Fifth International Workshop DICE2010
Castello Pasquini/Castiglioncello (Tuscany), September 13-17, 2010Space-Time-Matter -
current issues in quantum mechanics and beyond
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Advisory Board
S. Adler (IAS, Princeton) J. Barbour (Oxford) G. Casati (Como) G.C. Ghirardi (Trieste) C. Grebogi (Edinburgh) S. Haroche (Paris) J. Hartle (Santa Barbara) B.-L. Hu (Maryland) C. Isham (London) C. Kiefer (Köln) N. Mavromatos (London) C. Rovelli (Marseille) C. Tsallis (Rio de Janeiro) G. Veneziano (CERN & ENS, Paris) C. Wetterich (Heidelberg) W. Zurek (Los Alamos)
Founding and Supporting Members
T. Arecchi (Firenze) O. Bertolami (Lisboa) I. Bialynicki-Birula (Warsaw) L. Davidovich (Rio de Janeiro) J. Rafelski (Arizona) D. Stein (New York) M. Tegmark (MIT, Cambridge)
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Organizers
Lajos Diosi (Budapest) Hans-Thomas Elze (Pisa, chair) Jonathan Halliwell (London) Leone Fronzoni (Pisa) Enrico Prati (Milano) Giuseppe Vitiello (Salerno)
Conference secretaries:Luca Baldini (Pisa)
Melissa Pesce-Rollins (Pisa)
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Objectives
Following DICE2002, DICE2004, DICE2006, and DICE2008 this interdisciplinary workshop addresses researchers in the fields of fundamental interactions, cosmology, general relativity, and quantum theory:
- The pillars of modern physics, quantum mechanics and general relativity, coexist very successfully, having in their respective domains impressive observational support. However, black hole entropy puzzle, missing unification of all known forces, and conceptual problems in applying quantum theory to the universe are stumbling blocks on the way to a deeper understanding.-
Attempts to quantize gravity continue to stimulate studies of classical and quantum dynamics and of the statistical properties of "timeless" reparametrization-invariant systems. A central problem remains to determine the observables that are consistent with the constraints. "The difficulties with quantum gravity" have also led to radically new proposals considering spacetime and/or gravity as emergent phenomena, much like hydrodynamics is seen to arise from atomic physics. Even quantum mechanics may reflect a deterministic dynamics beneath, when suitably coarse-grained to the scales where it is observed to work so well.-
Classical behavior in complex quantum systems, attributed to decoherence, has recently been studied in macroscopic and mesoscopic systems, the motivation being largely the quest for quantum information processing. However, relevant decohering degrees of freedom in microscopic and general relativistic systems are much less understood. - The related measurement problem and, with it, wave function collapse or objective reduction continue to present unresolved issues.-
The study of these topics may include an analysis of the kind of information that exists in such systems with many degrees of freedom and typically long-range interactions and of the basic conditions under which it can be extracted. Corresponding measures of complexity have been elaborated and should play a role here.-
DICE2010 will focus on these topics:
- Decoherence, quantum-to-classical transition, measurement problem
- Quantum coherent processes in biology
- Key experiments
- Emergent spacetime, matter, and symmetries
- Quantum gravity / cosmology and high-energy physics
Invited Lectures (preliminary)
L. Baldini (INFN & Univ. di Pisa) [Fermi-LAT Collab.]
__ The Fermi Large Area Telescope: science highlights from
the first two years in orbitH. Briegel (Univ. Innsbruck & Österreichische Akad. d. Wiss., Innsbruck)
__ Lecture to be presented by G.G. GuerreschiD. Bouwmeester (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara & Univ. Leiden)
__ Towards macroscopic quantum superpositions
C.N. Colacino (INFN & Univ. di Pisa) [VIRGO Collab.]
