2023 Schedule

Monday, July 17, 2023

8:45 – 9:15 a.m. | Welcome and Introduction

9:15 – 10:45 a.m. | “Dual-Aspect Monism and the Deep Structure of Meaning.”

10:45 – 11:00 a.m. |Break

11:00 – 12:30 p.m. | “QBism, or How the Quantum World Expresses Itself Normatively”

  • Christopher Fuchs, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

12:30-1:00 p.m. | Break

1:00-2:00 p.m. | Open discussion

2:00-4:30 p.m. | Afternoon Workshop: “Barad’s Quantum Philosophy and Qualitative Research Methods”

  • Natasha Mauthner, Newcastle University, UK

In parallel with Afternoon Math Tutorial – Foundations:

  • Part 1 (2:00 – 3:00 PM): Motivation: Quantum tic-tac-toe (Jakub Tesar, Charles University, Prague)
  • Part 2 (3:30 – 4:30 PM): Linear Algebra 1: Vector Spaces, Complex Numbers and Quantum Measurements (Michael Schnabel, Vanderbilt University, USA)

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

9:00 – 10:30 a.m. | “Quantum Music: On Metaphor and Meaning”

  • Kathryn Schaffer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

10:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Break

11:00 – 12:30 p.m. | Consciousness Beyond Spacetime and Quantum Theory”

  • Donald Hoffmann, University of California, Irvine, USA

12:30-1:00 p.m. | Break

1:00-2:00 p.m. | Open discussion

2:00-4:30 p.m. | Afternoon Workshop: “Barad’s Quantum Philosophy and Qualitative Research Methods”

  • Natasha Mauthner, Newcastle University, UK

In parallel with Afternoon Math Tutorial – Fundamentals:

  • Part 1 (2:00 – 3:00 PM): Quantum Physics: Experiments that led to quantum physics (Jakub Tesar, Charles University, Prague)
  • Part 2 (3:30 – 4:30 PM): Linear Algebra 2: Classical vs. Quantum Probability, Quantum Entanglement (Michael Schnabel, Vanderbilt University, USA)

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

9:00 – 10:30 a.m. | Why Quantum Cognition?”

  • Emmanuel Pothos, City University London, UK

10:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Break

11:00 – 12:30 p.m. | Empirical Testing of Quantum Cognition Models”

  • Joyce Wang, The Ohio State University, USA

12:30-1:00 p.m. | Break

1:00-2:00 p.m. | Open discussion

2:00-4:30 p.m. | Afternoon Workshop

  • Alex Wendt, The Ohio State University, USA

Discussants

  • Morgan Liu, The Ohio State University, USA
  • Benjamin McKean, The Ohio State University, USA
  • Michael Murphy, Queens University, Canada

Thursday, July 20, 2023

9:00 – 10:30 a.m. | Thoughts About What the Quantum-like Contextuality of Cognitive Phenomena Might Say About the Nature of Human Cognition”

  • Peter Bruza, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

10:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Break

11:00 – 12:30 p.m. | “Quantum Cognition and Language Processing”

  • Dominic Widdows, IonQ

12:30-1:00 p.m. | Break

1:00-2:00 p.m. | Open discussion

2:00-4:30 p.m. | Afternoon Math Tutorial – Quantum Cognition

  • Part 1 (2:00 – 3:00 PM): Intro to Quantum Cognition (Joyce Wang, The Ohio State University, USA)
  • Part 2 (3:30 – 4:30 PM): Linear Algebra 3: Eigenvectors, Observables and Quantum Dynamics (Michael Schnabel, Vanderbilt University, USA)

Friday, July 21, 2023

9:00 – 10:30 a.m. | “The Holographic World: A Quantum Perspective on International Relations”

  • Chengxin Pan, University of Macau, China

10:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Break

11:00 – 12:30 p.m. | Action and Change in Quantum International Relations

  • Bentley Allan, Johns Hopkins University

12:30-1:00 p.m. | Break

1:00 – 2:00 p.m. | Open discussion

2:00-3:30 p.m. | Math Tutorial – Quantum Games

  • Intro to Quantum Game Theory (Jakub Tesar, Charles University, Prague)

3:30-4:00 p.m. | Conclusion of the bootcamp