Leading experts weigh-in on the interpretation of quantum theory: Lectures available on-line

Individual lectures are viewable via the PI website at http://www.perimet … stitute.ca/. The course began with introductory lectures on The Structure of Quantum Theory and Basic Problems of Interpretation, and these have been followed with lectures covering the best known proposals for resolving the paradoxes of quantum reality. The proposals covered include the Many Worlds Interpretation, the deBroglie-Bohm Causal Interpretation, the Statistical Interpretation, and Spontaneous Collapse Models. Leading experimentalists have provided lectures on the up-to-date experimental evidence confirming these paradoxical features of the quantum world, such as quantum non-locality (demonstrated violation of Bell's locality theorem), and the recent demonstration of wave-particle duality for macro-molecules.

The lecture series is coordinated by Perimeter Institute researchers Joseph Emerson and Raymond Laflamme and is being offered as a survey course for advanced undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Waterloo. The lectures continue until April of 2005 with notes and video recordings for new lectures added on-line as they become available.