__ The VIRGO experiment: state of the art and (fundamental) noise issuesE. Del Giudice (INFN, Milano)
__ Dynamics of living organisms as an outcome of water dynamicsL. Diosi (Res. Inst. Part. & Nucl. Phys., Budapest)
__ The gravity related decoherence master equation from hybrid dynamicsF. Dowker (Imperial College, London)
__ Spacetime discreteness, Lorentz invariance and localityH.-T. Elze (Univ. di Pisa)
__ General linear dynamics: quantum, classical or hybridF. Finster (Univ. Regensburg)
__ The fermionic projector and entanglementR. Gambini (Univ. de Montevideo)
__ A realist interpretation of quantum mechanics based on
undecidability due to gravityM. Genovese (INRIM, Torino)
__ On experimental testing foundations of quantum mechanicsT. Geszti (Eötvös Univ., Budapest)
__ Nonlinear interference scenario of quantum measurementG.C. Ghirardi (ICTP and Univ. degli Studi di Trieste)
__ Dynamical reduction and relativistic requirementsG.G. Guerreschi (Univ. Innsbruck & Österreichische Akad. d. Wiss., Innsbruck)
__ Quantum information and control in biological systemsK.S. Gupta (Saha Inst. of Nucl. Physics, Calcutta)
__ Noncommutative geometry, symmetry and
quantum structure of space-timeJ.J. Halliwell (Imperial College, London)
__ Decoherent histories approach to quantum cosmologyB.-L. Hu (Univ. of Maryland)
__ New perspectives on gravity and thermodynamics
A. Khrennikov (Linnaeus Univ., Växjö-Kalmar)
__ Quantum mechanics as classical signal theory on noisy backgroundC. Kiefer (Univ. Köln)
__ Quantum cosmology with the Standard Model Higgs fieldH. Kleinert (Freie Univ. Berlin)
__ Torsion, a multivalued gauge degree of freedom in
Einstein's gravity
N. Mavromatos (King's College, London)
__ On quantum mechanical aspects of microtubules:
science fiction or realistic possibility?L. Montagnier Nobel Prize for Medicine 2008
(World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention)
__ DNA waves and waterJ.G. Muga (UPV-EHU, Univ. do Bilbao)
__ Shortcuts to adiabaticityD.V. Nanopoulos (Texas A&M Univ., HARC Houston, Acad. of Athens)
__ The golden point of no-scale and no-parameter Flipped-SU(5)V. Nesvizhevsky (Inst. Laue-Langevin, Grenoble)
__ Gravitational and centrifugal quantum states of neutronsT. Padmanabhan (IUCAA, Pune University)
__ Lessons for quantum structure of spacetime from classical gravityF. Petruccione (Univ. of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban)
__ tbaS. Popescu (Univ. of Bristol & Hewlett-Packard Labs., Bristol)
__ tbaE. Prati (Lab. Nazionale MDM, Agrate Brianza)
__ Exploring the foundations of physics in solid state systems at ultra-low energyJ. Pullin (Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge)
