Workshops

Spring 2022

Quantum Physics and Statistical Causal Models

Apr 25, 2022 to Apr 29, 2022

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All talks are listed in Pacific Time.

Monday, April 25th, 2022
9:00 am–9:25 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:25 am–9:30 am		Opening Remarks
9:30 am–10:10 am		Applications of The Inflation Technique for Causal Inference Elie Wolfe (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
10:10 am–10:40 am		Break
10:40 am–11:20 am		Self-Tests of Physical Theories in Networks and Their Implications for the Foundations of Quantum Theory Mirjam Weilenmann (IQOQI Vienna)
11:20 am–11:30 am		Break
11:30 am–12:10 pm		Experimental Entanglement of Temporal Order Giulia Rubino (University of Bristol)
12:10 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm–2:10 pm		The Most General Causal Theory of Correlations Restricted to Bounded Multipartite Nonlocal Resources is Incompatible with Quantum Correlations Marc-Olivier Renou (ICFO Barcelona)
2:10 pm–2:20 pm		Break
2:20 pm–3:00 pm		Sequential Models Miguel Navascues (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
3:00 pm–4:00 pm		Reception

Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:10 am		Generalized Instrumental Inequalities: Complexity, Sharpness, Robustness Ismael Mourifie (U of Toronto)
10:10 am–10:40 am		Break
10:40 am–11:20 am		Latent Variable Justifies the Stronger IV Bounds Richard Guo (Cambridge)
11:20 am–11:30 am		Break
11:30 am–12:10 pm		Cardinality Bounds and Parameterization for Latent Variable Graphical Models Noam Finkelstein (Weill Cornell Medicine)

Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:10 am		A Semantics for Counterfactuals in Quantum Causal Models Eric Cavalcanti (Griffith University)
10:10 am–10:40 am		Break
10:40 am–11:20 am		Graphical Criteria for Inequality Constraints in Directed Acyclic Graphs with Hidden Variables Beata Zjawin (ICTQT)
11:20 am–11:30 am		Break
11:30 am–12:10 pm		A Proof of Bell’s Inequality in Quantum Mechanics Using Causal Interactions James Robins (Harvard University)
12:10 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm–2:10 pm		On Polytopes and Convex Sets Associated with Graphical Models in Classical and Quantum Information Processing Pascal Vontobel (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
2:10 pm–2:20 pm		Break
2:20 pm–3:00 pm		Marginal DAG Models Equivalent to Another DAG Robin Evans (University of Oxford)

Thursday, April 28th, 2022
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:10 am		Causal Reductions Joris Mooij (University of Amsterdam)
10:10 am–10:40 am		Break
10:40 am–11:20 am		Marginal Treatment Effects with Misclassified Treatment Désiré Kédagni (Iowa State University)
11:20 am–11:30 am		Break
11:30 am–12:10 pm		Instrumental Variables in Sparse and Dynamical Settings Jonas Peters (University of Copenhagen)
12:10 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm–2:10 pm		A Bayesian Probability Calculus for Density Matrices Manfred Warmuth (Google Brain)

Friday, April 29th, 2022
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:10 am		A Dynamic-Epistemic Approach to Conditionals Sonja Smets (University of Amsterdam)
10:10 am–10:40 am		Break
10:40 am–11:20 am		Causal Influence in Quantum Theory Jonathan Barrett (Oxford)
11:20 am–11:30 am		Break
11:30 am–12:10 pm		"Fine-Tuned", "Unfaithful", "Unnatural": Abuse of Terminology in Causal Modeling Tim Maudlin (NYU & John Bell Institute)
12:10 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm–2:10 pm		Causal Discovery in the Quantum Context Sally Shrapnel (University of Queensland)
2:10 pm–2:20 pm		Break
2:20 pm–3:00 pm		Why Born Probabilities? Michael Weissman (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
3:00 pm–3:10 pm		Break
3:10 pm–3:50 pm		Adjudicating Between Different Causal Accounts of Bell Inequality Violations Rob Spekkens (Perimeter Institute)