Program and participants

1. History since the 1970s

• Arnold Sommerfeld: Michael Eckert (Deutsches Museum, Munich)

• Alternative interpretations of quantum mechanics since the 1970s: Olival Freire (Bahia, Brasil)

2. S-matrix and perturbation theory and Feynman diagrams

• The quantum revolution as a Hacking-type revolution: Sam Schweber (Brandeis)

• Feynman diagrams: Adrian Wüthrich (Technische Universität, Berlin)

3. Gauge theory and the Aharanov–Bohm effect

• Gauge theory and the Aharanov–Bohm effect: the view from philosophy Katherine Brading (Notre Dame)

• Some more recent ideas about the Aharonov­–Bohm effect Richard Healey (Arizona)

4. Particles and fields in the interpretation of QFT

• What role remains for quanta in quantum field theory? Doreen Fraser (Waterloo, Canada)

• Particles and fields in quantum field theory Jim Weatherall (UC Irvine)

5. Path integral and functional methods

• Time Evolution of Path Integral Theory Philip Stamp (U British Columbia)

• History of functional methods in quantum field theory Alex Blum (MPIWG, Berlin)

6. Quo vadis Quantum?

• Markus Aspelmeyer (Vienna)

• Bill Unruh (Chicago)

Discussants

• George Musser (Scientific American)

• Ben Feintzeig (UC Irvine)

• Thiago Hartz (Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen)

• Joshua Rosaler (Oxford)

• Pablo Ruiz (Notre Dame)

Board members

• Lee Gohlike, Founder

• Geoffrey Hellman (Minnesota) [hellm001@umn.edu]

• Don Howard (Notre Dame) [dhoward1@nd.edu]

• John Norton (Pittsburgh) [jdnorton@pitt.edu]

• Serge Rudaz (Minnesota) [rudaz@physics.umn.edu]

• Philip Stamp (Vancouver) [stamp@phas.ubc.ca]

• Jos Uffink (Minnesota) [jbuffink@umn.edu] chair

• Bill Unruh (Vancouver) [unruh@physics.ubc.ca]

• Bob Wald (Chicago) [rmwa@uchicago.edu]

Participants