[visionlist] Second Quantum Interaction Symposium

[Michael Leyton]

THE SECOND QUANTUM INTERACTION SYMPOSIUM (QI-2008)

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Oxford University, March 26-28, 2008

Quantum Mechanics (QM) is emerging from physics into non-quantum domains such as human language, cognition, information retrieval, biology, political science, economics, organizations, and social interaction. The organizers of the Second Quantum Interaction Symposium are interested in advancing and applying the methods and structures of QM to these and other domains outside of physics.




The symposium will present research dealing with the use of concepts taken from the general body of research in QM on the physical, epistemological, mathematical or philosophical levels and applied to modeling and better understanding phenomena in the following areas:




RELEVANT TOPIC AREAS

Language, Linguistics

Logic, Artificial Intelligence

Cognition, Brain (memory, cognitive processes, neural networks, consciousness)
Information Processing and Retrieval

Biological, Complex Systems

Political, Cultural, Psychological or Social Sciences

Illusions (visual, auditory or other perceptual phenomena)

Social Interaction

Finance, Econophysics

Organizations (mergers, corporate cultures, decision-making)

Other (specify)

FURTHER INFORMATION

Up-to-date information on the symposium can be found at:

http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/qi2008




IMPORTANT DATES

Oct 31, 2007: Submissions due.

Dec 07, 2007: Acceptance/rejection notices are mailed out.

Dec 10, 2007: Graduate student travel grant application due.

Jan 15, 2008: Acceptance/rejection notices for student travel mailed out.

Jan 26, 2008: Submit camera-ready copy.

Feb 09, 2008: Registration deadline.

Mar 26, 2008: Start of the symposium.

Mar 28, 2008: End of the symposium.

STEERING COMMITTEE

Peter Bruza, Queensland University of Technology, Australia (p.bruza at qut.edu.au)

William Lawless, Paine College, USA (lawlessw at mail.paine.edu)

C. J. (Keith) van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, UK (keith at dcs.gla.ac.uk )

Donald Sofge, Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (don.sofge at nrl.navy.mil)




ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Bob Coecke, Oxford University, UK (Bob.Coecke at comlab.ox.ac.uk)

Stephen Clark, Oxford University, UK (Stephen.Clark at comlab.ox.ac.uk)


Program committee
Sven Aerts (Free University Brussels)

Belal E Baaquie (National University of Singapore)

Badredine Arfi (University of Florida)

Kathryn Blackmond Laskey (George Mason University)

Jerome Busemeyer (Indiana University)

Teresa Castelao (Grand Valley State University)

Laurent Chaudron (The French Aerospace Lab.)

Stephen Clark (Oxford University)

Bob Coecke (Oxford University)

Dov Gabbay (Kings College London)

Andrei Grib (St. Petersburg State University)

Liane Gabora (University of British Columbia)

Emmanuel Haven (University of Leicester)

Kisty Kitto (Queensland University of Technology)

Andre Khrennikov (Växjö University)

Michael Leyton (Rutgers University)

Jorge Louca (ISCTE)

Massimo Melucci (University of Padua)

Pierefrancesco La Mura (Leipzig Graduate School of Management)

Olga Nanasiova (Slovak University of Technology)

Dusko Pavlovic (Kestrel Institute)

Stephen Pullman (Oxford University)

Dominic Widdows (Google)

Alexander Wilce (Susquehanna University)
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