We are organizing a five-day workshop with eight invited speakers and a few contributed papers. The choice of specific topics is open to the speakers. The philosophy behind the topic should be chosen to elicit discussions on the key issues being raised by this workshop:
All measurable observations are preceded by some physical interaction processes between some interactants, whether directly observable or not. Hence, hypotheses leading to a successful predictive theory should facilitate the conceptual visualization of the invisible processes that are being modeled.
Alternately, support the platform that the goal of physics is only to predict the final outcome that we can measure. We should not be concerned about understanding and visualizing the interaction processes.
Or, any new position that is explicitly defined at the outset.
The invited speakers are requested to prepare two inter-related talks on one major theme of their choice. A total of 3 hours (consecutive or separate speaking slots with normal breaks) will be allotted for each speaker. The speakers are urged to make the presentations as tutorials, suitable for graduate students. The presentations should be constructed to entice questions and discussions from the audience. In fact, it may be worth to reserve one third of the total time slot for questions and discussions.
Dr. Albrecht Giese genmail@a-giese.de
Alemania
Taxusweg 15, 22605 Hamburg
From Atoms to Nucleons to Quarks - Where is the Particle Physics Going?
Dr. Chary Rangacharyulu Chary.r@usask.ca
Canada
University of Saskatchewan
Lamps, Lasers and Detectors - Misconceptions in the Interpretation of Classical Experiments on Light and: The Photon - More Physical Reality than so far
Assumed?
Dr. Karl Otto Greulich kog@fli-leibniz.de
Alemania
Fritz Lipmann Institute
Dr. Manuel Fernández Guasti mfg@xanum.uam.mx
México
Laboratorio de Óptica Cuántica, Departamento de Física, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa
