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	To be determined
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