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ยป Superoscillations - Theoretical Aspects and Applications Symposium 2

Symposium Information
Superoscillations were identified independently by Sir Michael Berry and Yakir Aharonov in very different contexts, but in the last several years the communities of mathematicians and physicists have taken increased interest in this phenomenon, both because of its interesting mathematical characteristics, and because of its many potential applications. This symposium is intended not only to present the state of the art on (theoretical and applied) research on superoscillations, but also to look at the future of this field.
The symposium will open the morning of June 26th, with a keynote address presented by Yakir Aharonov, and the rest of the day dedicated mostly to the mathematical theory of superoscillations.
A dinner in honor of the 90th birthday of Yakir Aharonov will be given on the evening of June 26th.
The symposium will continue on the 27th, with talks concerning the theory and applications of superoscillations.
Conference proceedings will be published in Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations.
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Preliminary List of Speakers
*Proceedings will be solicited and published in Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations.
Yakir Aharonov - Chapman University
Peter Schlosser - University of Graz
Giuseppe Strangi - Case Western University
Fabrizio Colombo - Politecnico di Milano
Jussi Behrndt - University of Graz
Alain Yger - University of Bordeau
Achim Kempf - Perimeter Institute
Andrew Jordan - Chapman University
Elodie Pozzi - St. Louis University
Menas Kafatos - Chapman University
Barbara Soda - University of Waterloo
Y. Shen -
Tomer Shushi - Ben Gurion University
Daniel Alpay - Chapman University
Draft Schedule
June 26
8:45 AM Opening Welcome
9:00 -10:00 Yakir Aharonov, The role that superoscillations play in conservation laws, retrocausality, and scattering theory
10:00 - 11:00 Peter Schlosser, Classification of superoscillations
11:00 - 12:00 Giuseppe Strangi, Metasurfaces for biomedical applications: a nanophotonics perspective
12:00 - 2:30 Lunch break
2:30 - 3:30 Fabrizio Colombo, An overview on the theory of superoscillations and its generalizations
3:30 - 4:30 Jussi Behrndt, A unified approach to Schrodinger evolution of superoscillations and supershifts
4:30 - 5:00 Coffee Break
5:00 - 6:00 Alain Yger, Analyticity and the concept of supershift
6:00 - 7:00 Achim Kempf, Superoscillations in cryptography
8:00 Dinner in honor of Yakir Aharonov’s 90-th birthday!
June 27
9:00 - 10:00 Andrew Jordan, Generalizing superoscillations to arbitrary observables in quantum mechanics
10:00 - 11:00 Elodie Pozzi, Superoscillations: a Green’s function approach
11:00 - 12:00 Menas Kafatos, The problem of measurement in quantum mechanics
12:00 - 2:30 Lunch break
2:30 - 3:30 Barbara Soda, Efficient method to create superoscillations with generic target behavior
3:30 - 4:30 Y. Shen, Space-Time Superoscillations
4:30 - 5:00 Coffee Break
5:00 - 6:00 Tomer Shushi, The super Dirac delta function and its applications
6:00 - 7:00 Daniel Alpay, New aspects of bicomplex analysis with applications to Caratheodory functions and to the Wiener algebra
8:00 Regional Dinner at the Pool
Organizing Committee
Cristian Bourgeois - Local Organizing Committee Chair
Venue & Hotel Accommodations
The symposium will be held at the Grand Hotel San Michele in Cetraro (CS), Italy.
The best way to get to Cetraro from the United States is by airplane to Rome, and then, either:
- Rent a car and drive south for 6 hours.
- Take the train from Fiumicino Airport (Rome Airport) to Stazione Termini, and then take the train to Paola.
- Take a plane from Rome Airport to
Lametia Terme Airport (code SUF).
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