Sixth International Workshop DICE2012
              Castello Pasquini/Castiglioncello (Tuscany), September 17-21, 2012 
Spacetime - Matter - Quantum Mechanics   
from the Planck scale to emergent phenomena
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Objectives
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 Updated:

     25/09/12


DICE2012 in the press 1
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F. Guerra's public lecture on a little known letter by E. Majorana (in Italian)



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:
     Nello Lampo, Lorenzo Fratino,
    Iacopo Pozzana, Andrea Sonnellini   
   
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Objectives

Following DICE2002, DICE2004, DICE2006, DICE2008, and DICE2010, this workshop addresses researchers in the fields of fundamental interactions, cosmology, general relativity, and quantum theory:
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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.
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Attempts to quantize gravity continue to stimulate studies of classical and quantum dynamics and of statistical properties of "timeless" reparametrization-invariant systems. A central problem is to determine observables consistent with the constraints. Presently, new ideas attract attention that consider spacetime and/or gravity as emergent phenomena, much like hydrodynamics is seen to arise from atomic physics. Even quantum mechanics might reflect a deterministic dynamics beneath, which is hidden by the coarse-graining to scales where quantum theory has been tested successfully.
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Classical behavior in complex quantum systems, attributed to decoherence, has recently been studied from atomic to mesoscopic systems, the motivation being largely the quest for quantum information processing. However, decohering degrees of freedom in subatomic and general relativistic systems are little understood. The control of quantum systems by classical means and the study of quantum-classical hybrid dynamics present new challenges of practical as well as of fundamental character. The related measurement problem, wave function collapse or objective reduction persist as unresolved issues. 
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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 could play a role here.
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DICE2012 will focus on these topics:
  • Decoherence, quantum-to-classical transition, measurement problem 
  • Quantum-classical hybrids, foundations and applications   
  • Quantum coherent processes in chemistry / biology 
  • Key experiments  
  • Emergent spacetime, matter, and symmetries
  • Quantum gravity / cosmology and high-energy physics  

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Invited Lectures   

Y. Aharonov (Tel-Aviv Univ.) - Keynote Lecture
__ The two-vector quantum formalism          
J. Barbour (Univ. of Oxford)
__ Shape dynamics and general relativity         
G. Casati (Univ. di Insubria, Como)
__ How complex is the quantum motion? 
     Classical dynamics of quantum entanglement
      
B. Cocciaro (Univ. di Pisa)
__ In search of superluminal quantum communications:
     recent experiments and possible improvements  
    
L. Diosi (Wigner Research Center for Physics, Budapest)  
__ Gravity-related wave function collapse         
H.-T. Elze (Univ. di Pisa)  
__ Quantum-classical hybrids - where are they?
M. Genovese (INRIM, Torino) 
__ Beyond classical limits: a practical quantum illumination protocol     
G.C. Ghirardi (Univ. di Trieste) 
__ Classical, quantum and superquantum correlations
G. Grössing (AINS, Wien) 
__ In defense of Schrödinger: dynamical nonlocality reconsidered  
F. Guerra (Univ. "La Sapienza", Roma) 
__ An introduction to spontaneous replica symmetry breaking as
     a tool to understand complex phyical systems
K.S. Gupta (Saha Inst. of Nucl. Phys., Kolkata) 
__ Topology, cosmic strings and quantum dynamics - a case study with graphene   
J.J. Halliwell (Imperial College, London)
__ Pitfalls of path integrals: amplitudes for spacetime regions and
     the quantum Zeno effect   

B.-L. Hu (Univ. of Maryland)    
__ Macroscopic quantum phenomena - when will quantum features show? 
A. Khrennikov  (Linnaeus Univ., Växjö-Kalmar) 
__ Bell's inequality: nonlocality or nonobjectivity? Time to make a choice.
C. Kiefer (Univ. Köln)
__ The semiclassical approximation to quantum gravity and its
     potential observational consequences
 
H. Kleinert (Freie Univ. Berlin)
__ Fractional quantum field theory, path integral, and Langevin equation for
     strongly interacting many-particle systems    
    
