Followup on Piombino conference (DICE 2006)

[marcus]

this is the September conference that Francesca told us about, we have a bit more information about it now, like the title of Gerard 't Hooft's paper, which was "TBA" when I looked at the programme earlier

I looked for some abstracts or slides, but i could not find any online. Maybe Francesca knows if there is some more material from the conference.

Here is a list of the invited talks:


S. Adler (IAS, Princeton)
Is quantum theory a form of statistical mechanics?
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F.T. Arecchi (INOA and Univ. di Firenze)
Collective brain dynamics: from the computational to semiotic paradigm -
an eulogy of obliviousness.
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A. Bassi (LM-Univ. München & ICTP, Trieste)
Dynamical reduction models: present status and future developments.
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O. Bertolami (IST, Lisboa)
Field dynamics in the bulk and on the brane and Lorentz symmetry.
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S. Boccaletti (CNR, Firenze)
De-synchronization reveals the modular structure of complex networks.
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S. Carlip (Univ. of California, Davis)
Black hole entropy and the problem of universality.
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G. Casati (Univ. di Studi Dell'Insubria, Como)
Quantum ratchets for periodically kicked cold atoms
and Bose-Einstein condensates.
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E. Del Giudice (INFN & Univ. di Milano)
Old and new views on the structure of matter and the special case of living matter.
(Public Lecture in Italian)
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L. Diosi (Res. Inst. Part. & Nucl. Phys., Budapest)
Frictional Schrödinger-Newton equation in models of wavefunction collapse.
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H.-T. Elze (Univ. di Pisa)
Beyond the linearity of Schrödinger's equation.
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G.C. Ghirardi* (INFN & ICTP, Trieste)
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O. Guehne (Oesterreichische Akad. d. Wissenschaften, Innsbruck)
Detection of entanglement.
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J. Halliwell (Imperial College, London)
Commuting position and momentum operators,
exact decoherence and emergent classicality.
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G. 't Hooft (Spinoza Institute & Univ. Utrecht)
A mathematical theory for deterministic quantum mechanics.
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K. Hornberger (LM-Univ. München)
Monitoring approach to open quantum systems using scattering theory.
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B.-L. Hu (Univ. of Maryland)
What is quantum gravity if spacetime was emergent?
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A. Iorio (Brown Univ. & Univ. di Salerno)
Einstein under siege: a bird's-eye view of Lorentz-violating scenarios.
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C. Kiefer (Univ. of Cologne)
Origin of classical structure in the Universe.
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H. Kleinert (Freie Univ., Berlin)
QFT of multivalued fields and Gaussian models of transitions.
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V. Latora (Univ. di Catania)
Structure and dynamics of complex networks:
dynamical properties of network motifs.
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G. Mahler (Univ. Stuttgart)
Emergence of thermodynamics from quantum mechanics.
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F. Markopoulou (Perimeterinstitute, Waterloo)
Quantum gravity from a quantum information theoretic perspective.
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N. Mavromatos (King's College, London)
Neutrinos, quantum-gravity decoherence and dark energy:
a critical review of recent approaches.
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S. Pironio (ICFO - Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona)
Randomness and non-locality in a no-signalling world.
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M. Plenio (Imperial College, London)
Entanglement, area and dynamics in harmonic lattice systems.
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J. Pullin (Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge)
Spatio-temporal fundamental decoherence from quantum gravity.
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S. Sarkar (King's College, London)
Neutral meson entanglement, decoherence and CPT.
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M. Schlosshauer (Univ. of Queensland)
Putting mechanics back into the quantum:
decoherence in quantum electromechanical systems.
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R.D. Sorkin (Perimeterinstitute & Univ. of Syracuse)
A discrete, Lorentz-invariant wave equation and its continuum limit.
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G. Veneziano* (CERN, Geneva)
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G. Vitiello (Univ. di Salerno)
Double Universe and the arrow of time.
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* means "to be confirmed" (the page has not been updated to indicate
if the unconfirmed speakers participated or not)

 

[marcus]

Here is the thread we had earlier, back in June, about the conference

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=123438

Here is the conference webpage:
http://mail.df.unipi.it/~elze/DICE2006.html

this has the titles of the contributed talks (e.g. by Daniele Oriti) as well as the invited talks.

the castle where the conference was held
is a restored Renaissance castle at the Tuscan coastal town Piombino south of Livorno----IOW south of Pisa.

Did anyone here attend? Or can say anything about it?

 

[francesca]

I've asked Oriti about, but he has said that deadline for proceedings articles is in december... something will appear.
He talked about a program in group field theory to recover the quantum gravity continum limit, describing spacetime as a condensate or as a fluid.
He liked Sorkin's talk about a new analysis of quantum mechanics logic structure and the relative new interpretation. He enjoyed a lot also talks by Carlip, Pullin e Fotini.

