Introduction

It was June 7, 1925, that Werner Heisenberg left for the North Sea island of Helgoland wanting to find some rest after a bad attack of hay fever. It was one of these nights that Heisenberg ‘invented’ modern quantum mechanics. He wrote later in his book ‘Der Teil und das Ganze’: “It was about three o’clock at night when the final result of the calculation lay before me. At first I was deeply shaken. I was so excited that I could not think of sleep. So I left the house and awaited the sunrise on the top of a rock.” (from the IQSA webpage).

Suppose that when formulation beyond FAPP (for any practical purposes) is attempted, we find an unmovable finger obstinately pointing outside the subject, to the mind of the observer, to the Hindu scriptures, to God, or even only Gravitation? Would not that be very, very interesting? (John Bell 1999).

I have been invited to speak on “foundations of quantum mechanics” - and to a captive audience of high energy physicists! How can I hope to hold the attention of such serious people with philosophy? I will try to do so by concentrating on an area where some courageous experimenters have recently been putting philosophy to experimental test. The area in question is that of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen…. (John Bell, 1976)

About the conference

One of the main purposes of the IQSA is to carry forward the foundational spirit of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics by analyzing the structures that underlie the quantum world and its mathematical representations. The IQSA2025 Intermediate conference aims to this spirit and is an important opportunity to make the point on the major advances in the foundations of quantum mechanics and in its applications covering several topics as for example convex structures, logico-algebraic structures, orthomodular structures, quantum logics, empirical logics, operational structures, quantum measurement, mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, operator algebras and applications to quantum physics, quantum geometry, quantum statistics, quantum probability, quantum topology, quantum space time, quantum set theory, quantum information, quantum communication, quantum computation, general probabilistic theories, fuzzy quantum logics, phase space quantum mechanics, quantization, philosophy of quantum physics, quantum causal structures, quantum-like models, foil theories.

Due to its interdisciplinary nature, the conference aims to promote transdisciplinary communication between researchers from all over the world. All this will take place in the splendid setting of Tropea, the pearl of the Tyrrhenian Sea on the Coast of the Gods in Calabria, Italy, that was part of the Magna Graecia (starting from the VIII century B.C.).

The conference is dedicated to the memory of the first President of the IQSA, Prof. Enrico Beltrametti, who recently passed away.

Local Organizing Committee

• Roberto Beneduci, University of Calabria (Italy)
• Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, University of Firenze (Italy)
• Francesco De Marco, University of Calabria (Italy)
• Carmine De Rosa, University of Trento (Italy)
• Deborah De Rosa, University of Calabria (Italy)
• Tommaso Gentile, University of Calabria (Italy)
• Domenico Giuliano, University of Calabria (Italy)
• Roberto Leporini, University of Bergamo (Italy)
• Andrea Nava, University of Calabria (Italy)
• Mirko Navara, Czech Technical University, (Czech Republic)
• Carmelo Scuro, Univerity of Enna “Kore” (Italy)
• Sandro Sozzo, University of Udine (Italy)
• Stefan Weigert, University of York (UK)

Proceedings

Abstracts of no more than two pages can be sent to the following email address by April 30 (2025) IQSA2025@gmail.com

Read more at https://sites.google.com/view/2025-iqsa-intermediate-tropea/abstract-sub...

Venue

Tropea is a lovely town situated on the Tyrrhenian coast in the south of Italy in the Vibo Valentia province. This part of Calabrian coast is called Costa degli Dei (Coast of the Deities). Tropea is known as the pearl of the Tyrrhenian coast. It is the most important touristic place in Calabria and one of the most important in Italy. It has often been ranked among the first three most beautiful beaches in Italy. In 2020 it has been declared the most beautiful village in Italy.