Foundations of Physics @Harvard - History of Quantum Foundations (November 17, 2020)

Mini-Workshop on Lessons from the History of Quantum Foundations

Tuesday, November 17, 2020
12:00pm (noon)–4:00pm (East Coast time)

[Registration Form]

• This is a free Zoom event (no registration fee)
• The meeting ID and password will be shared with those who register
• Each talk will be 45 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for questions
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Questions or comments: Jacob Barandes, firstname_lastname(at)harvard.edu (organizer)

11:45–12:00
Informal introductions

12:00–1:00
“ ‘Not Merely False, but Foolish’: The History of Bell’s Two Theorems”
Adam Becker
Slides (PDF), Video (YouTube)
Video of Bell's Talk on Indeterminism and Nonlocality (CERN Video)

1:00–2:00
“Grete Hermann’s Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics”
Elise Crull – City College of New York
Slides (PDF), Video (YouTube)

2:00–3:00
“Von Neumann’s Axiomatic Completion of Quantum Mechanics”
Chris Mitsch – University of California, Irvine
Slides (PDF), Video (YouTube)

3:00–4:00
Open discussion

Participants

Emily Adlam, Holly Andersen, Guido Bacciagaluppi, Dave Baker, Jacob Barandes (organizer), Adam Becker (speaker), Babak Beheshti, Jean Bricmont, Samuel Buckley-Bonanno, Jeremy Butterfield, Andrea Carosso, Sean Carroll, Eric Cavalcanti, Elise Crull (speaker), Irene D'Amico, Giacomo D'Ariano, Radwa Dawood, Heather Demarest, Maaneli Derakhshani, Mauro Dorato, John Earman, Alexander Ehmann, Johannes Fankhauser, Benjamin Feintzeig, Vincenzo Fiorentino, Steven French, Isaac Friend, Marian Gilton, David Glick, Jan Głowacki, Vesselin Gueorguiev, Bixin Guo, Richard Healey, Meir Hemmo, Guy Hetzroni, Mina Himwich, Carl Hoefer, Gianluca Introzzi, Jenann Ismael, Ding Jia, David Kagan, Gregory Kestin, Maksim Kitsak, Nikitas Koutoupes, Anisa Kureishi, Samuel Kuypers, Klaas Landsman, Federico Laudisa, Matt Leifer, Bernadette Lessel, Barry Loewer, Joanna Luc, Tiago Martinelli, Vera Matarese, Logan McCarty, Alexander Meehan, Xiangyi Meng, Helen Meskhidze, Elizabeth Miller, Chris Mitsch (speaker), Damon Moley, F. A. Muller, George Musser, Siddharth Muthu Krishnan, Pedro Naranjo, Alyssa Ney, Robert Oeckl, Makinde Ogunnaike, Daniel Olson, Harrison Payne, Fleur Petit, Francisco Pipa, Tomasz Placek, Josh Quirke, Michael Ridley, Sam Rijken, Pascal Rodríguez, Daniel Rohrlich, Jerome Romagosa, Davide Romano, Alberto Roper Pol, Carlos Gerardo Sanjuan Ciepielewski, Simon Saunders, Mike Schneider, Orly Shenker, Chrysovalantis Stergiou, Noel Swanson, Mariam Thalos, Lev Vaidman, Alice van Helden, Antonio Vassallo, Francesca Vidotto, Kadri Vihvelin, David Wallace, Niranjana Warrier, James Weatherall, Isaac Wilhelm, Alastair Wilson, Jingyi Wu, Tian Zhang

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Mini-Workshop on Lessons from the History of Quantum Foundations

Tuesday, November 17, 202012:00pm (noon)–4:00pm (East Coast time)

[Registration Form]

11:45–12:00Informal introductions

12:00–1:00“ ‘Not Merely False, but Foolish’: The History of Bell’s Two Theorems”Adam BeckerSlides (PDF), Video (YouTube)Video of Bell's Talk on Indeterminism and Nonlocality (CERN Video)

1:00–2:00“Grete Hermann’s Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics”Elise Crull – City College of New YorkSlides (PDF), Video (YouTube)

2:00–3:00“Von Neumann’s Axiomatic Completion of Quantum Mechanics”Chris Mitsch – University of California, IrvineSlides (PDF), Video (YouTube)