Avshalom Cyrus Elitzur
אבשלום כורש אליצור
Curriculum Vitae
(Updated November 2015)
(Updated November 2015)
Birth:
May 31 1957
(Iran)
Residence:
15 Margolin St. 76225
Rehovot, Israel
Marital
status: Single, 1
daughter, Oriat (born 2012)
Telephone:
050-8228404.
Passport
No. 22198215
E-mail:
avshalom[add “at”
sign]iyar.org.il
Contents
1.
1.Education
2.
Autodidact.
3.
(1999) Ph.D., the Cohn
Institute for the Philosophy of Science and the Department of Physics, Tel-Aviv
University, Israel. Thesis’ title: Time’s Passage and the Time-Asymmetries.
Advisors: Yakir Aharonov, Amos Funkenstein, RIP.
2. Fields of Research
Physics: Quantum
measurement and nonlocality, incomplete measurements
Gravity and inertia
Thermodynamic and other time-asymmetries
Foundations of physics
Gravity and inertia
Thermodynamic and other time-asymmetries
Foundations of physics
Psychology: Suicide
prevention
Humor
Psychoanalysis of religious experience, xenophobia and compassion
Human sexuality
Neuropsychoanalysis
Humor
Psychoanalysis of religious experience, xenophobia and compassion
Human sexuality
Neuropsychoanalysis
Philosophy: The
mind-body problem
Consciousness and causality
Environmental ethics
Consciousness and causality
Environmental ethics
3. Positions
·
(2013-) Consultant
(Associate Professor), The Solid State Institute, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
(Prof. Yakir Aharonov), Haifa 32000, Israel.
·
(2009-)
Adjunct lecturer (Associate Professor), The Feinberg Graduate School, The Weizmann Institute of Science.
Courses: "Thermodynamic Foundations of Life Sciences," "Analytic
Inventive Thinking," and "Philosophy of Science."
·
(2007) Co-Founder, Iyar, The Israel Institute for Advanced Research.
·
(2006) Senior Researcher,
Rector's Office, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
·
(2004-)
Guest Lecturer (Associate Professor), "Medical, psycho-Sexual and
rehabilitational aspects of human sexuality" (post-graduate), The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv
University, Israel.
·
(2001-2005) Senior Lecturer,
Unit of Interdisciplinary Studies (graduate), Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
·
(2000) Visiting Professor, Birla
Institute of Technology and Science and the Bhaktivedanta Institute (graduate), Mumbai, India.
·
(1999-2000) Adjunct Lecturer, Unit of
Interdisciplinary Studies (graduate), Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
·
(1997-2013) Consultant,
Department of Molecular Genetics (Prof. D. Lancet), The Weizmann Institute of Science,
Rehovot, Israel.
·
(1998-1999) Adjunct lecturer, The Faculty
of Humanities, General and Interdisciplinary Studies (undergraduate), Tel-Aviv University.
·
(1995-1999) Visiting scientist, The
Seagram Center for Soil and Water Sciences, The Faculty of Agriculture (Prof.
N. Lahav), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Rehovot, Israel.
·
(1994) Adjunct lecturer, Leslie College Tel Aviv
(presently Netanya), Israel (graduate).
·
(1991-2009) Adjunct
lecturer, The Feinberg Graduate School, The
Weizmann Institute of Science.
·
(1988-1995)
Consultant, Department of Chemical Physics (Prof. S. Lifson RIP), The Weizmann Institute of Science,
Rehovot, Israel.
·
(1987-1988)
Consultant and Acting Director, The Center for Frontier Sciences
(Prof. G. Carmi RIP), Temple University, Philadelphia.
·
(1979-1986)
Laboratory assistant, Department of Plant Genetics (Prof. Karl Jacob RIP), The Weizmann Institute of Science,
Rehovot, Israel.
·
(1977-1978)
Laboratory assistant, Department of Animal Sciences (Prof. Israel Nir, RIP),
The Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel.
4. Refereed Articles
1.1. Physics
1.
(2015) (Cohen, E., & Elitzur,
A.C.) Voices of silence, novelties of noise: Oblivion and hesitation as
origins of quantum mysteries. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 626,
012013, 1-15 [Online].
2. (2015) (Aharonov, Y.,
Cohen, E., &. Elitzur, A.C.) Can a future choice affect a past
measurement's outcome? Annals of Physics, 355, 258–268 [Online].
3. (2014) (Cohen, E., & Elitzur, A.C.) Quantum oblivion: A
master key for many quantum riddles. Int. J. Quantum Inf. 12, 1560024-1560036 [Online].
4. (2014) (Aharonov, Y., Cohen, E., &. Elitzur, A.C.) Foundations
and applications of weak quantum measurements. Phys. Rev. A 89,
052105, 1-10 [Online].
5. (2014)
(Cohen E., & Elitzur A.C.) Honoring Epimenides of Crete (±Δx):
From quantum paradoxes, through weak measurements, to the nature of time.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on New Frontiers in
Physics, EPJ web of conferences 71, 0028 1-22 [Online].
