Castello Pasquini/Castiglioncello (Tuscany), September 12-16, 2016 Spacetime - Matter - Quantum Mechanics
"The closer you look at a word the greater the distance from which it looks back" [K. Kraus]
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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
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 (London) A. Lampo (Barcelona) I. Pozzana (Pisa) F. Vallone (Pisa)
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Objectives
Following DICE2002 -- DICE2014, this biannual workshop addresses researchers in the fields of fundamental interactions, cosmology, general relativity, and quantum mechanics:
- The pillars of modern physics, quantum mechanics and general relativity, coexist very successfully, having in their respective domains impressive observational support. However, black hole entropy puzzle, missing unification of the known forces, and conceptual problems in applying quantum theory to the Universe are stumbling blocks on the way to a deeper understanding.-
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. Presently, new ideas attract attention that consider spacetime and/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.-
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.- 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.-
Topics for DICE2016 are defined but not constrained by overlapping interests in:
- emergent spacetime, matter, and symmetries
- quantum coherence from micro- to macroscopic
- physics of the oberserver
- new key experiments
- quantum mechanics interfacing with gravity
- quantum gravity / cosmology and high-energy physics
A special session is planned on concepts that stem from physics and make their mark in other areas of scholarly endeavours or structures rooted elsewhere that find correspondences in physics.
Invited Speakers
H.J. Briegel (Univ. of Innsbruck)
C. Brukner (Univ. of Vienna)
Bell's theorem for causal order
G. Cella (Univ. di Pisa) [VIRGO Collab.]
The discovery of gravitational waves: a gentle fight against noise
Y. Chen (Caltech, Pasadena)
N. Chomsky (MIT, Cambridge MA) <KEYNOTE LECTURE>
The Galilean challenge: architecture and evolution of language
E. Cohen (Wills Lab., Bristol)
The black hole information paradox in final-state projection models
S. De Bianchi (Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona)
Why is the world 4-dimensional? H. Weyl's 1955 argument and the topology of causation
L. Diosi (Wigner Research Center, Budapest)
Centre of mass decoherence due to time dilation: paradoxical frame dependence
A.C. Elitzur (IYAR- Israeli Inst. Adv. Research, Rehovot)
Distant atoms maximally entangled with a photon never sent: a new consequence of the "Quantum Oblivion" effect
H.-T. Elze (Univ. di Pisa)
Nonrelativistic qantum systems with intrinsic cutoff as cellular automata (and little else?)
M. Genovese (INRIM, Torino)
Weak measurements: from measuring incompatible observables and
quantum contextuality with weak values to protective measurements
G. Groessing (AINS, Wien)
Compatibility of relativity with quantum nonlocality
J.J. Halliwell (Imperial College, London)
S. de Haro (Univ. of Amsterdam)
Dualities and emergence of space
B.-L. Hu (Univ. of Maryland)
Dimensional reduction in quantum gravity and fractal spacetime from the quantum Brownian motion perspective
A. Kempf (Univ. of Waterloo & Perimeter Institute)
How to express spacetime curvature in terms of the fluctuations of the vacuum
A. Khrennikov (Linnaeus Univ., Vaxjoe-Kalmar)
Quantum Information Biology: from molecular biology to cognition, psychology and sociology and politics
C. Kiefer (Univ. zu Koeln)
Quantum geometrodynamics of conformal gravity
S. Liberati (SISSA, Trieste)
Emergent gravity: from condensed matter analogues to phenomenology
N. Mavromatos (King's College, London)
Soliton solutions and energy transfer without dissipation in biological microtubules: some recent developments
E. Minguzzi (Univ. di Firenze)
Gravity theory through affine spheres
F. Nori (RIKEN & Univ. of Ann Arbor)
T. Padmanabhan (IUCAA, Pune)
The atoms of spacetime and the cosmological constant
M. Piattelli-Palmarini (Univ. of Arizona, Tucson)
On linguistics and its underlying dynamics - I.
I. Pikovski (Harvard-Smithsonian C. for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA)
Gravitational time dilation in quantum interferometry: from the quantum twin paradox to decoherence
E. Prati (IFN - CNR, Milano)
Quantum neuromorphic hardware for quantum artificial intelligence
S. Reynaud (Lab. Kastler Brossel & College de France, Paris)
Is the Moon there when nobody looks?