J. Louko (Univ. of Nottinham) 
__ Entanglement generation in relativistic cavity motion  
V.I. Man'ko (Lebedev Inst., Moscow)
__ Kinetic equations for combined classical and quantum systems         
N. Mavromatos (King's College, London)    
__ CPT violation in the early universe and light neutrinos  
E. Medinaceli (Univ. di Padova) [OPERA Collab.] 
__ Status of the OPERA experiment
G. Milburn (Univ. of Queensland)
__ Classical control  and quantum-classical hybrid dynamics
D.V. Nanopoulos (Texas A&M Univ., HARC Houston, Acad. of Athens) - Keynote Lecture 
__ TBA    
F. Petruccione (Univ. of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban)  
__
Open quantum walks: a tool for quantum information processing and
     quantum biology
S. Popescu (Univ. of Bristol & Hewlett-Packard Labs., Bristol
__ TBA     
E. Prati (Lab. Nazionale MDM, Agrate Brianza)
__ Phase transitions in few atom systems 
M. Reginatto (PTB, Braunschweig)
__ Cosmology with quantum matter and a classical gravitational field:
     the approach of configuration-space ensembles        
M. Sakellariadou (King's College, London)
__ Noncommutative spectral geometry: introduction and cosmological consequences 
R. Sorkin (Perimeter Inst., Waterloo)
__ Expressing entropy globally in terms of (4D) field-correlations  
R. Szabo (Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh)
__ Quantum gravity and noncommutative spacetime
G. Vitiello (Univ. di Salerno)
__ Noncommutative spectral geometry: the role of the doubling of the algebra and
     the seeds of quantization    
   
I. Walmsley (Univ. of Oxford) 
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Entang-bling; quantum correlations in room-temperature solids  
X.-G. Wen (MIT, Cambridge)
__ Emergence and unification of photons, electrons, and gravitons
     from long range quantum entanglements 
 
B. Wu (Peking Univ.)
__ Geometric phase and quantum-classical hybrid systems   

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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)

 
A. Akhmeteli (LTA Solid Inc., Houston) 
  P: No drama quantum theory?
C. Bastos (Instituto Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear - IST, Lisboa)
  T: Noncanonical phase space noncommutativity and the singularity problem      
A. Beckwith (Univ. of Chongqing) 
  P: Tokamak generation of GW, and what it says about limits of QM in graviton and
       GW production   
  
A. Beckwith (Univ. of Chongqing) 
  P: Machian models and how to obtain h(i,j) GW data from the electro-weak era 
D. Bedingham (Imperial College, London) 
  T: A hidden variable interpretation of the spontaneous localization theory     
A. Beige (Univ. of Leeds) 
  T: Gauge transformations and spontaneous photon emission      
J.Z. Bernad (Techn. Univ., Darmstadt) 
  P: Measuring measurement back-action in a double detected scenario 
P.F. Bienzobas (Univ. de São Paulo
  C: Supersymmetric extension of the quantum spherical model      
M. Blasone (Univ. di Salerno) 
  T: Entanglement in quantum field theory: particle mixing and oscillations       
D. Bondar (Univ. of Princeton, NJ)
  T: Operational dynamic modeling transcending quantum and classical mechanics 
B. Boroson (Clayton State Univ., Georgia)
 
C: Graphene and Feynman checkerboards      
N. Buric (Univ. of Belgrade) 
  T: Hybrid dynamics as a constrained quantum system   
R. Cabrera (Univ. of Princeton, NJ)
  T: Relativistic Wigner function and consistent classical limit for spin 1/2 particles 
M. Cadoni (Univ. di Cagliari
__ N.N.    
A. Capolupo (Univ. di Salerno) 
  P: Equation of state for plasmas, Schottky line anomaly and its effects       
A. Capolupo (Univ. di Salerno) 
  P: Geometric phase and entanglement   
C. Chryssomalakos (Inst. de Ciencias Nucleares - UNAM, Mexico City) 
  T: Operational geometry on de Sitter spacetime     
A.J. Da Silva (Univ. de São Paulo) 
  C: A new simple class of superpotentials for SUSY quantum mechanics
       and the anharmonic oscillator   
F.M. De Aguiar (Univ. Fed. de Pernambuco, Recife
  T: Classical, quantum and scattering properties of irrational triangular billiards    
E. Del Giudice (INFN, Milano)
  T: Concentration of energy and decrease of entropy in coherent systems:  thermodynamics
       of irreversible processes explained by quantum field theory
   
