Mi, 27.09.2023 14:30

From GHZ to Tic Tac Toe: A Symposium to celebrate Danny Greenberger’s 90th birthday

We are excited to announce a special Birthday Symposium dedicated to celebrating Prof. Daniel Greenberger's remarkable career…

Di, 26.09.2023 14:00

Quantum influences and event relativity

A number of no-go theorems suggest that theories upholding both unitarity and relativity must deny that events are absolute. …

Di, 26.09.2023 10:00

From Niels Bohr to John Wheeler to QBism: The trajectory of an interpretation of quantum mechanics

John Wheeler summarized in a popular science book his path to an informational “world-view”: “I think of my lifetime in…

Mo, 25.09.2023 15:00

The Role of Error and Imagination in the Making of Science: The Case of the Non-Cloning Theorem

As chronicled by MIT historian of physics, David Kaiser, in his 2011 book, How the Hippies Saved Physics, Nick Herbert, a…

Fr, 15.09.2023 14:00

Indefinite causal order from Bell nonlocality

I will talk about a method to leverage the Bell nonlocality of quantum physics to certify indefinite causal order in the…

Mi, 13.09.2023 16:00

Reverse processes as Bayesian retrodiction

Already in classical physics, the definition of a "time-reversed" process is not obvious when the process is dissipative. …

Mo, 11.09. – 13.09.2023

QUANTUM ADVANTAGES IN MECHANICAL SYSTEMS

(SEPTEMBER 11TH-13TH, 2023) ORGANIZERS: VALERIO SCARANI AND MIGUEL NAVASCUÉS

Fr, 25.08.2023 14:00

The Many Worlds Interpretation, Holism, and the Born Rule

Everettianism is a realist many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics whose popularity has grown after Wallace (2012)…

Di, 01.08.2023 14:00

Observable symmetries as a type of holism

The natural interpretation of asymptotic conditions on Yang-Mills theory and general relativity is as defining types of…

Mo, 31.07.2023 14:00

Einstein's lesser-known 'blunder'

In this talk, I will start by describing Einstein's original understanding of coordinate systems and how that understanding…