Funding will be provided, but the exact amount depends on Canadian immigration issues, i.e. we can only provide subsistence expenses (travel, accommodation and a per-diem for meals) to non-Canadian residents. The visit can take place at any time during the year, depending on what is most convenient for the student and myself.

If you are interested then please send your CV, a short (one or two paragraph) explanation of why you would like to visit PI and a letter of recommendation from your advisor to me at this address. There is no official deadline for applications and the search will continue until a suitable candidate is found. However, I expect there will be enough applications to make a decision by the end of September.

For further details of the possible areas of research for this project, please see the reading list below.

• Information processing In generalized probabilistic theories:
  • J. Barrett, Information Processing in Generalized Probabilistic Theories.
  • H. Barnum, J. Barrett, M. Leifer and A. Wilce, Cloning and Broadcasting in Generic Probabilistic Theories.
• Generalized subsystems in quantum theory:
  • Project would be related to H. Barnum, G. Ortiz, R. Somma and L. Viola, Generalization of entanglement to convex operational theories: Entanglement relative to a subspace of observables.
• Causality from Statistics
  • L. Hardy, Towards Quantum Gravity: A Framework for Probabilistic Theories with Non-Fixed Causal Structure.
  • M. Leifer and D. Poulin, Quantum Graphical Models and Belief Propagation.
  • M. Leifer, Quantum Dynamics as an Analog of Conditional Probability.
  • M. Leifer, Conditional Density Operators and the Subjectivity of Quantum Operations.
• Bayesian foundations of quantum theory
  • Many papers by Caves, Fuchs and Schack would be good background reading, particularly quant-ph/0404156, quant-ph/0205039, quant-ph/0206110 and quant-ph/0106133.
  • M. Leifer, Conditional Density Operators and the Subjectivity of Quantum Operations.
• Axiomatic foundations of quantum theory
  • L. Hardy, Quantum Theory from Five Reasonable Axioms.
  • C. Fuchs, Quantum Mechanics as Quantum Information (and only a little more).
  • G. d’Ariano, Operational Axioms for a C*-algebraic formulation of quantum mechanics as well as earlier related papers by d’Ariano.
  • Also the papers on information processing in generalized probabilistic theories and this paper by H. Barnum.

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Update: I should have mentioned that for successful applicants who are grad students all expenses will be paid by Perimeter. That should make it easier to persuade your advisor to let you go. You don’t have to be an expert on foundations and we are hoping that students studying a wide variety of areas of Physics will attend.

Update 2: Whether non-students, e.g. postdocs, will be allowed to attend is still an open question. I’m waiting to hear more about this from the organizers. Clearly, the priority for a summer school has to be grad students, so I would speculate that it will depend on the number and quality of applications that we get. I’m just guessing at the moment though and I’ll post another update once I hear the official word.

Update 3: I have just heard that there will be up to 10 places will be made available at the summer school for postdocs and junior faculty.

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