F. De Martini (Univ. "La Sapienza", Roma) 
 
T: to be presented by E. Santamato (cf. below)      
A. De Ninno (ENEA, Frascati) 
  T: Spectroscopy can help detecting quantum coherent processes in biology       
C. Dharma-wardana (Univ. de Montreal & Nat. Research Council, Ottawa) 
  T: Implications of density functional theory and existence of classical maps
       for entangled quantum many-body systems    
  
A. Di Lorenzo (Univ. Fed. de Uberlandia) 
  T: Shaping up hidden-variable models that maintain free will and allow
       no superluminal signalling   
   
P. Di Sia (Univ. Bozen/Bolzano) 
  P: Exciting pecularities of Planck scale physics       
D. Dolce (Univ. of Melbourne) 
  T: Intrinsic periodicity: the forgotten lesson of quantum mechanics
G. Doyen (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ., München) 
  T: Telegraph signals as solution of Schrödinger's time dependent equation let
       standard Copenhagen quantum mechanics emerge
     
D. Drakova (Univ. of Sofia) 
  C: Low-temperature motion of hydrogen on metal surfaces signals 
       breakdown of quantum mechanics in 3+1 dimensions

J.A. Dunningham (Univ. of Leeds) 
  T: Detecting the entanglement-mediated emergence of classical observables  
S.A. Emelyanov (Ioffe Inst., Russ. Acad. Sci., St. Petersburg) 
  T: Beyond relativistic spacetime: observation of  a macroscopic-scale 
       spatially discontinuous quantum dynamics    
  
J.D. Franson (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore) 
  T: Reduced photon velocities in a gravitational potential    
C. Furtado (Univ. Fed. da Paraíba, João Pessoa
  P: Holonomic quantum computation in the spacetime of topological defects 
G. Gervino (Univ. di Torino) 
  P: Powerlaw quantum distributions in protoneutron stars       
P.R.S. Gomes (Univ. de São Paulo
  T: On Ward identities in Lifshitz-like field theories     
S.Z Habib (DESY, Hamburg
__ N.N.     
P. Hajicek (Univ. Bern) 
  T: Realist model approach to quantum mechanics      
A. Iorio (Charles Univ. Prague
  T: Graphene as a laboratory to test quantum field theory in
       curved spacetimes 
  
J.M. Isidro (Univ. Politecnica, Valencia) 
  T: Emergent quantum mechanics as a classical irreversible thermodynamics       
H.G.J. Jennen (UNESP, São Paulo
__ N.N.     
P. Jizba (Czech Techn. Univ.  Prague)
  T: Statistical origin of special and doubly special relativity     
K. Jung (Univ. Kaiserslautern) 
  P: Is the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics really plausible?     
T.F. Kamalov (Moscow State Open Univ.) 
  C: Can de Broglie waves be considered the origin of gravity/inertia?       
I. Kanatchikov (Natl. Quantum Information Center, Gdansk) 
  C: Precanonical quantum gravity, quantum Dirac operator and some implications
M. Kavehnia (Azad Univ., Abadeh) 
  T: Simulation of a classical Hopfield network with 4 neurons and 12 connections
       to a quantum neural network     
  
