Talks

• The major disagreement about the definition of thermal equilibrium (and of entropy)
  This talk I gave on 21 February 2013 as a colloquium at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies.
• Bricmont, Bohm, and Bell
  This talk I gave on 11 April 2012 at the conference in honor of Jean Bricmont on the occasion of his 60th birthday in Brussels (Belgium).
• The cosmological origin of irreversibility
  This talk I gave on 23 February 2012 to the Rutgers Astronomical Society.
• Explanations of the symmetrization postulate
  This talk I gave on 28 June 2011 at the conference Physics, mathematics and philosophy of nature: A conference in honor of Detlef Dürr on the occasion of his 60th birthday at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany.
• The general reason for approach to thermal equilibrium of macroscopic systems
  This talk I gave on 10 May 2011 at the 105th Statistical Mechanics Meeting at Rutgers University.
• The foundations of quantum mechanics and the limitations of human beings
  This talk I gave on 21 February 2011 in the faculty research perspectives seminar in the Rutgers department of mathematics.
• The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
  This talk I gave on 3 November 2010 to the society of physics students at Rutgers.
• Generische Lösungen der Dirac-Gleichung, der Transversalitätssatz der Differentialtopologie und das Erreichen der Lichtgeschwindigkeit
  This talk I gave on 17 June 2010 at Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen (Germany) and on 6 July 2010 at the University of Regensburg (Germany).
• The GRW Flash Theory and the Conway-Kochen "Free Will" Theorem
  This talk I gave on 2 May 2010 at the conference New Directions in the Foundations of Physics, Washington, DC.
• Bohmian mechanics (slides of lecture 1, recording of lecture 1, slides of lecture 2, recording of lecture 2)
  These are two lectures delivered on March 2 and March 4, 2010, to a graduate course taught by Joseph Emerson at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
• Relativistic Realistic Quantum Theory
  This talk I gave on October 24, 2009, at the American Mathematical Society Eastern Section Fall Meeting at Pennsylvania State University.
• On the Free Will Theorem of Conway and Kochen
  This talk I gave on September 24, 2009, in the Mathematical Physics Seminar, Rutgers University.
• Time in Bohmian Mechanics
  This talk I gave on September 28, 2008, at the Perimeter Institute, Canada, on the conference The Clock and The Quantum. Watch a recording.
• Was Temperatur mit Zufall zu tun hat: Kanonische Verteilungen 1866, 1902 und 2006
  This talk was my inaugural lecture as a Privatdozent on June 25, 2008, at the Mathematics Institute of Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen, Germany.
• Gödels Beweis für die Unvollständigkeit formaler Systeme
  This talk I gave as a habilitation colloquium on January 16, 2008, at the Mathematics Institute of Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen, Germany.
• Wave Functions in Thermal Equilibrium: GAP Measures and Canonical Typicality
  This talk I gave on December 5, 2007, at the Statistical Mechanics Seminar at the Department of Physics, Princeton University, and again on December 6, 2007, at the Mathematical Physics Seminar at the Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University.
• The empirical predictions of Bohmian mechanics and GRW theory
  This talk I gave on October 8, 2007, at the session on "Quantum Reality: Ontology, Probability, Relativity" of the "Shellyfest: A conference in honor of Shelly Goldstein on the occasion of his 60th birthday" at Rutgers University.
• Die Punktprozesse der GRW-Theorie des Kollapses der Wellenfunktion
  This talk I gave (in German) on June 29, 2007, at the Mathematics Institute of Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany.
• Relativistischer Kollaps der quantenmechanischen Wellenfunktion
  This talk I gave (in German) on April 11, 2007, at the Mathematics Institute of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.
• Incorporating Gravity into Bohmian Mechanics: A New Approach
  This talk I gave on September 19, 2006, at the Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada. Watch a recording of this talk.
• The mathematical structure of quantum reality
  This talk I gave on February 2, 2006, in the Mathematical Physics seminar at Rutgers University, USA.
• Identical Particles in Bohmian Mechanics
  This talk I gave on January 10, 2006, in the Mathematical Physics seminar at Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany.
• The Distribution of the Wave Function for a System in Thermal Equilibrium
  This talk I gave on November 11, 2005, in the Mathematical Physics seminar of the ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
• The Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber Model and Relativity (and QFT)
  This talk I gave on September 8, 2005, at the conference "On the Present Status of Quantum Mechanics" at Mali Losinj, Croatia, organized by A. Bassi, D. Dürr, T. Weber, and N. Zanghì.
• Quantum Theory without Observers and Relativity
  This talk I gave on July 8, 2004, at the summer school "Second School on the Foundations of Physical Theories" in Urbino, Italy, organized by D. Dürr, V. Fano, G.C. Ghirardi, F. Laudisa, and N. Zanghì.
• Mathematical and Physical Foundations of Quantum Theory
  This talk I gave on July 5, 2004, at the summer school "Second School on the Foundations of Physical Theories" in Urbino, Italy, organized by D. Dürr, V. Fano, G.C. Ghirardi, F. Laudisa, and N. Zanghì.
• Bell's Process in Quantum Field Theory: Non-Explosion Proof for a Time-Inhomogeneous Jump Process
  This talk I gave on March 24, 2004, at the "Karlsruher Stochastik-Tage", Germany.
• Two Arrows of Time in Nonlocal Particle Dynamics
  This talk I gave at the conference "The Direction of Time", January 14-19, 2002, Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld, Germany.