__ Lecture to be presented by R. GambiniR.D. Sorkin (Perimeter Institute & Univ. of Syracuse)
__ Dynamics of, and dynamics on causal setsS. Surya (Raman Res. Inst., Bangalore)
__ In search of a covariant quantum measureV. Vedral (Nat. Univ. of Singapore & Univ. of Oxford)
__ Quantum coherence in biomoleculesG. Vitiello (Univ. di Salerno)
__ Coherence is the dynamical response ...
Contributed Papers
ALL papers presented have equal status when submitted for the Proceedings:
P: poster presentation / 95cm wide x 105cm high (maximally)
C: oral communication (15min)
T: talk (20min)
(presentations selected by the organizers based on abstracts submitted by July 15th)
S.A. Ali (Univ. at Albany - SUNY, New York)
__ P: The information geometry of quantum entangled wave packetsM. Arminjon (CNRS & Univ. de Grenoble)
__ T: Representations of the Dirac wave function in a curved spacetimeA. Asadian (Univ. Innsbruck)
__ P: Motional effects on the efficiency of excitation transferA. Beckwith (Am. Inst. Beam Energy Propulsion, Madison)
__ P: Application of Euclidean Snyder geometry to foundations of space-time physicsD. Bedingham (Imperial College, London)
__ T: Relativistic state reduction dynamicsC. Beil (Simons Center for Geom. & Phys., Stony Brook)
__ P: A new solution to the measurement problem and
some consequences in quantum field theory
D. Benincasa (Imperial College, London)
__ T: 2D causal set action and the Gauss-Bonnet theoremM. Benna (Simons Center for Geom. & Phys., Stony Brook)
__ n.n.C. Beny (Centre Quant. Technol., Nat. Univ. of Singapore)
__ T: Emergence of classical phase space and dynamics from
continuous monitoring of a quantum system
M. Blasone (INFN & Univ. di Salerno)
__ T: Gauge structure in particle mixingT. Bolognesi (CNR-ISTI, Pisa)
__ T: Causal sets from simple models of computationB. Boroson (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
__ T: Discrete stochastic foundations for quantum mechanics:
building on the Feynman checkerboard
A. Brodutch (Macquarie Univ., Sydney)
__ T: What can we learn from quantum discord?A. Bruno (Univ. di Salerno)
__ P: Berry-like phase in quantum computingC. Cafaro (Univ. di Camerino)
__ P: Can we understand the effect of correlations on the complexity of
dynamical systems in an information geometric setting?A. Capolupo (Univ. di Salerno)
__ P: Meson mixing, CPT violation and non-cyclic phase
__ P: Energy concentration in composite quantum systems
L.C. Céleri (Univ. Fed. - ABC - do Santo André)
__ P: Sudden change in quantum and classical correlations and the Unruh effectD. Ciampini (Univ. di Pisa)
__ T: Experimental investigation of the quantum speed limit
using Bose-Einstein condensatesC. Curceanu (INFN, Frascati) [VIP collab.]
__ T: Experimental tests of quantum mechanics: Pauli exclusion principle and
spontaneous collapse modelsG. De las Cuevas (Univ. Innsbruck)
__ T: Mappings of the partition function using a quantum formulationF.P. Devecchi (Univ. Fed. do Parana, Curitiba)
__ C: Fermions in FRW cosmologiesP. Di Sia (Univ. di Verona)
__ P: Extreme physics and informational/computational limitsD. Dolce (Univ. Mainz)
__ C: De Broglie deterministic dice and
emerging relativistic quantum mechanicsG. Doyen (L.-M. Univ., München & Univ. of Sofia)
__ T: Why is more different?D. Drakova (Univ. of Sofia & L.-M. Univ., München)
__ P: Decoherence mechanisms in adsorbate localization and
diffusion on solid surfacesM. Everitt (Loughborough Univ. & British Univ. in Egypt)
__ T: Quantum measurement and the quantum-to-classical transition in
a non-linear quantum oscillator
C. Furtado (Univ. Fed. da Paraíba, João Pessoa)
__ P: Geometric quantum phase in the spacetime of topological defectsL. Gaffour (Univ. de Sidi-Bel-Abbes)
__ C: Relativistic quantum equation in nonstationary space-timeG. Gambarotta (Univ. di Pisa)
__ n.n.L.P. Garcia Pintos (Faculty of Sciences, Montevideo)
__ P: On the possibility of experimentally verifying collapse hypothesis
and the concept of undecidability