G. Kordas (Univ. Heidelberg) 
  T: Mesoscopic coherence in open Bose-Einstein condensates       
V. Kornyak (LIT JINR, Dubna) 
  C: Quantum mechanics and permutation invariants of finite groups      
A.L. Krugly (Sci. Res. Inst. for Syst. Analys. - Russian Acad. Sci., Moscow)
  C: Examples of self-organization in causal set dynamics
A. Lahee (Springer Verlag, Heidelberg)
__ Books & journals exhibition     
G. Lambiase (Univ. di Salerno)
  P: Spin-rotation effects on bound systems
Y.-C. Liang (Univ. of Geneva
  T: On hidden supraluminal influences as explanation of nonlocal quantum correlations       
L. Lusanna (Univ. di Firenze) 
  T: On the transition from the quantum to the classical regime for massive scalar particles:
       a spatio-temporal approach
   
O. Lychkovskiy (Lancaster Univ. & ITEP, Moscow)
  T: Resolution into subsystems, decoherence and thermalization       
L. Maccone (Univ. di Pavia)
  T: Quantum measurement bounds: beyond the uncertainty relations      
N. Malossi (Univ. di Pisa) 
  T: Quantum driving of a two level system: quantum speed limit and high fidelity of
       super-adiabatic protocols. An experimental investigation.  
  
M. Man'ko (Lebedev Inst., Moscow)
  T: Tomographic entropy and information for classical and quantum states
D. McShane (Univ. of Aberdeen
__ N.N.  
E. Melas (Technolog. Inst. of Chalkida, Thiva)
  C: Quantization of the Schwarzschild geometry       
F. Mercati (Univ. of Nottingham
  P: Scale anomaly as the origin of time      
E. Minguzzi (Univ. di Firenze) 
  T: Topological ordered spaces as a foundation for a quantum spacetime theory      
L. Modesto (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo) 
  T: Super-renormalizable multidimensional quantum gravity     
S. Nagao (Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim Co., Tokyo) 
  P: Acceleration factor for propagation of a stationary wave in its wave medium:
       movement of energy in 3-D space
E. Okon (Inst. de Invest. Filosóoficas - UNAM, Coyoácan) 
  T: Is the Consistent Histories approach to QM consistent?       
A. Pachol (Univ. of Iceland, Reykjavik) 
  T: Planck scale physics - from noncommutative spacetimes point of view      
C. Palmisano (Univ. di Torino) 
  P: Resonant driving of (noisy) nonlinear systems      
F. Parisio (Univ. Fed. de Pernambuco, Recife) 
  T: Investigating the collapse time of quantum states         
F. Payandeh (Payame Noor Univ., Tabriz) 
  T: Anomalous magnetic moment of electron and Lamb shift in
       Krein space quantization  
  
I.A. Pedrosa (Univ. Fed. de Paraíba, João Pessoa)
  P: Coherent states of a nonstationary damped harmonic oscillator       
J. Polonyi (Univ. de Strasbourg) 
  T: Environment induced time arrow       
L. Reverberi (Univ. di Ferrara) 
  C: Astrophysics in  f(R) gravity: curvature singularities and particle production   
A. Sako (Kushiro Nat. College of Technology) 
  T: Noncommutative CP^N and CH^N and their physics       
M. Salari (Azad Univ., Shiraz) 
  P: Hyperthermia based on biological quantum states       
A. Salvio (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) 
  T: Magnetic response in the holographic insulator/superconductor transition
M. Sanduk (Univ. of Surrey, Guildford) 
  P: The classsical complex wave function in RxR Euclidean plane       
E. Santamato (Univ. di Napoli)
  T: Solving the nonlocality riddle by conformal quantum geometrodynamics  
F. Scardigli (Academia Sinica Taiwan) 
  T: Polycrystalline spacetime and the emergence of doubly special relativity   
D. Schuch (Goethe-Univ., Frankfurt am Main) 
  T: Generalized creation and annihilation operators via
       complex nonlinear Riccati equations    
  
D. Sudarsky (Univ. Nac. Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico) 
  T: Towards a formal description of the collapse approach to the inflationary origin of
       the seeds of cosmic structure   
  