6.
(2013) (Aharonov Y., Cohen
E., Grossman D., & Elitzur A.C.) Can weak measurement lend empirical
support to quantum retrocausality? Proceedings of "The Time Machine
Factory", EPJ Web of Conferences 58. 01015-1-13 [Online].
7.
(2011) (Elitzur, A.C. & Cohen, E.) The retrocausal nature of quantum measurement
revealed by partial and weak measurements. In Sheehan, D. [Ed.] Quantum Retrocausation: Theory and Experiment. AIP
Conference Proceedings, 1408, 120-131 [Online].
8. (2011)
(Elitzur, A.C., Cohen, E., & Beniamini, P.) Charge acceleration and
field-lines curvature: A fundamental symmetry and consequent asymmetries. In Sheehan, D. [Ed.] The Second Law. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1408, 221-244. [Online].
9. (2011) (Fanchon, E.,
Neori, K-H., & Elitzur, A.C.)
What does Maxwell's demon select, and how? In Ben-Menahem, Y. & Hemmo, M.
[Eds.] Probability in Physics: Essays in Memory of Itamar Pitowsky. New
York: Springer, 135-148. [Online]
10. (2009) (Sela, O., Tamir, B., Dolev, S., & Elitzur, A. C.) Can
special relativity be derived from Galilean mechanics alone? Foundations of Physics, 39, 499-509.
[Online]
11. (2007) (Shinitzky,
M., Shvalb, A. Elitzur, A.C., & Mastai, Y.) Entrapped energy in chiral solutions:
Quantification and information capacity. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 111, 11004-8. [Online]
12. (2007) (Elitzur,
A.C., & Dolev, S.) Undoing
quantum measurement: Novel twists to the physical account of
time. Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics, 4,
61-76 (Special issue, published as Physics of Emergence and Organization
[I. Licata & A. J. Sakaji, Eds.]. London: World Scientific.
13. (2006) (Elitzur, A.C.,
& Dolev, S.) Multiple
interaction-free measurement as a challenge to the transactional interpretation
of quantum mechanics. In Sheehan, D. [Ed.] Frontiers
of Time: Retrocausation – Experiment and Theory. AIP Conference Proceedings, 863,
27-44.
[Online]
14. (2006) (Shinitzky, M., Elitzur, A.C., Scolnik, Y., Cogan, U.,
& Deamer, D.W.) Symmetry breaking in amino acids. Symmetry: Culture and
Science, 17, 193-196.
15. (2006) (Shinitzky, M.
& Elitzur, A.C.) Ortho-para spin
isomers of the protons in the methylene group – possible implications for
protein structure. Chirality, 18, 754-756. [abs.]
16. (2006) (Scolnik, Y., Portnaya, I., Cogan, U., Tal, S.,
Haimovitz, R., Fridkin, M., Elitzur, A.C., Deamer, D.W., and Shinitzky, M.)
Subtle differences in structural transitions between poly L- and poly D- amino
acids of equal length in water. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 8,
333-339 (Editor's “Hot Paper”). [Online]
17. (2006) (Behera,
L., Kar, I., and Elitzur, A.C.) Recurrent
quantum neural network and its applications. In Tuszynski, J. A. [Ed.] The
Emerging Physics of Consciousness, 327-348. New York: Springer.
18. (2005) (Behera,
L., Kar, I., and Elitzur, A.C.) A
recurrent quantum neural network model to describe eye tracking of moving
targets. Foundations of Physics 18, 357-370. [Online]
19. (2005b)
(Elitzur, A.C., & Dolev, S.) Becoming as a bridge between quantum mechanics
and relativity. In Saniga, M., Buccheri, R., and Elitzur, A.C. [Eds.] Endophysics,
Time, Quantum and the Subjective,
589-606. London: World Scientific. [Online]
20. (2005a)
(Elitzur, A.C., & Dolev, S.) Quantum phenomena within a new theory of time.
In Elitzur, A.C., Dolev, S., & Kolenda, N. [Eds.] Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics? 325-350.
New York: Springer. [Online]
21.
(2004) (Shinitzky, M., Deamer, D.W., & Elitzur, A.C.) Deviation from
physical identity between D- and L-tyrosine. Invited paper. In Palyi,
G., Zucchi, C., and Caglioti,
L. [Eds.] Progress
in Biological
Chirality, 329-336. Oxford: Elsevier.
22. (2004) (Elitzur, A.C., & Dolev, S.) מה יילד יום? הרהורים על טבע
הזמן בפיסיקה של המאה העשרים ואחת. מתוך: הזמן: מבט מהפסיכואנליזה וממקום אחר.
