Program on Friday, July 15, 2011


9:15 Welcome (Sonja Smets)

9:20 Invited Lecture
Samson Abramsky: The Structure of Non-Locality and Contextuality
Samson Abramsky

10:20 Coffee Break

10:50 Information, Cognition and Meaning

  • Adam Brandenburger and Pierfrancesco La Mura: An Information-Theoretic Description of Quantum Mechanics
  • Jerome Busemeyer and Jennifer Trueblood: Theoretical and Empirical Reasons for Considering the Application of Quantum Probability to Human Cognition
  • Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Edward Grefenstette, Stephen Clark, Bob Coecke and Stephen Pulman: Categorical Quantum Pictorialism Depicts Meanings of Sentences

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Invited Lecture
Adam Brandenburger: Quantum Decision Theory
(joint work with Pierfrancesco La Mura)
Adam Brandenburger

15:00 Tea Break

15.30 Games

  • Peter Hammond: Laboratory Games and Quantum Behaviour: The Normal Form
  • Yohan Pelosse: The Intrinsic Quantum Nature of Nash Equilibrium Mixtures

16.40 Round Table Discussion

17.00 Closing of the Workshop