{"id":10560,"date":"2022-11-03T00:07:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T16:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/?p=10560"},"modified":"2022-11-03T01:57:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T17:57:25","slug":"wave-particle-duality-revisited-picard-lefschetz-interpretation-in-astrophysics-quantum-cosmology-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/10560\/","title":{"rendered":"Wave particle duality revisited: Picard-Lefschetz interpretation in astrophysics, quantum cosmology and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Director Ue-Li Pen (Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica)<br \/>\nHost: Director Chia-Seng Chang (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica)<br \/>\nTime: 3:00-5:00 pm, Tuesday, November 8 , 2022<br \/>\nPlace: 1F Auditorium, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica<br \/>\nWebsite:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phys.sinica.edu.tw\/lecture_detail.php?id=2624&#038;eng=T\"> https:\/\/www.phys.sinica.edu.tw\/lecture_detail.php?id=2624&#038;eng=T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<br \/>\nPath integrals are defining features of wave optics and quantum mechanics. Dr. Ue-Li Pen present recent generalizations of classical lensing and more general path integrals in the framework of Picard-Lefschetz theory, interpreting wave\/quantum phenomena as interferences of complex classical paths in real time. This picture provides a simple explanation for previously complex scintillation phenomena.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2-4-2-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Wave particle duality revisited: Picard-Lefschetz interpretation in astrophysics, quantum cosmology and beyond\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2-4-2-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2-4-2-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2-4-2-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2-4-2-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2-4-2-1080x1528.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2-4-2.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Director Ue-Li Pen (Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica) Host: Director Chia-Seng Chang (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica) Time: 3:00-5:00 pm, Tuesday, November 8 , 2022 Place: 1F Auditorium, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica Website: https:\/\/www.phys.sinica.edu.tw\/lecture_detail.php?id=2624&#038;eng=T Abstract: Path integrals are defining features of wave optics and quantum mechanics. Dr. Ue-Li Pen present recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10594,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10560\/revisions\/10594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}