O. Romero-Isart (Univ. of Innsbruck)
Towards quantum interference of spheres of 10^13 AMUs in an earth-based on-chip scheme
M. Sakellariadou (King's College, London)
Group field theory quantum gravity condensates: effective interactions and cosmological implications
A. Starobinsky (Landau Inst., Moscow)
Quantum features in the inflationary perturbation spectrum and in the sky
R. Tumulka (Rutgers Univ., Piscataway NJ)
Multi-time wave functions in quantum field theory
W. Unruh (Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver) <KEYNOTE LECTURE>
Measurement of Hawking radiation in the lab
G. Veneziano (CERN & College de France, Paris) <KEYNOTE LECTURE>
A quantum Universe before the Big Bang(s)?
G. Vitiello (Univ. di Salerno)
On linguistics and its underlying dynamics - II.
C. Wetterich (Univ. Heidelberg)
Scale symmetry in quantum gravity and cosmology
J. Yearsley (Vanderbilt Univ.)
Contributed Papers
P: poster presentation (max. 95cm wide x 105cm high)
C: oral communication (15min)
T: talk (20min)
(selected by the organizers - abstract submission until July 2nd
- all presented papers will have equal status for the Proceedings)
E. Adlam (Univ. of Cambridge)
T: A quantum paradox of choice:
more freedom makes summoning a quantum state harder
V. Baccetti (Macquarie Univ., Sydney)
C: Nowhere to hide: A study on evaporating black holes formation and evaporation
A. Ballesteros (Univ. de Burgos)
T: Quantum deformations for (quantum) gravity with cosmological constant
A.W. Beckwith (Chongqing Univ.)
P: Graviton gas, cosmological constant and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle - for a pre-Planckian metric tensor
A.E. Bernardini (Univ. Fed. de Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo)
T: Noncommutative effects on quantum thermodynamics and universal limits for the Second Law
P: Topological view of coherent destruction of quantum tunneling
V.A. Bittencourt (Univ. Fed. de Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo) Second Prize of MDPI Best Poster Awards
P: Dirac bi-spinor entanglement and its emulation by Jaynes-Cummings interactions
M. Blasone (Univ. di Salerno)
__ (joint paper with D. Schuch)A. Capolupo (Univ. di Salerno)
P: Dark matter and dark energy induced by condensates
E. Celeghini (Univ. di Firenze & Univ. de Valladolid)
T: Soft adaptive optics
L. Chiatti (ASL VT Med. Physics Lab., Viterbo)
C: Particle models and quantum foundations
B. Cocciaro (Univ. di Pisa)
P: May we identify causal order and temporal order?C.O. Curceanu (LNF-INFN, Frascati) [VIP Collab.]
T: Undergound tests of quantum mechanics
M. Derakhshani (Descartes Center, Utrecht Univ.)
C: Probing gravitational cat states in canonical quantum theory vs. objective collapse theories
P: Semiclassical Newtonian gravity in stochastic mechanics
S. Faetti (Univ. di Pisa)
T: Measurements of entanglement over kilometric distances in the EGO gallery
L. Ferialdi (Univ. of Ljubljana)
C: Exact non-Markovian master equations
L. Fratino (Royal Holloway, Univ. of London)
C: Non-symmetry breaking transition as the organizing principle for a broken symmetry stateC. Furtado (Univ. Fed. da Paraiba, Joao Pessoa)
P: Description for rotating C60 fullerenes via Goedel-type metric
M.V. Gargiulo (Univ. di Salerno)
P: On the role of rotations and Bogoliubov transformations in neutrino mixingB. Gato-Rivera (NIKHEF, Amsterdam & IFF-CSIC, Madrid)
T: Quantum inertia stops superposition: Scan Quantum MechanicsG. Gervino (Univ. di Torino)
P: Thermodynamic instabilities and nonextensive statistical effects in protoneutron stars
A. Grossardt (Univ. di Trieste)
T: Newtonian self-gravity in trapped quantum systems and experimental tests
M. Hadad (Open Univ. Ra'anana)
P: The spacetime DoF surface density as a phase-space of accelerating reference frames
