Prof. GianCarlo Ghirardi Department of Physics - Miramare University of Trieste Room: 210 Tel: 0039 040 2240 233 Fax: 0039 040 224601 Email: ghirardi[at]ts.infn.it

Born in Milan, on october 28, 1935. Graduated in physics Summa cum Laude at the University of Milan, july 15, 1959. Full Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Trieste University and Director of the Department of Theoretical Physics. His research interests cover various topics: Quantum scattering theory, Symmetries in quantum Theories, Algebraic Methods, S-matrix theory, Decay processes. Since 1983 his specific research interests have been the mathematical and conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics. He is member of the Editorial Board of Foundations of Physics and of Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Science. He is president of the Italian Society for the Foundations of Physics.

Research interests

Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
Dynamical Reduction Models
Entanglement
Non locality

Selected publications

G.C. Ghirardi, A. Rimini and T. Weber: "A General Argument Against Superluminal Transmission through the Quantum Mechanical Measurement Process", Lettere Nuovo Cimento, 27, 293 (1980).

G.C. Ghirardi, A. Rimini and T. Weber: “Unified dynamics for microscopic and macroscopic systems”, Phys. Rev. D 34, 470 (1986).

G.C. Ghirardi, P. Pearle and A. Rimini, "Markov Processes in Hilbert Space and Continuous Spontaneous Localization of Systems of Identical Particles", Physical Review A 42, 78 (1990) .

A. Bassi and G.C. Ghirardi: “A General Argument Against the Universal Validity of the of the Superposition Principle”, Phys. Lett. A 275, 373 (2000).

G.C. Ghirardi, L. Marinatto and T. Weber, "Entanglement and Properties of Composite Quantum Systems: a Conceptual and Mathematical Analysis", J. Stat. Phys. 108, 49 (2002).

A. Bassi and G.C. Ghirardi: “Dynamical Reduction Models”, Physics Reports 379, 257 (2003).

Links

• Publications on the arxiv.org