עורכת: אמיליה פרוני. ע' 77-106. ירושלים: מוסד ואן-ליר. (Reflections on the nature of time in 21st
Century physics. In Peroni, E., [Ed.] Time: A view from Psychoanalysis and
Elsewhere. Jerusalem: Van Leer.) [מהדורה חדשה]
23. (2003a) (Elitzur, A.C., &
Dolev, S.) Is there more to T? Why time's description in modern physics is
still incomplete. In Buccheri, R., Saniga, M., & Stuckey, W. M. [Eds.] The
Nature of Time: Geometry, Physics & Perception. NATO Science Series, II:
Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, 95,
297-306. New York: Kluwer. [Online]
24. (2003) (Elitzur, A.C., Dolev,
S., & Zeilinger, A.) Time-reversed EPR and the choice of histories in
quantum mechanics. Proceedings of XXII Solvay Conference in Physics, 452-461.
London: World Scientific. [Online]
25. (2001) (Elitzur, A.C., &
Dolev, S.) Nonlocal
effects of partial measurements and quantum erasure. Physical Review, A63,
062109-1—062109-14. [Online]
26. (2000) (Elitzur, A.C., &
Dolev, S.) Indeterminism and time symmetry are incompatible: A reply to Rębilas.
Physics Letters, A266, 268-270.
[PDF]
27. (1999b) (Elitzur, A.C., & Dolev, S.) Black hole evaporation
entails an objective passage of time. Foundations of Physics Letters, 12,
309-323. [Online]
28. (1999a) (Elitzur, A.C., & Dolev,
S.) Black-Hole uncertainty entails an intrinsic time arrow: A note on
the Hawking-Penrose controversy. Physics Letters, A251, 89-94
(Erratum, Physics Letters, A255, 369-370). [PDF]
29. (1996) Time anisotropy and quantum measurement: Clues for
transcending the geometric picture of time. Astrophysics and Space Sciences
(special issue), 244, 313-319. [PDF]
30. (1993b) (Elitzur, A.C., & Vaidman, L.) Quantum mechanical
interaction-free measurements. Foundations of Physics, 23, 987-997. [Online]
31. (1993a) (Elitzur, A.C., & Vaidman, L.) Is it possible to
know about something without ever interacting with it? Vistas in Astronomy,
37, 253-256.
32. (1992) Locality and indeterminism preserve the second law. Physics
Letters, A167, 335-340. [Online]
33. (1992) (Elitzur, A.C., Popescu, S., & Rohrlich, D.) Quantum
nonlocality for each pair in an ensemble. Physics Letters, A162,
25-28. [Online]
34. (1990) On some neglected
thermodynamic peculiarities of quantum non-locality. Foundations of
Physics Letters, 3, 525-541. [PDF]
35. (1988) (Horwitz, L.P., Arshansky, R.I., & Elitzur, A.C.) On
the two aspects of time: The distinction and its implications. Foundations
of Physics, 18, 1159-1193. [PDF]
1.2. Biology
1. (2009) (Gordon,
G., &
Elitzur, A.C.) The ski-lift pathway: Thermodynamically
unique, biologically ubiquitous. Preprint.
2.
(2005)
When form outlasts its medium: A definition of life integrating Platonism and
thermodynamics. Invited paper. In Seckbach, J. (Editor) Life as We Know
it. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 607-620. [Online]
3.
(2001) (Lahav, N., Nir,
S., & Elitzur, A. C.) The emergence of life on Earth. Progress in
Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 75, 75-120. [abstract]
4. (1998) (Dolev, S., & Elitzur, A.
C.) Biology and thermodynamics: Seemingly-opposite phenomena in
search of a unified paradigm. Invited paper. The
Einstein Quarterly: Journal of Biology and Medicine, 15, 24-33. [PDF]
5. (1997) Constancy, uniformity and symmetry of living systems: The
computational function of morphological invariance. Invited paper. Biosystems,
43, 41-53. [PDF]
6.
(1996)
Life’s emergence is not an axiom: A reply to Yockey. Journal of Theoretical
Biology, 180, 175-180. [PDF]
7.
(1995) Life and mind, past
and future: Schrödinger’s vision fifty years later. Perspectives in
Biology and Medicine, 38, 433-458.
8.
(1994) Let there be life:
Thermodynamic reflections on biogenesis and evolution. Journal of
Theoretical Biology, 168, 429-459. [Abs.]
1.3. Psychology and Philosophy
5.
(2011) Why make the
unconscious conscious? A neurophysiological hypothesis concerning the
therapeutic effect of insight. Preprint.
6.
(2009) Consciousness makes
a difference: A reluctant dualist’s confession. In Batthyány, A., &
Elitzur, A. C. (Editors) Irreducibly Conscious: Selected Papers on Consciousness. pp. 43-72. Heidelberg:
Universitätsverlag Winter. [Online]
7.
(2007a)משחררי הנפש: יהודים ויהדות בתנועה הפסיכואנליטית. מתוך: זמן יהודי חדש: תרבות יהודית בעידן
חילוני. עורך ראשי: ירמיהו יובל. עמ' 131-138. ירושלים: כתר. (Liberators of the mind: Jews and Judaism
within the psychoanalytic movement). [מקוון]
8.
