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

赫尔曼博士和希利博士正在主持一个小型的跨学科会议，主题是“量子测量：退相干和模式解释”。研讨会将于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。他们的目标是将对量子测量问题有共同兴趣的领先物理学家和科学哲学家聚集在一起，以便每个小组可以更好地了解另一个小组的工作。这两个小组一直在积极开展研究项目，这些项目可能代表着在量子力学基础这个长期存在的深层次问题领域取得的真正进展。与会的科学哲学家们正在集中精力研究最近提出的各种“模式”和“互动”解释，这些解释与已知的限制一致，允许在某些情况下(包括测量相互作用)赋予可测量数量的确定值，在这种情况下，这些值不能按照传统的解释框架得到承认。参与研究的物理学家正专注于宏观层面的真实问题的证据，以及环境诱导的状态消相干在产生可测量量的确定值方面所起的作用。所有与会者都应设法了解这些提案之间的相互关系，以及这些提案在多大程度上产生了解决计量问题的有希望的办法。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.