Foundations of Quantum Information and Entanglement
(Co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation)

Friday Morning Session, 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Opening Remarks: Abner Shimony, Boston University
Moderator: Alisa Bokulich, Boston University
Don Howard, University of Notre Dame
The Early History of Quantum 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

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

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

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?
Anton Zeilinger, Universität Wien
Experimental Quantum Communication and Quantum Computation with Entangled Photons

Friday and Saturday
March 24–25, 2006

Boston University
The Photonics Center
Colloquium Room,
9th Floor
8 St. Mary’s Street