(2006) What’s the mind-body
problem with you anyway? Prolegomena to any scientific discussion on
consciousness. In Batthyány, A., & Elitzur, A. C. (Editors) Mind
and its Place in the World, 15-22. Frankfurt: Ontos.
9.
(2005)זכר עמלק וטעם החזיר: האנטומיה של השנאה המטאפיזית. מתוך: בכור היצירה:
יובל ליצירתו של פרופ' שלמה שוהם. עורך: חמי בן-נון. עמ' 119-186. תל-אביב:
שערי משפט. (Amalek and the
swine: The anatomy of metaphysical hatred.)
[מהדורה חדשה]
10. (2004b)על תלאותיו של שם האב: עיון ביקורתי
בתיאוריה של לקאן. נפש: רבעון לפסיכולוגיה, לטיפול, לטיפוח רגשי ולחינוך
יצירתי, 15-16: 10-29. (A critical study of Lacan’s
theory.) [מהדורה חדשה]
11. (2004a) בשם האב, הבן והרוח הרעה: על חלום
שחלם פרויד לאור יחסו של רוטנברג לפסיכואנליזה. מתוך: מדרש בנפש: עיונים
בפסיכולוגיה ויהדות לכבוד מרדכי רוטנברג. עורכים: שחר ארזי, מיכל פכלר וברוך
כהנא. עמ' 448-465. תל-אביב: "ידיעות אחרונות" (A dream of Freud in light of Rotenberg’s attitude to
psychoanalysis). [מקוון]
12. (2001) אבל אשמים אנחנו על אחינו: על
ה"אחר" בספר בראשית. מתוך: האחר: בין אדם לעצמו ולזולתו. עורכים:
חיים דויטש ומנחם בן-ששון. עמ' 307-341. תל-אביב: "ידיעות אחרונות." (On the image of the Other in the book of
Genesis.) [מקוון]
13. (2001) (Omer, H., & Elitzur, A.
C.) What would you say to the person on the roof? A suicide prevention
text. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 31, 129-139 (Comment
by I. Orbach, 140-143) [Online] (Hebrew version: אליצור,
א., ועומר, ח. 1999: מה תאמר לאדם שעל הגג? הצעה לטקסט למניעת התאבדות בזמן אמת. נפש:
רבעון לפסיכולוגיה, לטיפול, לטיפוח רגשי ולחינוך יצירתי, א: 11-19.). [מקוון]
14.
(2001)מבשרי אחזה אלוה: התבוננויות פסיכודינמיות בחוויית ההתגלות ובאמונה
הדתית. ב': פגיעות נרקיסיסטיות, מנגנוני הסתגלות ותגובות יצירתיות. שיחות,
כתב-עת ישראלי לפסיכותרפיה. ט"ו: 133-143. (Psychodynamic insights into
religious belief and revelation experiences. Part II: Narcissistic injuries,
adaptation mechanisms and creative reactions). Sihot-Dialogue, Israel
Journal of Psychotherapy, 15, 133-143 (Comments: 15, 168-171;
16, 90-91.
[מהדורה חדשה]
15.
(2000)מבשרי אחזה אלוה: התבוננויות פסיכודינמיות בחוויית ההתגלות
ובאמונה הדתית. א': אבל לא-תקין ומנגנוני הגנה. שיחות, כתב-עת ישראלי
לפסיכותרפיה. י"ד: 122-134.(Psychodynamic insights into religious belief and revelation
experiences. Part I: Pathological mourning and defense mechanisms). Sihot-Dialogue,
Israel Journal of Psychotherapy, 14, 122-134. [מהדורה חדשה]
16. (1997) Why don’t we know what Mary knows? Baars’ reversing the
problem of qualia. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 4, 316-319.
17. (1996b) Consciousness can no more be ignored: Reflections on
Moody’s Dialogue with Zombies. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2,
353-358.
[Abstract]
18. (1996a) Time and consciousness: The uneasy bearing of relativity
theory on the mind-body problem. In Hameroff, S. R., Kaszniak, A. W., &
Scott, A. C. [Eds.] Toward a Science of Consciousness, 837-850.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
19. (1995b) In defense of life: On the failure of the mental-health
professions to deal with suicide. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 31,
305-310.
20. (1995a) The Conscious “I”: Is there a Physical Basis of Personal
Identity? in Farre, G. L., & Lasker, G. E. [Eds.] Advances in Synergetics:
Systems Research on Emergence, II, 47-52. Windsor, Ontario:
International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and
Cybernetics.
21. (1992b) ובחרת בחיים. שיחות, כתב-עת ישראלי לפסיכותרפיה, ו:
268-270. (Therefore choose
life: Suicide prevention and the IDF). Sihot-Dialogue, Israel Journal of
Psychotherapy, 6, 268-270 (Comments: 7:
64-67). English version: (1993)
Therefore choose life: Reflections on a suicide epidemic. The Journal of
Social Work and Policy in Israel, 7-8, 145-150, Editor’s comments: 150-154.
