technical Univ. Wien)  
  P: Gravitational scattering off a spatial cat state: effect of spatial
        superposition of mass on structure of space-time
[abbrev.] 
D. Schuch (Goethe-Univ., Frankfurt)  
  T: Analytical solutions of a damped parametric oscillator
        via classical Newtonian dynamics
L. Smaldone (Univ. di Salerno)  
  T: Dynamical generation of fermion mixing
B. Sokolov (Univ. of Turku)  
  P: Non-Markovian Unruh effect
M. Szydlowski (Jagiellonian Univ., Krakow)  
  -- Joint paper presented by K. Urbanowski  
T. Takeuchi (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA)  
  T: Spekken's toy model, Galois Field Quantum Mechanics,
        and the role of linearity
J. Tolar (Czech Technical Univ. in Prague) 
  P: On Clifford groups in quantum information
K. Urbanowski (Univ. of Zielona Gora)  
  T: From Quantum Mechanics to running $\Lambda$ cosmologies  
K. Uzawa (Kwansei Gakuin Univ., Sanda Hyogo)  
  C: No-go theorems for ekpyrosis from ten-dimensional supergravity
V. Vitagliano (Keio Univ., Yokohama)  
  C: Topological defects, deformed lattices and spontaneous symmetry breaking
M. Waegell (Chapman Univ., Orange CA)  
  T: A model of quantum physics that truly obeys
        local causality in space-time 
M. Wouters (Univ. of Antwerp)   
  P: Gravity from entanglement temperature variations
S. Zafari (Univ. Regensburg)  
  --  

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Program

Access to lectures for registered participants only. - Public evening event on Wednesday! 
Accesso al convegno solo per iscritti. - Serata dedicata al pubblico mercoledi!


(questions at speaker's discretion -- there are some buffer times here and there for add. discussions!)  

SUNDAY, September 16th
Arrival in Castiglioncello
16:00 - 19:00     Registration at Castello Pasquini (conference site)
      18:30 - 20:00     Reception at Castello Pasquini
presented by A. Ashton (IOP)

MONDAY, September 17th
Examining Foundations ...

 -- OPENING of WORKSHOP --    
 8:50  -- Welcome -- 

Chair: H.-T. Elze
  9:15   40' G.F.R. Ellis  Foundational Issues Relating Spacetime, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics  <KEYNOTE LECTURE>
10:00   30' J. Butterfield  Peaceful Coexistence? Examining Kent's Relativistic Solution to the Quantum Measurement Problem
10:35 - 11:15  -- Coffee Break --

Chair: C. Kiefer
11:15   30' J. Klauder  A new rule of quantization that resolves all problems
11:45   30' P. Aschieri  Quantum spacetime and noncommutative gravity
12:15   30' F. Scardigli  The deformation parameter of the generalized uncertainty principle
13:00 - 15:00  -- Lunch at Ristorante Caffe Ginori --
PARALLEL I
1st floor


Chair: M. Blasone
15:00   20' S. Lidstroem A global survey of the biggest questions
15:20   20' R.E. Allen Predictions of a fundamental statistical picture
15:40   20' L. Smaldone Dynamical generation of fermion mixing
16:00 - 16:40  -- Coffee Break --

Chair: M. Blasone    
16:40   20' G. Luciano Modified Unruh effect from generalized uncertainty principle 
17:00   20' J. Pye Lorentz-covariant generalized uncertainty principles
17:20   20' V. Bittencourt Dirac bispinor global entanglement under Lorentz boosts 
PARALLEL II
2nd floor


Chair: P. Aschieri
15:00   20' E. Celeghini Classical Optics and Quantum mechanics, the same paradigma
15:20   20' J. Marton VIP2 in LNGS - Testing the Pauli Exclusion Principle for electrons with high sensistivity
15:40   20' G. Garcia-Calderon Time evolution of tunneling decay of symmetry entangled identical particles
16:00 - 16:40  -- Coffee Break --

Chair: F. Scardigli
16:40   20' V. Vitagliano Topological defects, deformed lattices and spontaneous symmetry breaking
17:00   30' A. Burinskii Weakness of gravity as illusion which hides true path to unification of gravity with particle physics
  - and -
Extended model of spinning electron induced by the Kerr-Newman gravitational solution

TUESDAY, September 18th
New Aspects of QM ... 

