HQ–3 conference on the history of quantum physics
Berlin June 28 - July 2, 2010
HQ-3 Conference Talks and Presentations
| 01 | Jürgen Renn (MPIWG) "The Transformation of Mechanics" |
| The Classical Roots of Quantum Physics Session Chair: Christian Joas |
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| 02 | Shaul Katzir (MPIWG) "“Classical" Solutions to the Challenges of Radiation and its Interaction with Matter" |
| 03 | Charlotte Bigg (Centre Alexandre Koyré, CNRS) "The Making of Jean Perrin’s Brownian Motion Experiments and of early 20th Century French Physical Science" |
| 04 | Marta Jordi Taltavull (MPIWG) "From Classical to Quantum Optical Dispersion, after Bohr’s Atom" |
| Old Quantum Theory & Statistics Session Chairs: Arne Schirrmacher and Christoph Lehner |
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| 05 | Matthew Konieczny (University of Minnesota) "The Birth of a Quantum Physics on the Eastern European Periphery: Władysław Natanson and the First Solvay Conference of 1911" |
| 06 | Michael Eckert (Deutsches Museum) "Sommerfeld’s Munich Quantum School" |
| 07 | Clayton Gearhart (St. John’s University Minnesota) "Fritz Reiche’s 1921 Quantum Theory Textbook" |
| 08 | Massimiliano Badino and Bretislav Friedrich (FHI) "Putting the Quantum to Work: Otto Sackur’s Pioneering Exploits in the Quantum Theory of Gases" |
| 09 | Enric Perez Canals and Tilman Sauer (Universitat de Barcelona and Einstein Papers Project, Caltech) "Einstein’s Quantum Theory of the Monatomic Ideal Gas: Non-statistical Arguments for a New Statistics" |
| Quantum Mechanics and Statistics Session Chair: Massimiliano Badino |
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| 10 | Daniela Monaldi (York University) "The Early Interactions of Quantum Statistics, Many-particle Systems, and Quantum Fields" |
| 11 | Jos Uffink (Utrecht University) "Gibbs Paradox and the Relation between Thermodynamics and Quantum Theory" |
| Classical Concepts in Quantum Mechanics Session Chair: Jaume Navarro |
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| 12 | Arne Schirrmacher (MPIWG) "Heisenberg's Ladder Didn't Fall. Types, Aims and Uses of Models in the History of Quantum Theory" |
| 13 | John Stachel (Center for Einstein Studies, Boston University) "Bohr: Complementarity and Correspondence" |
| 14 | Kristian Camilleri (University of Melbourne) "The Doctrine of Classical Concepts in Historical Perspective" |
| 15 | Anthony Duncan and Michel Janssen (University of Pittsburgh and University of Minnesota) "(Never) mind your p's and q's: Von Neumann versus Jordan on the Foundations of Quantum Theory" |
| The Many-body Problem Session Chair: Michael Eckert |
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| 16 | Christian Joas and Jeremiah James (FHI) "Application, Extension, and Alteration: The many-body Problem in early Quantum Mechanics" |
| 17 | Roger H. Stuewer (University of Minnesota) "An Act of Creation: The Meitner-Frisch Interpretation of Nuclear Fission" |
| 18 | Edward Jurkowitz and Volker Blum (FHI) "Computation and Concepts in Early Atomic and Solid-State Physics" |
| 19 | Christian Kehrt (Deutsches Museum) "From Do-it-yourself Quantum Mechanics to Nanotechnology? The History of Experimental Semiconductor Physics in Germany, 1970-2000." |
| Quantum Optics Session Chair: Shaul Katzir |
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| 20 | Dieter Fick and Horst Kant (FHI and Philipps-Universität Marburg and MPIWG) "The Concept of Light Molecules and Light Multiples: A dead-end Way to simulate Bose-Einstein Statistics for Black Body Radiation" |
| 21 | Barry R. Masters (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Proximity of Theory and Experimental Practice in Göttingen’s Physical Institutes 1920-1933: Work of Maria Göppert as Exemplar of an Institutional Culture" |
