Vigier VII SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM - July 12th to July 14th 2010
Celebrating the 90th Birthday of Jean-Pierre Vigier, London, UK
All Sessions will be at IMPERIAL COLLEGE, London, UK
Lecture Theatre 308 in the Huxley Building
MONDAY JULY 12th
8:30 to 9:30 REGISTRATION
9:15 - 9:30 Opening Remarks, R.L. Amoroso - Symposium Chair
SESSION IA - Chairman Stanley Jeffers
1) 9:30 - 10:30 Keynote Address - Lou Kaufman
KNOTS, BRAIDS AND ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
2) 10:30 - 11:00 W.M. Stuckey, Michael Silberstein & Timothy McDevitt
RELATIONAL BLOCKWORLD: A PATH INTEGRAL BASED INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break
3) 11:15 - 11:45 Michael Ibison & Eric Katerman
AN ELEMENTARY PATH INTEGRAL LINK INVARIANT FROM A CLASSICAL ELECTROMAGNETIC DIRECT ACTION IMPLEMENTATION OF AN AHARANOV-BOHM DETECTOR
4) 11:45 - 12:15 Marco Pereira
THE HYPERGEOMETRICAL UNIVERSE: COSMOLOGY & STANDARD MODEL
5) 12:15 - 13:00 J.E. Carroll
CLASSICAL PHOTON 'NUMBER STATES' AND 'PILOT WAVES' HIDDEN IN MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS
13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
SESSION IB - Chairman Michael Ibison
6) 14:00 - 15:00 Keynote Address - Walter Schemp
PRECISION RELATIVISTIC GRAVITATIONAL RED SHIFT MEASUREMENT FROM MATTER WAVE TABLETOP TIMING TO PULSAR TIMING
7) 15:00 - 15:30 OPEN SLOT
(To be Announced)
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee Break
SESSION IC - Chairman Mark Stuckey
8) 15:45 - 16:15 Nils H. Abramson
APPEARANCE OF OBJECTS AT RELATIVISTIC VELOCITIES, A HOLOGRAPHIC APPROACH
9) 16:15 - 16:45 Ludwik Kostro
THE PHYSICAL MEANING OF THE COEFFICIENTS cn/G, (n = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) THAT APPEAR IN THE EQUATIONS OF GENERAL RELATIVITY AND THE STANDARD MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE
10) 16:45 - 17:45 Keynote Address - Avshalom Elitzur
HIDDEN "ELEMENTS OF REALITY" QUANTUM-MECHANICAL AND RELATIVISTIC REFLECTIONS
17:45 - 18:00 AWARD CEREMONY - Avshalom Elitzur, 2010 recipient
The Noetic Medal of Consciousness and Brain Research
TUESDAY July 13th - Theatre 308 Huxley Building
SESSION IIA - Chairman - Nils Abramson
11) 9:00 - 9:30 Paul Bruney
EXPERIMENTS ON TIME-TRANSITION USING QUANTUM TUNNELING AND THE NATURE OF TIME
12) 9:30 - 10:00 Josee R. Croca
TUNNELING TIMES
13) 10:00 - 10:30 HE, Guang Ping
SCHEME FOR EXPERIMENTAL TEST ON SOME ASPECTS OF QUANTUM INTERPRETATION THEORIES
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break
SESSION IIB - Chairman - Josee R. Croca
14) 10:45 - 11:15 Doris Kiekeben (Kiekhöven)
FIRST PRINCIPLES AND THE CODE OF NATURE
15) 11:15 - 11:45 Sergey M. Korotaev & Evgeniy O. Kiktenko
CAUSAL ANALYSIS OF THE QUANTUM STATES
16) 11:45 - 12:15 Volodymyr Krasnoholovets
INERTON FIELDS: VERY NEW IDEAS ON FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS
12:15 - 13:30 LUNCH
SESSION IIC - Chairman - Richard L. Amoroso
17) 13:30 - 14:00 Peter Mercer
FURTHER EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF THE NILPOTENT GRAMMATICAL
COMPUTATIONAL PARADIGM OF QUANTUM PHYSICS
18) 14:00 - 14:30 Bjarne Lorenzen
A SPACE VACUUM THEORY
14:30 - 14:45 Coffee Break
SESSION IID - Chairman - Avshalom Elitzur
19) 14:45 - 15:15 Richard L. Amoroso
EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOL FOR SURMOUNTING THE QUANTUM UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE
20) 15:15 - 15:45 Danute Karczewska
BARYOGENESIS IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE
21) 15:45 - 16:15 Timur F. Kamalov
PHYSICS OF NON-INERTIAL REFERENCE FRAMES
16:15 - 16:30 Coffee Break
22) 16:30 - 17:00 Dibyendu Panigrahi
ACCELERATING UNIVERSE IN HIGHER DIMENSIONAL SPACETIME
23) 17:00 - 17:30 Yaroslav, Pazdriy
STABLE PROTONS
WEDNESDAY July 14th - Theatre 308 Huxley Building
SESSION IIIA - Chairman - Peter Mercer
24) 9:00 - 9:30 Vlahovic Branislav
A NEW INTERPRETATION OF THE SIZE OF THE VISIBLE UNIVERSE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS
25) 9:30 - 10:15 Peter Rowlands
CREATING A FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICS
26) 10:15 - 10:45 Christo I Christov
CONTINUUM MECHANICS OF SPACE AND UNIFICATION
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break
SESSION IIIB - Chairman - Peter Rowlands
27) 11:00 - 11:30 Alex Hankey
THERMODYNAMICS IN 'MANIFEST REALITY'
28) 11:30 - 12:00 Michael Ibison
ELECTRODYNAMICS WITH A FUTURE COSMOLOGICAL CONFORMAL HORIZON
29) 12:00 - 12:30 Robert M. Yamaleev
NEW SYMMETRY OF RELATIVISTIC PHYSICS AND ITS POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH
SESSION IIIC - Chairman - Alex Hankey
30) 14:00 - 14:30 David Sands & Jeremy Dunning-Davies
ENTROPY, REVERSABILITY, IRREVERSABILITY AND THERMODYNAMIC CYCLES
31) 14:30 - 15:00 David Sands & Jeremy Dunning-Davies
ADVANCES IN THE THERMODYNAMICS OF IDEAL GASES BY MEANS OF COMPUTER SIMULATIONS
32) 15:00 - 15:30 Dean L. Sinclair
A Framework for a Fundamental Theory?
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee Break
SESSION IIID - Chairman - Jeremy Dunning-Davies
33) 15:45 - 16:15 Jose Vargas
(To Be Announced)
34) 16:15 - 16:45 Fabian M. Mihelic
A Theoretical Mechanism of Szilard Engine Function in Nucleic Acids
and the Implications for Quantum Coherence in Biological Systems
35) 16:45 - 17:15 John Valentine
(To Be Announced)
36) 17:15 - 18:00 Robert H. Kiehn
37) 17{15 - 18:00
18:00 Parting Comments - Farewell
FAREWELL - CLOSING OF SYMPOSIUM