Complex Systems and Soft Materials Program in Norway

The Complex Systems and Soft Materials Research Group at NTNU and the Department of Physics at NTNU welcomes the

NTNU Lars Onsager Professor 2006

Professor John R. Klauder

Departments of Physics and Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, U.S.A.

Host: Professor Bo-Sture Skagerstam, Division of Complex Materials and Department of Physics, NTNU (email: boskag@phys.ntnu.no).

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~klauder/

John Klauder was born on January 24th 1932 and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University, where he was a student of John A. Wheeler. A former head of the Theoretical Physics and Solid State Spectroscopy Departments of Bell Telephone Laboratories, he has been a visiting professor at Rutgers University, Syracuse University and the University of Bern. Since 1988 Professor Klauder has been a Professor of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Florida. He has also served on the Physics Advisory Panel of the National Science Foundation and been Editor of the Journal of Mathematical Physics, President of the International Association of Mathematical Physics, Associate Secretary-General of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, and has authored over 200 articles published in international journals.

Lecture notes & audio for J. Klauders 2004 functional integration course are now available here.

J.R. Klauders 70th birthday celebration was held on Saturday 9 February 2002 - Click here for details.

The latest J.R. Klauder articles uploaded to the Los Alamos archive can be found here.

Books by John R. Klauder:

Beyond Conventional Quantization. "When treated conventionally, certain systems yield trivial and unacceptable results. This book describes enhanced procedures, generally involving extended correspondence rules for the association of a classical and a quantum theory, which, when applied to such systems, yield nontrivial and acceptable results. Requiring only a modest prior knowledge of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, this book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in theoretical physics, mathematical physics, and mathematics."

Coherent States - Applications in Physics and Mathematical Physics. A brief introduction to Coherent States followed by a collection of useful articles. Authored with B. S. Skagerstam.

Fundamentals of Quantum Optics. Volume authored jointly with E. C. G. Sudarshan.

On Klauder’s Path: A Field Trip. A volume in celebration of my 60th birthday.

Colloquium and 2006 Lars Onsager Medal at NTNU Friday 24 March 14.00 -15.00 in R5 by the 2006 Lars Onsager Professor

John R. Klauder

Departments of Physics and Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, U.S.A.

Path Integration: An Historical Slice

Abstract: Efforts to give a proper meaning to the Feynman path integral began at the outset and continue to this day. The present talk will follow one common line of development and show its evolution over many years and many workers. The present form of this procedure seems optimal in many respects, and it is currently being used in quantum gravity.