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David Deutsch |
| www.qubit.org/people/david/ |
| David Deutsch was educated at Cambridge and Oxford universities. After several years at the University of Texas at Austin, he returned to Oxford, where he now lives and works. He is a member of the Centre of Quantum Computation. His papers on quantum computation laid the foundations for that field, breaking new ground in the theory of computation as well as physics, and have triggered an explosion of research efforts worldwide. His work has revealed the importance of quantum effects in the physics of time travel, and he is an authority on the theory of parallel universes. |
David Chalmers |
| jamaica.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/consc-papers.html |
| David Chalmers is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona. He does work in the philosophy of mind, as well as related areas of philosophy and cognitive science. He is especially interested in consciousness, but also interested in artificial intelligence and computation, in philosophical issues about meaning and possibility, in the foundations of cognitive science and of physics |
Matthew J. Donald - The Cavendish Laboratory |
| www.poco.phy.cam.ac.uk/~mjd1014/ |
| A Many-Minds Interpretation Of Quantum Theory.Many-minds interpretations of quantum theory are many-worlds interpretations in which it is argued that the distinction between worlds should be made at the level of the mind of the individual observer.This site contains copies of a series of papers in which he has developed a technically-sophisticated many-minds interpretation, which gives explicit definitions to the crucial concepts. |
Michael Esfeld |
| www2.unil.ch/philo/Pages/epistemologie/bio_cv_esfeld/Home_esfeld.html |
| Professor of Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. University of Lausanne. Current research projects.1) Philosophy of mind: Mental causation and the nature of intentional states.2) Philosophy of science: Reductionism and the layered view of the world.3) Philosophy of physics: The metaphysics of causation and the relation between space–time and matter. |
Ian J. Thompson |
| www.ph.surrey.ac.uk/~phs1it/ |
| Professor of Physics.Ian Thompson has been a member of the Nuclear Physics Group, having joined the staff of the University of Surrey in 1988. In 2002 he becomes the Director of the new Centre for Nuclear and Radiation Physics. Ian's speciality is the use of few-body theories to model the structure of nuclei, and to understand the dynamical reaction processes when atomic nuclei collide. He is especially interested in the quantum mechanical and associated computational modelling of collisions of nucleons, loosely bound composite and unstable (neutron or proton rich) nuclear systems, their scattering and breakup. He, with other Group members is pursuing research directed toward the greater understanding of nuclear properties provided by the use of high-intensity radioactive beams of exotic combinations of neutrons and protons. |
Michel Bitbol |
| perso.wanadoo.fr/michel.bitbol/page.garde.liste.html |
| Michel Bitbol is presently "Directeur de recherche" at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, in Paris (France), based at the CREA (Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée), Paris. He also teaches the Philosophy of modern physics to graduate students at the University Panthéon-Sorbonne. He was educated at several universities in Paris, where he received successively his M.D. in 1980, his Ph.D. in physics in 1985, and his "Habilitation" in philosophy in 1997. He worked as a research scientist in biophysics from 1978 to 1990. From 1990 onwards, he turned to the philosophy of physics. He edited texts by Erwin Schroedinger, and published a book entitled "Schroedinger's philosophy of quantum mechanics", Kluwer, 1996. He also published two books in French on quantum mechanics and on realism in science, in 1996 and 1998. More recently, he focused on the relations between the philosophy of quantum mechanics and the philosophy of mind, working in close collaboration with F. Varela. He published a book in French in 2000 and some subsequent papers on that topic. His present work focuses on the concept of "non-supervenient relations".He is recipient of an award from the "Académie des sciences morales et politiques" (in 1997) for his work in the philosophy of quantum mechanics. |
Simon Saunders |
| users.ox.ac.uk/~lina0174/Saunders.html |
| Oxford Philosophy of Physics Group. Research interests: foundations of quantum theory, including relativistic quantum theory, and theories of space and time, with special interests in the Everett interpretation and the treatement of symmetries in physics. |
Abner Shimony |
| www.bu.edu/philo/faculty/shimony.html |