G. Gervino (Univ. & Politecnico di Torino)
__ P: Nonlinear statistical effects in relativistic mean field theoryG. Gionti (Specola Vaticana, Roma)
__ n.n.L. Glaser (Imperial College. London)
__ T: Causal set d'Alembertians in various dimensionsG. Groessing (AINS, Wien)
__ T: Elements of sub-quantum thermodynamicsJ. Hackett (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo)
__ T: Knots, braids and loop quantum gravityP. Hajicek (Univ. Bern)
__ T: A new approach to quantum measurement problem:
cluster separability
B. Hiesmayr (Univ. Wien)
__ T: Testing quantum foundations in high-energy physicsG. Immirzi (Univ. di Perugia)
__ n.n.J.M. Isidro (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia)
__ C: On the noncommutative eikonal
P. Jizba (FNSPE, Czech Technical Univ., Prague)
__ T: Emergent relativityK. Jung (Techn. Univ. Kaiserslautern)
__ P: Does the Schrödinger wave function describe a
real physical wave?I. Kanatchikov (Nat. Qu. Info. Center of Gdańsk, Sopot)
__ C: Thermodynamic gravity, Machian Universe and the origin
of quantum mechanics
__ P: On the mass gap in quantum YM theory and
the cosmological constantO.C.W. Kong (National Central Univ., Chung-Li)
__ C: A new perspective on relativistic quantum mechanicsJ. Kupferman (Ben Gurion Univ., Be'er Sheva)
__ T: Black hole entropy divergence and the uncertainty principleS. Kurkcuoglu (Middle East Tech. Univ., Ankara)
__ C: Equivariant reduction of Yang-Mills theory over the fuzzy sphere
and the emergent vortices
S.-Y. Lin (Nat. Changhua Univ. of Education)
__ T: Quantum entanglement and teleportation between two detectors
moving in a relativistic quantum field
J.J. Lopez-Villarejo (Univ. Autonoma de Madrid)
__ C: Transverse theories of gravity: viability and relation with
unimodular and scalar-tensor gravityL. Lusanna (INFN & Univ. di Firenze)
__ T: Relativistic entanglement from relativistic quantum mechanics in
the rest-frame instant form of dynamics
O. Lychkovskiy (ITEP, Moscow)
__ C: Entanglement, decoherence and thermal relaxation in exactly solvable modelsS. Markes (Perimeter Institute & Univ. of Waterloo)
__ T: Entropy for theories with indefinite causal structureJ. Maziero (Univ. Fed. - ABC - do Santo André)
__ P: Decoherence without entanglement between system and environmentW. McHarris (Michigan State Univ.)
__ C: Chaos and the quantum: how nonlinear effects can explain
certain quantum paradoxes
E. Melas (Univ. of Athens & Technolog. Inst. of Lamia)
__ T: Towards canonical quantum gravity for 3+1 geometries
admitting maximally symmetric two-dimensional surfacesE. Minguzzi (Univ. di Firenze)
__ T: A new synchronization method and its role in the problem of timeZ. Gh. Moghaddam (Islamic Azad Univ., Tehran)
__ C: New approach to Casimir effect and boundary conditionsS. Montangero (Univ. Ulm)
__ T: Optimal control of many-body quantum systemsS. Nagao (Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim Co., Tokyo)
__ P: Light speed and the expansion of the universeG. Nistico (Univ. della Calabria, Reggio di Calabria)
__ T: Strict criterion of reality and the locality of quantum mechanicsP. Paradisi (Univ. di Pisa)
__ T: Noisy cooperative intermittent processes: from blinking
quantum dots to human consciousnessF. Payandeh (Payame Noor Univ., Tabriz)
__ C: Negative-energy modes as a candidate solution to some
problems in quantum physics
I.A. Pedrosa (Univ. Fed. da Paraíba, João Pessoa)
__ P: Quantum description of electromagnetic waves in
time-dependent linear mediaE.S. Poliakov (Institute of Physics of Time, Moscow)
__ C: Is energy conservation law the only game in town?G. Raimondo (Univ. di Salerno)
__ P: Berry-like phase in quantum computingJ. Rau (Univ. Frankfurt)
__ T: Finite-dimensional relational theories must be quantumO. Romero-Isart (Max-Planck-Inst. für Quantenoptik, Garching)
__ T: Quantum macroscopic superposition of a levitated nano-objectV. Salari (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