Y. Hadad (Tel-Aviv Univ.)
C: A novel formulation of electromagnetic theory
M. Hauray (Univ. d'Aix Marseille)
C: Derivation of (stochastic) Lindblad equation from quantum jump process
B. Helou (Caltech, Pasadena)
T: Testing alternative theories of quantum mechanics and gravity with optomechanics
P. Hoehn (Austrian Acad. Sciences, Vienna)
T: Quantum theory from questions
R. Howl (Univ. of Vienna)
T: Decoherence in a quantum gravitational wave detector
S. Iubini (Centre de Biophys. Molec., CNRS - Orleans)
C: Transport of quantum excitations coupled to spatially extended nonlinear many-body systems
P. Jizba (Czech Techn. Univ. in Prague)
T: A new class of entropy-power-based uncertainty relations
K. Jung (Techn. Univ. Kaiserslautern)
P: Violation of Bell's inequality: Should realism or locality be abandoned?
I. Kanatchikov (Univ. of St. Andrews)
C: Quantum geometry of space-time as a random field of spin connection
R.E. Kastner (Univ. of Maryland)
T: Causal sets and the emergence of spacetime structure through transactional influences
T. Koide (Univ. Fed. do Rio de Janeiro)
T: Can quantum coherence change thermodynamic laws qualitatively?
S. Kondej (Univ. of Zielona Gora)
P: Geometry of quantum system and its spectral properties
O.C.W. Kong (Nat. Central Univ. of Taiwan)
C: Model of the physical space from quantum mechanics
A. Lahee (Springer Verlag, Heidelberg)
__ Books and journals exhibitionA. Lampo (ICFO, Barcelona)
C: Bose polaron as an instance of quantum Brownian motion
M. Lock (Imperial College, London)
P: Quantum clocks in curved spacetime
F.C. Lombardo (Univ. of Buenos Aires)
T: Dissipation and decoherence effects on a moving particle in front of a dielectric plate
-- corrections to the geometric phase
G. Luciano (Univ. di Salerno)
C: Boson field mixing in Rindler spacetime
P. Malkiewicz (Univ. Paris Diderot - Paris 7)
C: Clocks and dynamics in quantum models of gravity
P. Mandrin (Univ. of Zurich)
T: Main aspects of a boundary thermodynamic approach to (quantum) gravity
F. De Martini (Univ. La Sapienza, Roma)
T: The geometrical nature of the cosmological inflation in the framework of the Weyl-Dirac conformal theory
A.V. Melkikh (Ural Fed. Univ., Yekaterinburg)
T: Quantum paradoxes, destruction of entanglement and non-linearity of quantum mechanics
P. Millington (Univ. of Nottingham)
C: Probabilities and signalling in quantum field theory
S. Nagao (Osaka)
P: Frequency-based redshift for cosmological observation and Hubble diagram
from 4-D spherical model in comparison with observed supernovae
Y. Nambu (Nagoya Univ.)
T: Probability of boundary conditions in quantum cosmology
B. Nikolic (Univ. of Cologne)
C: Semiclassical approximation to the Weyl-Wheeler-De Witt equation of conformal gravity
G. Nistico (Univ. della Callabria, Rende)
C: On the group theoretical approach to the quantum theory of an interacting particle
K. Nozari (Univ. of Mazandaran)
P: Some aspects of statistical mechanics of the early universe in doubly special relativity
H. Paes (Techn. Univ. Dortmund)
C: Where do Many-Worlds really come from -- is there need for modern perspectivism?
C. Parmeggiani (Univ. di Milano-Bicocca)
C: Expanding space-time and variable vacuum energy
R. Passante (Univ. degli Studi di Palermo)
C: Dispersion and resonance interactions between uniformly accelerated atoms and the Unruh effect
A. Pesci (INFN - Bologna)
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M.B. Pinto (Univ. Fed. de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis)
T: Asymptotically free theory with scale invariant thermodynamics
J.B. Pitts (Univ. of Cambridge)
T: Definition of observables from empirical equivalence
I. Pozzana (Univ. di Pisa)
__R. de Putter (Caltech, Pasadena)
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S. Rashkovskiy (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
P: Quantum mechanics: a theory of particles or a classical field theory?
