From eli Tue Dec 31 0:0:0 2002
Subject: curriculum vitae
/vita                                        updated 10nov2006 27sep2007
                                    VITA      [dated 23jan2007 tardily]


Name:			ELIHU LUBKIN

Date of Birth:		October 25, 1933

Place of Birth:     Brooklyn, New York

Education:          1947-50, Stuyvesant H.S., New York

                    A.B., 1954, Columbia University, with highest honors in
                    mathematics and physics

                    A.M., 1957, Columbia University (Physics)
                    Ph.D., 1960, Columbia University (Physics)

Honors:             Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi

                    Honorable mention, William Llowell Putnam Mathematical
                    Competition

                    Westinghouse Science Talent Search, ~1950

Experience:         Postdoctoral appointment, Radiation Laboratory
                    University of California, Berkeley, 1959-61

                    Research Associate, Department of Physics
                    Brown University, 1961-62

                    Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
                    Brown University, 1962-66

                    Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
                    Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1966-~2003

                    Associate Professor Emeritus ~2003


Book:               Schrodinger's Cat:
                    Unpublished Manuscript (1973).  See 1979.

Publications: 		"R" flags refereed items
		        "*" flags items related to measurement theory
			"A" flags articles in conference-proceeding compendia
			"Rep" flags reprints
			"N" flags nonscientific items
                        "W" flags www
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R	"Mu Decay with Nonconservation of Parity",
     Physical Review 107, 856-858 (1957) (with Larsen and Tausner).

	"Leptonic Decay of Hyperons", (1958, unpublished, Landovitz is a formal
     coauthor)

R	"Neutrons From the Capture of a Polarized Mu Meson",
     Annals of Physics (N.Y.) 11, 414-482 (1960), thesis.

R	"TCP as a Space Reflection", Nuovo Cimento X15, 153-155 (1960).

*R	"Angular Distributions", Nuovo Cimento X16, 1098-1108 (1960).

R	"Depolarization of a Muon by Hyperfine Interaction",
     Physical Review 119, 815-817 (1960).

	"Frames and Lorentz Invariance in General Relativity",
     UCRL 9668, 19 April 1961, unpublished.

*	"A Critique of the Superposition Principle", mimeographed notes on a
     1962 lecture, unpublished.

R	"Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering in the Strip Approximation to the
         Mandelstam Representation", Annals of Physics (N.Y.) 21, 143-231
     (1963, with Charap and Scotti), and
     Bulletin of the American Physical Society II 7, 325 (1962).

R	"Geometric Definition of Gauge Invariance",
     Annals of Physics (N.Y.) 23, 233-283 (1963), and
     Bulletin of the American Physical Society, v.8, April 1963, p. 365

*R	"A Critique of the Space-Time Variables in Physical Theory",
     Nuovo Cimento X32, 171-179 (1964).

R	"Possible Relationship Between Electric Charge and Dual Charge",
     Journal of Mathematical Physics 5, 1603-1606 (1964).

R	"Converse Red-Shift Argument", Physical Review 137, B221-222 (1965).

R	"Variants of Canonical Formalism",
     Annals of Physics (N.Y.) 32, 218-258 (1965), and UCRL 11637.
     Related items:
        "Geometric Definition of Mechanics",
         Bulletin of the American Physical Society, April 1964, p. 401.
     and
A      ``Geometric Definition of Classical Mechanics'', paper no. 27 in the
       ``Third Annual Eastern U.S. Theoretical Physics Conference, 1964,
         University of Maryland''.

	"Locked Disconnected Groups and Automorphisms of Connected Groups",
     Brown University (High-Energy) Report No. NYO-2262-106,
     (16 January 1966, unpublished).

	"Analogy to Gravitation for Space-Time Structure at Short Distances",
     Bulletin of the American Physical Society (April 1966);
     Brown University (High-Energy) Report No. NYO-2262-113 (unpublished);
     and NSF proposals for 1969-70 and 1970-71.

	"Analogues of the Landau-Lifshitz Pseudotensor for Asymptotic de-Sitter
         Symmetry of a Signatured Metric, and for Asymptotic Canonical Symmetry
         of an Antisymmetric Form", UWM-4867-67-2, 25 June 1967 (unpublished),
        and
     Bulletin of the American Physical Society, v.13, January 1968.

	"Conservation-Law Identities Analogous to the Ten Mechanical
         Conservation Laws", UWM-4867-67-8, 27 December 1967 (unpublished).

