Mini-Symposium Quantum Boundaries: Gravity-Related Collapse Models

Place: 
Frascati
Date: 
December, 2021

With the support of John Templeton Foundation, the FQXi Foundational Questions Institute and TEQ, Catalina Curceanu, partner and Press Officer of the TEQ Consortium, organized and chaired the "Mini-Symposium Quantum Boundaries: Gravity-Related Collapse Models". The event, that took place in December 2021 at the INFN premises in Frascati aimed at discussing collapse models proposed as a solution of the measurement problem in quantum mechanics. In particular, gravity-related collapse models were discussed, together with experimental signatures, such as (but not only) the spontaneous radiation predicted by these models.

The program of the event was as follows:

10:00 - 10:20 Catalina Curceanu: Welcome to quantum physics and collapse models (poor Schrodinger cat!)
10:20 - 10:50 Lajos Diosi: Introduction to gravity related collapse models
10:50 - 11:10 Sandro Donadi: Radiation emission in the CSL and the DP models
11:10 - 11:30 Maaneli Derakhshani: Comments on gravitational cat states.

11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 - 12:30 Kristian Piscicchia: Experimental search for collapse signals at Gran Sasso
12:30 - 13:00 Round table - discussion and future plans

 

Further info on the event at 

Mini-Symposium Quantum Boundaries: Gravity-Related Collapse Models (22 December 2021): Scientific Programme · Agenda (Indico) (infn.it)