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Symposium
Aephraim
Steinberg
Knowable
and Unknowable in Quantum Theory, and the Sound of a Tree
Falling in Two Forests at the Same Time
Presented
Sunday May 12th at 2 pm
The
twentieth-century theory of nature, a remarkably accurate
construction known as quantum mechanics, suggests striking
limitations on what can be known about the state of the world.
I will discuss some recent ideas about quantum uncertainty
in the past and the future, and how they relate to the strange
example of a particle which may perhaps be in two places at
the same time.
Aephraim
Steinberg - Biography
Aephraim Steinberg grew up in New York and earned his B.S.
in Physics at Yale University in 1988. He then spent a year
working at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, before attending
U.C. Berkeley for graduate school. At Berkeley, he carried
out his Ph.D. under Prof. Ray Chiao, studying quantum weirdness
and faster-than-light tunneling. He then did a postdoc at
Jussieu (Univ. de Paris), and one in Bill Phillips's laser
cooling group at NIST, before taking up a position in 1996
as Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Toronto,
where he has been ever since.
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