Four new publications by LPS graduate students
Four new publications by LPS graduate students
- December 12, 2013
- Fall quarter sees papers land in top journals
Four LPS graduate students had papers accepted for publication by top philosophy and
science journals this quarter. Seventh year student Ben Rin's (pictured) paper, "The
Computational Strengths of alpha-tape Inifinite Time Turing Machines," which generalizes
the mathematical theory of computation to computers with infinite amounts of memory,
has been accepted by the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic. Sam Fletcher, a sixth
year student, had his paper "Light Clocks and the Clock Hypothesis," which captures
a precise sense in which the "clock hypothesis," a central interpretive principle
of Einstein's relativity theory, may be understood as a theorem, published in the
November 2013 issue of the journal Foundations of Physics. The December 2013 issue
of philosophy journal Episteme included fourth year Justin Bruner's paper, "Policing
Epistemic Communities," which uses methods from evolutionary game theory to explore
how encouraging scientists to check one another's work affects the reliability of
research results. And third year student Ben Feintzeig's paper "Hidden Variables
and Commutativity in Quantum Mechanics", on the mathematical representation of probability
in quantum theory, was accepted by the British Journal of Philosophy of Science.
Congratulations Ben, Sam, Justin, and Ben!
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