| Professor of Philosophy and Physics Emeritus.Boston University, Philosophy Department. (PhD, Yale University; PhD, Princeton University, Physics); Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Philosophical Foundations of Physics. Abner Shimony has taught at M.I.T., the University of Paris XI, the University of Geneva, and Mount Holyoke College, and has lectured widely in the United States and abroad. The honors he has received include fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and most recently the National Endowment for the Humanities. |
Center for Quantum Philosophy |
| www.quantumphil.org |
| Recent experiments have put in evidence that the correlations caused by a two-particles quantum entanglement cannot be described in terms of "before" and "after": The time-notion makes sense only in the domain of the relativistic local phenomena. In the realm of the nonlocal quantum phenomena, things come to pass but the time doesn't seem to pass here. The Center for Quantum Philosophy, based in Zurich and Geneva, aims at wide spreading this discovery, and to stimulate the discussion about its cultural and philosophical implications. |
Gennaro Auletta |
| www.unigre.it/cssf/home.htm |
| Science and Philosophy Director |
Dean Rickles |
| www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~phldpr/ |
| Division of History & Philosophy of Science, School of Philosophy, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9.JT, UK. Research: Philosophical foundations of physics (particularly quantum gravity and symmetries); philosophy of space and time; the metaphysics of objects, identity, and modality. |
Basil Hiley |
| www.bbk.ac.uk/tpru/BasilHiley.html |
| Emeritus Professor of Physics.Birkbeck, University of London.Fields of interest. Foundations of quantum mechanics: interpretations, quantum information, entanglement, thermal quantum field theories. Non-commutative structures: othogonal and symplectic Clifford algebras, metalinear and metaplectic structures. Process and new orders: mathematical expressions for implicate and explicate orders. Relevance of these structures to quantum processes, biological systems and the mind/matter relationship. |
Bas C. van Fraassen |
| www.princeton.edu/~fraassen/ |
| Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University,since 1982, Usa. Editor of the Journal of Philosophical Logic and co-editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic, as well as in the American Philosophical Association, the Philosophy of Science Association,Society for Exact Philosophy, Evert Willem Beth Stichting, Association for Symbolic Logic, and the International Union for History and Philosophy of Science. |
Sheldon Goldstein |
| www.math.rutgers.edu/~oldstein/ |
| Department of Mathematics - Hill Center Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Research:Mathematical PhysicsFoundations of Quantum Mechanics,Bohmian Mechanics,Collaboration Bohmian Mechanics,Bohmian Mechanics at Innsbruck. |
Roland Omnès |
| qcd.th.u-psud.fr/ |
| Roland Omnès is Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics at the Université de Paris-Sud. Having made a career in particle physics and astrophysics, he contributed significantly to the modern renewal in the foundations and interpretation of quantum mechanics. |
Roberto Torretti |
| plato.stanford.edu/entries/geometry-19th/vita.html |
| Professor Emeritus. Professor of Philosophy, University of Puerto Rico- Río Piedras Campus(Usa)..Areas of Specialization:Philosophy of physics, especially relativity theory,Philosophy of mathematics, especially 19th century geometry. |
Christopher A. Fuchs |
| netlib.bell-labs.com/who/cafuchs/ |
| Research Interests: Quantum information theory. Quantum communication and cryptography. Quantum foundations in the light of quantum information.Quantum control and quantum computation. Christopher A. Fuchs gained his PhD in physics from the University of New Mexico in 1996, where he worked under Carlton M. Caves. He first held a postdoctoral position at the University of Montreal, and was later the Lee A. DuBridge Prize Postdoctoral Fellow at California Institute of Technology from 1996 to 1999, and then Director-Funded Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Since September 2000, he has been a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. He has published over 50 papers in quantum information, communication and cryptography. |
Gregory J. Chaitin |
| www.umcs.maine.edu/~chaitin/ |
| Gregory Chaitin is at the IBM Watson Research Center in New York. In the mid 1960s, when he was a teenager, he created algorithmic information theory (AIT), which combines, among other elements, Shannon's information theory and Turing's theory of computability. In the four decades since then he has been the principal architect of the theory. In 1995 he was given the degree of doctor of science honoris causa by the University of Maine. In 2002 he was given the title of honorary professor by the University of Buenos Aires. He is also a visiting professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Auckland. Among his contributions are the definition of a random sequence via algorithmic incompressibility, his information-theoretic approach to Gödel's incompleteness theorem, and the celebrated number Ω. His work on Hilbert's 10th problem has shown that in a sense there is randomness in arithmetic, in other words, that God not only plays dice in quantum mechanics and nonlinear dynamics, but even in elementary number theory. |
