Davis Foundations of Physics Working Group

In the fall of 2023, I started the Davis Foundations of Physics Working Group (FKA the Davis Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics Working Group), with funding from the Davis Humanities Institute. 

The working group brings together graduate students from the philosophy and physics departments to collaborate on research in the foundations of physics. We hold meetings for paper discussions, graduate student presentations, and workshops. 

In the 2023-2024 academic year, my co-organizers were Arsalan Adil (UCD, Physics) and Maria Nørgaard (University of Geneva, Philosophy).  

Upcoming Meetings

Previous Meetings

5 March 2025 - Presentation by Isaac Wilhelm (National University of Singapore)

• "The Metaphysics of Running Couplings"

5 February 2025 - Causal Sets and Quantum Gravity

• Callender - "Intimations of Quantum Gravitational Time" 

22 January 2025 - Probability and Branch Counting in EQM

• Khawaja - "Climbing Mount Everett" (forthcoming)

22 November 2024 - Presentation by Eugene Chua (Nanyang Technological University) 

• "Melting in Motion: On the Status of Classical Thermodynamics in Relativity"

31 October 2024 - Spooky Action at a Distance

• Presentation by David Glick on locality

17 October 2024 - Divergence and Overlap in EQM

• Romagosa - "Four-dimensional persistence in the many worlds Interpretation" (manuscript)

• Quirke - "Everettian quantum mechanics and the ghost of fission" (2024)

2 May 2024 - Meeting with Laura Ruetsche 

• Ruetsche - "A problem of scale"

24 April 2024 - Indeterminacy in Everettian QM

• Glick & Le Bihan - "Metaphysical indeterminacy in  Everettian quantum mechanics" 

17 April 2024 - Wigner's Friend 

• Wigner - "Remarks on the Mind-Body Question"

1 March 2024 - Arsalan Adil Presentation 

• "Seeking Alive Cats: the search for subsystems in quantum worlds" 

15 February 2024 - Maria Nørgaard Presentation 

• "Quantum indeterminacy, a matter of degree?”

2 February 2024 - QBism and epistemic approaches (continued)

• Healy - "Observation and Quantum Objectivity"

26 January 2024 - QBism and epistemic approaches

• Fuchs, Mermin, and Schack - “An Introduction to QBism with an application to the Locality of Quantum Mechanics”

• Fuchs - “Quantum Mechanics as Quantum Information, Mostly”

13 December 2023 - Probability and Maverick Branches in the MWI

• Greaves - “Probability in the Everett Interpretation”

• Zee et al - "Discreteness and the origin of probability in quantum mechanics”

29 November 2023 - Decoherence and The Many Worlds Interpretation

• Wallace - "Decoherence and Ontology"

• Schlosshauer - "The quantum-to-classical transition and decoherence" 

15 November 2023 - The Measurement Problem

• Saunders - "What is the Problem of Measurement”? 

• Maudlin - “Three Measurement Problems"