M. Reginatto (Physikal.-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig)
T: A hybrid model of a classical black hole interacting with a quantized scalar field
Th. Reynolds (Univ. at Albany NY)
P: Is direct measurement of time possible?
R. Riek (ETH, Zuerich)
C: On the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox using discrete time physics
P: The time reversible evolution of the universe under a discrete time
L. Rizzuto (Univ. degli Studi di Palermo)
P: Singular field fluctuations and energy densities at boundaries or near point-like field sources in vacuum
R. da Rocha (Univ. Fed. do ABC, Santo Andre)
T: A fluid / gravity prescription of the post-Newtonian parameter
D.M. Rogers (Univ. of South Florida, Tampa)
T: A moment generating function for flows in open quantum systems
F. Scardigli (American Univ. of the Middle East & Politecnico di Milano)
C: Quantum corrections to Newtonian potential and generalized uncertainty principle
D. Schuch (Goethe-Univ., Frankfurt)
T: From dissipative systems via non-unitary transformations to 't Hooft's beables
P. Schwartz (Univ. Hannover)
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L. Seveso (Univ. degli Studi di Milano) Second Prize of MDPI Best Poster Awards
P: Quantum mass estimation in a gravitational field and the weak equivalence principle
L. Smaldone (Univ. di Salerno)
C: Functional integrals and inequivalent representations
O.C. Stoica (Nat. Inst. Physics & Nucl. Engineering, Bucharest)
C: The Standard Model algebra
M. Szydlowski (Astron. Observatory, Jagiellonian Univ., Krakow)
T: Cosmological implications of decaying vacuum - dynamics and model testingA. Tilloy (Max Planck Inst. for Quantum Optics, Garching) First Prize of MDPI Best Poster Awards
P: An alternative to the Schrödinger-Newton approach
S. Toms (Institute of Physics Publ., Bristol)
__ Books and journals exhibitionK. Urbanowski (Univ. of Zielona Gora)
C: Nonclassical face of quantum decay processes
F. Vallone (Inst. of Biophysics - CNR, Pisa)
P: Nonlinear time series analysis of neural signals
G. Vitagliano (Univ. of the Basque Country, Bilbao)
P: Entanglement and extreme spin squeezing of unpolarized states
W.M. Wieland (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo)
C: Subsystems and quasi-local energy and angular momentum for quantum gravity
M. Wouters (Univ. Antwerpen)
T: Quantum statistical gravity: time dilation from local information in quantum many-body systems
F. Zekavat (IAU, Tehran)
__Hu Zhan (Nat. Astronom. Observatories of China, Beijing)
T: Observing both the particle and the wave behaviors of photons at the same time
Program
Access to the 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 11th
Arrival in Castiglioncello16:00 - 19:00 Registration at Castello Pasquini (conference site)
18:30 - 20:00 Reception at Castello Pasquini
presented by Sarah Toms (IOP)
MONDAY, September 12th
Quantum gravity & cosmology
-- OPENING of WORKSHOP --
8:45 -- Welcome --
Chair: Thomas Elze
9:00 40'
G. Veneziano A quantum Universe before the Big Bang(s)? <keynote lecture> 9:45 30'
C. Wetterich Scale symmetry in quantum gravity and cosmology
10:20 - 11:00 -- Coffee Break --
Chair: Christof Wetterich
11:00 30'
C. Kiefer Quantum geometrodynamics of conformal gravity
11:30 30'
M. Sakellariadou Group field theory quantum gravity condensates: effective interactions and cosmological implications
12:00 20'
M. Szydlowski Cosmological implications of decaying vacuum - dynamics and model testing 12:20 30'
B.-L. Hu Dimensional reduction in quantum gravity and fractal spacetime from the quantum Brownian motion perspective 13:00 - 15:00 -- Lunch at Ristorante Il Peschereccio --
Chair: Mairi Sakellariadou
15:00 15'
I. Kanatchikov Quantum geometry of space-time as a random field of spin connection 15:15 20'
A. Ballesteros Quantum deformations for (quantum) gravity with cosmological constant
15:35 15'
C. Parmeggiani Expanding space-time and variable vacuum energy 15:50 20'
Y. Nambu Probability of boundary conditions in quantum cosmology
16:10 20'
F. De Martini The geometrical nature of the cosmological inflation in the framework of the Weyl-Dirac conformal theory 16:40 - 17:10 -- Coffee Break --
Chair: Claus Kiefer