Holger Lyre |
| lyre.de |
| University of Bonn. Philosophy Department. Research fields: Philosophy of science, philosophy of modern physics, Epistemology, theory of cognition. |
Louis Marchildon |
| www.uqtr.ca/~marchild/ |
| Professor in the Department of Physics at Université du Québec à Trois Rivières (UQTR).QM research: Interpretation of quantum mechanics and epistemology of natural sciences. Interference Bohm’s approach. Modal Interpretation. |
Anton Zeilinger |
| www.quantum.univie.ac.at/zeilinger/ |
| Anton Zeilinger’s work on the foundations of quantum physics has led both to concepts for a novel quantum information technology and to a new understanding of fundamental issues in the interpretation of quantum mechanics. His group’s achievements include quantum teleportation and entangled-state quantum cryptography; most recently, his group provided the first experimental realization of a one-way quantum computer, a completely novel concept which changes our notions of computation. Anton Zeilinger also explores the quantum classical boundary; his group holds the world record for the largest molecules for which quantum interference has been seen. Among his distinctions are the German Order Pour le Mérite, and most recently, the Klopsteg Memorial Award of the American Association of Physics Teachers, the Lorenz-Oken-Medal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte and the King Faisal International Prize in Science 2005. He has held teaching positions and visiting professorships at many institutions world-wide, including MIT, the University of Melbourne, the Technical University Munich, Oxford University and the Collége de France and is currently Director of the Institute of Experimental Physics at the University of Vienna and of the Vienna Department of the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. |
Jeffrey Bub |
| carnap.umd.edu/philphysics/bub.html |
| Committee for Philosophy and the Sciences Department of Philosophy,University of Maryland.Research fields: Foundations of Physics (especially conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics), quantum information and computation, epistemological and methodological issues in the natural sciences. |
Roger Penrose |
| www.maths.ox.ac.uk/perl/personal-details.pl?query=rouse |
| University of Oxford. Mathematical Institute.Research interests include many aspects of geometry, having made contributions to the theory of non-periodic tilings, to general relativity theory and to the foundations of quantum theory. R. Penrose believes thet the brain can execute processes that no possible Turing-type computer could carry out. He also considers physics incomplete because there is as yet no theory of quantum gravity. Penrose hopes that an adequate theory of quantum gravity might contribute to explain the nature and emergence of consciousness. In this sense, his main research program in physics is to develop the theory of twistors, which he originated over 30 years ago as an attempt to unite Einstein's general theory of relativity with quantum mechanics. Penrose was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1972 and a Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1998. He has received a number of prizes and important awards. |
Robert B. Griffiths |
| info.phys.cmu.edu/people/faculty/griffiths_bob |
| Carnegie Mellon University. Professor of Physics. Research Interests: Consistent Quantum Theory, Foundations of Quantum Physics, Quantum Information. |
John G. Cramer |
| faculty.washington.edu/jcramer |
| University of Washington. Department of Physics. Professor of Physics.Research fields: Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Bose-Einstein Interferometry, Heavy Ion Physics, Computational Physics, Astrophysics. |
Richard Healey |
| phil.web.arizona.edu/faculty/rhealey.htm |
| The University of Arizona .Department of Philosophy. Professor of Philosophy, works mainly in the philosophy of science and metaphysics. One aim of his research in the philosophy of physics is to shed light on metaphysical topics such as holism, realism and causation. In the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics, he develops an approach toward the understanding of quantum theory, according to which the theory portrays a nonseparable world. He is currently exploring ways in which quantum field theories, including gauge theories, involve a similar nonseparability. |
Carlo Rovelli |
| www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~rovelli/rovelli.html |
