Physics beyond Copenhagen
Thursday 13th June 2013
Department of Physics, University of Warwick
Organiser: M. Hadley, R.A. Römer (Physics, Warwick), A.S. Sanz (Madrid)
Conference email: physics-events-physicsdays@forums.warwick.ac.uk
Background and Purpose
This year we commemorate the 210th anniversary of the celebrated Young’s two-slit experiment (1803) and the 100th anniversary of Bohr’s atomic model (1913), and the 90th anniversary of Compton’s experimental evidence of Einstein’s hypothesis on the quantisation of light (1923). However, more than 80 years since Heisenberg and Schrödinger wrote down the basic formulations of quantum mechanics, the operator formalism and the wave function equation, we still don’t fully understand how to interpret quantum mechanics. Is the probabilistic interpretation the only one permissible? How do we understand concepts such as the potentially super-luminal “speed” of the wave function collapse upon “measurement”? Do we really believe that C60 molecules and proteins used in modern two-slit experiments “split” and travel through both slits in order to give the required and observed interference patterns? Fortunately, alternative approaches exist, some of which, such as de Broglie-Bohm mechanics, even offer an ontological view of the world. In this PhysicsDay, we want to bring together some of the leading UK and EU researchers in the field to discuss recent advances in the field.
Programme
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, June 13th, 2013 | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Registration and Morning Coffee | |
| Morning Chair: Mark Hadley | ||
| 10:00-10:15 | Bohmian rhapsody | Mark Lewney |
| 10:15-11:00 | The Schrödinger Equation: Fragment of a deeper theory? | Basil Hiley |
| 11:00-11:45 | Applied Bohmian mechanics: Exploiting the dynamical properties of quantum phase | Angel S. Sanz |
| 11:45-12:30 | Violation of Bell's inequality in fluid mechanics | Robert Brady |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch Break and Poster Session | |
| Afternoon Chair: Rudolf A Römer | ||
| 14:00-14:45 | Self-organized wave-particle eigenstates | Emmanuel Fort |
| 14:45-15:30 | Giving Bohm's theory credibility | Mark Hadley |
| 15:30-16:00 | Tea Break and Poster Session | |
| Late Afternoon Chair: Angel Sanz | ||
| 16:00-16:45 | Quantum Relaxation of the 2D Harmonic Oscillator | Eitan Abraham |
| 16:45-17:30 | Mechanism for the suppression of quantum noise at large scales on expanding space | Antony Valentini |
| 17:30-18:00 | 6-string theory and practice | Mark Lewney |
| 18:30- | something to eat | |
| 19:00- | Farewell | |
Participants
Participation is by invitation only. Please contact physics-events-physicsdays@forums.warwick.ac.uk if you think this workshop looks as if it would be of interest to you. Normally, we would be happy to accept self-invitations, but will not be able to pay for any expenses in this case.
The symposium will start at 09:00 a.m. on 13th June 2013, at the University of Warwick. Note that the university is located at the outskirts of Coventry and not in Warwick. See http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/ for travel details and http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/maps/ for maps of the central campus. In case you come by car, parking is available for delegates at car park 15.
This list of participants is accurate as of 24.05.2013.
| Name | Affiliation | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Hadley | Warwick | 13 June | |
| Rudolf A. Römer | Warwick | 13 June | |
| Angel S. Sanz | Madrid | 13 June | |
| Robert Brady | University of Cambridge | 13 - 14 June | |
| Eric Reiter | 13 June | ||
| Emmanuel Fort | ESPCI | 12 - 13 June | |
|
Jon Cartwright |
13 June | ||
|
Mike Towler |
University of Cambridge/UCL | 13 June | |
|
Nahuel Sznajderhaus |
University of Leeds |
12 - 13 June | |
|
Mark Lewney |
|
13 June | |
|
Basil Hiley |
Birkbeck, London | 13 June | |
|
David Carvalho |
Warwick | 13 June | |
|
Gerard McCaul |
Warwick | 13 June | |
|
Antony Valentini |
Clemson University | 13 June | |
|
Andrew Goldsborough |
Warwick | 13 June | |
|
Ricardo Marques de Sousa |
Warwick | 13 June | |
|
Eitan Abraham |
Heriot-Watt University | 13 June | |
|
Sze Wa Wong |
Warwick | 13 June | |
|
Daniel Martin |
Warwick | 13 June | |
|
Moda Cao |
Warwick | 13 June | |
|
Åshild Øie Dybdal |
Warwick | 13 June | |
|
Richard Wing |
Warwick | 13 June |
Venue and Accommodation
All talks will be held in the Physics Lecture Theatre (PLT) on the third floor of the Physics Building. Registration will be held on the Physics Concourse outside the PLT. Physics is building 48 on the campus map.
The workshop will start with the registration at the University of Warwick. Note that the university is located at the outskirts of Coventry city and not in the town of Warwick. See http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/ for travel details and http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/maps/ for maps on the central campus. In case you come by car, parking is available for delegates at car park 15.
Accommodation for invited speakers shall be provided at:
Radcliffe House
The University of Warwick
Gibbet Hill Road
Coventry, CV4 7AL UK
Tel: +44 (0) 24 7647 4711
Fax: +44 (0) 24 7669 4282
Email: radcliffe@warwick.ac.uk
In case you are self-invited, please call the conference centre directly and arrange your stay.
Contact
Prof. Rudolf A Römer
Physics Department
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
e-mail: physics-events-physicsdays@warwick.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)24 76574328
Fax: +44 (0)24 76150897
