Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Workshop
April 2003
Talk Slides | Workshop Schedule
Various pictures from this workshop are available in the pictures section.

Videos available from the conference:

Leggett Does the Everyday World Really Obey Quantum Mechanics? video
Aeppli The Reality of Nanoscience and the Challenge of Nanotechnology video
Healey Quantum Metaphysics video

Talks, abstracts and papers are given in alphabetical order:

G. Aeppli: Brute force quantum-assisted computation
G. Bacciagaluppi: The Role of Decoherence in the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
G. Christou: Maganese Carboxylate Clusters as Single-Molecule Magnets (Molecular Nanomagnets)
C. Fuchs: A Trivial Theorem in Quantum Mechanics
C. Fuchs: The Oyster and the Quantum
R. Healey: Quantum Metaphysics
P. Lee: Cheap Vortices and New Collective Modes in High Tc Superconductors
A.J. Leggett: Is Quantum Mechanics the Whole Truth?
A. Morello: Nuclear spin dynamics in the quantum regime of Mn12-ac molecular magnets
W. C. Myrvold: A Bayesian account of the virtue of unifications
B.C. Sanctuary: Entanglement and disentanglement on particle separation
P.C.E Stamp: Quantum Mechanics on the Large Scale

Brief Schedule of the Past Workshop

April 17  

20:00-21:00

Leggett Does the Everyday World Really Obey Quantum Mechanics?

April 18

 

9:30-11:30

Quantum Materials:  Hendrickson, Christou, Ilichev

April 19

 

9:30-12:30

Magnetic Systems:  Aeppli, Barbara, Christou, Wernsdorfer
April 20  

9:30-12:30

Superconducting Systems:  Leggett, Spivak, Zagoskin
April 21  

9:30-12:30

Quantum Information:  Gill, Popescu, Fuchs
April 22  

10:00-11:30

Aeppli The Reality of Nanoscience and the Challenge of Nanotechnology

14:00-15:30

Healey Quantum Metaphysics
April 23  

9:30-12:30

Philosophical Themes & questions:  Savitt, Healey
April 24  

9:30-12:30

Magnetism - fundamental questions:  Sawatzky, Stamp

11:00-12:00

Phillips The Full Mottness
April 25  

9:30-12:30

Nanoscience:  Manoharan, Sawatzky, Stamp