R. Sverdlov (IMSc, Chennai) 
  T: Classical model of emergent QFT and gravity 
J. Tolar (Czech Techn. Univ., Prague
  T: Quantizations on the circle and uncertainty relations      
C.V. Usenko (Shevchenko Nat. Univ. of Kyiv)
  T: Entanglement and complexity of measurement       
P. Wallden (Univ. of Athens) 
  T: The co-event formulation of quantum theory and
       the distinction of pure initial states
S. Wimberger (Univ. Heidelberg) 
  T: Many-body dynamics in open ultra-cold atomic systems      
J. Yearsley (Univ. of Cambridge) 
  T: Investigations of quantum backflow       
G. Zavattini (Univ. di Ferrara) [PVLAS Collab.]  
  T: The PVLAS experiment: detecting vacuum magnetic birefringence      
J.X. Zheng-Johansson (IOFPR, Nykoping) 
  C: Inference of the Planck constant from first principles:
       (I) the universal constancy of ħ     
  
S. Zonetti (Univ. Catholique de Louvain) 
  C: Two-dimensional gravity and the quantized cosmological constant       

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Program 

SUNDAY, September 16th
Arrival at Castiglioncello
16:00 - 19:30     Registration at Castello Pasquini (conference site)
18:00 - 19:30     Informal reception with refreshments at Castello Pasquini

MONDAY, September 17th
Quantum Mechanics, Foundations and Quantum-Classical Border

 -- OPENING of WORKSHOP --    

Chair: B.-L. Hu
8:50  -- Wellcome --
  9:15 - 10:00
Y. Aharonov (Keynote Lecture)
10:00 - 10:30  GC. Ghirardi
 10:35 - 11:15
 -- Coffee Break --

Chair: C. Kiefer
11:15 - 11:45
G. Casati
11:45 - 12:05
J.A. Dunningham
12:05 - 12:35
L. Diosi
12:35 - 12:55
D. Bedingham
13:00 - 15:00
 -- Lunch at Ristorante Il Peschereccio --

Chair: L. Diosi
15:00 - 15:20
F. Parisio
15:20 - 15:50
F. Petruccione
15:50 - 16:20
I. Walmsley
16:30 - 17:10
 -- Coffee Break --

Chair: F. Petruccione
17:10 - 17:40
B. Cocciaro 
17:40 - 18:10
Y.-C. Liang
18:10 - 18:30
L. Lusanna

TUESDAY, September 18th
Quantum-Classical Hybrids and Many-Body Systems

Chair: I. Walmsley
  9:00 - 9:20
D. Bondar 
  9:20 - 9:50
B. Wu                                                                                         
  9:50 - 10:10 N. Buric
10:10 - 10:40
H.-T. Elze
  10:40 - 11:20 
 -- Coffee Break --

Chair: J. Louko
11:20 - 11:50
V.I. Man'ko
11:50 - 12:20
M. Reginatto
12:20 - 12:50
B.-L. Hu
13:00 - 15:00
 -- Lunch at Ristorante Il Peschereccio --

Chair: V. Man'ko
15:00 - 15:20
E. Del Giudice
15:20 - 15:40
A. Beige
15:40 - 16:00
S. Wimberger
16:00 - 16:20
G. Kordas
16:30 - 17:10
 -- Coffee Break --

Chair: M. Reginatto
17:10 - 17:30
C. Dharma-wardana 
17:30 - 17:50
M. Man'ko
17:50 - 18:10 A. De Ninno
18:10 - 18:30 O. Lychkovskiy


Castello Pasquini
21:00
SERATA DEDICATA AL PUBBLICO (public event)
"Nuovi orizzonti nella ricerca scientifica. Ci troviamo di fronte ad una rivoluzione scientifica?"

