Gregg Jaeger Professor, Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Boston University Gregg Jaeger (PhD – Boston U; BSc, Math, Physics, Philosophy – U. Wisconsin-Madison) is a professor of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Boston University. After postdoctoral work in the history of science (Dibner Institute, MIT) and experimental quantum-optical physics (National Institute of Science and Technology), he assumed his current, interdisciplinary professorship in 2006. He was awarded a Kavli Fellowship in 2008 for his work on quantum computing (holding two fundamental patents) and co-edited Philosophy of Quantum Information and Entanglement (Cambridge 2010). He is the author of the monographs Quantum Information (Springer 2007), Entanglement, Information, and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (Springer 2009), and Quantum Objects (Springer 2014). Most recently, he co-authored Quantum Metrology, Imaging, and Communication (Springer 2017) and co-edited Quantum Arrangements (Springer 2021). His current work focuses on the ontological status of elementary particles in quantum field theory. Papers / Presentations: “The Particles of Quantum Fields,” Entropy 23, 1416 (2021). “Exchange Forces in Particle Physics,” Foundations of Physics 51, 13 (2021). “Are Virtual Particles Less Real?” Entropy 21, 141 (2019). “Quantum Potentiality Revisited,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A 375, 20160390 (2017). “Unsharp Quantum Reality” (with Paul Busch), Foundations of Physics 40, 1341 (2010). “Coherence, entanglement, and reductionist explanation in quantum physics,” (with Sahotra Sarkar). In Revisiting the foundations of relativistic physics (A. Ashtekar et al., eds.), (Kluwer: Dordrecht, 2003), p. 523. “Two interferometric complementarities” (with Abner Shimony and Lev Vaidman), Physical Review A 51, 54 (1995). Participant In: Metaphysics Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 2:30pm EST Past Event Watch the video » Physics being the study of the fundamental properties of Nature, as the name implies, metaphysics investigates the nature of Nature, the what-must-therefore-be-the-case of those discoverable physical properties. For centuries, either explicitly or implicitly, metaphysics created the background and organizing principles for scientific research. But as the 20th century progressed there arose a number of challenges… read more »
Metaphysics Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 2:30pm EST Past Event Watch the video » Physics being the study of the fundamental properties of Nature, as the name implies, metaphysics investigates the nature of Nature, the what-must-therefore-be-the-case of those discoverable physical properties. For centuries, either explicitly or implicitly, metaphysics created the background and organizing principles for scientific research. But as the 20th century progressed there arose a number of challenges… read more »