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Schedule

Sunday, September 27

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopicLocation
 8:30 - 9:30 AMRegistration Atrium
 Session Chair: Robert Spekkens
 9:30 - 10:30 AMN. David Mermin, Cornell UniversityConfusing Ontic and Epistemic Causes Trouble in Classical Physics TooMike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 10:30 - 11:00 AMCoffee Break Black Hole Bistro
 11:00 AM – 12:00 PMLeslie Ballentine, Simon Fraser UniversityThe Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and its Relation to Probability TheoryMike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 12:00 – 2:00 PMLunch Black Hole Bistro
 Session Chair: Terry Rudolph
 2:00 – 3:00 PMRüdiger Schack, Royal HollowayThe reflection principle and quantum Bayesian decoherenceMike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 3:00 - 4:00 PMChristopher Timpson, University of OxfordOntology of the quantum state: wavefunction vs spacetime state realismMike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 4:00 - 4:30 PMCoffee Break Black Hole Bistro
 4:30 - 5:30 PMHoward Wiseman, Griffith UniversityWhat de Broglie--Bohm Mechanics tells us about the Nature of the Quantum StateMike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre

Monday, September 28

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopicLocation
 Session Chair: Lucien Hardy
 9:30-10:30 AMTerry Rudolph, Imperial CollegeDoes knowing my lambda mean knowing my psi?Mike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 10:30-11:00 AMCoffee Break
 Black Hole Bistro
 11:00AM – 12:00 PMCaslav Brukner, University of ViennaWhat are the costs of dealing with "states of reality" in quantum theory?Mike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 12:00 – 2:00 PMLunch Black Hole Bistro
 Session Chair: Robin Blume-Kohout
12:00 – 3:00 PMAlberto Montina, Perimeter InstituteDoes the wave-function concern information or reality? Further progress towards an answerMike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 3:00-4:00 PMTravis Norsen, Marlboro CollegeA Pilot Wave(s) Theory of Exclusively Local BeablesMike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 4:00-4:30 PMCoffee Break Black Hole Bistro
 Session Chair: Stephen Bartlett
 4:30-5:00 PMBrian La Cour,
University of Texas, Austin		Reconciling the ontic and epistemic views in quantum contextuality
Mike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre

Tuesday, September 29

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopicLocation
 Session Chair: Dean Rickles
 10:00-10:30 AMChristopher Fuchs,
Perimeter Institute		Texas-Bavarian Home Cooking:  A Quantum Bayesian Reply to Bell’s (and Norsen’s) la Nouvelle CuisineMike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 10:30-11:00 AMCoffee Break Black Hole Bistro
 11:00AM – 12:00 PMNelson Pinto-Neto, ICRA - CentroBohmian Quantum CosmologyMike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 12:00 – 2:00 PMLunch Black Hole Bistro
 Session Chair: Rafael Sorkin
 2:00 – 3:00 PMPhilip Pearle, University of HamiltonTopics in dynamic wave function collapseMike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 3:00-3:30 PMSamuel Colin,
Griffith University		Dynamical origin of quantum probabilities revisitedMike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 3:30-5:30 PMPoster Session(coffee will be served during this time)Atrium
 7:00 PMBanquet Dinner Black Hole Bistro

Wednesday, September 30

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopicLocation
 Session Chair: Ward Struyve
 9:30 - 10:30 AMSheldon Goldstein, Rutgers UniversityReality and the Role of the Wave Function in Quantum MechanicsMike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 10:30 - 11:00 AMCoffee Break   
 Black Hole Bistro
 11:00AM – 12:00 PMAntony Valentini, Imperial CollegeThe nature of the wave function in de Broglie's pilot-wave theoryMike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 12:00 – 2:00 PMLunch Black Hole Bistro
 Session Chair: Robert Spekkens
 2:00 – 3:30 PMYakir Aharonov, Tel Aviv UniversityOn the 2-vector re-formulation of quantum mechanicsMike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 3:30 - 4:00 PMCoffee Break Black Hole Bistro
 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Panel DiscussionChair: Robert SpekkensMike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre

Thursday, October 1

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopicLocation
 Session Chair: Owen Maroney
 9:30 - 10:30 AMGian-Paolo Beretta, Università di BresciaMechanics and Thermodynamics can be fundamentally united by density operators with an ontic status obeying a locally maximum entropy production dynamics. But at what price?Mike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 10:30 - 11:00 AMCoffee Break Black Hole Bistro
 11:00 AM – 12:00 PMRobin Blume-Kohout, Perimeter InstituteQuantum Knowledge
Mike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 12:00 – 2:00 PMLunch Black Hole Bistro
 Session Chair: Hans Westman
 2:00 – 2:30 PMDean Rickles, University of SydneyCorrelations all the way Down?Mike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 2:30 - 3:00 PMHoward Barnum,
Perimeter Institute		Probabilities from Quantum States, or Quantum States from Probabilities?Mike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 3:00 - 3:30 PMCoffee Break Black Hole Bistro
 3:30 - 4:00 PMPhilip Goyal,
Perimeter Institute		Quantum Theory from Complementarity, and its ImplicationsMike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 4:00 - 4:30 PMKen Wharton,
San Jose State U.		Mapping classical fields to quantum stateMike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre

Friday, October 2

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopicLocation
 Session Chair: Chris Fuchs 
 9:30 - 10:30 AMDaniel Terno, Macquarie UniversityWhat does relativity tells us about quantum theory?Mike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 10:30 - 11:00 AMCoffee Break Black Hole Bistro
 11:00 AM – 12:00 PMStephen Bartlett, University of SydneyEpistemic versus ontic interpretations of the state of quantum systems in the presence of closed timelike curvesMike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 12:00 – 2:00 PMLunch Black Hole Bistro
 Session Chair: Hans Westman
 2:00 – 3:00 PMPanel DiscussionChair: Hans WestmanMike Lazaridis Lecture Theatre
 
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