Abstract
The Symposia on Quantum Theory and Symmetries form a biennial international series devoted to applications of symmetry principles in theoretical and mathematical physics. The QTS symposia cut across a wide spectrum of subfields of physics and mathematics, emphasizing common themes and interdisciplinary approaches. In an era of increasing technical specialization, QTS is practically unique in its diversity, and provides valuable opportunities for researchers from different backgrounds to interact. Since its founding in 1999, QTS Symposia have been hosted in Goslar (Germany), Krakow (Poland), Cincinnati (USA), Varna (Bulgaria), and Valladolid (Spain).
The Sixth International Symposium on Quantum Theory and Symmetries (QTS6) was held from 20 to 25 July 2009 in Lexington, Kentucky, on the campus of the University of Kentucky. The symposium drew more than 200 researchers from 22 countries, and featured talks in atomic, nuclear, and condensed matter physics, cosmology and gravitation, quantum computing and information theory, string theory and other areas of mathematical physics. To provide coherence to an unusually diverse set of talks, the Organizing Committee structured the program around a few broad themes, such as holography and entanglement, which intersected with a large subset of the talks.
In keeping with the interdisciplinary nature of the Symposium, we have organized these Proceedings somewhat unconventionally. The contributions are listed alphabetically by presenting author, with flags indicating their relevance to some of the main themes and subject areas of the symposium. Supplementary resources are available online at http://www.pa.uky.edu/qts6, including the complete conference program and videos of the plenary talks.
QTS6 was jointly organized by the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the Department of Mathematics, and the Center for Computational Sciences of the University of Kentucky. We are grateful for the financial and practical support of each of these entities, as well as for generous support from the College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of the Vice President for Research of the University of Kentucky, and the Office of Science of the Department of Energy. The Singletary Center for the Arts provided conference facilities for our plenary sessions, and the Teaching and Academic Support Center provided technical support. We offer our deepest thanks to all the staff and students who assisted with the organization of the conference, especially Eva Ellis, Archisman Ghosh, Jae-Hyuk Oh, and Joshua Qualls.
Sumit R Das Alfred D Shapere Co-chairs, QTS6 Organizing Committee
| Local Organizing Committee | Advisory Committee | Conference Board |
| Sumit R Das, co-chair | L Alvarez-Gaume (CERN) | S T Ali (Montreal) |
| Alfred D Shapere, co-chair | M V Berry (Bristol) | L L Boyle (Canterbury) |
| Philip Argyres | S Brodsky (Stanford) | M A del Olmo (Valladolid) |
| John Connolly | M Dijkgraaf (Amsterdam) | V K Dobrev (Sofia) |
| Peter Hislop | M Douglas (Rutgers) | H D Doebner (Clausthal), chair |
| Keh-Fei Liu | T Eguchi (YITP) | E Kapuscik (Cracow) |
| Ganpathy Murthy | M P A Fisher (Santa Barbara) | V I Man'ko (Moscow) |
| Uwe Nagel | G Gibbons (Cambridge) | G Marmo (Naples) |
| Rohana Wijewardhana | P Goddard (IAS) | G S Pogosyan (Yerevan and Dubna) |
| M Henneaux (Brussels) | T H Seligman (Cuernavaca) | |
| H Kawai (Kyoto) | A I Solomon (Paris) | |
| K Lee (KIAS) | P Suranyi (Cincinnati) | |
| A Morozov (ITEP) | L C R Wijewardhana (Cincinnati) | |
| Y Nambu (Chicago) | ||
| J Preskill (Caltech) | ||
| E Rabinovici (Jerusalem) | ||
| S Randjbar-Daemi (ICTP) | ||
| S Sachdev (Harvard) | ||
| A Sen (Allahabad) | ||
| T Senthil (MIT) | ||
| R Shankar (Yale) | ||
| C Taubes (Harvard) | ||
| N Turok (Perimeter) | ||
| C Vafa (Harvard) | ||
| S Wadia (TIFR) | ||
| F Wilczek (MIT) |
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