| Present positions: Professor Université de la Méditerranée et Centre de Physique Theorique de Luminy, Marseille, France. Affiliated Professor of History and Philosphy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Usa. Theoretical physicist,Rovelli's research is focused on quantum gravity, the problem of combining quantum mechanics and general relativity. In collaboration with Lee Smolin and Abhay Ashtekar, Rovelli has developed an approcah to quantum gravity denoted loop quantum gravity (LQG). Other interests of Rovelli include general problems in gravitational theories, and the philosophy of physics, in particular problems related to the concepts of space and time. |
Michael Dickson |
| www.mdickson.com/ |
| Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina. Major areas of interest: philosophy of physics (especially algebraic formulations of quantum theory), general philosophy of science, ancient philosophy, logic, philosophy of math. |
Henry Stapp |
| www-physics.lbl.gov/~stapp/stappfiles.html |
| University of California, Berkeley, Usa. Henry Stapp did his doctorial work under the direction ofNobel Laureates Emilio Segre and Owen Chamberlain. He first created there the theoretical framework for the analysis of the scattering of polarized protons on polarized targets, and then analyzed the data obtained from the experiments being done then at the Lawrence Radiation Laborator of the University California in Berkeley, obtaining the proton-proton phase shifts first at 360 Mev at later at higher energies. His work was the first large-scale computer analysis in high-energy physics. Subsequently, he worked closely with Wolfgang Pauli in Zurich on parity violations, and on fundamental problems in quantum theory, He wrote there an essay entitled “Mind, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics”, which developed into a book of the same title published 35 years later. He has written over 300 technical and mathematical published papers pertaining to basic foundational issues. During the sixties he was a principal mathematical and philosophical spearhead of the then-new approach to quantum theory known as S-Matrix theory. He later worked in Munich with Heisenberg on the problem of the interpretation of quantum theory, and worked still later in Austin with Wheeler on the same subject. His paper “The Copenhagen Interpretation” is widely recognized as a seminal work on this subject. In 1968 he wrote his first paper about the apparent need in quantum theory for faster-than-light transfer of information, and continues to be a principal protagonist in the continuing developments pertaining to this fundamental issue. His most recent works focus on the possible strong influence of quantum processes on the working of the brain, and specifically on the fact that quantum theory brings conscious choices by human agents irremovably into the physical theory in a way that can directly account for the ability of a person’s conscious choices to causally influence the activity in his or her physical brain. |
David Albert |
| www.columbia.edu/cu/philosophy/Faculty/_facultypages/davidalbert.html |
| Columbia University.Professor of Philosophy. Director of M.A. Program in The Philosophical Foundations of Physics. Areas of Specialization: Philosophical Problems of Modern Physics, Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics, Philosophy of Space and Time, Philosophy of Science. |
Bernard d'Espagnat |
| qcd.th.u-psud.fr |
| Bernard d’Espagnat is Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics at the University de Paris-Sud and a member of the Institut de France (Académie desSciences morales et politiques, Section de Philosophie). His research activities gradually shifted from high-energy physics to the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics. In 1954 he played a significant part in creating the embryo of the CERN Theoretical Division in Geneva. He then got interested in the quantum notions of “proper” and “improper” mixtures. In 1970 he organized and directed the 49th Session of the “Enrico Fermi” International School of Physics dedicated to the “Foundations of Quantum Mechanics”, where the then recent discovery of the violation of Bell’s inequalities and conceivable tests thereof were discussed by Bell, Shimony and others. And in 1976 he co-organized, together with John Bell, a workshop in Erice (Sicily) that gathered most of the theorists and experimentalists working in that very new field. Bernard d’Espagnat is the author of several books on such subjects, notably “Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics”, and “Veiled Reality” (Perseus Press). |
Viacheslav P. Belavkin |
| www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/vpb/ |
| University of Nottingham. School of Mathematical Sciences. Research fields: Quantum New Interpretation, Quantum Evolution Equations, Quantum Mathematical Statistics, Quantum Probabilitiy & Stochastics, Quantum Measurement & Foundations, Quantum Analysis and Operator Calculus, Quantum Markov and Dynamical Semigroups, Quantum Chaos, Ito Algebras & Noise Calculus, Quantum Entropy, Information and Communications, Quantum Filtering, Control, Programming, Computations. |
