Plenary Speakers:

1)  Olival Freire Jr. - Universidade Federal da Bahia, Bahia, Brazil

     On the vicissitudes of Bohm’s 1952 interpretation of quantum mechanics

2)  Shelly Goldstein - Rutgers University – New Brunswick  - USA 

     What is Quantum Mechanics

3) Anthony Leggett - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA.

    Experiments on macroscopic quantum coherence:how might a Bohmian react to them? 

Invited speakers:

1) Valia Allori - University Bergamo  - Italy.

   Relativistic Pilot-Wave Theories as the Rational Completion of Quantum Mechanics and Relativity.

2) Eric Bittner - University of Houston – USA

    Quantum synchronization 

3) Jean Bricmont - Catholic University of Louvain – Belgium

    Why Bohm and only Bohm? 

4) Iberê Caldas - Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil.

    The Work of David Bohm in Plasma Physics 

5) Ariel Caticha - University at Albany, New York - USA 

     Entropic Dynamics and Quantum Theory 

6) Chris Dewdney - University of Portsmouth – United Kingdom

    What have we learnt from de Broglie-Bohm trajectories? 

    and

    David Bohm: Some personal recollections 

7) Robert Flack - University College London – United Kingdom

    Life and work of Basil Hiley 

8) Sophya Garashchuk – University of South Carolina – USA

    Quantum Molecular Dynamics with Bohmian Trajectories 

9) Andrew Jordan - Inst Quantum Studies Chapman University, California – USA

    Catching a tunneling particle in the act

10) Alfredo Miguel Ozorio de Almeida - CBPF, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil 

     Quantum Algorithms Supported by Closed Compound Orbits 

11) Osvaldo Frota Pessoa Jr. – Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo – Brazil

      How experiments influence the popularity of interpretations of quantum theory 

12) Nelson Pinto-Neto - CBPF, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil

     The de Broglie–Bohm Quantum Theory and its Application to Quantum Cosmology: an Update 

13) Paavo Pylkkänen - University of Helsinki - Finland 

     A new nomological interpretation of the wave function in the Bohm theory: active information as a quantum law of nature 

14) Maik Reddiger, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences – Germany 

      A heuristic solution to the time of arrival problem via mathematical probability theory 

     15) Ángel Sanz - Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Spain

            Bohmian Mechanics: Looking at the Quantum (and non-Quantum) from the Perspective of Fluids and Fields 

16) Dmitry Shalashilin – University of Leeds – United Kingdom

       Basis sets of trajectory guided coherent states for quantum dynamics 

17) David Tannor - Weizmann Institute of Science – Israel 

     Two Hundred Years after Hamilton: Exploring New Formulations of Classical and Quantum Mechanics 

18) Anderson Tomaz - Aix Marseille University - France

      Gravitationally-induced wave function collapse time for molecules 

19) Lev Vaidman - Tel Aviv University – Israel

      Are there observational differences between Bohmian mechanics and other interpretations?

20) Mordecai Waegell, Inst. Quantum Studies Chapman University – California – USA 

     Madelung as Many Local Worlds