Workshop on Quantum Measurement: Decoherence and Modal Interpretations, to be Held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 4-7, 1995

Drs。赫尔曼和希利正在主持一个小型的跨学科会议，主题是“量子测量：退相干和模态解释”。讲习班将于1995年5月4日至7日在明尼阿波利斯的明尼苏达大学举行。他们的目标是把对量子测量问题有共同兴趣的顶尖物理学家和科学哲学家聚集在一起，这样每个小组都可以更好地了解另一个小组的工作。两个小组都在积极地进行研究项目，这些项目可能代表着量子力学基础中这个长期存在的、深刻的问题领域的真正进展。参与其中的科学哲学家们正专注于最近提出的各种“模态”和“交互”解释，这些解释与已知的局限性一致，允许在某些情况下（包括测量交互）分配可测量量的确定值，在这种情况下，这些值不被传统的解释框架所认可。参与研究的物理学家们正在集中精力研究宏观层面上一个真正问题的证据，以及环境诱导的状态退相干在产生可测量量的确定值方面的作用。所有参与者都应该设法理解这些建议是如何相互关联的，以及在多大程度上，任何有希望的测量问题的方法都是从它们中产生的。会议可以促进跨学科合作，继续寻求这些相关问题的答案。

Drs. Hellman and Healey are conducting a small, interdisciplinary conference on "Quantum Measurement: Decoherence and Modal Interpretations." The workshop is to take place at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, May 4-7, 1995. Their goal is to bring together leading physicists and philosophers of science who share a common interest in the problems of quantum measurement so that each group may become better acquainted with work of the other group. Both groups have been actively pursuing research programs that may represent genuine progress on this long-standing, deep problem-area in the foundations of quantum mechanics. Participating philosophers of science are concentrating on various recently proposed "modal" and "interactive" interpretations which, consistently with known limitations, allow assignments of definite values of measurable quantities in certain circumstances (including measurement interactions) in which such values are not recognized according to the conventional interpretative framework. Participating physicists are concentrating on both the evidence for a genuine problem at the macroscopic level and on the role of environmentally-induced decoherence of the state in bringing about definite values of measurable quantities. All participants should seek to understand how these proposals are related to one another and to what extent any promising approach to the measurement problem emerges from them. The conference can stimulate interdisciplinary cooperation in the continued pursuit of answers to these related questions.