__ P: On the possibility of quantum coherent states in living systemsF. Scardigli (LeCosPA, National Taiwan Univ.)
__ T: Generalized uncertainty principle on a Planckian lattice:
consequences for micro black holes evaporationD. Schuch (Univ. Frankfurt)
__ T: On dissipative Ermakov systems and damping in Bose-Einstein condensatesR.M. Serra (Univ. Fed. - ABC - do Santo André)
__ P: Symmetric quantum discord and its experimental measurementN.K. Singh (Indian Inst. of Technology, Kanpur)
__ P: Implication of scale invariance in cosmologyA. Squarcini (Univ. di Pisa)
__ n.n.W. Struyve (K. Univ. Leuven)
__ T: Pilot-wave theory and quantum fieldsR. Sverdlov (Raman Research Inst., Bangalore)
__ T: Incorporating particle creation and annihilation into Bohm's pilot-wave model
J.A. Vaccaro (Griffith Univ., Brisbane)
__ T: Unidirectionality of time induced by T violationF. Vallone (Univ. di Pisa)
__ n.n.S. Vogelsberger (Institute Fourier, Grenoble)
__ T: Average entanglement for Markovian quantum trajectoriesP. Wallden (Univ. of Athens)
__ T: Reasoning in quantum theory: Modus Ponens and
the coevent interpretationJ. Yearsley (Imperial College, London)
__ T: Decoherent histories approach to the
arrival time problem in quantum mechanicsP. Zenczykowski (Polish Acad. of Sciences, Krakow)
__ T: Leptons, quarks, and their antiparticles from a phase space perspective
Program
SUNDAY, September 12th
Arrival at Castiglioncello15:00 - 19:30 Registration at Castello Pasquini (conference site) 18:00 - 19:30 Informal reception with refreshments at Castello Pasquini
MONDAY, September 13th
Gravity and Quantum Mechanics
-- OPENING of WORKSHOP --
Chair: J. Pullin 9:00 A. Franchi (Opening Address by the Mayor of Rosignano)
9:20 - 10:05 T. Padmanabhan (Opening Lecture)
10:05 - 10:35 B.-L. Hu
10:40 - 11:30
-- Coffee Break --
Chair: L. Diosi 11:30 - 12:00 D. Bouwmeester
12:00 - 12:20
O. Romero-Isart
12:20 - 12:50
D.V. Nesvizhevsky
13:00 - 15:00
-- Lunch at Ristorante Il Peschereccio --
Chair: N. Mavromatos 15:30 - 16:00 C.N. Colacino
16:00 - 16:30
R. Gambini
16:30 - 17:15
-- Coffee Break --
Chair: J. Halliwell
17:15 - 17:45 L. Diosi
17:45 - 18:05
J. Kupferman
18:05 - 18:25
F. Scardigli
TUESDAY, September 14th
Quantum Coherent Processes in Biology / Many-body Systems
Chair: H.-T. Elze 9:00 - 9:20 E. Del Giudice
9:20 - 9:50
G. Vitiello
9:50 - 10:30 L. Montagnier (Keynote Lecture)
10:40 - 11:25 -- Coffee Break --
Chair: G. Vitiello 11:25 - 11:55 H. Briegel - Lecture presented by G.G. Guerreschi 11:55 - 12:25
N. Mavromatos
12:25 - 12:45
P. Paradisi
13:00 - 15:00 -- Lunch at Ristorante Ristorante Il Peschereccio --
Chair: G.G. Guerreschi 15:05 - 15:20
O. Lychkovskiy 15:20 - 15:40
S. Vogelsberger 15:40 - 16:00
A. Brodutch 16:00 - 16:20
G. De las Cuevas 16:30 - 17:15
-- Coffee Break --
Chair: O. Romero-Isart 17:15 - 17:35 D. Ciampini
17:35 - 17:55
S. Montangero
17:55 - 18:15
D. Schuch
18:15 - 18:35
G. Doyen
21:00
Public Event -
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AL PUBBLICO"Sull' Onda Della Coerenza"
- le nuove frontiere della scienza moderna
E. Del Giudice (INFN & Università di Milano), L. Fronzoni (Università di Pisa)
and G. Vitiello (Università di Salerno)