GC. Ghirardi (ICTP, Universitá di Trieste), E. Del Giudice (INFN, Universitá di Milano), F. Guerra (La Sapienza, Roma) - coordinatore: G. Vitiello  (Universitá di Salerno)


  
WEDNESDAY, September 19th
Quantum / Gravity / Spacetime

Chair: H.-T. Elze
 9:00 - 9:20 G. Doyen       
 9:20 - 9:50
G. Grössing                                                                                                                  
  9:50 - 10:10
J.M. Isidro
10:10 - 10:40
F. Guerra
10:40 - 11:20
 -- Coffee Break --

Chair: D. Sudarsky
11:20 - 11:50
R.D. Sorkin
11:50 - 12:10
E. Minguzzi
12:10 - 12:40
J. Barbour
12:40 - 13:00
C. Chryssomalakos
13:00 - 15:00
 -- Lunch at Ristorante Il Peschereccio --

Chair: E. Minguzzi
15:00 - 15:20
S.A. Emelyanov
15:20 - 15:35
L. Reverberi  
15:35 - 15:50
E. Melas
15:50 - 16:05
S. Zonetti
16:05 - 16:25
C. Bastos
16:25 - 16:45
A. Pachol
16:45 - 17:20
 -- Coffee Break --

Chair: C. Chryssomalakos
17:20 - 17:40
F. Scardigli
17:40 - 18:00
A. Salvio
18:00 - 18:15
I. Kanatchikov
18:15 - 18:30
A.L. Krugly


PARALLEL I
Quantum Foundations
Chair: N. Buric
 15:00 - 15:20
P. Hajicek
15:20 - 15:40
P. Wallden
15:40 - 16:00
E. Okon
16:00 - 16:20
A. Di Lorenzo 
16:20 - 16:40
M. Kavehnia cancelled
16:40 - 17:20  -- Coffee Break --

Chair: J. Isidro
17:20 - 17:40
R. Sverdlov
17:40 - 18:00
D. Dolce 
18:00 - 18:15
R.D. Bateson cancelled
18:15 - 18:30
B. Boroson
18:30 - 18:45
D. Drakova
18:45 - 19:00
J.X. Zheng-Johansson


PARALLEL II
Quantum Theoretical Developments
Chair: D. Schuch
15:00 - 15:20
F.M. De Aguiar 
15:20 - 15:35
V. Kornyak
15:35 - 15:50
T.F. Kamalov
15:50 - 16:10
J. Tolar
16:10 - 16:30
A. Sako
16:40 - 17:20
 -- Coffee Break --

Chair: D. Schuch
17:20 - 17:40
P.R.S. Gomes
17:40 - 17:55
P.F. Bienzobas
17:55 - 18:10
A.J. Da Silva
18:10 - 18:30
F. Payandeh                                                                                                                
 
THURSDAY, September 20th
  
Spectral Geometry, Path Integrals and Experiments 

Chair: G. Casati
9:00 - 9:30 M. Sakellariadou
  9:30 - 10:00 G. Vitiello
10:00 - 10:30 K.S. Gupta
10:40 - 11:20  -- Coffee Break --

Chair: R. Sorkin
11:20 - 11:40
L. Modesto
11:40 - 12:00
P. Jizba
12:00 - 12:20
J. Yearsley
12:20 - 12:50
J.J. Halliwell
13:00 - 15:00  -- Lunch at Ristorante Il Peschereccio --

Chair: G. Vitiello
15:00 - 15:20
A. Iorio
15:20 - 15:40
G. Zavattini 
15:40 - 16:10
H. Kleinert   
16:20 - 17:00  -- Coffee Break --

Chair: M. Sakellariadou
17:00 - 17:20
J.D. Franson
17:20 - 17:50
N. Mavromatos
17:50 - 18:20
E. Medinaceli


19:30  -- Reception / Aperitivo al Ristorante l'Astragalo -- 
20:30  -- Conference Dinner / Cena sociale al Ristorante l'Astragalo --


FRIDAY, September 21st
  
QM on all Scales?