Chair: J. Harms
  9:00   30' P. Jizba  Information scan of quantum states based on entropy-power uncertainty relations
  9:30   30' A. Tilloy  Does gravity have to be quantized?
10:00   30' L. Diosi  Does Planck length challenge non-relativistic quantum mechanics of large masses?
10:35 - 11:15  -- Coffee Break --

Chair: L. Diosi 
11:15   30' J.J. Halliwell  Aspects of the Leggett-Garg Inequalities
11:45   30' J. Harms Beating the standard quantum limit in GW through EPR entanglement
12:15   30' A. Shapere  Cosmological Time Chrystals 
13:00 - 15:00  -- Lunch at Ristorante Caffe Ginori --
PARALLEL I
1st floor


Chair: E. Prati
15:00   20' L. Fratino Physics of the Hubbard model solved with the cluster method
15:20   20' O. Lychkovskiy Quantum adiabaticity and orthogonality catastrophe in many-body systems
15:40   20' W. Hahn Thermalization as an invisibility cloak for fragile quantum superpositions
16:00 - 16:40  -- Coffee Break --

Chair: P. Jizba
16:40   20' A.E. de Bernardini Phase-space continuity equations for quantum decoherence, purity and von Neumann entropy
17:00   20' D. Schuch Analytical solutions of a damped parametric oscillator via classical Newtonian dynamics
17:20   20' G.A. Nistico Single particle relativistic quantum theories settled by symmetry, via group theoretical methods 
PARALLEL II
2nd floor


Chair: M.R. Vanner 
15:00   20' M. Waegell A model of quantum physics that truly obeys local causality in space-time
15:20   20' B. Cocciaro Improved lower bound on superluminal quantum communication
15:40   20' T. Takeuchi Spekken's toy model, Galois Field Quantum Mechanics, and the role of linearity
16:00 - 16:40  -- Coffee Break --

Chair: M. Waegell  
16:40   20' K.L.H. Bryan No time for isolated clocks in the timeless Universe
17:00   20' T. Andersen Do gravitational waves form a way to expose the beables of quantum mechanics?
17:20   20' M. Reginatto Quantum-classical interactions: entanglement via a classical gravitational field?
  
WEDNESDAY, September 19th
  
Discrete Structures, Quantum Gravity, Cosmology

Chair: S. Capozziello
  9:00   30' F. Finster  Causal fermion systems and the emergence of discrete space-time structures   
  9:30   30' A. Eichhorn  Towards Lorentzian quantum gravity with causal sets
10:00   30' C. Kiefer  Singularity avoidance in anisotropic cosmology
10:35 - 11:15  -- Coffee Break --

Chair: A. Eichhorn
11:15   30' F.R. Klinkhamer  Spacetime defects
11:45   40' S. Adler  Motivations for and Implications of Frame-Dependent Dark Energy  <KEYNOTE LECTURE>
12:25   30' S. Capozziello  Beyond Einstein's gravity. Addressing the missing matter problem in galaxies
  through a new fundamental gravitational radius
13:00 - 15:00  -- Lunch at Ristorante Caffe Ginori --
PARALLEL I
1st floor


Chair: J. Yearsley 
15:00   20' K. Morawetz Nonlocal quantum kinetic theory and dynamical constraints on phase transitions in the early universe
15:20   20' K. Urbanowski From Quantum Mechanics to running $\Lambda$ cosmologies
15:40   20' P. Millington Influence functionals, decoherence and conformally-coupled scalars
16:00 - 16:40  -- Coffee Break --

Chair: F. Finster 
16:40   20' K. Uzawa No-go theorems for ekpyrosis from ten-dimensional supergravity
17:00   20' L. Buoninfante Towards nonsingular metric solutions in ghost-free infinite derivative theories of gravity
17:20   20' A.W. Beckwith Initial conditions for defining an arrow of time at the start of inflation?
17:40   20' G. Doyen Reconciling reality, space and time: A graviton driven quantum mechanism of cosmic expansion and redshift
PARALLEL II
2nd floor


Chair: R. Oeckl
15:00   20' E. Minguzzi The distance formula in algebraic spacetime theories
15:20   20' M. Hadad Deriving quantum theories using non-Cauchy surface foliations and their expected connection to quantum gravity theories
15:40   20' J. Noldus Quantum gravity from generally covariant quantum mechanics
16:00 - 16:40  -- Coffee Break --

Chair: E. Minguzzi
16:40   20' G. Gionti Bouncing and emergent cosmologies from Hamiltonian analysis of asymtotically safe gravity
17:00   20' R. Oeckl Predictions in quantum gravity
17:20   20' I. Kanatchikov Quantum gravity as a spin connection foam
21:00
2nd floor
SERATA DEDICATA AL PUBBLICO (public evening, in Italian)
"Dall'astronomia babilonese alle onde gravitazionali"    
F. Bonoli (Bologna), E. Prati (Milano)  
e A. Allocca (Pisa) per la collaborazione LIGO/VIRGO
 
