Seminar series
Date
Thu, 04 Mar 2010
11:00
11:00
Location
SR2
Speaker
Andreas Doering
Organisation
Oxford
Standard quantum logic, as intitiated by Birkhoff and von Neumann, suffers from severe problems which relate quite directly to interpretational issues in the foundations of quantum theory. In this talk, I will present some aspects of the so-called topos approach to quantum theory, as initiated by Isham and Butterfield, which aims at a mathematical reformulation of quantum theory and provides a new, well-behaved form of quantum logic that is based upon the internal logic of a certain (pre)sheaf topos.