The workshop will address conceptual issues that are underlying the ongoing interest of the quantum foundations and (relativistic) quantum information community in quantum field theory. Leading experts will deliver talks centered around relativistic causality, local measurements, interface with the semi-classical or classical regime, interpretations, as well as historical developments. The workshop format will consist of invited talks followed by discussion sessions.

Invited speakers:

• Emily Adlam (Chapman University)

-  Do we have any viable solution to the measurement problem?

• Charis Anastopoulos (University of Patras)

- What happens between in and out? Events do.

• Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht University)

-  The Relativity of Branching

• Alex Blum (California Institute of Technology)

- Origins of Axiomatic QFT

• Jeremy Butterfield (University of Cambridge)

- Renormalisation and realism

• Lajos Diósi (Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest)

- A healthier stochastic semiclassical gravity: world without Schrödinger cats

• Chris Fewster (University of York)

- State updates in quantum field theory

• Doreen Fraser (University of Waterloo)

-  No superluminal causal influence in QFT with a local measurement theory

• James Fraser (Aix-Marseille University)

- How far can we go with divergent series?

• Adrian Kent (University of Cambridge)

-  Quantum Reality from Late Time Boundary Conditions: Problems and Possibilities

• Eduardo Martín-Martínez (University of Waterloo)

- What happens when one measures a quantum system in a relativistic setting?

• Miklós Rédei (London School of Economics)

-  Facets of relativistic locality

• Kasia Rejzner (University of York)

- Thoughts on semilocal quantum physics

• Noel Swanson (University of Delaware)

- Local Measurement and the Type III Property in Algebraic QFT

• Rainer Verch (Leipzig University)

- Probing non-equilibrium of relativistic quantum dynamical systems

• David Wallace (University of Pittsburgh)

-  Quanta and Particles in Effective Field Theory

• Robert Wald (University of Chicago)

- Black Holes Decohere Quantum Superpositions

Book of Abstracts:

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Funding:

The workshop acknowledges substantial funding by the RQI COST action (CA 23115), Quantum Science Austria (quantA) and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) Vienna.