Home Page of N.P. Landsman

Home Page of N.P. (Klaas) Landsman
Professor of Mathematical Physics
Radboud University Nijmegen

Slides mastervoorlichting 7 maart 2013

Recent and upcoming talks

Recent publications (links to abstracts, source files, and ps or pdf files)

CV with publication list

Address:
IMAPP, Faculty of Science
Radboud University Nijmegen
Heyendaalseweg 135
6525 AJ Nijmegen
THE NETHERLANDS

email: landsman at math.ru.nl

Research Areas

I am involved in a number of research projects:

* Topos theory and quantum logic (active)
* Noncommutative geometry and the Standard Model (active)
* Quantization and operator algebra's (active)
* Functoriality of quantization (dormant)
* Lie groupoids and quantization (dormant, taken up by Eli Hawkins)
* quantization of singular Marsden-Weinstein quotients (dormant, taken up by Hessel Posthuma)

Editorial Board member of:

Annals of Functional Analysis

International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

Fundamental Theorie of Physics

Der Philosoph ist nicht Buerger einer Denkgemeinde. Das ist, was ihn zum Philosophen macht.
(Ludwig Wittgenstein)

The secret to life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to , every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is - it must be something you cannot possibly do.
(Henry Moore)

Ik en jij zijn samen wij. (Felix Landsman)

Ik had nooit opgekeken tegen hoog, ook nooit neergekeken op laag. (Johan Cruijff)

Ik kom uit Friesland. Ik loop niet voor andere meesters. (Chris Zaal)

Door veel te begrijpen, heb ik niets af kunnen maken (the last words of Hugo de Groot)

Als componist schrijf je iets, je ziet wat je fout hebt gedaan en dat probeer je beter te doen. Dat proces gaat door tot je zeventigste, tachtigste.
(Louis Andriessen)

Succes is niet een kwestie van een grote stap, maar van heel veel kleine stapjes. Je moet niet denken: ik wil vijftig winkels neerzetten. Je moet eerst die ene winkel goed doen. Je moet die ene bh goed kunnen maken. (Marlies Dekkers)

Academic Year 2008-2009

3-5 September: Workshop on Sheaves in Geometry and Quantum Theory, Nijmegen

19 September: Wiskundetoernooi

26 September: start of From Plato to predicativity: Seminar in the Philosophy of Mathematics

15-19 October: New York and Princeton (Prize Journey with 10 schoolkids)

Academic Year 2007-2008

Applied Mathematics Course

Quantum logic reading group

Seminar on Quantization, noncommutative geometry and symmetry

5-8 September 2007: XVI International Fall Workshop on Geometry and Physics

21 September 2007: Wiskundetoernooi

3-4 October, 2007: DEEP BEAUTY: Mathematical Innovation and the Search for an Underlying Intelligibility of the Quantum World

18-21 October, 2007: New York (Prize Journey with 10 schoolkids)

7 December 2007: Colloquium on the occasion of Klaus Fredenhagen's sixtieth birthday

1-12 April, 2008: Reduction and the Special Sciences

25-27 April 2008: New Directions in the Foundations of Physics

14-18 July 2008: Applications of Noncommutative Geometry at 5ecm

21-25 July 2008: Operator Structures and Dynamical Systems

Active personal links

Recent publications (links to abstracts, source files, and ps or pdf files)

Recent and upcoming talks/outreach activities

Master Class "Bestaat Toeval?" (Fall 2006)

Pionier Project: Quantization, noncommutative geometry and symmetry (2002-2007)
Proposal and Mid-term Report

Opleidingscommissie Wiskunde

Analysis 1 Course (Spring 2007)

Dutch Wikipedia entry (not by me! - who wrote this?)

Reviews of Requiem voor Newton (in Dutch)

Interviews (in Dutch)

CV and Publications

Curriculum Vitae

List of publications (pdf)

Downloads of publications (after 1991)

Mathematical Topics between Classical and Quantum Mechanics (Springer-Verlag New York, December 1998, $59.95):
Browse online
order form

Academic Year 2006-2007

Introduction to Partial Differential Equations

Seminar on Quantization, noncommutative geometry and symmetry

Analysis 1 Course (Spring 2007)

Course on Hilbert Space and Quantum Mechanics

Master Class "Bestaat Toeval?"

In zee met wiskunde D: Interpretaties van kansen, de Dutch Book stelling en het driedeurenprobleem

Quantum logic reading group

22 september 2006: Wiskundetoernooi

13 oktober 2006: IMAPP-Symposium (Kueng, Penrose, Engelen, Sunyaev, 't Hooft, Zagier)

9 March 2007: Mathematical Physics Symposium (Atiyah, Penrose, Yoccoz, Werner)

Academic Year 2005-2006

Master Class "Bestaat Toeval?"