17:10 15'
B. Nikolic Semiclassical approximation to the Weyl-Wheeler-De Witt equation of conformal gravity 17:25 20'
J.B. Pitts Definition of observables from empirical equivalence 17:45 15'
W.M. Wieland Subsystems and quasi-local energy and angular momentum for quantum gravity 18:00 20'
P. Mandrin Main aspects of a boundary thermodynamic approach to (quantum) gravity PARALLEL (1st floor)
Foundational aspects
Chair: Eliahu Cohen
17:10 20'
R.E. Kastner Causal sets and the emergence of spacetime structure through transactional influences
17:30 15' R. Riek On the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox using discrete time physics
17:45 20'
A.V. Melkikh Quantum paradoxes, destruction of entanglement and non-linearity of quantum mechanics 18:05 15' H. Paes Where do Many-Worlds really come from -- is there need for modern perspectivism? 18:20 20'
B. Gato-Rivera Quantum inertia stops superposition: Scan Quantum Mechanics 18:40 15'
L. Chiatti Particle models and quantum foundations
TUESDAY, September 13th
Spacetime
Chair: Alexei Starobinsky
9:00 30'
E. Minguzzi Gravity theory through affine spheres
9:30 30'
R. Tumulka Multi-time wave functions in quantum field theory
10:00 30'
A. Kempf How to express spacetime curvature in terms of the fluctuations of the vacuum
10:35 - 11:15 -- Coffee Break --
Chair: Achim Kempf
11:15 30'
A. Starobinsky Quantum features in the inflationary perturbation spectrum and in the sky 11:45 30'
G. Cella [VIRGO Collab.] The discovery of gravitational waves: a gentle fight against noise 12:15 40'
T. Padmanabhan The atoms of spacetime and the cosmological constant
13:00 - 15:00 -- Lunch at Ristorante Il Peschereccio --
Open quantum systems Chair: Giancarlo Cella
15:00 15'
K. Urbanowski Nonclassical face of quantum decay processes 15:15 20'
F.C. Lombardo Dissipation and decoherence effects on a moving particle in front of a dielectric plate
-- corrections to the geometric phase15:35 20'
R. Howl Decoherence in a quantum gravitational wave detector 15:55 20'
S. Faetti Measurements of entanglement over kilometric distances in the EGO gallery
16:15 20'
T. Koide Can quantum coherence change thermodynamic laws qualitatively? 16:45 - 17:15 -- Coffee Break --
... (contd.) Chair: Fernando Lombardo
17:15 20'
A.E. Bernardini Noncommutative effects on quantum thermodynamics and universal limits for the Second Law 17:35 20' D.M. Rogers A moment generating function for flows in open quantum systems 17:55 15'
A. Lampo Bose polaron as an instance of quantum Brownian motion 18:10 15'
M. Hauray Derivation of (stochastic) Lindblad equation from quantum jump process 18:25 15'
L. Ferialdi Exact non-Markovian master equations
WEDNESDAY, September 14th
Black holes and acceleration effects
Chair: Bei-Lok Hu
9:00 40' W. Unruh Measurement of Hawking radiation in the lab <keynote lecture> 9:45 30' S. Liberati Analogue gravity models of emergent gravity: lessons and pitfalls 10:20 - 11:00
-- Coffee Break --
Chair: Nikolaos Mavromatos
11:00 20' R. da Rocha A fluid / gravity prescription of the post-Newtonian parameter
11:20 15' V. Baccetti Nowhere to hide: A study on evaporating black holes' formation and evaporation
11:35 30' E. Cohen The black hole information paradox in final-state projection models
12:05 15' P. Millington Probabilities and signalling in quantum field theory 12:20 15' R. Passante Dispersion and resonance interactions between uniformly accelerated atoms and the Unruh effect 12:35 15' G. Luciano Boson field mixing in Rindler spacetime 13:00 - 15:00
-- Lunch at Ristorante Il Peschereccio -- Recent developments Chair: Enrico Prati
15:00 20'
M. Reginatto A hybrid model of a classical black hole interacting with a quantized scalar field
15:20 15' L. Fratino Non-symmetry breaking transition as the organizing principle for a broken symmetry state
15:35 15' S. Iubini Transport of quantum excitations coupled to spatially extended nonlinear many-body systems 15:50 30' N. Mavromatos Soliton solutions and energy transfer without dissipation in biological microtubules: some recent developments
16:30 - 17:00
-- Coffee Break --
Gravity/QM interface
Chair: Stefano Liberati
17:00 15'