22. (1992a) ירידה לצורך עלייה: היבטים
פסיכודינמיים וקוגניטיביים בהומור. שיחות, כתב-עת ישראלי לפסיכותרפיה, ו:
5-18. (Psychodynamic and
cognitive aspects of humor). Sihot-Dialogue, Israel Journal of Psychotherapy,
6, 5-18.
23. (1991) Neither idealism nor materialism: A reply to Snyder. The
Journal of Mind and Behavior, 12, 303-307. [abstract]
24. (1990b) Biomimesis: Humor, play and neurosis as life-mimicries. Humor:
International Journal of Humor Research, 3, 159-175.
25. (1990a) Humor, play and neurosis: The paradoxical power of
confinement. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 3,
17-35.
26. (1989) Consciousness and the incompleteness of the physical
explanation of behavior. The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 10, 1-19. [abstract]
1.4. Environment and Community
1.
(2000)הלא כבני כושיים אתם לי: יהודי אתיופיה ומדינת ישראל. מקום
למחשבה – בשער, 7, 2-10. תגובות: 7, 11-13; 8, 31. (Are ye not as children of
the Ethiopians unto me? Ethiopian Jews and the state of Israel.)
2. (2001) A proposal for a universal declaration of the rights of
all living beings. Biodiversity, Journal of Life on Earth, 2,
39-41.
5. Refereed Edited Books
1.
(2005)
(Elitzur, A.C., Dolev, S., & Kolenda, N., Editors) Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics? New
York: Springer.
4.
Book review: Unruh, W. G. (2006) Classical
and Quantum Gravity, 23, 1393.
Book review: Timpson, C. (2007) Metascience, 16, 289-293.
Book review: Timpson, C. (2007) Metascience, 16, 289-293.
2.
(2004) (Arzy, S., Kahana,
B., & Fachler, M., Editors; Idel, M., Elitzur, A.C., Goldberg, H., Liebes,
Y., Klein, Z., & Ravitzky, A., Scientific Editors) החיים
כמדרש: עיונים בפסיכולוגיה ויהדות לכבוד מרדכי רוטנברג. עורכים: שחר ארזי,
מיכל פכלר וברוך כהנא. מערכת מדעית: משה אידל, אבשלום אליצור, הרווי גולדברג,
יהודה ליבס, זאב קליין ואביעזר רביצקי. תל-אביב: "ידיעות אחרונות." (Studies in the Mind: Essays in honor of
Mordechai Rotenberg.)
3.
(2005) (Ben-Nun, C.,
Elitzur, A.C., Vardi, Y., Regev, M., and Katz, S., Editors) בכור היצירה: יובל ליצירתו של שלמה גיורא שוהם. עורך: חמי בן-נון. המערכת: חמי בן-נון, אבשלום אליצור, יגאל ורדי, מתי
רגב ושושנה כץ. תל-אביב: שערי משפט. (The Cradle of Creativity: Essays in Honor of Shlomo
Shoham.)
4.
( 2005) Buccheri, R., Saniga, M., and
Elitzur, A.C. (Editors) Endophysics,
Time, Quantum and the Subjective.
Singapore: World Scientific.
5.
( 2006) Batthyány,
A., & Elitzur, A. C. (Editors) Mind
and its Place in the World. Frankfurt: Ontos.
5.
Book review: Seager, W.
(2006) Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=7624;
Book review: Plotnitsky, A. (2006) Journal of Consciousness Studies, 9, 116-118.
Book review: Plotnitsky, A. (2006) Journal of Consciousness Studies, 9, 116-118.
6.
(2009) Batthyány, A., & Elitzur, A.
C. (Editors) Irreducibly
Conscious: Selected Papers on Consciousness.
Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
6. Conferences
1.5. Physics
1.
(2015) Marrying Relativity and Quantum Mechanics:
How Far Away in Time? Distinguished
Speaker paper, read at the workshop "The Time Machine Factory,"
Turin, Italy, October 25-28, 2015.
2.
(2015) Higher symmetries
offering a novel realistic interpretation of QM. Invited paper, read at the
conference "Quantum
Theory: From Foundations to Technologies" (QTFT) at Linnaeus
University, Sweden, June 8-11, 2015.
3.
(2014) Voices of silence,
novelties of noise: Oblivion and hesitation as origins of quantum mysteries. Keynote
Address, Seventh International Workshop DICE2014 “Spacetime – Matter –
Quantum Mechanics,” Castiglioncello, Italy, September 15-19, 2014.
4.
(2014) Nothing – or a
future anti-something? Negative values and time-symmetric causality as possible
origin of quantum oddities. Invited paper, read at the workshop “Free Will and
Retrocausality in the Quantum World, Cambridge, UK July 1-4 2014 [Video online].
5.
(2014) (Elitzur, A.C.,
& Cohen, E.) Quantum forgetfulness: A master-key for many quantum riddles.