WEDNESDAY, September 15th
From Quantum Foundations to Particle Physics
Chair: M. Genovese 9:00 - 9:30 T. Geszti
9:30 - 10:00
GC. Ghirardi
10:00 - 10:20
D. Bedingham
10:20 - 10:40
P. Hajicek 10:40 - 11:25
-- Coffee Break --
Chair: B.-L. Hu 11:25 - 11:55 H.-T. Elze
11:55 - 12:25
M. Genovese
12:25 - 12:55
E. Prati
13:00 - 15:00 -- Lunch at Ristorante Ristorante Il Peschereccio --
Chair: E. Prati 15:00 - 15:20 C. Curceanu 15:20 - 15:40
C. Beny 15:40 - 16:10
L. Baldini 16:10 - 16:50
-- Coffee Break --
Chair: H.-T. Elze 16:50 - 17:30
D.V. Nanopoulos (Keynote Lecture) 17:30 - 17:50 B. Hiesmayr 17:50 - 18:10
M. Blasone 18:10 - 18:30
P. Zenczykowski
THURSDAY, September 16th
The Deep Structure of Spacetime
Chair: GC. Ghirardi 9:00 - 9:30 F. Dowker
9:30 - 10:00
R.D. Sorkin
10:00 - 10:30
S. Surya
10:30 - 11:10
-- Coffee Break --
Chair: C. Kiefer 11:10 - 11:40 K.S. Gupta
11:40 - 12:00
L. Lusanna 12:00 - 12:30
H. Kleinert
12:30 - 13:00
A. Khrennikov 13:00 - 15:00 -- Lunch at Ristorante Ristorante Il Peschereccio --
Chair: F. Finster 15:00 - 15:20
D. Benincasa 15:20 - 15:40
L. Glaser 15:40 - 16:00
T. Bolognesi 16:00 - 16:40
-- Coffee Break --
Chair: F. Dowker 16:40 - 17:00 S. Markes 17:00 - 17:20
J. Rau 17:20 - 17:40
P. Wallden
PARALLEL I
Quant. Foundations
Chair: A. Khrennikov
15:00 - 15:20 M. Everitt 15:20 - 15:40 B. Boroson 15:40 - 16:00 G. Groessing 16:00 - 16:40 -- Coffee Break --
Chair: M. Genovese
16:40 - 17:00 W. Struyve 17:00 - 17:20
R. Sverdlov 17:20 - 17:35
I. Kanatchikov 17:35 - 17:50
D. Dolce 17:50 - 18:05
W. McHarris
PARALLEL II
QFT and Gravity
Chair: K.S. Gupta
15:00 - 15:15
S. Kurkcuoglu 15:15 - 15:30
F.P. Devecchi 15:30 - 15:50
J. Hackett 16:00 - 16:40 -- Coffee Break --
Chair: P. Zenczykowski 16:40 - 16:55
F. Payandeh 16:55 - 17:10
J.J. Lopez-Villarejo 17:10 - 17:25
L. Gaffour 17:25 - 17:40
E.S. Poliakov
19:00
-- Reception / Aperitivo al Ristorante l'Astragalo --
20:00
-- CONFERENCE DINNER at Ristorante l'Astragalo --
FRIDAY, September 17th
Quantum / Relativity / Cosmology
Chair: S. Surya
9:00 - 9:30
V. Vedral (cancelled) 9:30 - 10:00 J.G. Muga
10:00 - 10:30
J.J. Halliwell
10:40 - 11:25
-- Coffee Break --
Chair: J.G. Muga 11:25 - 11:45 J. Yearsley
11:45 - 12:05
J.A. Vaccaro 12:05 - 12:20
O.C.W. Kong 12:20 - 12:40
P. Jizba 12:45 - 14:30
-- Lunch at Ristorante Ristorante Il Peschereccio --
Chair: G. Gionti 14:30 - 14:50 E. Minguzzi
14:50 - 15:10
S.-Y. Lin
15:10 - 15:30
M. Arminjon 15:30 - 16:10
-- Coffee Break --
Chair: H. Kleinert 16:10 - 16:40
F. Finster
16:40 - 17:00
E. Melas 17:00 - 17:30 C. Kiefer
-- CLOSING of WORKSHOP --
Proceedings
Proceedings of DICE2010 will be published in:
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
For all articles, the following link leads you to the details concerning
- preparation, submission, and deadline
Proceedings of DICE2008 in:
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 174 (2009)
H.-T. Elze, L. Diosi, L. Fronzoni, J.J. Halliwell and G. Vitiello (eds.)
- free access at http://www.iop.org/EJ/toc/1742-6596/174/1
Proceedings of DICE2006 in:
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 67 (2007)
H.-T. Elze, L. Diosi and G. Vitiello (eds.)
