April 14 – 15, 2023
UNIVERSITÉ PARIS CITÉ,
Building Condorcet, Amphi Pierre Gilles de Gennes, 4 rue Elsa Morante, 75013 Paris
On the occasion of the publication of The Oxford Handbook of the History of Quantum Interpretations
The Oxford Handbook, Physics Departement at Université Paris Cité, Universidade Federal da Bahia, ARCHIMEDES S.I.E.E. Project, laboratories SPHERE-UMR7219-CNRS and APC
Organisation :
Jean- Jacques Szczeciniarz (Université Paris Cité, SPHERE), Olival Freire Jr (Universidade Federal da Bahia), Joseph Kouneiher (Université Côte d’Azur), Michel Paty (SPHere)
Registration :
https://www.archimedes-eca.org/colloque-quantum-interpretation
Contacts :
jean-jacques.szczeciniarz( at )univ-paris-diderot.fr, joseph.kouneiher( at )univ-cotedazur.fr, freirejr( at )ufba.br
Friday April 14, 2023 | to Saturday April 15
| 8:30am Welcome | |
| 9am - 11am |
Franck LALOE (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS Paris) A model of quantum collapse induced by Bohmian positions and gravity |
| Roger PENROSE (University of Oxford) Classical and Quantum Reality, and the Collapse of the Wave-Function | |
| Alain ASPECT* (à c) (Institut d’Optique, Université Paris-Saclay - CNRS, & École polytechnique) tba | |
| John HEILBRON (Worcester College, Oxford) The history of the quantum debates | |
| 11am - 11:10am Coffebreak | |
| 11:10am - 1:10pm |
Helge KRAGH (University of Copenhagen) Dead as a Doornail ? Zero-Point Energy and Low-Temperature Physics |
| Christoph LEHNER (Independent scholar) The Early Debates about the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics | |
| Christian JOAS (University of Copenhagen) Foundations and Applications : The Creative Tension in the Early Development of Quantum Mechanics | |
| Wayne MYRVOLD (The University of Western Ontario) Philosophical Issues Raised by Quantum Theory and its Interpretations | |
| 1:10pm - 2:30pm Lunch | |
| 2:30pm - 4:30pm |
Daniela MONALDI (NewYork University) The Evolving Understanding of Quantum Statistics |
| Osvaldo PESSOA Jr (Universidade de São Paulo) The Measurement Problem | |
| Michel PATY (Emeritus Research Director, CNRS) Einstein’s Criticism of Quantum Mechanics | |
| Guido BACCIAGALUPPI (Utrecht University) The Statistical Interpretation : Born, Heisenberg, and von Neumann, 1926-1927 | |
| 4:30pm - 4:40pm Coffeebreak | |
| 4:40pm - 6:40pm |
David KAISER (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Tackling Loopholes in Experimental Tests of Bell’s Inequality |
| Bernadette LESSEL (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science MPIWG) The Interpretation Debate and Quantum Gravity | |
| Alexei GRINBAUM (CEA-Saclay/Larsim) Quantum Information and the Quest for Reconstruction of Quantum Theory | |
| Thomas RYCKMAN (Stanford University) Quantum Interpretations and 20th Century Philosophy of Science | |
| Massimiliano BADINO (University of Verona) Of Weighting and Counting : Statistics and Ontology in the Old Quantum Theory | |
| 9am - 11am |
Anja JACOBSEN (KVUC, Denmark) Copenhagen and Niels Bohr |
| Flavio DEL SANTO (University of Vienna) The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in Post-War Italy’s Cultural Context | |
| Jean-Philippe MARTINEZ (Aachen University) Foundations of Quantum Physics in the Soviet Union | |
| Sebastian MURGUEITIO RAMIREZ (University of Oxford) On How Epistemological Letters Changed the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics | |
| 11am – 11:10am Coffeebreak | |
| 11:10am – 1:10pm |
Stefano OSNAGHI (Archives Husserl, ENS, Paris) Bohr and the Epistemological Lesson of Quantum Mechanics |
| Olival FREIRE Jr (Universidade Federal da Bahia) Making Sense of the Century-Old Scientific Controversy over the Quanta | |
| Kristian CAMILLERI (University of Melbourne) Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in the Post-war Era | |
| Giora HON (University of Haifa) and Bernard GOLDSTEIN (University of Pittsburgh) Interpretation in Electrodynamics, Atomic Theory, and Quantum Mechanics | |
| 1:10pm - 2:30pm Lunch | |
| 2:30pm - 4:30pm |
Jeffrey BARRETT (UC Irvine) Pure Wave Mechanics, Relative States, and Many Worlds |
| Hervé ZWIRN (ENS Paris-Saclay) Is QBism a Possible Solution to the Conceptual Problems of Quantum Mechanics | |
| Jean-Jacques SZCZECINIARZ (Université Paris Diderot Paris 7), and Joseph KOUNEIHER (Université Côte d’Azur) The Philosophy of Wholeness and the General and New Concept of Order : Bohm’s and Penrose’s Points of View | |
| Valia ALLORI (Northern Illinois University) Spontaneous Localization Theories : Quantum Philosophy between History and Physics | |
| 4:30pm - 4:40pm Coffeebreak | |
| 4:40pm - 6:40pm |
Otávio BUENO (University of Miami) The Non-Individuals Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics |
| Dennis DIEKS (Utrecht University) Modal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics | |
| Jean BRICMONT (Catholic University of Louvain) Einstein, Bohm, and Bell : A Comedy of Errors | |
| Alexander PECHENKIN (Lomonosov Moscow State University) The Statistical (Ensemble) Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics | |
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VENUE
Building Condorcet, Université Paris Cité, 4, rue Elsa Morante, 75013 - Paris*. Plan.
Itinerary with public transport
Metro : lines 14 and RER C, stop : Bibliothèque François Mitterrand or line 6, stop : Quai de la gare. Bus : 62 and 89 (stop : Porte de France), 325 (stop : Watt), 64 (stop : Tolbiac-Bibliothèque François Mitterrand)