Invited paper, read at “Advances in Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and
Quantum Information with Atoms and Photons,” Turin, Italy, May 26-30, 2014.
6.
(2012) (Aharonov Y., Cohen
E., Grossman D., & Elitzur A.C.) Can weak measurement lend empirical
support to quantum retrocausality? Invited paper, read at The International
Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, June 10-16
2012.
7.
(2012) My future engraved
on stone: Quantum measurements that seem to undermine becoming. Invited paper,
read at “Do we need a physics of ‘passage’?” Capetown, South Africa , December
10-14, 2012 [Online].
8.
(2011) A thermodynamic
arrow of time for single-particle interactions? Invited paper, read at “The
second law of thermodynamics: Foundations and status” in The 92nd
Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the AAAS, June 14-15, 2011.
9.
(2011) The retrocausal
nature of quantum measurement revealed by partial and weak measurements.
Invited paper, read at “"Quantum Retrocausation: Theory and
Experiment" in The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division
of the AAAS, June 13-14, 2011.
10.
Markovitch, S., & Elitzur,
A.C. (2009) Aharonov-Bohm effects under causality restrictions. Paper read at
the workshop “50
Years of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect: Concepts and Applications.”
Tel-Aviv, Israel, October 11, 2009. [Online]
11.
(2009) (Elitzur, A.C.,
& Fanchon, E.) What does Maxwell's demon select, and
how? Invited paper, read at “The Probable and the
Improbable: The Meaning and Role of Probability in Physics.” The Twenty-Second Annual International Workshop on the History and
Philosophy of Science in Honor of Itamar Pitowsky. Jerusalem, Israel, December
17, 2008.
12.
(2007) (Elitzur, A.C.,
& Dolev, S.) The inexhaustible source of insights revealed by every photon.
Invited paper, read at “The nature of light: What are photons?” SPIE
International Symposium on Optics & Photonics, San Diego, 26-27 August
2007. Proceedings of SPIE, 6664, 36-46.
13.
(2006c) Retrocausal quantum
measurement: Some recent findings and their theoretical implications. Invited
paper, read at “The Second Law of Thermodynamics: Foundations and Status.”
Invited lecture, read at Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the AAAS
University of San Diego, June 18-22, 2006.
14.
(2006b) Indeterminism and
time’s arrow. Invited lecture, read at “The Second Law of Thermodynamics:
Foundations and Status.” Invited paper, read at Annual Meeting of the Pacific
Division of the AAAS University of San Diego, June 18-22, 2006.
15.
(2006a) Genuine quantum
randomness and its broader implications. Plenary lecture, read at “Foundations
of Probability and Physics.” Växjö University, Sweden, June 4-9,
2006.
16.
(2005) A hidden time
parameter underlying quantum paradoxes? Invited paper, read at “Time-symmetry
in Quantum Mechanics,” University of Sydney, 23-26 July 2005.
17.
(2005) Quantum time and becoming. Invited paper, read at “Endophysics,
Time, Quantum and the Subjective.” An Advanced
Multidisciplinary Workshop. The Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) of the University
of Bielefeld, Germany, January
17-21, 2005.
18.
(2005) (Buccheri, R, Saniga, M, and Elitzur, A.C., Organizers) “Endophysics, Time,
Quantum and the Subjective.” An Advanced
Multidisciplinary Workshop. The Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) of the University
of Bielefeld, Germany, January 17-21, 2005.
19.
(2003)
(Dolev, S., & Elitzur, A.C.) When one quantum object is measured by
another: A new class of quantum paradoxes. Invited paper, read at Quantum Electronics and Laser Science
Conference, Baltimore, MD, June 1-6, 2003.
20.
(2002) (Elitzur, A.C.,
& Dolev, S.) A new class of quantum mechanical paradoxes and its possible
bearing on quantum theory. Paper read at “Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics? An International Workshop on Possible
Developments in Quantum Theory in the 21st Century.” Temple
University Sugarloaf Conference Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania September 24-27, 2002.
21.
(2002b)
Organizer and Chairman, “Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics? An International Workshop on Possible
Developments in Quantum Theory in the 21st Century.” Temple
University Sugarloaf Conference Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania September 24-27, 2002.
22.
(2002a) Quantum-mechanical
and thermodynamic clues in search of a deeper concept of time. Invited paper, read at NATO Advanced Research Workshop: “The Nature of Time: Geometry, Physics
and Perception” Tatranska Lomnica,
Slovak Republic, May 21–24, 2002.
23.
(2001) (Elitzur, A.C.,
Dolev, S., and Zeilinger, A.) Inverse EPR using particles whose interaction
point lies in the future. Invited paper read at the XXII International Solvay
conference on “The Physics of Communication,” Delphi and Lamia, Greek, 24-30
November 2001.
24.
(2001a) Uncertainty entails
an objective passage of time. Paper read at the 11th Conference of
the International Society for the Study of Time, Castelo di Gargonza, Italy,
July 8-14, 2001.
25.
