Past events

Borivoje Dakić
University of ViennaReconstruction of Quantum Particle Statistics: Bosons, Fermions, and Transtatistics

Identical quantum particles exhibit only two types of statistics: bosonic and fermionic. Theoretically, this restriction is commonly established through the symmetrization postulate or (anti)commutation constraints imposed on the algebra of creation and annihilation operators. The physical motivation for these axioms remains poorly understood, leading to various generalizations by modifying the mathematical formalism in somewhat arbitrary …

Borivoje Dakić
University of ViennaReconstruction of Quantum Particle Statistics: Bosons, Fermions, and Transtatistics
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Homodyne a DJ Quantum art show

The art show ‘Homodyne’ premiered on the 30th of June, 2023. The performance results from an interdisciplinary collaboration and explores how quantum entanglement and emergent properties of space and time affect the ontology of bodies in performance art.

Flavio Del Santo
University of Geneva & Constructor UniversityPotentiality realism: Classical and quantum indeterminism

We will discuss an interpretation of physics named “potentiality realism”. This view, which can be applied to classical as well as to quantum physics, regards potentialities (i.e. intrinsic, objective propensities for individual events to obtain) as elements of reality, thereby complementing the actual values taken by physical variables. This allows one to naturally reconcile realism …

Flavio Del Santo
University of Geneva & Constructor UniversityPotentiality realism: Classical and quantum indeterminism
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Sejny summer institute 2023

6-16 July 2023 The Sejny Summer Institute is addressed to curious junior researchers (graduate students, post-docs, etc) from different areas of the foundations of physics (mathematics, theoretical and experimental physics, computer science, philosophy), willing to engage in active and open-minded discussions. Far from the format of traditional conferences and subject-specific workshops, the Sejny Summer Institute …

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Erik Curiel
Munich Center for Mathematical PhilosophySchematizing the Observer and the Epistemic Content of Theories

Following some observations of Howard Stein, I argue that, contrary to contemporary standard philosophical views of physical theories, one cannot understand the structure and nature of our knowledge in physics without an analysis of the way that observers (and, more generally, measuring instruments and experimental arrangements) are modeled in theory. One upshot is that standard …

Erik Curiel
Munich Center for Mathematical PhilosophySchematizing the Observer and the Epistemic Content of Theories
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Pierre Martin-Dussaud
Institut National du Service PublicCan French Administration be more sexy than Quantum Gravity?

After ten years in science, wandering between quantum gravity and quantum foundations, I have entered l’Institut National du Service Public (ex-ENA) to pursue a career as top executive in the French administration. In this unusual talk, I will offer my personal take on the following questions: – Is there a life after academia? – What …

Pierre Martin-Dussaud
Institut National du Service PublicCan French Administration be more sexy than Quantum Gravity?
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QISS Spring School 2023

16-23 April 2023 One week graduate school featuring lectures by leading researchers in the fields of Quantum Information and Quantum Gravity. Held in the Goutelas castle in the south of France, from Sunday 16 to Sunday 23 of April 2023. The overarching theme of the research school is the understanding of spacetime and gravity through the lens of quantum information. …

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Markus Müller
IQOQI Vienna How spacetime constrains the structure of quantum theory

Modern physics has taught us that space and time are described by different “theories of geometry” in different regimes, from Galilean spacetime in Newtonian mechanics to semi-Riemannian manifolds in general relativity. In a very similar, but less well-known sense, classical probability theory and quantum theory (QT) are special cases in a large landscape of “theories …

Markus Müller
IQOQI Vienna How spacetime constrains the structure of quantum theory
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