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EventEmQM15 – Emergent Quantum Mechanics
23/10 – 25/10/2015, Vienna University of TechnologyThe symposium "EmQM15 – Emergent Quantum Mechanics" invites the open exploration of the quantum state as a reality. The resurgence of interest in ontological quantum theory, including both deterministic and indeterministic approaches, challenges long held assumptions and directs focus towards the following questions:
- Is the world local or nonlocal? What is the nature of quantum nonlocality?
- If nonlocal, i.e., superluminal, influences exist then why can’t they be used for superluminal signalling and communication?
- How is the role of the scientific observer/agent to be accounted for in realistic approaches to quantum theory?
- How could recent developments in the field of space-time as an emergent phenomenon advance new insight at this research frontier?
- What new experiments might contribute to new understanding?
These and related questions will be addressed in the context also of a possible “deeper level theory” for quantum mechanics that interconnects three fields of knowledge: emergence, the quantum, and information. Could there appear a revised image of physical reality from recognizing new links between emergence, the quantum, and information? The symposium provides a forum for considering (i) current theoretical and conceptual obstacles which need to be overcome as well as (ii) promising developments and research opportunities on the way towards realistic quantum mechanics. Contributions are invited that present current advances in both standard as well as unconventional approaches.
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These proceedings comprise the invited lectures of the third international symposium on Emergent Quantum Mechanics (EmQM15), which was held at the Vienna University of Technology in Vienna, Austria, 23-25 October 2015.
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Speakers
- Yakir Aharonov
- Markus Arndt
- Peter Barker
- Angelo Bassi
- Herman Batelaan
- Konstantin Bliokh
- Časlav Brukner
- Bruce Carlson
- Ariel Caticha
- Eric Cavalcanti
- Ana María Cetto
- Lajos Diósi
- Hans-Thomas Elze
- Nicolas Gisin
- Maurice de Gosson
- Christopher Green
- Gerhard Grössing
- Yuji Hasegawa
- Basil J. Hiley
- Gerard ’t Hooft
- Bei-Lok Hu
- Marian Kupczynski
- Matt Leifer
- Theo Nieuwenhuizen
- Hrvoje Nikolic
- Travis Norsen
- Xavier Oriols
- Thanu Padmanabhan
- Hans de Raedt
- Helmut Rauch
- Martin Ringbauer
- Aephraim Steinberg
- Jeff Tollaksen
- Lev Vaidman
- Jan Walleczek
- Gregor Weihs
- Silke Weinfurtner
- Howard Wiseman
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Jan Walleczek
Fetzer Franklin Fund, USA, and Phenoscience Laboratories, Berlin, Germany
Gerhard Grössing
Austrian Institute for Nonlinear Studies, Vienna, Austria