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Report on the Conference on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Ohio) Xavier University (Cincinnati

Published Jul 15, 1963• 0 citations
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Report on the Conference on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, held at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1-6, 1962. Boris Podolsky was Chairman, John Hart served as Conference Manager, and Frederick G. Werner was Assistant Chairman. The conference was sponsored jointly by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Office of Naval Research, and the Judge Robert S. Marx Foundation. The report was submitted on July 15, 1963 and outlined the major activities of the conference.

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Report on the Conference on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, held at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1-6, 1962. Boris Podolsky was Chairman, John Hart served as Conference Manager, and Frederick G. Werner was Assistant Chairman. The conference was sponsored jointly by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Office of Naval Research, and the Judge Robert S. Marx Foundation. The report was submitted on July 15, 1963 and outlined the major activities of the conference.
In early 1959, Hugh Everett discussed his theory with Xavier University physics professor Boris Podolsky in New York City. Podolsky asked Everett for a copy of his long thesis. In 1962, Everett was invited to explain his interpretation of quantum mechanics to a panel of physicists convened at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio to discuss the quantum measurement problem. The conference was chaired by Podolsky. A transcript of the five day proceeding was made public forty years later (in 2002). It documents an intimate, sometimes angry, sometimes mirthful colloquy between several leading physicists of the day, including Eugene Wigner, Paul Dirac, Yakir Aharonov, Wendell Furry, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen. They explored several possible solutions to the measurement problem, ranging from Bohm's hidden variable theory to non-physical explanations of collapse that had been proposed by Wigner. Everett despised public speaking, but he could not have asked for a smarter, better informed group of physicists to address. It was the first of only two known occasions in which he explained his theory of pure wave mechanics to a public gathering of his peers.
Boris Podolsky was a physicist who, as one of the authors on the original EPR paper, made seminal early contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics. Later, in 1962, he would be one of the principal organizers of a conference at Xavier University at which Hugh Everett's work was discussed. He and Everett met in New York some time in late 1958 or early 1959; this letter from Everett apologizes for not sending a copy of the long thesis, as presumably Everett promised to do at that meeting.
More than 500 scientists took part in the Second International Conference on Quantum Electronics, which was held at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, Calif., under the sponsorship of the Office of Naval Research and the University of California. Within the three-day conference period (March 23–25, 1961), some sixty papers were presented on recent progress in masers of various types (especially those involving the higher-frequency microwave and optical regions), phonon interactions and relaxation processes in solids and gases, narrow-line optical spectra of solids and gases, optical pumping, and a number of new ideas and accomplishments having to do with the interaction of matter and electromagnetic waves. In addition to those from the United States who attended the meeting, there were delegates from England, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Switzerland, and the USSR.
On the Completeness of Quantum Mechanics.- Joint Probability Distributions in Quantum Mechanics.- Semantic Analysis of Quantum Logic.- Is The Principle of Superposition Really Necessary?.- Quantum Logics.- Metaphysics and Modern Physics: A Prolegomenon to the Understanding of Quantum Theory.- The General Relativistic Quantization Program.- Quantum Physics and General Relativity the Search for a Deeper Theory.- On the Nature of Light and the Problem of Matter.- Epistemological Perspective on Quantum Theory.