A	"Analogues of the Landau-Lifshiftz Pseudotensor",
     in ``Relativity and Gravity'', ed. Kuper and Peres; Gordon and Breach,
     N.Y., pp. 225-238 (1971), unites the two preceding items.

	"The Mathematical Structure of Elementary Thermodynamics",
     (11 April 1968, UWM-4867-68-5, unpublished).

*	"Toward a Measurement Theory of Nonlinear Wave Mechanics",
     Bulletin of the American Physical Society II 13, 590 (1968).

*	"An Application of Ideal Experiments to Quantum-Mechanical Measurement
         Theory", UWM-4867-68-14, 12 Dec. 1968; see 1979.

*R	"On Violation of the Superselection Rules",
     Annals of Physics (N.Y.) 56, 69-80 (1970), UWM-4867-69-3 (30 April 1969).

R	"A Phenomenological Presentation of the Dirac Quantization of Magnetic
         Charge", Physical Review D2, 2510-2511 (1970); is also the first half
     of UWM-4867-4, 18 March 1970.

R	"A Simple Picture for Dirac's Charge-Pole Quantization Law eg = n/2",
     American Journal of Physics 39, 94-96 (1971); is also the second half
     of the above UWM report.

*	"Accepting Superselection Entails Rejecting Complementarity",
     Bulletin of the American Physical Society, (January 1971), p. 67.

R	"Addendum to a Formula of Feinberg and Sucher",
     Physical Review A4, 416-419 (1971); UWM-4867-70-16.

A	"Classical 2-Graviton Project",
     in ``International Centre for Theoretical Physics
     (Miramare, Trieste, Italy) Report #IC/71/144'', page 24 (1971).

	"Diaelectricity", UWM-4867-73-13, 20 November 1973, revised to
        "Transient Diaelectricity", UWM-4867-74-2, January 1974, unpublished.

	"Diaelectricity?", Bulletin of the American Physical Society,
     January 1974.

R	"Gentle Neutrino Scattering and the Davis Experiment", Physics Letters
     46A, 431-2 (1974);  revision of UWM-4867-73-11, 30 October 1973,
        "Cryogenic Neutrino Experiments?",
     Bulletin of the American Physical Society, January 1974.

*	"Is There an Extraneous Test in Experimental Physics?",
     Bulletin of the American Physical Society, January 1974.

*R	"Theory of Multibin Tests:  Definition and Existence of Extraneous
         Tests", Journal of Mathematical Physics 15, 663-672 (1974),
     slight revision of
        "Non-Dirac Observables:  Extraneous Tests Exist",
     UWM-4867-73-17, 27 December 1973.

*R	"A Physical System Which Can Be Forced to Execute an Arbitrary
         Unitary Transformation, and Its Use to Perform Arbitary Tests",
     Journal of Mathematical Physics 15, 673-674 (1974);
     UWM-4867-74-4, 28 January 1974.

*R	"Symmetry of Ensembles of Maximum Entropy", J. Math. Phys. 16, 837-9
     (1975), UWM-4867-74-9, 1 May 1974.

	"Variants of the Ideal Gas and the Definition of Gas Temperature",
     UWM-4867-74-16 (16 September 1974, unpublished).

R	"A Theoretical Experiment Using Gavitational Optics to Find the Density
         Function of a Star", (with J. Cyranski), Ann. Phys. (N.Y.) 87, 205-243
     (1974);  condensed from UWM-4867-73-5, April 1973,
        "The Sun as a Gravitational Lens for Neutrinos and Gravitons",
     (with John F. Cyranski),
      Bulletin of the American Physical Society, January 1971, p. 117.

R	"Strong and Weak Gravity:  A Context for Unbiased Birefringence", Nuovo
     Cimento 26B, 377-395 (l975) (with W. Hammel); UWM-4867-74-8, April 1974,
     abridged from UWM-4867-73-7, September 1973, revised from UWM-4867-72-6,
     April 1972.

*A	"Quantum Logic, Convexity, and a Necker-Cube Experiment", pp. 143-153
     in ``Foundations of Probability Theory, Statistical Inference, and
     Statistical Theories of Science, Vol.III'', eds. Harper and Hooker;
     D. Reidel, Dordrecht-Holland, 1976; revision of UWM-4867-73-6, 4 May 1973,
     ``Quantum Logic in Everyday Life; Psychology of Perception.  A Possible 
       Experimental Domain Featuring the Necker Cube''
     presented at the Statistics Conference, Dept. of Philosophy, University of
     Western Ontario, London Ontario, May 1973.

