Q100 Schedule

Wednesday March 12

TimeEvent
8:30 amRegistration and light breakfast
9:15 amIntroduction and Welcome
9:30 amRob Spekkens
The Methodology of Foil Theories
10:10 amGiulio Chiribella
Quantum indeterminism vs classical determinism, and a toy theory that challenges the divide
10:50 am Coffee Break
11:10 amEmily Adlam
11:50 amDavid Schmid
Reassessing the boundary between classical and nonclassical for individual quantum processes
12:30 pmLunch
2:30 pmRenato Renner
What if we throw Wigner’s friend into a black hole?
3:10 pmHoward Wiseman
Counterfactuals in quantum mechanics
3:50 pmCoffee Break
4:00 pmDiscussion
4:30 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmWelcome Dinner – Avila’s Mexican Restaurant

Thursday March 13

TimeEvent
8:30 amLight Breakfast
9:30 amEric Lutz
Maximum entropy principle and Born’s rule
10:10 amLev Vaidman
From Schrödinger versus Heisenberg to Everett versus Deutsch-Hayden
10:50 amCoffee Break
11:10 amEbrahim Karimi
Quantum Photonics with Pancharatnam-Berry Optical Elements
11:50 amYutaka Shikano
On Observer Dependent Description of Quantum State on Identical Particles
12:30 pmLunch
2:30 pmAchim Kempf
3:10 pmBarbara Soda
3:50 pmCoffee Break
4:00 pmDiscussion
4:30 pmFinish
5:30 pmPublic Lecture: Fernando Sols (Argyros Forum 212)
Poincaré, Heisenberg, Gödel, and the question of finality in science. Some limits of scientific knowledge

Friday March 14

TimeEvent
8:30 amLight Breakfast
9:30 amAdam Frank
In a Different Key. Quantum Foundations, The Phenomenological Approach and the Physics of Agency”
10:10 amKen Wharton
Local Weak Values without Nonlocal State Vectors
10:50 amCoffee Break
11:10 amAlyssa Ney
Why did Wheeler reject the Everett interpretation?
11:50 amFernando Sols
From quantum Hawking radiation to spontaneous Floquet states and the time operator
12:30 pmLunch
2:30 pmDavid Snoke
How does quantum field theory change our thinking about quantum foundations?
3:10 pmIndrajit Sen
Weyl invariance and complex gauge coupling in pilot-wave theory
3:50 pmCoffee Break
4:00 pmDiscussion
4:30 pmFinish

Saturday March 15

TimeEvent
12:00pmLunch at Lumberyard
1:00pmBeach time- Wood’s Cove