- free access at http://www.iop.org/EJ/toc/1742-6596/67/1
Proceedings of DICE2004 in:
Brazilian Journal of Physics, 35, no. 2A+2B, 205-529 (2005)
H.-T. Elze (ed.)
- free access at http://www.sbfisica.org.br/bjp
Proceedings of DICE2002 in:
Decoherence and Entropy in Complex Systems
Springer Lecture Notes in Physics, LNP 633
H.-T. Elze (ed.) (Springer, Berlin, 2004)
Registration
The number of participants is limited at 100.
Registration procedure:1. Please, contact as soon as possible H.-Thomas Elze, elze@df.unipi.it
providing:
a) your name and affiliation (please, indicate if you are a student)
b) a preliminary title / abstract, if you plan to contribute a paper
(talk / poster presentations will be selected by the organizers based on
the abstracts submitted until the deadline of July 15th).
2. Please, tell us the number of accompanying persons and
your arrival/departure dates, as soon as possible.3. Registration Fee: 260EU (students 190EU; accompanying persons 130EU).
The fee will be charged in cash, at the registration desk. - It covers reception,
coffee breaks, lunches, conference dinner, conference material, and proceedings.
Conference Site
The conference will take place at Castello Pasquini (Castiglioncello, Tuscany) -
which is described in some beautiful details on this official site!
(A www browser search for Castello Pasquini or Castiglioncello is also fruitfull.)
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Accommodation (Travel advise below)Participants (except invited speakers) are requested to reserve their accommodation
by direct contact with a chosen hotel, as soon as possible, in order secure their
place of choice (favourable conference rates, see below).
PLEASE, mention in all correspondence with hotels that you are
participant of Convegno DICE2010 , September 13-17, at Castello Pasquini
and the indicated conference room rate!
All hotels, with one indicated exception, are about 200-400 m away
from the conference site.
Prices are for Single / Double / Triple Rooms per night, incl. breakfast:
Albergo Miramare *** EU 60 / 80 / 100
(access to beach)
http://www.albergo-miramare.it
info@albergo-miramare.it
Hotel Corallo *** EU 60 / 80 / 100
(closest to Castello Pasquini, short access to beach;
since single rooms very limited, hotel prefers double room reservations)
info@hotel-corallo.it
Hotel Leopoldo *** EU 75 / 100 / 120
http://www.toscanatoscana.it
hotelleopoldo@tin.it
Hotel Tirreno *** EU 60 / 90 / 110
http://www.hotel-tirreno.com
info@hoteltirreno.info
Hotel Baia del Sorriso *** EU 65 / 85 / 110
(about 900 m from Castello Pasquini, yet beautiful location)
http://www.baiadelsorriso.com
info@baiadelsorriso.com
Hotel Martini **** EU 90 / 130 / 150
(modern, luxurious style)
http://www.villamartini.it
info@villamartini.it
Further hotels may also be found through the link above under
"Conference Site".
Travelling:
Nearest and most convenient is PISA airport.
From there you go by local train or taxi to the main train station Pisa Centrale,
which takes about 5 min.
Timetables for regional trains from Pisa Centrale to Castiglioncello, your destination,
cab be found through the link given below; the trip takes about 40 min.
From Roma Termini train station, the trip to Castiglioncello, may take about 3.5 h
by regional train.
With long-distance fast trains, you have to reach Pisa or Livorno (from North) and
Campiglia Marittima or Cecina (from South), in order to change for the
regional trains to Castiglioncello.
Trenitalia Timetables are available here:
http://www.trenitalia.it
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Sponsors
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Centro Interdisciplinare per lo Studio dei Sistemi Complessi
Universita di Pisa
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
Universita di Salerno
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Via Monte di Dio 14 - Palazzo Serra di Cassano - 80132 Napoli - tel.: 081.7642652 · fax: 081.7642654 · mail: info@iisf.it
ARMUNIA
Castiglioncello
Institute Of Physics Publishing http://journals.iop.org
Dirac House, Bristol
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