CoSy seminar: "Quantum Physics is Weirder Than You Think"

Everyone is welcome and the first 40 people to register will be treated to a free lunch sandwich. If you do not want lunch, you are still welcome to join.

Register for a lunch sandwich (deadline: Sunday 9 March).

Abstract: When we make a measurement of some physical property, surely the measurement can only reveal what was "already there"? And surely, the value that is revealed cannot depend on what other properties we choose to measure at the same time? Especially if the other measurement is made far away? Quantum contextuality is the surprising property built in to the mathematics of quantum mechanics that these intuitive assumptions are, in fact, incompatible with a quantum reality.

In this talk, I aim to give a (hopefully) not-too-technical introduction to contextuality, and discuss some of its applications and implications -- which range from quantum computation, to game theory, to theoretical physics, and even beyond quantum mechanics to the foundations of mathematics.

This is a lecture in the seminar series held by CIM (Centre for Interdisciplinary Mathematics).