VI R.S. Ingarden Memorial Session (online), Wednesday, November 26, 2025

National Quantum Information Centre in Poland (KCIK) is organising a special on-line session to commemorate the Polish scientist Roman Stanisław Ingarden. Ingarden was a mathematical physicist, professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, founder of two journals: Reports on Mathematical Physics and Open Systems and Information Dynamics and one of the pioneers of the concept of quantum information. His 1976 paper had a short title: QUANTUM INFORMATION THEORY *.

The event is organized under auspices of the Polish Physical Society.

Programme

15:30 – 15:33    Opening    (3.30 p.m. CET)

15.33 – 15:55    Józef Szudy  (Toruń)

                         “Roman Stanisław Ingarden as a historian of physics – personal reminescences”

16:00 – 16:55     2025 Ingarden Memorial Lecture

                           Nicolas Gisin   (Geneva and Bremen)  

                              “From Bell Inequalities to Quantum Measurements”

17:00 – 17:15    Coffee break

17:15 – 17:45    Distinguished talk (to be announced  Nov. 26th, 2025)

17:45 – 18:15    Awarding of Junior KCIK Award for best Bachelor Thesis in Quantum Information (to be announced  Nov. 26th, 2025)

18:18                 The End

Organisers:

Paweł Horodecki (UG/PG/KCIK)        Łukasz Rudnicki   (UG/KCIK)            Karol Życzkowski (UJ/CFT/KCIK)

* R. S. Ingarden, Reports on Mathematical Physics 10, 43-72 (1976).