Center for Philosophy
 and History of Science

BOSTON COLLOQUIUM

FOR

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Foundations

of

Quantum Information

and Entanglement

March 24-25, 2006

The Photonics Center

Colloquium Room, 9th Floor,

8 St. Mary's St.

Boston MA USA

Organizers:
Alisa Bokulich (CAS Philosophy)
Gregg Jaeger (CGS and QI Lab)

(Past BCHPS Colloquia)

 Quantum Imaging Laboratory

Abner Shimony, Boston University
Opening Remarks

Moderator: Alisa Bokulich, Boston University

Don Howard, University of Notre Dame
The Early History of Entanglement: 1905-1935.

Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth College
Entanglement as an Observer-Dependent Notion: Entanglement and
Subsystems, Entanglement Beyond Subsystems, and All That

Sandu Popescu, University of Bristol, Royal Fort
Nonlocality Beyond Quantum Mechanics

March 24

Friday Afternoon Session, 2-5 p.m.

Moderator: Gregg Jaeger, Boston University

Leah Henderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quantum Information and Entropy

Chris Timpson, University of Leeds
Information, Immaterialism, Instrumentalism: Old and New in Quantum Information

Wojciech Zurek, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Probabilities from Entanglement: Born's Rule from Invariance

March 25

Saturday Morning Session, 9 a.m.-noon

Moderator: Alisa Bokulich, Boston University

Wayne Myrvold, University of Western Ontario
There and Back Again: From Physics to Information Theory and Back

Hans Halvorson, Princeton University
Otherworldly Information Theory

Lucien Hardy, The Perimeter Institute
Beyond Quantum Theory: Information and Entanglement in General
Probabilistic Frameworks

March 25

Saturday Afternoon Session, 2-5 p.m.

Moderator: Gregg Jaeger, Boston University

Adrian Kent, The Perimeter Institute
Relations between Cryptographic and Physical Principles

Jeffrey Bub, University of Maryland
Quantum Computation: Where Does the Speed-up Come From?

Felix Tiefenbacher (representing Anton Zeilinger), Universität Wien
Experimental Quantum Communication and Quantum Computation with
Entangled Photons