A Tale of Two Anachronisms
Professor at Université du Québec en Outaouais, CA Education • 1971 M.Sc. (physics), University of Warsaw, Poland. • 1981 Ph.D. (theoretical physics), University of Warsaw, Poland. Research interests • Foundations of quantum mechanics. Quantum information. Violation of Bell inequalities and completeness of quantum mechanics. • High energy scattering. Possibility of the violation of the optical theorem in spite of the unitarity of S matrix. • Search for the experimental evidence of the violation of the optical theorem in high energy hadron-hadron scattering in LHC. • Statistical analysis of the experimental data. Non parametric compatibility tests (purity tests). Search for the fine structures in time- series of data. • Predictions of the quark model for the scattering of polarized initial beams. (Ph.D. Thesis and related publications). • Group theory. Contractions of Lie groups and their representations. (M.Sc. Thesis and related publications)
Andrei Khrennikov is Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics at Linnaeus University. Andrei is also director of the research group International Center for Mathematical Modeling (ICMM) and organizer of some 20 conferences in the field of quantum theory at Linnaeus University.His research activity can be characterized as extensively multi-disciplinary. The research activities are split in the basic disciplines: Mathematics, physics, and biology, cognition, psychology and behavioral economics. (source: Linnaeus University)
I am currently engaged in research projects in several fields. These include: Statistical Physics: Foundational issues, non-equilibrium methods, generalized statistics of Renyi and Tsallis, applications to econophysics, multifractals. Quantum Mechanics: Feynman's path integral, geometric phases, foundations, 't Hooft's quantization proposal, supersymmetric QM,. Quantum Field Theory and Particle Physics: Functional integral, particle oscillations and mixing, defect mediated phase transitions, topological defects. Education Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, DAMTP University of Cambridge, UK M.Sc. in Theoretical Physics, Mathematical Tripos, Part III, DAMTP University of Cambridge, UK Ing (= M.Sc.) in Condensed Matter Physics, FNSPE-CTU, Prague, CZ
Prof Bei-Lok Hu got his PhD in theoretical physics from Princeton University in 1972 under the late Professor John A. Wheeler. After postdoctoral work at Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley and Santa Barbara in mathematics, physics and astrophysics, he was appointed an honorary research fellow at Harvard University in 1979 before he assumed his current position at the University of Maryland in 1980. Prof Hu's research in the 70's was on quantum field theory in curved spacetime with applications to quantum processes in the early universe, for that work he was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. Professor Hu began pioneering work on nonequilibrium quantum field theory in the 80's which resulted in a book with Dr. Calzetta by this title published in 2008 in the Cambridge Monograph in Mathematical Physics series. In 1990 Prof Hu began his seminal work on quantum decoherence and non-Markovian processes of open quantum systems. Since 2000 he has been studying quantum entanglement dynamics in atomic-optical systems with applications to quantum information processing. He is a founding fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute dedicated to the advancement of quantum science and its applications. He is also the chief architect in the inauguration of the International Society for Relativistic Quantum Information in 2010. His current research interest is on foundational issues of quantum and statistical mechanics behind macroscopic quantum phenomena and quantum thermodynamics. Prof Hu is a world-renowned leader in quantum gravity research. His long-held critically independent viewpoint that general relativity is a hydrodynamic theory first presented at the Second Sakharov Conference in 1996 has, alongside with his Maryland colleague Jacobson's 1995 paper on viewing Einstein's equation as an equation of state, as well as work from the condensed matter community by Volovik and Wen, helped ushered in a vibrant field known today as emergent gravity. (source: HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study)
Sabine Hossenfelder received her PhD from the University of Frankfurt, Germany, in 2003. She worked as a postdoc at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and later at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada. Sabine joined Nordita in September 2009. Sabine's main research interest is physics beyond the standard model, with a special emphasis on the phenomenology of quantum gravity. This still young research field brings together experimentalists and theorists and connects many different areas, from cosmology and astrophysics over neutrino physics to particle colliders and high precision measurements. Her contributions are focused on the role of Lorentz-invariance and locality, which might be altered in the fundamental to-be-found theory of quantum gravity and be accessible to experiment. Sabine has collaborators at Perimeter Institute in Canada, at the University of Sussex, at SISSA in Trieste, and the MPI in Potsdam, Germany. At Nordita, she has organized a workshop on "Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity" in summer 2010 that was well attended by Nordic and international participants.