Giancarlo Ghirardi |
| www.ictp.it/pages/education/headassoc.html |
| University of Trieste. International Centre for Theoretical Physics.Research interests: Potential Theory, Scattering Theory, Symmetries in Quantum Theories, Algebraic Methods, Relativistic Equations, S-Matrix Theory, Unstable Sytems and Decay Processes, Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information and Computation. Research positions:Research Associate of the National Commitee for Nuclear Research (CNRN) at the Ispra Research Centre, presently an EURATOM centre (1959-60); Research Associate of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Theoretical Group of the University of Milan (1960-62) and Trieste (1962-on). |
Richard Gill |
| www.math.uu.nl/people/gill |
| Richard Gill is professor in mathematical statistics and probability theory at the Mathematics Department of the University of Utrecht. He is interested in Bell inequalities and Bell's theorem and Bell-type experiments, and more generally in the role of probability in quantum theory. He also works on state estimation (state reconstruction, tomography) and other statistical inferential aspects of quantum information theory. |
Dennis Dieks |
| www.phys.uu.nl/~wwwgrnsl/dieks |
| Professor of the Foundations and Philosophy of the Natural Sciences at Utrecht University. Dennis Dieks studied theoretical physics in Amsterdam, after which he turned to the foundations and philosophy of physics. He wrote his dissertation, Studies in the Foundations of Physics, at Utrecht University (1981). Research interest: interpretation of quantum mechanics, esp. the modal interpretation. |
Jeremy Butterfield |
| users.ox.ac.uk/~alls0074 |
| University of Oxford. Member of the Philosophy Faculty. Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College. Main research interests: philosophical aspects of quantum theory, relativity theory and classical mechanics. |
Don A. Howard |
| www.nd.edu/~dhoward1 |
| University of Notre Dame. Department of Philosophy. Research interest: Philosophy of Science. Foundations of Physics. History of the Philosophy of Science. |
John D. Barrow |
| www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/jdb34 |
| University of Cambridge.Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics. Research Interests: Cosmology and particle physics. Anisotropic and inhomogeneous cosmological models. Cosmological aspects of gravitation theories. Aspects of the history and philosophy of science touching upon developments in astronomy, cosmology, fundamental physics and mathematics. |
Gerard ‘t Hooft --1999 Nobel Prize for Physics-- |
| www.phys.uu.nl/~thooft |
| Utrecht University. Faculty of Physics and Astronomy. Professor Theoretical Physics. Research interests: Fundamental aspects of quantum physics, physical interpretation of quantum theory, and implications for Big Bang theories of the Universe. Quantum gravity and black holes. Gauge theories in elementary particle physics. The 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics, with M. Veltman, awarded by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm.Citation: "For elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics". |
Karl Svozil |
| tph.tuwien.ac.at/~svozil |
| University of Wien. Institute for Theoretical Physics. Main research: Quantum information and computation theory, Quantum logic, Physical undecidability by diagonalization, Signalling by stochastic fractal coding (stochastic interference), Intrinsic (Endo-) physics. |
Alain Connes |
| www.alainconnes.org |
| Professor at the College of France, IHES and Vanderbilt University. Alain Connes, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University, is Professor at the Collège de France and holds the Léon Motchane Chair at l'Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques. He is a Foreign Associate Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Membre de l'Académie des Sciences, France, and holds membership in the scientific academies of Canada, Denmark and Norway. In 1982, Professor Connes was awarded the Fields Medal. In 2001, Professor Connes was awarded the Crafoord Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. CNRS , the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique awarded Alain Connes, professor at the Collège de France and Institut des Hautes Études Scientifique, the gold medal 2004. Alain Connes received the awards,for revolutionizing the field of operator algebras, for inventing modern non-commutative geometry. Professor Connes has had a revolutionary impact on the theory of operator algebras and founded a new branch of mathematical science: noncommutative geometry, which builds the bridge between quantum mechanics and the general theory of relativity. |
Hilary Putnam |
| philosophy.fas.harvard.edu/facultymember.php?key=11 |
