22nd KMC: Emergence of the Classical (2018)
In 2018 the Krakow Methodological Conferences was devoted to the emergence of the classical world from the microscopic quantum phenomena.
Programme:
October 11
Henryk Arodź Ehrenfest’s theorem revisited
Klaus Fredenhagen The operator product of quantum observables
Shahn Majid Emergence of Riemannian structure from noncommutative differentials
Fedele Lizzi Points, lack thereof
Józef Spałek Macroscopic wave function: Decoherence versus spontaneous symmetry breakdown
Karol Życzkowski On the classical limit of quantum theory: Why we do not see Schrödinger cats everyday?
Mariusz Dąbrowski Anthropic selection of physical constants, quantum entanglement and the multiverse
Bogdan Dembiński The theory of ideas and Plato’s philosophy of mathematics
October 12
Stanisław Krajewski What makes the universal and existential quantifiers classical?
Jerzy Król Himalayan topology for parameters of physics
Marek Kuś Quantum entanglement and emergence of the classical Leibnitz’s principle of the identity of indiscernibles
Ryszard Horodecki Quantum Darwinism versus spectrum broadcast structure
More info, including the abstracts of talks, can be found on the conference website.
Picture: William Blake Isaac Newton (1795)