*R	"Extension of the Statistical Mechanics of Equilibrium to
         Noncommutative Constraints", J. Math. Phys. 17, 753-5 (1976),
     also UWM-4867-75-10, December 1975.  Improvement of
        "An Easy Theorem in Noncommutative Statistical Mechanics",
     Bulletin of the American Physical Society (January 1976).

*R	"Correction of `Extension of the Statistical Mechanics of Equilibrium
         to Noncommutative Constraints' to Cover Singular Constraints",
     Journal of Mathematical Physics 18, 345-6 (1977);
     also UWM-4867-76-5 (21 May 1976).

R	"Is Gravitational Dual Charge Physical?", International Journal of
     Theoretical Physics 16, 551-4 (1977); also UWM 4867-77-6 (April 1977).

*A	"Quantum Correlations and Relativity", p. 234 in ``Abstracts of
     Contributed Papers, 8th International Conference on General Relativity and
     Gravitation, August 7-12, 1977, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada'',
     supported by Faculty of Mathematics, U. of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

*R	"Entropy of an n-System from Its Correlation with a k-Reservoir",
     Journal of Mathematical Physics 19, 1028-31 (1978),
     slightly augmented from UWM-4867-77-10 (7 October 1977).

	"Value as Disorder", UWM-4867-78-11 (October 1978, unpublished).

*	"A Quantum Psychology Experiment", Bulletin of the American
     Physical Society, p. 54 (January 1979) (with Thelma Lubkin).

*R	"An Inversion of Quantum Mechanics", Computer Physics Communications
     16, 207-19 (l979) (with Thelma Lubkin).  Related programs MATRIXFORMAT
     CLSSCLFORMAT available from the CPC Program Library, Queen's University
     of Belfast, N. Ireland, catalogue no. ACYP.  Preprints UWM-4867-77-6
     (April 1977), updated UWM-4867-78-7 (July 1978).
        Also Bulletin of the American Physical Society, p. 69 (Jan. 1977).

*R	"An Application of Ideal Experiments to Quantum Mechanical Measurement
         Theory",
     International Journal of Theoretical Physics 18, 165-77 (1979), 
     is a slight update of the December 1968 UWM report listed above.

*R	"Schrodinger's Cat", edited 1973 book manuscript, International Journal
     of Theoretical Physics 18, 519-600 (1979):  Vol. 18, No. 8.

R	"Diehard CP Conservationist",
     Physics Today 34, pp. 15 and 70 (August 1981).  Letter.

	"A Priori Argument for a First-Order Cosmological Red Shift", preprint
     submitted to Foundations of Physics (13 July 1981)---unpublished.

*	"Fractional Angular Momentum",
     Bulletin of the American Physical Society II 27, p. 539 (April 1982).

RN	"Referees Are an Audience", Physics Today 35, 77-78 (August 1982).
     Letter.

*R	"Fractional Angular Momentum, Fractional Charge, and Oscillators",
     International Journal of Theoretical Physics 22, 653-675 (1983).

*	"On the Near-critical Value of the Density of Matter", 25 April 1983,
     privately circulated; condensed to
        "Black-Hole Universe", 2 May 1983, unpublished.

	"A Plea for Rationalized Electric and Magnetic Units:  The Tube and the
         Step", October 1983, rejected by the American Journal of Physics;
     privately circulated.

R	"The Tube and the Step", American Journal of Physics 52, 391 (May
     1984). Letter.

*	"A Matrix Problem Aimed at Defining a Physics Without Time", Abstract
     for the Washington meeting of the American Physical Society, 23-26 April
     1984:  Bulletin of the American Physical Society 29, 632 (April 1984).

*	"Broken Symmetry From the First Laws of Thermodynamics of Atemporal
         Physics", Abstract for the Thirteenth International Colloquium on
     Group-Theoretical Methods in Physics, College Park, Maryland, U.S.A.
     21-25 May 1984.

*A	"Lie Algebras of First Laws of Thermodynamics for Physics Without
         Time",  pp. 275-278 in ``XIIIth International Colloquium on Group
     Theoretical Methods in Physics'', ed. W. W. Zachary, World Scientific
     Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore, 1984:  Proceedings of the Md.
     conference of the above item.

	"Dangerous Experiments", August 1984.  Unpublished.

R	"Comment on `van der Waals Stabilization of Bubbles'",
     Physical Review Letters 56, 2653 (1986).

*	"Where the Entropy of Measurement Goes After the Outcome is Known",
     Abstract for the San Francisco meeting of the Americal Physical Society,
     27-30 January 1987:  Bulletin of the American Physical Society 32, 78-79
     (January 1987).

