Université de Genève
Ecole de physique - Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire
24, Quai Ernest-Ansermet
1211 GENEVE 4
Tél: (022) 379 62 73 - Fax: (022) 379 69 92
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
at 17.00 – Grand auditoire
Testing the limits of quantum mechanics: motivation,state of play,prospects
by Prof. A.J. Leggett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
I present the motivation for experiments which attempt to generate, and verify the existence of quantum superpositions of two or more states which are by some reasonable criterion "macroscopically" distinct, and show that various a priori objections to this program made in the literature are flawed. I review the extent to which such experiments currently exist in the areas of free-space molecular diffraction, magnetic biomolecules, quantum optics and Josephson devices, and sketch possible future lines of development of the program.
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
at 17.00 – Stückelberg Auditorium
Gravity : an Emergent Perspective
by Prof. Thanu Padmanabhan, Pune University Dean, Ganeshkhind, Pune, India
Information:
http://theory.physics.unige.ch/~fiteo/seminars/COL/collist.html
by TS Department