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[...]... Department of Physics Aristotle university of Thessaloniki Prof M Floratos Demokritos Research Center and Department of Physics University of Athens Prof C Karanikas Department of Mathematics Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Prof D Krawaritis ChairItlan Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics National Technical University of Athens Prof N Theofanous Department of Wormatics University of Athens Prof... personal care of the personnel and the Director of the European Cultural Centre, Prof V Karasmanis, in collaboration with the administrative support and active interest of Dr A Soulogianni, Director of Educational Affairs of the Ministry of Culture The key catalyst for the organisation and success of the Conference was Mr K Gouvalas, Director of the Minister’s office The idea to organise the XXII Solvay... Computation The lively discussions, which followed the reports, have been recorded and are included after the presentations The realisation of the XXII Solvay Conference was possible thanks to the complete spiritual and financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Hellenic Republic and the personal interest of the Minister, Professor Evangellos Venizelos The excellent organisation is due to the professional... intentionally left blank PREFACE This volume includes papers presented at the XXII Solvay Conference on Physics, which took place from the 24 to 29 November 2001 in the European Culture Centre of Delphi The Castle of Lamia hosted the events of the last day The Physics of Communication was the selected theme of the conference The 5 sessions reflected present challenging issues, namely Decoherence and... aspects of the organisation The heavy organisational details were arranged thanks to the coordinated effort of several people In particular we mention Mrs Anne De Naeyer, from the Solvay Institutes, Mrs A Gotsi from the European Cultural Center, Mr M Kostakis and E Tsekoura from the Ministry of Culture, Mrs M Karayanni from the Prefecture of Fthiotis, Prof R Kotronia, Director of the office of the Mayor of. .. conversely the Solvay conferences contributed to the development of new results in science The progress has been such that many physicists say “We are now at the end of the golden age, we are at the end of creative Physics How could we imagine something else of comparable importance after the achievement of the 20fi century?” The last frontiers would be the high-energy physics, cosmology or the brain... of a broader political initiative that was launched by the Heads of the EU Member States at the summit of March 2000 in Lisbon This date is significant because it was about two weeks before the collapse of the NASDAQ market, synonymous with the collapse of most of the technology stocks and much of the euphoria that surrounded all the related exuberant visions So, the first question to be asked is the. .. F0UNDEDBYE.SOLVAYA.S.B.L J Solvay President of the AdministrativeBoard F Bingen Vice-president of the AdministrativeBoard I Prigogine Director of the Solvay Institutes I Antoniou Deputy Director of the Solvay Institutes F Lambert Secretary of the AdministrativeBoard A Bellemans Secretary of the Scientific Committee of Chemistry M Henneaux Secretary of the Scientific Committee of Physics D Janssen A Jaumotte R... lead to the creation of the quantum computers This demonstrates that contrary to what has been stated in many places, we are far from being at the end of Science But seen from my perspective, observing from the outside, we are at a new beginning of science in the sense of a different approach from that of 1911 and the personalities on the photograph There is also another aspect close to the heart of my... sufficient There, totally new techniques mainly coming from the theory of complex systems must be devised to serve Once again, the roadblock is found in the underlying knowledge technologies, which are needed both for the nano-scale, in the case of nanotechnology, and for the tera-scale, in the case of networking What is needed in fact is disruptive software technologies, in the sense that they represent the . Department of Physics University of Athens Department of Mathematics Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ChairItlan Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics National Technical University of. financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Hellenic Republic and the personal interest of the Minister, Professor Evangellos Venizelos. The excellent organisation is due to the professional. Director of Educational Affairs of the Ministry of Culture. The key catalyst for the organisation and success of the Conference was Mr. K. Gouvalas, Director of the Minister’s office. The idea