THURSDAY, September 20th
Tabletop Physics, Foundations and a World of Bits

Chair: M. Genovese  
  9:00   30' A. Iorio  Bekenstein bound, black hole evaporation and the emergence of everything
  9:30   30' A. Shapere  Causal Chronologies and metric reconstruction     
10:00   30' M.R. Vanner  Cavity Quantum Optomechanics: a tabletop experimental platform to test the foundations of physics
10:35 - 11:15  -- Coffee Break --

Chair: E. Prati  
11:15   30' T. Geszti  Nonlinear unitary quantum collapse model with self-generated noise
11:45   30' A. Vinante  Testing spontaneous collapse models with mechanical experiments
12:15   40' P. Chen  Tabletop analog black holes to investigate the information loss paradox <KEYNOTE LECTURE>
13:00 - 15:00  -- Lunch at Ristorante Caffe Ginori --

Chair: A. Khrennikov 
15:00   30' A. Kempf  The Planck length as the regime of poor statistics
15:30   30' C. Wetterich  Quantum computing with classical bits
16:00 - 16:40  -- Coffee Break --

Chair: C. Wetterich
16:40   30' C.A. Trugenberger  Combinatorial quantum gravity: emergence of space(-time) from random bits
17:10   30' G. Dvali  Black holes as brains: Holographic neural networks with area-law entropy
19:30  -- Reception / Aperitivo at Villa Parisi --
    
Best Poster Awards ceremony (MDPI prizes) 
20:30  -- Conference Dinner at Villa Parisi --


FRIDAY, September 21th
Enlarging the Quantum Scope ... 

Chair: A. Khrennikov 
  9:10   20' A. Kryukov Mathematics and physics of consistency of the Born rule with normal probability distribution 
  9:30   30' G. Vitiello  The molecular dynamics underlying the hurricane-environment interaction
10:00   30' J. Yearsley  An introduction to the use of quantum theory as a model of human decision making
10:35 - 11:15  -- Coffee Break --

Chair: G. Vitiello
11:15   30' A. Khrennikov Applications of the mathematical apparatus of quantum theory to cognition and decision making: open quantum systems approach
11:45   30' E. Prati  Reinforcement learning-based control of quantum systems
13:00 - 14:30  -- Lunch at Ristorante Caffe Ginori --

Chair: A. Kempf 
14:30   30' M. Genovese  Towards testing Planck scale on an optical bench: results from a quantum enhanced holometer
15:00   30' L. Diosi Quantum mechanics and the sanctity of linearity
15:30   30' B.-L. Hu  Quantum thermodynamics from the nonequilibrium dynamics of open systems
16:00
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Proceedings

Information about Proceedings for DICE2018 will be given here
and send to participants in due time
!


Proceedings of DICE2016 in:
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 880 (2017)
H.-T. Elze, L. Diosi, L. Fronzoni, J.J. Halliwell, C. Kiefer, E. Prati and G. Vitiello (eds.)

- free access at http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/880/1


Proceedings of DICE2014 in:
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 626 (2015)
H.-T. Elze, L. Diosi, L. Fronzoni, J.J. Halliwell, C. Kiefer, E. Prati and G. Vitiello (eds.)
- free access at http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/626/1

Proceedings of DICE2012 in: 

Journal of Ph
ysics: Conference Series, 442 (2013)
H.-T. Elze, L. Diosi, L. Fronzoni, J.J. Halliwell, E. Prati, G. Vitiello and J. Yearsley (eds.)
- free access at http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/442/1

Proceedings of DICE2010 in: 
Journal of Ph
ysics: Conference Series, 306 (2011)
H.-T. Elze, L. Diosi, L. Fronzoni, J.J. Halliwell, J. Yearsley, E. Prati and G. Vitiello (eds.)
- free access at http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/306/1
 
Proceedings of DICE2008 in: 
Journal of Ph
ysics: Conference Series, 174 (2009)
H.-T. Elze, L. Diosi, L. Fronzoni, J.J. Halliwell and G. Vitiello (eds.)
- free access at
http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/174/1

Proceedings of DICE2006 in: 
Journal of Ph
ysics: Conference Series, 67 (2007)
H.-T. Elze, L. Diosi and G. Vitiello (eds.)
- free access at
http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/67/1

Proceedings of DICE2004 in:
Brazilian Journal of Physics, 35, no. 2A+2B, 205-529 (2005) 
H.-T. Elze (ed.) 

- free access at http://www.sbfisica.org.br/bjp

Proceedings of DICE2002 in:
Decoherence and Entropy in Complex Systems
Springer Lecture Notes in Physics, LNP 633
H.-T. Elze (ed.)
(Springer, Berlin, 2004)

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Registration

Early registration recommended - number of participants limited!
 