| 22 | Joan Bromberg (Johns Hopkins University) "Modelling the Hanbury Brown - Twiss Effect: The Mid-Twentieth Century Revolution in Optics" |
| 23 | Indianara Lima Silva (Universidade Federal da Bahia) "The Controversy on Photons and the Hanbury-Brown & Twiss Experiment" |
| Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory Session Chair: Michel Janssen |
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| 24 | Christoph Lehner (MPIWG) "The Resolution of the Particle-Wave Dualism: Pascual Jordan and the Quantum Field Theory Program" |
| 25 | Thomas Pashby (University of Pittsburgh) "Projective Geometry and the Origins of the Dirac Equation" |
| 26 | Kent Staley (Saint Louis University) "On an alleged fine-tuning Problem in Dirac’s Electron Theory and its partial Solution by Weisskopf" |
| 27 | Adrian Wüthrich (Universität Bern) "The Genesis of Feynman Diagrams" |
| 28 | Kenji Ito (Sokendai University) "From Electrical Engineering to Quantum Physics: The Case of Nishina Yoshio" |
| Quantum Gravity Session Chair: Tilman Sauer |
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| 29 | Dean Rickles (University of Sydney) "Pioneers of Quantum Gravity" |
| 30 | Yin Xiaodong and Zhu Zhongyuan (Capital Normal University, Beijing and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) "Chang’s Contribution to the Quantization of Constrained Hamiltonian System" |
| 31 | Jürgen Renn, Donald Salisbury, Matthias Schemmel, and Kurt Sundermeyer (MPIWG, Austin College, MPIWG, FU Berlin) "The Overlapping Worlds of General Relativity and Quantum Theory: The Challenge of the Principle of Equivalence" |
| Determinism and Indeterminism Session Chair: Daniela Monaldi |
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| 32 | Michael Stöltzner (University of South Carolina) "Random Fluctuations in Electroscopes and Microscopes" |
| 33 | Richard Staley (University of Wisconsin-Madison) "Between Absolute and Relative, Life and Death, Causality and Probability: The Cultural History of Mechanics" |
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| 34 | Massimiliano Badino and Jaume Navarro (FHI and MPIWG) "Research and Pedagogy: A History of Quantum Physics through the Textbooks" |
| Quantum Mechanics in the 30s Session Chair: Christoph Lehner |
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| 35 | Elise Crull (University of Notre Dame) "Grete Hermann and the Gamma-Ray Microscope Gedankenexperiment" |
| 36 | Don Howard (University of Notre Dame) "Quantum Mechanics in Context: Pascual Jordan’s 1936 Anschauliche Quantentheorie in its Philosophical and Political Setting" |
| Philosophy and Quantum Mechanics Session Chair: Kristian Camilleri |
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| 37 | Cathryn Carson (University of California, Berkeley) "Quantum Mechanics in Heidegger's Thought about Science" |
| 38 | Mauricio Suárez (Complutense University of Madrid) "The Birth of Philosophy of Physics and the Origin of Quantum Propensities: Henry Margenau’s ‘Latency’ School" |
| Interpretations after WWII Session Chair: Jos Uffink |
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| 39 | Frederik Moreira dos Santos (Universidade Federal da Bahia) "The Quantum Mechanics Measurement Problem: the Wigner’s approach" |
| 40 | Fábio Freitas (Universidade Federal da Bahia) "Anthony Leggett and Foundations of Quantum Mechanics" |
| 41 | Olival Freire Jr. (Universidade Federal da Bahia) "Orthodoxies on the Interpretation of Quantum Theory: The Case of the Consistent Histories Approach" |
| Hanneke Janssen Memorial | |
| 42 | Jos Uffink (Utrecht University) "Decoherence and Reality" |