DPG Physics School 2008
supported by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus - Foundation

Foundations of Quantum Physics

Harald Fritzsch, University of Munich, & Anton Zeilinger, University of Vienna

• Markus Arndt, University of Vienna, Austria
  I: Decoherence & dephasing in matter wave interferometry: bad guys or friends?
  II: Matter wave interferometry with complex molecules
• Markus Aspelmeyer, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Vienna, Austria
  Schrödinger's Mirrors: Quantum experiments with massive micromechanical systems
• Iwo Bialynicki-Birula, Warsaw University, Poland
  Space-time description of squeezing and entanglement of photons
• Philippe Grangier, Institut d'Optique, Palaiseau, France
  Experimental tests of Bell's inequalities: from early experiments towards loophole-free tests (2 talks)
• Harald Grosse, University of Vienna, Austria
  Quantum Physics on Deformed Space-Time
• Harald Fritzsch, University of Munich, Germany
  Fundamental Constants in Physics
• David Mermin, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
  What has quantum mechanics to do with factoring? Things I wish they had told me about Shor's amazing algorithm.
• Dieter Meschede, Bonn University, Germany
  Single Particles in Quantum Mechanics
• Gernot Münster, University of Münster, Germany
  Mass generation in QCD and in the Standard Model (2 talks)
• Hermann Nicolai, Einstein Institute Golm, Germany
  Quantum Phenomena and Gravity
• Chris Quigg, Fermilab, USA
  Mass, Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, and Physics at the Fermi Scale (2 talks)
• Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, Ulm University, Germany
  Quantum Information Processing with Ions
• Abner Shimony, University of Boston, USA
  Philosophical Implications of Quantum Mechanics
• Gerard 't Hooft, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
  Hilbert Space in deterministic theories (2 talks)
• Reinhard Werner, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
  Einstein and the minimal statistical interpretation
• Anton Zeilinger, University of Vienna & Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austria
  Foundations of quantum physics. Are there open questions?

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