Quantum Foundations Summer School - Registration Now Open (Modified by ICTP info point)

[Angela Robinson]

Perimeter Institute in Canada is hosting a Quantum Foundations Summer  
School (QFSS) this summer from August 27th to 31st.   This is a new  
opportunity for your Graduate Students to learn about Quantum  
Foundations and enjoy a visit to Perimeter Institute for Theoretical  
Physics.
 
The Institute will host up to 40 Graduate Students with all expenses  
paid – including international travel, a per diem, a banquet, and  
accommodation.  Applications are encouraged from all Graduate Students  
studying in any area of fundamental physics (string theory, particle  
physics, cosmology, quantum gravity, quantum information and other  
disciplines). 
 
Eligible students must apply by Sunday, May 20, 2007.  The details  
appear below and are also available online at  
www.quantumfoundations.ca.   I would be very grateful if you were to  
share this information directly with all your Graduate Students by:
 
1.       Forwarding this email to them
 
2.       Posting the text (below) on your website, intranet and in  
newsletters
 
3.       Downloading and hanging the poster located at
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Events/ 
Quantum_Foundations_Summer_School/QFSS_Posters/
 
The QFSS offers participants from a wide variety of disciplines  
throughout theoretical physics a chance to learn about the exciting  
research underway in the area of Quantum Foundations and to enjoy an  
all expenses paid visit to Canada’s Perimeter Institute.  Thank you in  
advance for sharing this new opportunity with your students.
 
Respectfully,
 
Lucien Hardy
Faculty Member
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
31 Caroline Street North
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
lhardy at perimeterinstitute.ca
www.perimeterinstitute.ca
 
 
Quantum Foundations Summer School (QFSS)
 
Graduate Students in theoretical physics are encouraged to apply to  
attend the new Quantum Foundations Summer School (QFSS) this summer at  
Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI).  The event  
will be held from August 27th to 31st, 2007.   
 
The Institute will host up to 40 Graduate Students with all expenses  
paid – including international travel, a per diem, a banquet, and  
accommodation. 
 
Applications are encouraged from all Graduate Students working in all  
areas of fundamental physics (including particle physics, string  
theory, cosmology, quantum gravity, quantum information as well as  
other disciplines). Places at the school will be awarded to the highest  
ranked students applying independently of research specialty. 
 
The deadline for applications is May  20th 2007.  Successful applicants  
will be notified shortly afterwards.   Applications are to be made  
online at www.quantumfoundations.ca.
 
About QFSS
 
The school offers participants the chance to learn about the exciting  
research underway in the area of Quantum Foundations and to enjoy an  
all expenses paid visit to Canada’s Perimeter Institute. 
 
In Quantum Foundations one seeks to recognize, analyze, and resolve the  
conceptual tensions within various frameworks and theories in  
fundamental physics, where quantum theory is or might be applied, with  
the aim of developing or replacing existing physical theories.  
 
Lectures at the school will cover some or all of the following  
subjects:  The measurement problem, Bell’s theorem and entanglement,  
the time-symmetric formulation of quantum theory and weak measurements,  
decoherence and emergence of classicality,  foundational issues in   
quantum gravity, quantum foundations in the light of quantum  
information, operational formulations of quantum theory,  macroscopic  
quantum interference, interpretations of quantum theory. 
 
The school will comprise approximately 10 two-hour lectures.  In  
addition, students will be divided into small tutorial groups (of two  
or three) and assigned a tutor for the duration of the school.  
 
The lecturers include:
 
	▪ 	Jeremy Butterfield
	▪ 	Chris Fuchs
	▪ 	Chris Isham*
	▪ 	Adrian Kent
	▪ 	Tony Leggett*
	▪ 	Sandu Popescu
	▪ 	Ben Schumacher*
	▪ 	Rob Spekkens
	▪ 	Wojciech Zurek*
 
 (* provisionally accepted)
 
Organizers:
 
	▪ 	Howard Burton, Executive Director of Perimeter Institute
	▪ 	Lucien Hardy, Faculty, Perimeter Institute
 
 
Additional information about Perimeter Institute can be found online at  
www.perimeterinstitute.ca.