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
• Maximum number of participants: 14
• Tentative list of talks:

  Week of	Speaker	Title
  13.4.	B. Horvath	Identical particles and the non-trivial topology of the configuration space
  20.4.	S. Kreuzer	The fermionic line bundle
  27.4.	L. Sauter	No-hidden-variables theorems
  4.5.	W.R. List	Shor's algorithm for factorizing integers on a quantum computer
  11.5.	R. Tumulka	Introduction to special relativity
  18.5.	A. Batsakoutsas	Spinors in relativistic space-time
  25.5.		university closed
  1.6.	E. Springer	The Dirac equation
  8.6.	N. Overschie	Multi-time wave functions: concept, consistency, and detection probabilities
  15.6.	T. Peinkofer	Bohmian mechanics in relativistic space-time
  22.6.	J. Feldner	The Aharonov-Bohm effect
  29.6.	J. Beck	To be determined
  6.7.	L. Stuke	Quantum logic and Kripke's criticism
  13.7.	L. Korte	Interior-boundary conditions and Bohmian trajectories

• Literature: will be recommended individually by topic of the presentation.
• Register: If you are interested in taking this seminar, please email Prof. Tumulka.