| Professor Emeritus. Department of Philosophy, Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in 1951 from UCLA, where he worked with Hans Reichenbach. He has taught at Northwestern and Princeton, and was Professor of the Philosophy of Science at MIT before joining the faculty at Harvard. He is now the Cogan University Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Emeritus. Professor Putnam is a past president of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division), a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He has written extensively on the philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of natural science, philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind. Many of his papers have been collected in three volumes of Philosophical Papers, in Realism with a Human Face, and in Words and Life. He is also the author of a number of books, including most recently Renewing Philosophy and Pragmatism. Professor Putnam has developed a position on the nature of truth and justification which he calls "internal realism," or more recently, "pragmatic realism," which has become a widely discussed alternative to both traditional metaphysical kinds of realism and post-modernist scepticism. In recent years, his interests have centered on the relations between scientific and non-scientific knowledge. |
Brian Greene |
| columbia-physics.net/faculty/greene_main.htm |
| Columbia University. Department of Physics. Professor of Physics and Professor of Mathematics. Research field: superstring theory, much of his research has focused on the physical implications and mathematical properties of these extra dimensions --- studies that collectively go under the heading "quantum geometry". Recently, they have formed a new institute at Columbia called ISCAP (Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics) dedicated to understanding the interface of superstring theory and cosmology. One primary focus of ISCAP is the search for subtle signatures of string theory that may be imprinted in the precision cosmological data that will be collected through a variety of experiments over the next decade. |
Stuart Hameroff |
| www.quantumconsciousness.org |
| Stuart Hameroff M.D. is Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology, and Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. A clinical anesthesiologist at University of Arizona Medical Center, Hameroff’s academic interests lie in the mechanisms of anesthesia, information processing capabilities of intracellular microtubules, and how the brain produces consciousness. He has shown how anesthetic gases erase consciousness strictly by quantum mechanical van der Waals London forces inside critical brain proteins. In the mid 1990s he teamed with British physicist Sir Roger Penrose to develop a model of consciousness based on quantum computation in microtubules within the brain’s neurons. The microtubule quantum computations are suggested to be orchestrated by synaptic events, and reduce by Penrose’s proposed quantum gravity-linked objective reduction (“OR”), hence the model is called orchestrated objective reduction (“Orch OR”). In the past several years Hameroff has focused on the issue of decoherence, and how it may be avoided in brain microtubules by shielding, pumping and topological quantum error correction. Hameroff also co-founded and now directs The Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona which sponsors the interdisciplinary conference series “Toward a Science of Consciousness”. He has published several books and many papers. |
Giorgio Parisi |
| www.phys.uniroma1.it/DOCS/TEO/people/parisi.html |
| Professor of Quantum Theories at the University of Rome I, La Sapienza. Research activity: his main activity has been in the field of elementary particles, theory of phase transitions and statistical mechanics , mathematical physics and string theory, disordered systems (spin glasses and complex systems), neural networks theoretical immunology, computers and very large scale simulations of QCD (the APE project), non equilibrium statistical physics. Giorgio Parisi has written about 350 scientific publications on reviews and about 50 contributions to congresses or schools. |
Lee Smolin |
| www.qgravity.org/ |
| He is currently Professor of Physics at the Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at the Pennsylvania State University .Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist who has contributed to the unification of quantum theory and space and time. He also works on cosmology, particle physics and quantum theory, he explores the philosophical ramifications of developments in contemporary physics and cosmology. Research Synopsis: Loop Quantum Gravity. Merging Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity. Space and time are made of discrete units just like matter is made of atoms and energy comes in quanta. Quantum states of space are related to "spin networks". Spin networks describe the geometry of space. Quantum states of spacetime are related to "spin foams". The big bang is a bounce. |
N. David Mermin |
