Venue: Ramanujan Hall, Mathematics Department
Speaker: Luigi Accardi
Affiliation: University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Date and time: 4.15 pm, Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Talk link: meet.google.com/tss-oqhb-yop
Title: Quantum Probability: a short historical survey of the main new ideas
Abstract: Goal of my talk to put in historical perspective the
developments that, starting from 1974 have lead to a complete
clarification of all the so-called paradoxes of quantum mechanics and of
all the apparent mysteries that surrounded this discipline since its
origins. The path leading to this clarification has been long and
tortuous, but now we know that what physicists call quantization is a very
special case of a much wider and far reaching construction which naturally
arises (i.e. without any artificial, ad hoc, construction) from the
combination of classical probability with the theory of orthogonal
polynomials.
My talk will be an extremely short synthesis of the salient moments of
this path.