F. Scardigli Quantum corrections to Newtonian potential and generalized uncertainty principle
17:15 15'
M. Derakhshani Probing gravitational cat states in canonical quantum theory vs. objective collapse theories
17:30 20'
C. Curceanu [VIP Collab.] Undergound tests of quantum mechanics
17:50 15'
P. Malkiewicz Clocks and dynamics in quantum models of gravity 18:05 20'
M. Wouters Quantum statistical gravity: time dilation from local information in quantum many-body systems
18:25 15'
O.C.W. Kong Model of the physical space from quantum mechanics
PARALLEL (1st floor)
Recent developments (contd.)Chair: Petr Jizba
17:00 20' M.B. Pinto Asymptotically free theory with scale invariant thermodynamics
17:20 20'
D. Schuch From dissipative systems via non-unitary transformations to 't Hooft's beables 17:40 15'
L. Smaldone Functional integrals and inequivalent representations 17:55 15'
G. Nistico On the group theoretical approach to the quantum theory of an interacting particle 18:10 15' Y. Hadad A novel formulation of electromagnetic theory 18:25 15' O.C. Stoica The Standard Model algebra
Castello Pasquini
21:00SERATA DEDICATA AL PUBBLICO (public evening event)
"La mente e la dinamica delle popolazioni di neuroni.
Un filosofo e due fisici discutono di mente e cervello"
A.M. Iacono (Pisa), E. Prati (Milano) e G. Vitiello (Salerno)
THURSDAY, September 15th
Quantum mechanics, to be explored!
Chair: Marco Genovese
9:00 30'
S. de Haro Dualities and emergence of space 9:30 30'
S. De Bianchi Why is the world 4-dimensional? H. Weyl's 1955 argument and the topology of causation 10:00 30'
C. Brukner Bell's theorem for causal order 10:45 - 11:25 -- Coffee Break --
Chair: O. Romero-Isart
11:25 30'
M. Genovese Weak measurements: from measuring incompatible observables and
quantum contextuality with weak values to protective measurements11:55 30'
E. Cohen and A. Elitzur The case of the disappearing and reappearing particle 12:25 20'
P. Jizba A new class of entropy-power-based uncertainty relations 13:00 - 15:00 -- Lunch at Ristorante Il Peschereccio --
Chair: Caslav Brukner
15:00 20'
E. Adlam A quantum paradox of choice: more freedom makes summoning a quantum state harder
15:20 20'
P. Hoehn Quantum theory from questions 15:40 30'
H.-T. Elze Nonrelativistic qantum systems with intrinsic cutoff as cellular automata (and little else?)
16:20 - 16:50 -- Coffee Break --
Chair: R. Tumulka
16:50 30'
A. Elitzur Distant atoms maximally entangled with a photon never sent: a new consequence of the "Quantum Oblivion" effect 17:20 30'
O. Romero-Isart Towards quantum interference of spheres of 10^13 AMUs in an earth-based on-chip scheme
19:30 -- Reception / Aperitivo at Villa Parisi --
Best Poster Prize (MDPI) awards!!20:30 -- Conference Dinner at Villa Parisi --
FRIDAY, September 16th
With quantum mechanics into new realms
Chair: Giuseppe Vitiello
9:10 40'
N. Chomsky The Galilean challenge: architecture and evolution of language <keynote lecture> 10:00 30'
M. Piattelli-Palmarini On linguistics and its underlying dynamics - I. 10:40 - 11:20 -- Coffee Break --
Chair: Avshalom Elitzur
11:20 30'
G. Vitiello On linguistics and its underlying dynamics - II. 11:50 30'
A. Khrennikov Quantum Information Biology: from molecular biology to cognition, psychology and sociology and politics 12:20 30'
E. Prati Quantum neuromorphic hardware for quantum artificial intelligence 13:00 - 14:30 -- Lunch at Ristorante Il Peschereccio --
Chair: Massimo Blasone
14:30 20'
A. Grossardt Newtonian self-gravity in trapped quantum systems and experimental tests 14:50 30'
I. Pikovski Gravitational time dilation in quantum interferometry: from the quantum twin paradox to decoherence 15:20 30'
L. Diosi Centre of mass decoherence due to time dilation: paradoxical frame dependence 15:50 - 16:20 -- Coffee Break --
Chair: Lajos Diosi
16:20 20'
B. Helou Testing alternative theories of quantum mechanics and gravity with optomechanics
16:40 20'
E. Celeghini Soft adaptive optics 17:00 20'
Hu Zhan Observing both the particle and the wave behaviors of photons at the same time 17:20 30'
C. Kiefer Quantum decoherence and gravity (closing talk)
-- CLOSING of WORKSHOP --
Proceedings
Information concerning proceedings of DICE2016 will be given here in due time!