| people.ccmr.cornell.edu/~mermin/homepage/ndm.html |
| Department of Physics, Cornell University Ithaca, New York. Theoretical physicist and professor of physics at Cornell University , David Mermin, is known for his efforts to distill the non-intuitive concepts of relativity and quantum mechanics and present them in an accessible way. He was the director of the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences for contributions to condensed matter physics, statistical physics, mathematical physics, and philosophy of quantum mechanics (The Ithaca Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics). He is the winner of many awards, including the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society in 1989. |
Joseph Agassi |
| www.tau.ac.il/~agass/joseph.html |
| Emeritus Professor. Tel-Aviv University and York University, Toronto. Philosophy Department. Joseph Agassi studied physics in Israel and moved to London where he met Karl Popper and worked as his research assistant from 1953 to 1960. He has applied his own interpretation of Popper's views to the history of physics since the beginning of the nineteenth century. He joined the staff at the London School of Economics, and then moved on to academic posts in Hong Kong , North America, Europe, and Israel. |
Jeffrey A. Barrett |
| www.lps.uci.edu/home/fac-staff/faculty/barrett |
| Jeffrey A. Barrett is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at UC Irvine and Chair of the department of Logic and Philosophy of Science. His primary interests are in the conceptual foundations and the epistemology of physics and in the philosophy of mathematics. His book The Quantum Mechanics of Minds and Worlds (Oxford 1999) concerns Everett's Relative-State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics and various accounts of quantum mechanics that have been attributed to Everett. Barrett ultimately favors no-collapse hidden-variable theories like the many-thread and more recent field-theoretic many-maps formulations. |
Patrick A. Heelan |
| www.georgetown.edu/heelan/ |
| Patrick A. Heelan is the William A. Gaston Professsor of Philosophy and a member of the Jesuit Order. He has a doctorate in theoretical physics specializing in geophysics and high energy physics, having studied with Schroedinger (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies) and Wigner (Princeton) and a doctorate in philosophy (at the University of Louvain in Belgium) specializing in the study of natural science from the perspective of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Heidegger. He also has an interest in questions relating to science and religion. Dr. Heelan taught for many years at SUNY at Stony Brook where at times he filled several major positions in the administration of the University. He came to Georgetown University in 1992 as Executive Vice President for the Main Campus and in 1995 became the William A. Gaston Professor of Philosophy. Dr. Heelan's research interests are interdisciplinary with a concentration on the philosophy of modern physics with a novel approach from the perspective of phenomenology and hermeneutics. He has published about a hundred papers on the philosophy of the quantum theory, contextual logic, the hermeneutics of theory and experiment, and the geometric structure of pictorial and other visual spaces. Most of his interests are to be found in his book: Space-perception and the Philosophy of Science (Berkeley: University of California Press 1983/1987). Dr. Heelan has participated in many international and national conferences on the philosophy of modern physics and perceptual psychology. |
Hans Primas |
| www.chab.ethz.ch/personen/emeritus/primas |
| Hans Primas began to study chemistry at the Technikum in Winterthur in 1948 and became a research assistant at the chemistry department at ETH Zurich in 1953. After his Habilitation he was appointed associate professor at the laboratory for physical chemistry in 1961 and full professor for theoretical chemistry in 1966. His research interests have covered a large number of topics in physical chemistry (nuclear magnetic resonance), algebraic quantum theory (C*- and W*-algebras of observables),philosophy of physics (measurement, holism, realism), and history of science(Pauli–Jung dialog). |
Mioara Mugur-Schächter |
| www.cesef.net |
| Mioara Mugur-Schächter is a physicist. While Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Reims, France, she founded and directed the Laboratory of Quantum Mechanics and Structures of Information. Her research is devoted to the foundations of quantum mechanics, the theory of probabilities, and the theory of information. Since 1980 she constantly pursues two - related - aims : 1. the formulation of a general and formalised method of conceptualization; 2. the formulation of a fundamental theory of microstates freed of interpretation problems. She is the president of the "Centre pour la Synthèse d'une Epistémologie Formalisée" (CeSEF), Paris. |