R	"Negative Entropy, Energy, and Heat Capacity in Connection with Surface
         Tension:  Artifact of a Model or Real?",
     International Journal of Theoretical Physics 26, 455-481 (1987).
     Done for thermodynamics classes, August 1985.

*R	"Keeping the Entropy of Measurement:  Szilard Revisited",
     International Journal of Theoretical Physics 26, 523-535 (1987).

*	"Fitting Fermions into a Lemma Behind the Second Law of
         Thermodynamics", Abstract for the Baltimore meeting of the American
     Physical Society, 1-4 May 1989:
	Bulletin of the American Physical SocietyII 34, p. 1227 (April 1989).

*	"A Rectangular Lemma on a Symmetry of Entropy", Abstract for the Third
     Canadian Conference on Gravitation, 4-6 May 1989, at the University of
     Victoria, unpublished.

*A	"A Rectangular Lemma on a Symmetry of Entropy", pp. 260-265 in the
     ``Proceedings of the 3rd Canadian Conference on Gravitation and General
     Relativistic Astrophysics, University of Victoria 4-6 May 1989'', ed. A.
     Coley, F. Cooperstock, and B. Tupper; World Scientific Publishing Co.
     Pte. Ltd., 1990.

*A	"A Quantal Improvement on the Ehrenfests' Urn Model"
     (with Thelma Lubkin), pp. 348-353, ibid.

*Rep	"Keeping the Entropy of Measurement:  Szilard Revisited" is reprinted
     on pp. 268-280 of ``Maxwell's Demon:  Entropy, Information, Computing'',
     ed. Harvey S. Leff and Andrew F. Rex, Princeton Series in Physics,
     Princeton University Press (US) and J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd. (UK), 1990.

*	"Nondestructive Tests Classified", Abstract for the Washington meeting
     of the American Physical Society, 20-23 April 1992:
     Bulletin of the American Physical Society 37, 1005 (April 1992).

*R	"New Nondestructive Tests, from Frames",
     International Journal of Theoretical Physics 31, 945-964 (1992).

	On 23 Feb 93 I mailed a letter to the Editors of Scientific American,
     commenting on Abramowicz's recent article, concerning orbits for light
     near a black hole---rejected.

~eli/relatube 18jan93

*R	"Average Quantal Behavior and Thermodynamic Isolation"
     (with Thelma Lubkin),
     International Journal of Theoretical Physics 32, 933-943 (1993).

*	"Estimating the n-System's Logarithmic Entropic Deficit of a Random
     Enveloping Pure nK State", WISC-MILW-93-TH-17, 30 September 1993,
     unpublished.

*       ``Heat Without Heat'', for the Washington meeting,
     Bulletin of the American Physical Society 42,no.2,pp.950-951 (April 1997);
     as APR97 on line.  Scoops the dx4 item below.

*A      ``A Finite-Dimensional Model for Thermodynamic Isolation''
     (with Thelma Lubkin), WISC-MILW-94-TH-27, 17 November 1994, write-up
     of talk 9 Sep 1994 at dx4 , a Drexel U. symposium 8-11sep94,
     pp. 133-138 in
     ``Quantum Classical Correspondence:  Proceedings of
       the 4th Drexel Symposium on Quantum Non-Integrability'',
       ed. Da Hsuan Feng and Bei Lok Hu, Cambridge, MA:
       International Press, 1997.

W       ``Seeing all Six Dimensions of the Lorentz Group of Special
          Relativity, in the Planetarium Sky'', jointly with Thelma Lubkin.
     Entered on my web page 28nov1997    www.uwm.edu/~eli

  ``Reversed 3-Velocities'', for the April 1999 Washington meeting,
     Bulletin of the American Physical Society (April 1999);
     and APR99 on line.

   /ellipticalorbits.scinews             15dec99
     Re: ``Elliptical orbits may be planetary norm'' on p.377 of Science
           News, vol. 156, December 11, 1999.
     Submitted 15dec99 to ``Letters'' section of Science News

  ``An Involution of Lorentz Transformations'',
     for the April 2000 Washington meeting,
     Bulletin of the American Physical Society (April 2000);
     on line as paper P20.014 in http://www.aps.org/meet/APR00/baps

  ``Discontinuity in the Uniform Separation of Rays''
     for the April 2001 meeting  APR01  of the American Physical Society,
     tbp in  Bulletin of the American Physical Society (April 2001).

