Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle: An International Conference in Honour of Abner Shimony
Perimeter Institute will host an international conference from July 18-21, 2006, in honour of Abner Shimony, one of the most eminent physicist-philosophers of our time. Professor Shimony is renowned for his contribution to the famous Bell-CHSH inequality and for many other contributions in the foundations of physics and philosophy.
Talks and discussions will cover a wide range of subjects within physics and philosophy, including theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum entanglement and non-locality, relativistic causality, quantum measurement problem, probability theory, temporal transience, the mind-body problem, and scientific realism.
Speakers:
Invited Speakers:
| Ronald Anderson | Boston College, MA | Jon Jarrett | University of Illinois |
| Alain Aspect | CNRS, Orsay, France | Adrian Kent | University of Cambridge |
| Paul Busch | PI & University of York | Anthony Leggett | University of Illinois |
| Domenico Costantini | Univ. of Bologna | Shimon Malin | Colgate University, NY |
| Andrew Frenkel | Hungarian Acad. of Sci. | N. David Mermin | Cornell University |
| Edward Fry | Texas A & M University | Philip Pearle | Hamilton College, NY |
| Christopher Fuchs | Bell Laboratories | Sandu Popescu | University of Bristol |
| Daniel Greenberger | City College of New York | Steven Savitt | Univ. of British Columbia |
| Lucien Hardy | Perimeter Institute | Yan Hua Shih | University of Maryland |
| William Harper | Univ. of Western Ontario | Abner Shimony | Boston University |
| Geoffrey Hellman | Univ. of Minnesota | Lee Smolin | Perimeter Institute |
| Michael Horne | Stonehill College, MA | Anton Zeilinger | Univ. of Vienna |
Advisory Committee:
Robert Batterman (UWO), Paul Busch (PI), Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge), Lucien Hardy (PI), and William Harper (UWO)