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Talks
The Way to Quantum Theory
Badino, Massimiliano:
The Odd Couple: Boltzmann, Planck, and the Application of Statistics to Physics
Norton, John:
Einstein's Miraculous Argument of 1905
Gianetto, Enrico:
Poincaré's Electromagnetic Quantum Mechanics
Old Quantum Theory
Schirrmacher, Arne:
Who Did Really Believe in Bohr's Atom? The "Ultramikroskopie des Atominneren" of Peter Debye and the Art of Reinterpreting Experimental Results
Jordi, Marta; Perez, Enric:
The Ehrenfest Adiabatic Hypothesis and the Old Quantum Theory, Before Bohr
Rynasiewicz, Robert:
On 'The[?] So-Called Correspondence Principle'
Sauer, Tilman:
Probing Concepts, Old and New: Einstein's Interpretation of Superconductivity
Discussion
The Crisis of the Old Quantum Theory
Gearhart, Clayton:
Quantum Quandaries: Walther Nernst, Albert Einstein, Otto Stern, and the Specific Heat of Hydrogen
Friedrich, Bretislav:
How a Bad Cigar Assisted at the Birth of Quantum Mechanics
Cassidy, David:
Examining the Crisis in Quantum Theory: Its Origins, Nature, Extent, and Impact
Giulini, Dominico:
Electron Spin or "klassisch nicht beschreibbare Art von Zweideutigkeit"
Discussion
Matrix Mechanics
Kojevnikov, Alexei:
"Knabenphysik": The birth of quantum mechanics from a postdoctoral viewpoint
Duncan, Anthony; Janssen, Michel:
Pascual Jordan's Resolution of the Conundrum of the Wave-Particle Duality of Light
Perovic, Slobodan:
Why Were Logically Distinct Theories Deemed Equivalent in Early Quantum Mechanics?
Discussion
The Reception of Quantum Theory
Hu, Danian; Zhang, Baichun:
The Odd Couple: Boltzmann, Planck, and the Application of Statistics to Physics
Navarro, Jaume:
Planck and de Broglie in the Thomson Family
Discussion
Wave Mechanics
Martins, Roberto de Andrade:
Louis de Broglie's Struggle with the Wave-Particle Dualism, 1923-1925
Monaldi, Daniela:
The First Steps (and Stumbles) of Bose-Einstein Condensation: Uhlenbeck's Criticism of Einstein's Prediction and its Refutation
Lehner, Christoph; Renn, Jürgen:
Schrödinger's Way to Wave Mechanics
Discussion
Quantum Theory and Chemistry
Pallo, Gabor:
Early Impact of Quantum Physics on Chemistry: George Hevesy's Work on Rare Earth Elements and Michael Polanyi's Absorption Theory
Park, Buhm Soon:
Computational Imperatives in Quantum Chemistry
Discussion
Philosophical Background
Engler, Olaf:
Scientific Philosophy and Quantum Physics
Stöltzner, Michael:
Vienna Indeterminism and the Problems of Quantum Mechanical Causality
Sigurdsson, Skuli:
Quantum Mechanics and a New Thought Style: Die Naturwissenschaften in the Interwar Years
Discussion
Keynote Talk
Stuewer, Roger:
Einstein's Revolutionary Quantum Hypothesis
Mathematics and Quantum Mechanics
Scholz, Erhard:
H. Weyl Entering the "New" Quantum Mechanics Discourse
Schneider, Martina:
A Service for the Physicists? Van der Waerden's Early Contributions to Quantum Mechanics
Discussion
The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Bacciagaluppi, Guido; Valentini, Antony:
Reconsidering the 1927 Solvay Conference
Jacobsen, Anja Skaar:
The Bohr-Rosenfeld Work on the Epistemology of Quantum Electrodynamics
Howard, Don:
EPR and the Hole Argument: In What Sense Did Einstein Think Quantum Mechanics Incomplete?
Camillieri, Kristian:
Constructing the Myth of the Copenhagen Interpretation
Discussion
Quantum Mechanics after WW II
Forstner, Christian:
The Emergence of Bohmian Mechanics: Dialectical Materialism and the Construction of a new Quantum Theory
Joas, Christian:
The Advent of Quantum Field Theoretical Methods in Solid State Physics
Yeang, Chen-Pang:
Engineering the Entanglement: Quantum Computation, Quantum Communication, and Re-conceptualizing Information
Auletta, Gennaro:
The Problem of Quantum Mechanics' Interpretation
Discussion