New Schedule of First iWorkshop on the Meaning of the Wave Function

 

Saturday, October 25, 2014

MDT (UTC-6): 2pm-3:30pm

Richard Healey (University of Arizona): The meaning of the wave function

Discussion method: text chat

 

Sunday, October 26, 2014

CDT (UTC-5): 7.30pm-9pm

Valia Allori (Northern Illinois University): Primitive Ontology in a Nutshell

Presentation and Discussion method: Skype voice + text chat

 

Monday, October 27, 2014

EDT (UTC-4): 2pm-3.30pm

Lee Smolin (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics): A proposal for a cosmological quantum theory

Discussion method: text chat

 

EDT (UTC-4): 3.30pm-5pm [GMT/UTC: 7:30pm-9pm]

Ruediger Schack (University of London): QBism and the character of the world

Discussion method: text chat

 

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

PDT (UTC-7): 2:30pm-4pm

Maximilian Schlosshauer (University of Portland): Does Protective Measurement Bear on the Meaning of the Wave Function?

Discussion method: text chat

 

PDT (UTC-7): 7pm-8:30pm

Ken Wharton (San José State University): Epistemic Roots of the Schrodinger Equation

Discussion method: text chat

 

PDT (UTC-7): 8:30pm-10pm [UTC/GMT 3:30am-5am, October 29, 2014 (Wednesday)]

Ulrich Mohrhoff (Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education): Why ever the wave function, of all things?

Discussion method: text chat

 

Note: During the above time slots, Lee and Ruediger’s papers will be also discussed here and here. (Due to a technical problem, yesterday’s discussions are not successful.)

 

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

EDT (UTC-4): 4:30pm-6pm

Robert Griffiths (Carnegie-Mellon University): The Quantum Wave Function as Property and as Pre-probability

Discussion method: text chat

 

EDT (UTC-4): 8pm-9.30pm

Matthew Pusey (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics): Why protective measurement does not establish the reality of the wave function

Presentation and Discussion method: Video conferencing + text chat

 

Thursday, October 30, 2014

EDT (UTC-4): 8pm-9.30pm

Shan Gao (Chinese Academy of Sciences): A PBR-like argument for psi-ontology in terms of protective measurements

Discussion method: text chat

 

Friday, October 31, 2014

EDT (UTC-4): 3pm-5pm [GMT/UTC: 7pm-9pm]

Panel Discussion (All participants): How to make sense of the wave function?

Discussion method: text chat

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6 Responses

  1. Richard Healey
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    Where (on what site) do we compose text chats? Are these all visible there simultaneously? Do earlier chat contributions disappear from the screen as they are replaced by new ones?

    Richard

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