Analysis 3 Course (Spring 2005)

Analysis 2 Course (Fall 2005)

Seminar on operads, groupoids and quantization

Academic Year 2004-2005

Analysis 1 Course (Spring 2005)

Course on Hilbert Spaces and Quantum Mechanics (Fall 2004)

Academic Year 2003-04

Master Program in Mathematical Physics

MRI Master Class on Noncommutative Geometry

Course on C*-algebras and K-theory

Group Seminar (internal)

Academic Year 2002-03

Talks

Lectures on Mathematical quantum field theory

Pionier Project: Quantization, noncommutative geometry and symmetry

Seminar on noncommutative geometry

Master Program in Mathematical Physics

Academic Year 2001-02

Celebration of the 80th birthday of W.T. van Est

Lectures on Operator Algebra's and Noncommutative Geometry

Seminar on tensor categories in mathematical physics

Academic Year 2000-01

Lectures on Abstract Harmonic Analysis

Seminar on Geometry and Quantization

Academic Year 1999-00

Lectures on algebraic quantum field theory

Seminar on groupoids

Academic Year 1998-99

Lectures on Harmonic analysis (block 3 of core subject Lie groups)

Lectures on von Neumann algebras, knot theory, and quantum field theory

Seminar on mathematical structures in field theory

Academic Year 1997-98

Lectures on C*-algebras and quantum mechanics [abs, src, ps]

Seminar on mathematical structures in field theory

Students:

Edwin Koopman, Master's Thesis (Amsterdam, 1989):
Dimensional reduction at high temperature revisited

Mark A. Robson, PhD Thesis (Cambridge, 1995):
The Geometric Quantization of Constrained Systems

Urs A. Wiedemann, PhD Thesis (Cambridge, 1994):
Constraints and Symmetry Breaking in Quantum Field Theory

Ken K. Wren, PhD Thesis (Cambridge, 1998):
Constrained Quantization of Yang-Mills Theory via Rieffel Induction

Joris Portegies Zwart, Master's Thesis (Amsterdam, 1998):
BRST reduction and quantization of constrained Hamiltonian systems

Erik van Erp, Master's Thesis (Amsterdam, 2000):
The Atiyah-Singer index theorem, K-theory, and quantization

Rachel Brouwer, Master's Thesis (Amsterdam, 2001):
A bicategorical approach to Morita equivalence for rings and von Neumann algebras

Walter van Suijlekom, Master's Thesis (Amsterdam, 2002):
The noncommutative Lorentzian cylinder as an isospectral deformation

Hessel Posthuma, Ph.D Thesis (Amsterdam, 2003):
Quantization of Hamiltonian loop group actions [ps] [pdf] [dvi]

Fonger Ypma, Master's Thesis (Amsterdam, 2004):
Quasicrystals, C*-algebras and K-theory [pdf] (ps file with pictures available on request) 2006 summary [pdf]

Behnam Norouzizadeh, Master Class Test Problem (Utrecht, 2004), uncorrected:
Coarse Geometry and K-Homology [pdf]

Bram Buijs, Masters's Thesis (Amsterdam, 2005):
The cohomological descent method [ps] [pdf]

Bram Mesland, Masters's Thesis (Amsterdam, 2005):
Algebraic K-theory, periodic cyclic homology, and the Connes-Moscovici index theorem [ps] [pdf]

Michelangelo Vargas Rivera, Masters's Thesis (Amsterdam, 2005):
Noncommutative geometry and the integer quantum Hall effect [pdf]

Mirte Dekkers, Bachelor's Thesis (Nijmegen, 2006):
De Dutch Book Stelling

Rogier Bos, PhD Thesis (Nijmegen, 2007):
Groupoids in geometric quantization

Peter Hochs, PhD Thesis (Nijmegen, 2008)
Quantisation commutes with reduction for cocompact Hamiltonian group actions

Martijn Caspers, Masters's Thesis (Nijmegen, 2008):
Gelfand spectra of C*-algebras in topos theory

Hanneke Janssen (+), Masters's Thesis (Nijmegen, 2008):
Reconstructing Reality

Bram Wouters, Bachelor's Thesis (Nijmegen, 2008):
Determinisme onder de kwantummechanica

Tim de Laat, Bachelor's Thesis (Nijmegen, 2008):
Synthetic differential geometry: an application to Einstein's equivalence principle

Matthias den Hartog, Bachelor's Thesis (Nijmegen, 2008):
Muziek en wiskunde

Marianne Coenen & Tom Huls, Project Thesis (Nijmegen, 2008):
Modelselectie: AIC en BIC

Niels Kowalzig, PhD Thesis (Utrecht, 2009):
Hopf algebroids and their cyclic theory

Chris Heunen, PhD Thesis (Nijmegen, 2009):
Categorical quantum models and logics <

Ronnie Hermens, MScThesis (Nijmegen, 2009):
Quantum mechanics: from realism to intuitionism <

Anna Kiriliou, Kris Schoorl, Tjapko Struik, Tim Verheijen, Project Thesis (Nijmegen, 2009):
Zevenheuvelenloop Excel sheet <

Corine Baayen, Margo Ermens, Gerjan Hebbink, Sara Houweling, Marleen Kock, Project Thesis (Nijmegen, 2010):
Wiskundig onderzoek en de maatschappij: een case study (gebaseerd op de wiskundige ontwikkelingen achter het NS-Spoorboekje)<

Frank Buijnsters, Tim van Lent, Wouter van Orsouw, Project Thesis (Nijmegen, 2010):
Het LLL-algoritme: een case-study naar wiskunde en technologische innovatie <

Michael Agathos, Master Class Test Problem (Utrecht, 2010):
The fundamental interactions in noncommutative geometry<

Maciej Koch-Janusz, Master Class Test Problem (Utrecht, 2010):
Twisted index theorems and the fractional Quantum Hall Effect<

Pieter Naaijkens, PhD Thesis (Nijmegen, 2012):
Anyons in infinite quantum systems <

Wilke Castelijns, Maria van Rooijen, Patrick Uiterwijk, David Venhoek (Radboud Honours Program 3d year Thesis, 2012):
Quantum cryptography: between science and businsess
Cover <

Richard Sanders, MSc Thesis (Nijmegen, 2012):
Commutative spectral triples and the spectral reconstruction theorem <

Robin Reuvers, BSc Thesis (Nijmegen, 2012):
A Flea on Schroedinger's Cat
including movies <