From eli Wed Sep 12 16:07:10 2001
Subject: ``Too Dangerous Is Safe|shortened''
To: scitimes@nytimes.com
see alpha file  ~eli\mashdown
probably unpublished

  ``Three Approximate Entropies'' submitted 29dec01  for apr02 meeting,
    Bulletin of the American Physical Society (April 2002);
     see ~eli/apsabfrm.dvi  but moved tex to  ~eli/apsabfrmapr02.tex

  ``Wiggler Gravitons'' submitted 31dec02 for apr03 meeting, 
    Bulletin of the American Physical Society (April 2003) vol.48 no.2 p.204;
    http://www.aps.org/meet/APR03/baps and legible as ~eli/wiggler.gravity.tex

N  untitled, in LETTERS, Science News, April 26, 2003, vol.163, p.271
    commenting on ``Elephants, donkeys, and rats'' in the Feb.22 issue
>>>In the article, string XXXX was used by a ``researcher'' as ``neutral''
 though XXX is standard for poison! &c.  S. Perkins' comment amplifies my
  brickthrow at soc.sci by passing on that researcher's damaging excuse,
   that the gaffe is common to many ``researchers''!

in preparation, for submission to Physical Review E
  ``Three Approximate Entropies from Trace of Squared Density Matrices''
       see /trsq2entropy.quanthermo

  ``Unitary Cores of a General-Linear Motion''
e-submitted 31dec2003 to Bulletin of the American Physical Society, APR04

W 6 ``Seven Circles  \n  The Fano Plane Relaxed to 7 Dimensions''
    four figures, perspectives of an octonion multiplication table, 27sep2007
 2 1 Text covering same to be composed shortly [meanwhile see eli/octonion]
  7   but a compact            This entry 27sep2007
       version is  123 516 624 435 174 275 376 .
4 3 5   and Fano's plane is suggested right here at the left.

Invited Talks:
       ``The Deeptime Distribution'' ---  Elihu Lubkin and Thelma Lubkin
         at the Adriatico Research Conference on Information Theory in
          Classical and Quantum Physics,  29aug-1sep1995,
           ICTP, Miramare, Trieste, Italy

  Two talks at the Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester,
  on 31oct1997,

at 11:00am,

       ``Axis, coaxis, and crossspeed of a Lorentz transformation, seen in
         the Planetarium Sky---and two novelties of 16th-century mathematics''

and at 3:30pm, at their Math-Physics Colloquium,

       ``Measurement and reality in quantum mechanics, towards
         a definition of Physics: the Observer Within the State'' 

10nov2006talk to gradesbaglunch:  ``What happens to the entropy of
 measurement when the outcome is known?---It becomes entropy of erasure''
  which expounds the algebra in the Leff&Rex book reprint of IJTP1987 items
  both above.  See \LeffRex.thermo.slidedit for what was cut up for slides.



Courses Taught:	 Differential geometry and physics, general relativity,
                    introductory and intermediate quantum mechanics, atomic
                    physics, statistical mechanics, thermodynamics,
                    analytical mechanics, introductory physics ("everyday
                    life", precalculus, and calculus), special relativity,
                    quantum measurement theory: advanced, and also freshman
                    seminar, "relativity of reality"; ditto, honors seminar,
                    mini-course on special relativity, mini-course on "the
                    philosophy of" quantum mechanics, renamed (1997)
                    ``interpretation of quantum mechanics'' and more recently
                    ``relativity of reality'' also extended to 3cr in 2002;
                    "from entropy to thermodynamics to statistical
                     mechanics: a logical progression" spring 2000

Doctoral
Students:		David Avison, Ph.D., Brown University., 1966.  Thesis  
                    title:  "Analysis of the Elastic Scattering of Protons
                    at High Energy and Momentum Transfer Using the Serber
                    Model and Bakamjian-Thomas Theory".  See D. Avison,
                    Phys. Rev. 154, 1570-82 (1967) and Phys. Rev. 154, 1583-
                    92 (1967).

			William C. Hammel, Ph.D., UWM, 1974.  Thesis title:
                    "`Strong' and `Weak' Gravity:  A Generally Covariant
                    Class of Mixing Models of Spin-2 Neutral Fields".  See
                    Hammel and Lubkin, above; also items individually
                    authored by Hammel in Nuovo Cimento (1975) and in J.
                    Math. Phys. (1975).

			John F. Cyranski, Ph.D., UWM, 1975.  Thesis title:
                    "Gravitational Optics:  A Study of Null Geodesics and
                    Gravity Waves in the Geometry Produced by a Star".  See
                    Cyranski and Lubkin, above, for half of the work.

Emeritus ad hoc addenda (7feb2008)
/helix.math
/computerquery.quant, /qubitanswer.quant

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