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Robert W. Spekkens Senior faculty Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics 31 Caroline St. North, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 2Y5, Canada |
News:
- January 10, 2016:
The book that Giulio Chiribella and I co-edited is out. It collects together fourteen original contributions from leading experts in the field, covering some of the most promising research directions that have emerged in the new wave of quantum foundations.
- June 2, 2013: Causal Structure in Quantum Theory Workshop
Lluis Masanes and I co-organized this weeklong quantum foundations workshop in Benasque, Spain.
- November 30, 2012: FQXI Essay Contest Winner
I've won first prize in the 2012 FQXI Essay contest "Questioning the Foundations: Which of Our Assumptions Are Wrong?" for my essay The Paradigm of Kinematics and Dynamics Must Yield to Causal Structure
- September 25, 2012:
My student Iman Marvian has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Iman!
- January 1, 2012:
Katja Ried has joined my research group as a PhD student. Welcome Katja!
- May 9, 2011: Quantum Foundations Conference at PI
The conference Conceptual Foundations and Foils for Quantum Information Processing takes place at Perimeter Institute. Organizers: Giulio Chiribella, Anne Broadbent and myself.
- January 1, 2011:
Jonathan Barrett, Stefano Pironio, Lluis Massanes and myself have been awarded an FQXI grant in Time and Foundations for a project entitled Time and the Structure of Quantum Theory
- May 1, 2010:
My opinion piece with Lucien Hardy entitled "Why Physics Needs Quantum Foundations" has been published as Physics in Canada 66, 73 (2010)
- April 21, 2010: NSERC grant
My application for an NSERC Discovery grant was successful.
- March 15, 2010:
My paper with Howard Barnum, Jonathan Barrett, Lisa Orloff Clark, Matthew Leifer, Nicholas Stepanik, Alex Wilce and Robin Wilke entitled "Entropy and information causality in general probabilistic theories" has been published as New J. Phys. 12, 033024 (2010).
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