His work concentrates on gauge theory, black holes, quantum gravity and fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics. His contributions to physics include a proof that gauge theories are renormalizable, dimensional regularization, and the holographic principle. After obtaining his doctorate 't Hooft went to CERN in Geneva, where he had a fellowship. He further refined his methods for Yang–Mills theories with Veltman (who went back to Geneva). In this time he became interested in the possibility that the strong interaction could be described as a massless Yang–Mills theory, i.e. one of a type that he had just proved to be renormalizable and hence be susceptible to detailed calculation and comparison with experiment. According to his calculations, this type of theory possessed just the right kind of scaling properties (asymptotic freedom) that this theory should have according to deep inelastic scattering experiments. This was contrary to popular perception of Yang–Mills theories at the time, that like gravitation and electrodynamics, their intensity should decrease with increasing distance between the interacting particles; such conventional behaviour with distance was unable to explain the results of deep inelastic scattering, whereas 't Hooft's calculations could. When he mentioned his results at a small conference at Marseilles in 1972, Kurt Symanzik urged him to publish this result. He did not, and the result was eventually rediscovered and published by Hugh David Politzer, David Gross, and Frank Wilczek in 1973, which led to them earning the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Werner A. Hofer was born in Salzburg, Austria. He is a Royal Society University Research Fellow (since 2003) and Professor of Chemistry and Physics in the Surface Science Research Centre of the University of Liverpool. He holds a Ph.D. (1999) from the Vienna University of Technology. Before joining the University of Liverpool in 2002, he held Research Fellow positions at University College London. Dr. Hofer was appointed as an Associate of CIAR's Nanoelectronics Program in 2007.Dr. Hofer's research is focused mainly on high-precision methods to simulate electron transport within a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). Initially, the application of perturbation theory centered on the modification of images due to different tip structures and atomic displacement in the close distance regime between surface and STM tip. He has shown that the method can be applied to practically all experimental situations, where STMs are used to analyze the geometric or electronic structure of metals, semiconductors, and molecules adsorbed on a conducting substrates. Recently, he has developed a scattering approach for the tunneling problem, which overcomes the problems related to perturbation theory, in particular the low-bias limit, imposed by a perturbative treatment. "Werner Hofer has a foot in both camps. He's an expert on the conventional theory behind the scanning tunnelling microscope, but maybe at heart he's a dissident." - Caroline Thompson
Basil J. Hiley is a British quantum physicist and professor emeritus of the University of London. He received the Majorana Prize "Best person in physics" in 2012. Long-time co-worker of David Bohm, Hiley is known for his work with Bohm on implicate orders and for his work on algebraic descriptions of quantum physics in terms of underlying symplectic and orthogonal Clifford algebras. Hiley co-authored the book The Undivided Universe with David Bohm, which is considered the main reference for Bohm's interpretation of quantum theory. The work of Bohm and Hiley has been characterized as primarily addressing the question "whether we can have an adequate conception of the reality of a quantum system, be this causal or be it stochastic or be it of any other nature" and meeting the scientific challenge of providing a mathematical description of quantum systems that matches the idea of an implicate order. Basil Hiley was born 1935 in Burma, where his father worked for the military for the British Raj. He moved to Hampshire, England, at the age of twelve, where he attended secondary school. His interest in science was stimulated by his teachers at secondary school and by books, in particular The Mysterious Universe by James Hopwood Jeans and Mr Tompkins in Wonderland by George Gamow. Hiley performed undergraduate studies at King's College London. He published a paper in 1961 on the random walk of a macromolecule, followed by further papers on the Ising model, and on lattice constant systems defined in graph theoretical terms. In 1962 he obtained his PhD from King's College in condensed matter physics, more specifically on cooperative phenomena in ferromagnets and long chain polymer models, under the supervision of Cyril Domb and Michael Fisher. Hiley first met David Bohm during a week-end meeting organized by the student society of King's College at Cumberland Lodge, where Bohm held a lecture. In 1961 Hiley was appointed assistant lecturer at Birkbeck College, where Bohm had taken the chair of Theoretical Physics shortly before. Hiley wanted to investigate how physics could be based on a notion of process, and he found that David Bohm held similar ideas. He reports that during the seminars he held together with Roger Penrose he was particularly fascinated by John Wheeler's "sum over three geometries" ideas that he was using to quantise gravity. Hiley worked with David Bohm for many years on fundamental problems of theoretical physics. Initially Bohm's model of 1952 did not feature in their discussions; this changed when Hiley asked himself whether the "Einstein-Schrödinger equation", as Wheeler called it, might be found by studying the full implications of that model. They worked together closely for three decades. Together they wrote many publications, including the book The Undivided Universe: An Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory, published 1993, which is now considered the major reference for Bohm's interpretation of quantum theory. In 1995, Basil Hiley was appointed to the chair in physics at Birkbeck College at the University of London. He was awarded the 2012 Majorana Prize in the category The Best Person in Physics for the algebraic approach to quantum mechanics and furthermore in recognition of ″his paramount importance as natural philosopher, his critical and open minded attitude towards the role of science in contemporary culture". (source: Wikipedia)
Yuji Hasegawa is working right now at the Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Wien. His group is engaged in quantum optical experiments with neutrons. He studied Applied Physics at the University of Tokyo, Japan and then moved in Wien between 1991 and 1992 as exchange student between TU Wien and the University of Tokyo. During his exchange in Wien, he joined the group of Prof. Rauch´s neutron interferometer at the Atominstitut. Coming back to Tokyo, he ended his Ph.D. about interference experiments using high-energy photons, x-rays from synchrotron radiation, and neutrons. He became a Postdoc at the University of Tokyo and constructed a precise neutron optics (PNO) beam-line at the JRR-3M, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI), Tokai, Japan.
Giancarlo Ghirardi (born October 28, 1935) is an Italian physicist and Emeritus professor of theoretical physics at the University of Trieste. He is well known for the Ghirardi–Rimini–Weber theory (GRW), which he proposed in 1985 together with Alberto Rimini and Tullio Weber, and for his contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics. His research interests relate to variety of topics of theoretical physics; focussing since 1983 mainly on the foundations of quantum mechanics. Ghirardi is member of the editorial board of Foundations of Physics and formerly of Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Science. He is president of the Italian Society for the Foundations of Physics, of which he is one of the founding members. The President of the Province of Trieste, Maria Teresa Bassa Poropat, conferred the 'Sigillo della Provincia di Trieste' to GianCarlo Ghirardi for research and teaching, for his commitment to the promotion and development of physics in Trieste and for his intense and fruitful activity as the author of popular books and scientific publications.
Appointment Senior Research Associate Dept of Physics & Astronomy Faculty of Maths & Physical Sciences Research Groups High Energy Physics Group (HEP) Academic Background 2005 PhD Doctor of Philosophy – Particle Physics Royal Holloway 2001 MSc Master of Science – Particle Physics Royal Holloway 1980 BSc Hons Bachelor of Science (Honours) – Physics University of East Anglia (source: University College London)