 

[marcus]

I've asked Oriti about, but he has said that deadline for proceedings articles is in december... something will appear.
He talked about a program in group field theory to recover the quantum gravity continum limit, describing spacetime as a condensate or as a fluid.
He liked Sorkin's talk about a new analysis of quantum mechanics logic structure and the relative new interpretation. He enjoyed a lot also talks by Carlip, Pullin e Fotini.

thanks! here are the titles listed for those talks by Sorkin, Carlip, Pullin and Fotini
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R.D. Sorkin (Perimeterinstitute & Univ. of Syracuse)
A discrete, Lorentz-invariant wave equation and its continuum limit.
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S. Carlip (Univ. of California, Davis)
Black hole entropy and the problem of universality.
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J. Pullin (Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge)
Spatio-temporal fundamental decoherence from quantum gravity.
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F. Markopoulou (Perimeterinstitute, Waterloo)
Quantum gravity from a quantum information theoretic perspective.

 

[Demystifier]

I have also been there and presented a talk too:
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0610138

 

[francesca]

some papers are puplished yet...

1. quant-ph/0701014
Title: Dynamical Reduction Models: present status and future developments
Authors: A. Bassi

2. hep-th/0612301
Title: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0612301"
Authors: Daniele Oriti

3. hep-th/0612239 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Deformation quantization of noncommutative quantum mechanics and dissipation
Authors: C. Bastos, O. Bertolami, N. C. Dias, J. N. Prata

4. physics/0612171
Title: Three Questions on Lorentz Violation
Authors: Alfredo Iorio

5. gr-qc/0612156
Title: Is life a thermal hozizon ?
Authors: Pierre Martinetti
Comments: Written for the proceedings of the conference DICE 2006, Piombino september 2006

6. gr-qc/0612129
Title: Brane Lorentz Symmetry from Lorentz Breaking in the Bulk
Authors: O. Bertolami, C. Carvalho

7. gr-qc/0612111
Title: Some comments on the universal constant in DSR
Authors: Florian Girelli, Etera R. Livine

8. quant-ph/0612108
Title: Nonlinear entanglement witnesses, covariance matrices and the geometry of separable states
Authors: Otfried Gühne, Norbert Lütkenhaus

9. quant-ph/0612092
Title: Information/disturbance trade-off in single and sequential measurements on a qudit signal
Authors: Marco G. Genoni, Matteo G. A. Paris

10. hep-th/0612076
Title: Probabilites in the general boundary formulation
Authors: Robert Oeckl (UNAM)

11. quant-ph/0611119
Title: Basic Logic and Quantum Entanglement
Authors: Paola Zizzi

12. quant-ph/0611076
Title: Classicality in Quantum Mechanics
Authors: Olaf Dreyer

13. quant-ph/0611024
Title: Thermodynamic Limit and Decoherence: Rigorous Results
Authors: Marco Frasca

14. hep-th/0610138
Title: Bohmian mechanics in relativistic quantum mechanics, quantum field theory and string theory
Authors: H. Nikolic

 

[francesca]

F. Markopoulou (Perimeterinstitute, Waterloo)
Quantum gravity from a quantum information theoretic perspective.

This paper hasn't come out yet, but I would signal this one by Lucien Hardy:

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0701019"

A quantum gravity computer is one for which the particular effects of quantum gravity are relevant. In general relativity, causal structure is non-fixed. In quantum theory non-fixed quantities are subject to quantum uncertainty. It is therefore likely that, in a theory of quantum gravity, we will have indefinite causal structure. This means that there will be no matter of fact as to whether a particular interval is timelike or not. We study the implications of this for the theory of computation. Classical and quantum computations consist in ivolving the state of the computer through a sequence of time steps. This will, most likely, not be possible for a quantum gravity computer because the notion of a time step makes no sense if we have indefinite causal structure. We show that it is possible to set up a model for computation even in the absence of definite causal structure by using a certain framework (the causaloid formalism) that was developed for the purpose of correlating data taken in this type of situation. Corresponding to a physical theory is a causaloid, Lambda (this is a mathematical object containing information about the causal connections between different spacetime regions). A computer is given by the pair {Lambda, S} where S is a set of gates. Working within the causaloid formalism, we explore the question of whether universal quantum gravity computers are possible. We also examine whether a quantum gravity computer might be more powerful than a quantum (or classical) computer. In particular, we ask whether indefinite causal structure can be used as a computational resource.

 

[marcus]

Francesca, this is a very interesting find (the Lucien Hardy paper). I added it to the link library
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=1210033#post1210033
Thanks for signaling so much that is of interest for us!

 

[francesca]

http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0701071"
Title: A signature of quantum gravity at the source of the seeds of cosmic structure?
Authors: Daniel Sudarsky

"This article reviews a recent work by a couple of colleagues and myself about the shortcomings of the standard explanations of the quantum origin of cosmic structure in the inflationary scenario, and a proposal to address them. The point it that in the usual accounts the inhomogeneity and anisotropy of our universe seem to emerge from an exactly homogeneous and isotropic initial state through processes that do not break those symmetries. We argued that some novel aspect of physics must be called upon to able to address the problem in a fully satisfactory way. The proposed approach is inspired on Penrose's ideas regarding an quantum gravity induced, real and dynamical collapse of the wave function."