(2000b) Neither guide-wave
nor collapse: On some non-contiguous properties of the wave function revealed
by delicate measurement. Paper read at the Workshop on “Quantum Measurement Theory and Quantum Information,” at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, Austria, December 4, 2000.
26.
(2000a)
An intrinsic time arrow independent of initial conditions? Paper read at
the International Conference on the Conceptual Foundations of Statistical
Mechanics, Jerusalem, Israel, May 25, 2000.
27.
(1998) (Elitzur, A. C.,
& Dolev, S.) Indeterminism entails an intrinsic arrow of time. Paper read
at the Fourth Interdisciplinary Congress of The International Society for the
Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry, The Technion, Haifa, Israel, September 17,
1998.
28.
(1997) Quantum
indeterminism, uncertainty, and time's arrow. An invited lecture, The Gordon
Conference on Modern Developments in
Thermodynamics, Ventura, USA, February 16-22, 1997.
29.
(1996) Time anisotropy and
quantum measurement: Clues for transcending the geometric picture of time.
Paper read at the Conference on Mathematical Models of Time with Applications
to Physics and Cosmology. University of Arizona and Pima Community College West,
Tucson, Arizona, April 11-13 1996.
30.
(1995) Time transience and
order decrease: An enigmatic link. Paper read at the Ninth Conference of the
International Society for the Study of Time, St.-Adéle, Québec,
Canada, July 2-8, 1995.
31.
(1992b) (Elitzur, A.C., &
Vaidman, L.) Is it possible to know about something without ever interacting
with it? Paper read at the International Symposium on Quantum Physics and the
Universe, Tokyo, Japan, August 1992.
32.
(1992a) (Elitzur, A.C.,
& Vaidman, L.) Quantum mechanical interaction-free measurements. Poster
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Israel Physical Society, 1992 (Bulletin
of the IPS 1992, 38, 159).
33.
(1992) (Elitzur, A.C.,
Popescu, S., & Rohrlich, D.) New results on quantum nonlocality. Poster
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Israel Physical Society, 1992 (Bulletin
of the IPS 1992, 38, 156).
34.
(1987) A realistic model of
quantum mechanics based on two time-parameters. Invited paper, read at the
Temple University Conference on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics,
Philadelphia, October 1987.
1.6. Biology
1. (2003) (Shinitzky, M.,
Deamer, D.W., & Elitzur, A.C.) Propagation of spontaneous chiral
enhancement. An invited paper, read at the 3rd
Interdisciplinary Symposium on
Biological Chirality, Modena, Italy, April 30– May 4, 2003.
2. (2001) (Elitzur, A.C., & Boehm, O.) Information and the
uniqueness of the living state. An invited paper, read at the Conference on
Interdisciplinary Applications of Information Theory at the Banach Center,
Warsaw, May 21-26, 2001.
3. (2000) “Living state physics”: A thermodynamic approach to the
definition of life. Paper read at the Workshop on Life, Universita di Modena e
Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy, September 4, 1999.
4.
(1999) (Lahav, N., Nir, S.,
& Elitzur, A. C.) A comprehensive origin of life scenario. Poster presented
at the ISSOL-99 Triennial Conference, La Jolla, San-Diego, July 11, 1999.
5.
(1998) Order, disorder and
complexity: The uniqueness of the living state. Paper read at the Fourth
Interdisciplinary Congress of The International Society for the
Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry, The Technion, Haifa, Israel, September 15,
1998.
6.
(1998) Organizer and
Chairman, parallel session, “The Emergence of Order: Chemical, Physical and
Biological Manifestations.” The Fourth Congress of the International Society
for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry, The Technion, Haifa, Israel,
September 15, 1998.
7.
(1995) (Elitzur, A.C., and
Shmida, A.) Biological symmetry and information-processing. Paper read at the 3rd
Symmetry Congress of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study
of Symmetry (ISIS-Symmetry). “Symmetry: natural and artificial.” August 14-20,
1995, Old Town Alexandria, U.S.A. (Reprinted in Symmetry, 6, 178-182).
8.
(1994) Evolutionary
information processing: The uncognizant origins of cognition. Invited lecture,
read at the Symposium on Immunology as a Cognitive Science, The Weizmann
Institute of Science, April 17-21, 1994, Rehovot, Israel.
1.7. Psychology and Philosophy
1. (2007) Why Quantum Mind
to begin with? A Proof for the incompleteness of the physical account of
Behavior. A plenary lecture, “Quantum Mind,” University of Salzburg, Austria, July
17-20, 2007.
2. (2006) Co-Organizer
(With H. Atmanspacher), “Mind-matter research: Frontiers and directions.” Wilbad Kreuth, Bavaria, July 3-7, 2006.
3. (2005) Consciousness violates the closure of the physical world.
Invited paper, read at “Endophysics, Time, Quantum and the
Subjective.” An Advanced Multidisciplinary Workshop. The Center
for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) of the University of Bielefeld,
Germany, January 17-21, 2005.