Procedure: 

A. Please, send e-mail to H.-Thomas Elze, elze@df.unipi.it
    with precisely this:   

    1. NAME / AFFILIATION / E-MAIL ___________________________________________
    2. MAILING ADDRESS where to send proceedings book ___________________________
    3. STUDENT yes / no ________________________________________________________
    4. TITLE / ABSTRACT of contributed paper
_________________can be preliminary_____
  
  5. ACCOMPANYING persons + ARRIVAL / DEPARTURE _________________________

    => talks etc. will be selected by organizers based on abstracts received by July 6th

B. Registration Fee:  full 340EU, student 270EU, accompanying person 180EU.
    The fee will be charged in cash at the registration desk - covering coffee breaks, receptions,
    lunches, conference dinner, conference material, and proceedings.
 

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Conference Site

The conference will take place at Castello Pasquini in Castiglioncello (Tuscany),
which is described, for example, on WIKIPEDIA!  A browser search for Castello Pasquini
or Castiglioncello is also fruitfull. - A Tourist Information office is located at Castiglioncello
train station, a few steps from Castello Pasquini (e-mail: apt7castiglioncello@costadeglietruschi.it),
with website: http://www.costadeglietruschi.it






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Accommodation (Travel advice below) 

Participants (except invited speakers) are kindly requested to reserve accommodation
by direct contact with a chosen hotel
as soon as possible, when room rates appear in the list
ing below.

PLEASE, mention in all correspondence with a hotel that you are
participant of Convegno DICE2018 at Castello Pasquini and refer to given room rate!

(Local town tax "tassa di soggiorno" of EU 0.50 per person x no. of days x no. of hotel *s  is added by hotel.)


All hotels, with one indicated exception, are within walking distance of  conference site.

Conference rates for Single / Double Rooms per night, incl. breakfast:
(triple rooms to be requested at the hotel)

Hotel Albergo Miramare ***  EU  80 / 95 / 115 (Triple)
(charming hotel with a history; access to beach)
http://www.albergo-miramare.it  
info@albergo-miramare.it    

Hotel Leopoldo ***  EU 80 / 100
http://www.toscanatoscana.it
hotelleopoldo@tin.it  

Hotel Tirreno ***  EU 70; 80 (double, single use) / 90
http://www.hotel-tirreno.com
info@hoteltirreno.info   
 
Hotel Baia del Sorriso ***  EU 65 / 85
(about 800 m from Castello Pasquini, beautiful view)
http://www.baiadelsorriso.com
info@baiadelsorriso.com

Hotel Martini ****  EU 90 / 120
(modern, luxurious style)
http://www.villamartini.it
info@villamartini.it

Hotel Villa Parisi  EU __ / __
(a luxury treat; beautiful location)
http://www.villaparisi.com
grandhotelvillaparisi@gmail.com
 
Hotel Park ***  EU __ / __
http://www.hotel-park.it
info@hotel-park.it   

Hotel Costa Verde ** EU 60 / 70
http://www.hotelcostaverdecastiglioncello.com
info@hotelcostaverdecastiglioncello.com

Hotel Guerrini ** EU __ / __ 
http://www.guerrinihotel.it
info@guerrinihotel.it

Further hotels may also be found through the tourist information / link above under
"Conference Site".

Travelling:
Nearest and most convenient is PISA international airport.
From there you go by shuttle or taxi to the main train station Pisa Centrale,
which takes about 5-10 min.
Regional trains from Pisa Centrale to Castiglioncello, your destination, take about 30-40 min.
From Roma Termini train station to Castiglioncello may take about 3 h by regional train.  
With long-distance fast trains, you have to reach Pisa or Livorno (from North) and 
Campiglia Marittima or Cecina (from South) and change for regional trains to Castiglioncello.  
Trenitalia Timetables are available here:
    http://www.trenitalia.it

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Sponsors (to be updated)  



Dipartimento di Fisica "Enrico Fermi"
Universita di Pisa 



DOMUS GALILAEANA - Pisa -


 

Centro Interdisciplinare per lo Studio dei Sistemi Complessi
Universita di Pisa 
 
     



Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello"
Universita di Salerno    
 
iisf - Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici          
diploma d'onore del parlamento europeo -- presidente onorario pierluigi celli
Via Monte di Dio 14 - Palazzo Serra di Cassano - 80132 Napoli - tel.: 081.7642652 · fax: 081.7642654 · mail: info@iisf.it




ARMUNIA
Castiglioncello
 





Institute Of Physics Publishing  http://journals.iop.org
Dirac House, Bristol



Springer http://www.springer.com
Heidelberg





M
DPI AG  http://www.mdpi.com/
Basel



Ericsson Telecommunicazioni  http://www.ericsson.com
Roma




  

Solvay Italia SA 
http://www.solvay.com
Rosignano

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