Chair: G. Grössing   
 9:00 - 9:20 D. Schuch
  9:20 - 9:40  R. Cabrera
   9:40 - 10:10
E. Santamato
10:10 - 10:30
C.V. Usenko
10:40 - 11:20  -- Coffee Break --

Chair: J. Franson
11:20 - 11:40
N. Malossi
11:40 - 12:00
L. Maccone
12:00 - 12:30
M. Genovese
12:30 - 13:00
E. Prati
13:00 - 14:30  -- Lunch at Ristorante Il Peschereccio --

Chair: B. Wu
14:30 - 14:50
M. Blasone
14:50 - 15:20
J. Louko
15:20 - 15:50
D. Sudarsky
15:50 - 16:20  -- Coffee Break --

Chair: H.-T. Elze
16:20 - 16:50
C. Kiefer
16:50 - 17:20
J. Polonyi 
17:20 - 17:50
X.-G. Wen

-- CLOSING of WORKSHOP --   

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Proceedings

Proceedings of DICE2012 will be published in Journ. Phys.: Conf. Ser.  by IOP - 
instructions will be given here at the time of the meeting!

Proceedings of DICE2010 in: 
Journal of Ph
ysics: Conference Series, 306 (2011)
H.-T. Elze, L. Diosi, L. Fronzoni, J.J. Halliwell, J. Yearsley, E. Prati and G. Vitiello (eds.)
- free access at http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/306/1      
 
 
   
Proceedings of DICE2008 in: 
Journal of Ph
ysics: 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 Ph
ysics: 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)

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Registration

The number of participants is limited at 100.
 
Registration procedure: 

1. Please, send an e-mail to H.-Thomas Elze, elze@df.unipi.it
    which includes:
    a) your NAME / AFFILIATION / ADDRESS where to send procceedings
    b) indication if you are a STUDENT

    c) preliminary TITLE / ABSTRACT for contributed paper, if any
          talk / poster presentations will be selected by organizers based on abstracts
          submitted until DEADLINE of July 15th
.

    d) number of accompanying persons, if any, and arrival / departure dates

2. Registration Fee:  270EU (students 200EU; accompanying persons 150EU).
    The fee will be charged in cash, at the registration desk. - It covers receptions,
    coffee breaks, lunches, conference dinner, conference material, and proceedings.  

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Conference Site

The conference will take place at Castello Pasquini in Castiglioncello (Tuscany),
which is described, for example, on WIKIPEDIA!  A browser search for Castello Pasquini
or Castiglioncello is also fruitfull. 






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Accommodation (Travel advise below) 

Participants (except invited speakers) are kindly requested to reserve their
accommodation
by direct contact with a chosen hotel - i.e.,
as soon as possible, when the room rates appear in the list
ing below.

PLEASE, mention in all correspondence with a hotel that you are
participant of Convegno DICE2012, September 17-21, at Castello Pasquini
and the indicated room rate!
(The local tax "tassa di soggiorno" of EU 0.5 per person x day x no. of hotel *'s 
 will be added by the hotel.)

All hotels, with one indicated exception, are about 200-400 m away
from the conference site.
Conference rates for Single / Double Rooms per night, incl. breakfast:
(triple rooms to be requested at the hotel)

Albergo Miramare ***  EU 75 / 95
(access to beach)
http://www.albergo-miramare.it  
info@albergo-miramare.it    

Hotel Corallo ***  EU 65 / 80
(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 80 / 110
http://www.toscanatoscana.it
hotelleopoldo@tin.it  

Hotel Tirreno ***  EU 65 / 90
http://www.hotel-tirreno.com
info@hoteltirreno.info   
 
Hotel Baia del Sorriso ***  EU 60 / 80
(about 800 m from Castello Pasquini, yet beautiful location)
http://www.baiadelsorriso.com
info@baiadelsorriso.com

Hotel Martini ****  EU 90 / 120
(modern, luxurious style)
http://www.villamartini.it
info@villamartini.it
 
Hotel Park ***  EU 50 / 71
http://www.hotel-park.it
info@hotel-park.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,
can 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  



 
DOMUS GALILÆANA - Pisa -


 

Centro Interdisciplinare per lo Studio dei Sistemi Complessi
Universita di Pisa
 
     


           
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
Universita di Salerno    
 
iisf - Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici          
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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
 





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