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 Physics: 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 Physics: 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 Physics: Conference Series, 174 (2009)
H.-T. Elze, L. Diosi, L. Fronzoni, J.J. Halliwell and G. Vitiello (eds.)
- free access at http://www.iop.org/EJ/toc/1742-6596/174/1
Proceedings of DICE2006 in:
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 67 (2007)
H.-T. Elze, L. Diosi and G. Vitiello (eds.)
- free access at http://www.iop.org/EJ/toc/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)
Registration
The number of participants will be limited. We encourage early registration!
Registration procedure:A. Please, send an e-mail a.s.a.p. to H.-Thomas Elze, elze@df.unipi.it
including:
1. NAME / AFFILIATION / MAILING ADDRESS for procceedings
2. whether you are a STUDENT or not
3. prelim. TITLE / ABSTRACT for contributed paper, if any
- talk / poster presentations will be selected by organizers based on abstracts
submitted until the DEADLINE of July 2nd
4. number of ACCOMPANYING persons + prelim. ARRIVAL / DEPARTURE dates
B. Registration Fee: 320EU (students 230EU; accompanying persons 160EU).
The fee will be charged in cash, at the registration desk. - It covers receptions,
coffee breaks, lunches, conference dinner, conference material, and proceedings.
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 listing below.
PLEASE, mention in all correspondence with a hotel that you are
participant of Convegno DICE2016 at Castello Pasquini and refer to the given room rate!
(A local tax "tassa di soggiorno" of EU 0.5 per person x no. of days x no. of hotel *s is added by the hotel.)
All hotels, with one indicated exception, are about 200-400 m away
from the 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 Corallo *** EU / not available
(closest to Castello Pasquini, short access to beach;
since single rooms very limited, hotel prefers double room reservations)
info@hotel-corallo.it
Hotel Leopoldo *** EU 85 / 100
http://www.toscanatoscana.it
hotelleopoldo@tin.it
Hotel Tirreno *** EU 70 / 90
http://www.hotel-tirreno.com
info@hoteltirreno.info
Hotel Baia del Sorriso *** EU 65 / 85
(about 800 m from Castello Pasquini, beautiful location)
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 95 / 125
(a luxury treat; beautiful location)
http://www.villaparisi.com
grandhotelvillaparisi@gmail.com
Hotel Park *** EU / t.b.a.
http://www.hotel-park.it
info@hotel-park.it
Hotel Guerrini ** EU 40 / 70
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 airport.
From there you go by shuttle bus or taxi to the main train station Pisa Centrale,
which takes about 5-10 min.
Timetables for regional trains from Pisa Centrale to Castiglioncello, your destination,
can be found through the link given below; the trip takes about 40 min.
From Roma Termini train station, the trip to Castiglioncello, may take about 3.5 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), in order to change there for
regional trains to Castiglioncello.
Trenitalia Timetables are available here:
http://www.trenitalia.it
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Sponsors
Universita di Pisa
DOMUS GALILAEANA - Pisa -
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Centro Interdisciplinare per lo Studio dei Sistemi Complessi
Universita di Pisa
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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
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Springer http://www.springer.com
Heidelberg
MDPI AG http://www.mdpi.com/
Basel
Solvay Italia SA
Rosignano http://www.solvay.com
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