Workshop “The quantum state as the memory of a quantum system: A physical inquiry and a metaphysical appraisal”
University of Lausanne, 1-3 May 2014
Thursday 1 May 14
17h00 Welcome
17h15 Nicolas Gisin (Geneva): Quantum nonlocality and realistic physics theories
18h15 Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge): Classifications of quantum states
Friday 2 May 14
Morning 9h-12h30
9-10h Mario Hubert (Uni Lausanne): Why metaphysics needs primitive ontologies
10-11h Pui Him Ip (London): The ontology of Hamilton-Jacobi theory as an argument in favour of a dispositionalist view of the quantum state
11h-11h30 coffee break
11h30-12h30 Michael Esfeld (Uni Lausanne): Primitive ontology first
12h30 Lunch (on campus)
Afternoon 14h00-18h30
14h00-15h00 Nino Zanghì (Genova): The big wave function and the small wave function
15h00-16h00 Davide Romano (Uni Lausanne): The ontology of the effective wave function
16h00-16h30 coffee break
16h30-17h30 Vincent Lam (Uni Lausanne): Primitive ontology and unitary inequivalence
17h30-18h30 Andrea Oldofredi (Uni Lausanne): Bohmian-type QFT and Malament/Haag no-go theorem
Saturday 3 May 14
Morning 9h00-13h00
9h00-10h Guido Bacciagaluppi (Aberdeen): The misleading equivalence of decoherence and branching
10h00-11h Matthias Egg (Uni Lausanne): The role of the quantum state in the GRW matter density theory
