Seminar on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Summer semester 2026

Taught by: Prof. Dr. Roderich Tumulka and Lukas Nullmeier
Language of presentations: English
Studiengänge: This seminar is offered primarily for the master's program in mathematical physics but is open to all study programs.
Prerequisites: This seminar extends the course "Foundations of Quantum Mechanics" that Prof. Tumulka taught in the winter semester 2025/26 but is not restricted to students who attended that course. Others need basic knowledge in quantum mechanics, analysis, linear algebra, and probability theory.
Talks: 90 minutes, one talk per week

Tentative list of talks:

Date	Speaker	Title
15.4.	B. Horvath	Identical particles and the non-trivial topology of the configuration space
22.4.	R. Tumulka	Introduction to special relativity
29.4.	L. Sauter	No-hidden-variables theorems
6.5.	W.R. List	Shor's algorithm for factorizing integers on a quantum computer
13.5.	S. Kreuzer	The fermionic line bundle
20.5.	A. Batsakoutsas	Spinors in relativistic space-time
27.5.		university closed
3.6.	E. Springer	The Dirac equation
10.6.	N. Overschie	Multi-time wave functions: concept, consistency, and detection probabilities
24.6.	J. Feldner	The Aharonov-Bohm effect
1.7.	J. Beck	Probability in many-world theories
8.7.	L. Stuke	Quantum logic and Kripke's criticism
15.7.	D. Sadlowski	Particle creation, Fock space, and Bell's jump process
22.7.	L. Korte	Interior-boundary conditions and Bohmian trajectories