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Simulations of complex materials across multiple length scales
Efthimios Kaxiras - Harvard University - Department of Physics
From Physics to Information Theory and Back
Wayne Myrvold - Western University
Twisted Lattice Supersymmetry
Simon Catterall - Syracuse University
Simulation of Binary Black Hole Mergers
Frans Pretorius - Princeton University
Beta-gamma systems and quantum Koszul resolution
Giuseppe Policastro - École Normale Supérieure - PSL
Interpretations of Probability in Quantum Mechanics
Taking for granted that the mathematical apparatus for describing probabilities in quantum mechanics is well-understood via work of von Neumann, Lüders, Mackey, and Gleason, we present an overview of different interpretations of probability in quantum mechanics bearing on physics and experiment…
The transient nows
It is often suggested that the special theory of relativity is incompatible with any notion of the passage of time. I shall try to show, following in the footsteps of Abner Shimony, that there is transience to be found in Minkowski spacetime, but this transience is local rather than global.
Quantum Physics and Whitehead's Philosophy a tribute to Abner Shimony
After having been a Whiteheadian for decades, Abner, under the influence of Lovejoys book, "The Revolt against Dualism, no longer accepts Whiteheads philosophy. In this paper I try to challenge this change of heart, as well as suggest a modification of Whiteheads philosophy that allows for an…
Mathematics and the Empirical Sciences: Charles Sanders Peirce on the Status and Application of Mathematics
Abner Shimony mentions that his undergraduate years at Yale in the forties provided an introduction to three profound philosophers that influenced his thought Alfred North Whitehead, Charles Sanders Peirce and Kurt Gödel. For all three, mathematics played a central role in the unfolding of their…
On the Separability of Physical Systems
In the context of Bell-type experiments, two related notions of "separability" are offered, one of which is logically stronger than the other. It is shown that the weaker of these is logically equivalent to the statistical independence condition widely taken to have been refuted by the results of…
Geometry of Flat Spacetime
N. David Mermin - Cornell University
I will show Abner how to construct Minkowski's space-time diagrams directly from Einstein's two postulates and some very elementary plane geometry. This geometric route into special relativity was developed while teaching the subject to nonscientists, but some of its features may be unfamiliar to…
Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle - Welcome
Howard Burton , Lucien Hardy - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Ready-To-Use Teaching Resources on Modern Physics
Damian Pope - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
