Towards Ultimate Quantum Theory (UQT)

2018 conference: International conference devoted to quantum theory, experiment and technology at Linnaeus University in Växjö, June 11-14, 2018. Arrival June 10, departure June 15.

The conference Towards Ultimate Quantum Theory (UQT) is arranged by International Centre for Mathematical Modelling in physics, engineering and cognitive sciences (ICMM) at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden. This is the 19th Växjö conference devoted to quantum foundations and applications of quantum theory, especially quantum information and probability. It is devoted to quantum foundations (including philosophical issues), experiment, and recently developed quantum technologies (with emphasize of their foundational aspects).

Poster for the UQT Conference, June 11-14, 2018

In spite of its tremendous success (both theoretical and experimental), the present quantum theory cannot be considered as the ultimate theory of micro-phenomena. It suffers of a variety of fundamental problems. Quantum mechanics is a nonrelativistic theory and its relativistic generalization, quantum field theory, suffers of divergences. But, of course, the biggest black cloud on the quantum sky is the impossibility to unify presently existing quantum theory with general relativity. The conference will be devoted to searching of new ways to creation of the ultimate quantum theory. However, since this project can take very long time (and even it may happen that is would be never finished), the conference also covers all traditional foundational topics: interpretations, mathematical apparatus, experiment, philosophy.

Conference program will be based on invited and contributed talks and posters. Invited talks are 30 min talks (including questions) and contributed talks are 20 min (including questions).

Poster session will play a more important role than during the previous conferences. In particular, journal Entropy supports the awards for the two best posters, 350 and 150 Swiss francs, respectively. Participants giving oral talks (invited and contributed) can also submit additionally posters. Abstracts of invited and contributed talks and posters can be submitted during the process of registration. Abstracts of contributed talks and posters will be evaluated and the authors will receive emails about consideration of their contributions.

Conference proceedings will be published as the special issue of "Entropy", see www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/uqt (Unfortunately, there is the open access fee).

The conference is supported by the Department of Mathematics at Linnaeus University and the EU project QUARTZ. Fetzer Pioneers Award for 2018 to prof. Khrennikov (in recognition of the pioneering work he is doing) will be used to support the conference.

Organizing committee

H. Atmanspacher (Collegium Helveticum - ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
A. de Barros (San Francisco State University, USA)
G.M. D'Ariano (University of Pavia, Italy)
B. Hiesmayr (University of Vienna, Austria)
G. Jaeger (Boston University, USA)
A. Khrennikov (Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden)
M. Manko (Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia)
P. Pylkkänen (University of Helsinki, Finland and University of Skövde, Sweden)
H. Rauch (Atom Institute, Vienne, Austria)
Y. Shikano (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
G. Weihs (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

Local organizing committee

Andrei Khrennikov, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden
e-mail: andrei.khrennikov@lnu.se (with subject Växjö17)

Ekaterina Yurova Axelsson, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden
e-mail: ekaterina.yurova@lnu.se (with subject Växjö17)

Invited speakers

G. Adenier (Independent Researcher, France)
Y. Aharonov (Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Chapman University, USA)
A P Alodjants (ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia)
D. M. Appleby (University of Sydney, Australia)
P. Arrighi (Aix-Marseille University, France)
H. Atmanspacher (IGPP, Freiburg, Germany/ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
C. Baladron (Universidad de Valladolid, Spain)
I. Bengtsson (Stockholm University, Sweden)
R. Brady (Cambridge University, UK)
A. Cabello (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
D. Chruscinski (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland).
E. Cohen (University of Bristol, UK)
C. Curceanu (LNF-INFN, Italy)
G. M. D'Ariano (University of Pavia, Italy)
A. de Barros (San Francisco State University, USA)
J. B. DeBrota (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
F. De Martini (University of Rome, Italy)
H. De Raedt (Univ. of Groningen, the Netherlands)
L. Diosi (Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary)
B. Dragovich (Institute of Physics, Belgrad, Serbia)
E. Dzhafarov (Purdue University)
A. Elitzur (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel)
C. Gallus (Technischen Hochschule Mittelhessen, Germany)
Y. Gefen (The Weizmann Institute of Science,Israel)
S. Glancy (NIST, USA)
P. P. Grangier (Quantum Optics, Lab. Charles Fabry, France)
E. Haven (Leicester University, UK)
B. C. Hiesmayr (University of Vienna, Austria)
S. Iriyama (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
G. Jager (Boston University, USA)
K. H. Knuth (University at Albany (SUNY), USA)
A. Khrennikov (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
M. Kupczynski (Université du Québec, Canada)
J.-Å. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)
E. R. Loubenets (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia)
M. Manko (Lebedev Institute, Russia)
V. Manko (Lebedev Institute, Russia)
K. Michielsen (Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany)
T. Nieuwenhuizen (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
M. Ozawa (Nagoya University, Japan)
T. Palmer (Oxford University, UK)
P. Perinotti (University of Pavia, Italy)
A. Plotnitsky (Purdue University, USA)
S. Polyakov (NIST Gaithersburg, USA)
P. Pylkkänen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
H. Rauch (Atom-Institute, Austria)
R. Schack (Royal Holloway, University of London Egham, UK)
F. Sciarrino (University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
E. Segawa (Tohoku University, Japan)
A. Sergienko (Boston University, USA)
Y. Shikano (University of Tokyo, Japan)
S. Sozzo (Leicester University, UK)
V. Spicka (Institute of Physics ASCR, Czech Republic)
A. Vistnes (University of Oslo, Norway)
L. Vaidman (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
N. Watanabe (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
K. Życzkowski (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland)

Special sessions

Quantum Random Walks
Organizers G. M. D'Ariano and Y. Shikano
Complementarity Beyond Physics: Quantum reasoning in philosophy, psychology and economics
Organizers H. Atmanspacher, A. de Barros, A. Khrennikov, P. Pylkkänen

Programme

Use the the following links to find the conference program and the abstracts (as pdf files):

ProgramUQT18_final.pdf

The conference program is based on invited and contributed talks and posters. Invited talks are 30 min talks (including questions) and contributed talks are 20 min (including questions).

The deadline for abstract submission was April 20. [For a contributed talk, one can first submit the abstract via the registration and the fee can be paid later.]