4. (2000) Put all blame on the genes: The tyranny of psychiatric
essentialism. Paper presented at The
International Conference on “Freud towards the 21st Century,”
December 13-16, 1999, Jerusalem, Israel.
5.
(1999) Member of the
Scientific Committee and Symposium Chairman, The International Conference on
“Freud towards the 21st Century,” December 13-16, 1999, Jerusalem,
Israel.
6.
(1998)
(Kolenda, N., & Elitzur, A.C.) The Center for Frontier Sciences in Temple University: Unique
Challenges, Difficulties and Accomplishments. Paper presented at the Ninth International
Conference of the International Federation of Science Editors, 7-11 August,
1998, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
7.
(1997) Organizer and
participant, “Overcoming the language barrier: Problems of interdisciplinary
dialogue” Temple University’s Sugarloaf Conference Center, May 14-17,
Philadelphia, USA.
8.
(1996b) Teaching inventive
thinking to science students: Reflections on a preliminary study. Invited
lecture, to be given at the Third European Meeting of the Society for
Scientific Exploration, October 11-3 Freiburg, Germany.
9.
(1996a) What’s the
mind-body problem with you anyway? The undiminished acuity of the problem posed
by consciousness to modern science. Invited plenary lecture, delivered at the
Conference “Toward a Scientific Basis for Consciousness II” at The University
of Arizona, April 13, 1996, Tucson, Arizona.
10. (1995) The conscious “I”: Is there a physical basis of personal
identity? Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the International Institute for
Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, August 1-20,
1995 Baden-Baden, Germany.
11. (1994c) Dedemonology and alienation: The case of Elisha Ben
Avuya. Paper read at the 13th World Congress of Sociology, RC
36: Alienation Theory and Research. July 18, 1994, Bielefeld, Germany.
12. (1994b) Humor and psychopathology: Analogies, contrasts and
therapeutic implications. Plenary lecture, The Annual Convention of the Israel
Psychiatric Association, May 5, 1994, Tiberia, Israel.
13. (1994a) Can relativity shed a new light on consciousness? Poster
presented at the Conference “Toward a Scientific Basis for Consciousness” at
The University of Arizona, April 12-17, 1994, Tucson, Arizona.
14. (1991d) Organizer and Chairman, the session on the psychology of
innovation, the Annual Convention of the Israeli Psychological Association,
October 8-11,
1991, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel..
15. (1991c) Organizer and Chairman, the session on psychology and
physics, the Annual Convention of the Israeli Psychological Association,
October 8-11,
1991, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel..
16. (1991b) Psychological notes on a curious feature of Jewish
demonology. Paper read at the Annual Convention of the Israeli Psychological
Association, October 8, 1991, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel..
17. (1991a) The psychodynamics of religious revelation experience.
Paper read at the Annual Convention of the Israel Psychiatric Association,
April 26, 1991, Jerusalem, Israel.
7. Theses Advised
1.
(Graduated 2015) (A.C. Elitzur, O. Harman & S. Rosenberg, advisors)
“The Theory of Evolution – Between Rabbi Kook and Darwinism.” Ph.D.
dissertation, Dov Berger, Bar-Ilan University.
2.
(Graduated 2008)
“Quantum Simulation: On the Physicality of Computation and Information”
(second) Ph.D. dissertation,
Boaz Tamir, Bar-Ilan University.[1]
3.
(Graduated 2007) “The
Passion between the Psychotherapist and the Patient compared to the Passion
between the Photographer and his/her Object.” Ph.D. dissertation,
Anat Botzer, Bar-Ilan University.
4.
(Graduated 2005) “Intelligence, Language, and the Limits of
Computation”. Ph.D. dissertation, Naama Soreq (recipient of Bar-Ilan
President’s Scholarship), Bar-Ilan University[2]
5.
(Graduated 2004) “New
Approaches to the Measurement Problem in Quantum Mechanics.” Ph.D.
dissertation, Shahar Dolev (recipient of Bar-Ilan President’s Scholarship),
Bar-Ilan University.[3]
6.
(Graduated 2003)
(co-advisor) “Violation of Classical Properties by Quantum Theory.” M.
A. Thesis, Hamutal Benbassat, Bar-Ilan
University.[4]
7.
(Graduated 1999)
(co-advisor) “Dream Phenomenology and
Physical Health Status: A Case Study.”
M. Sc. Thesis, Dr. Meenakshi
Parab. Birla Institute of Technology and Science and the Bhaktivedanta
Institute, Bombay, India.
8. International Courses and Colloquia
1. (2011) When one quantum
measures another: Delaying quantum measurement in order to better comprehend
it. Physics seminar, Chapman University, June 10, 2011.
2. (2008) Quantum
paradoxes combined: EPR-IFM hybrids and their significance. Quantum Seminar, Ecole
Normale Supérieure de Lyon, June 13, 2008.
3. (2008) Subtle quantum
measurements straining ordinary causality. Group of Applied Physics, University of Geneva,
May 28, 2008.
4. (2007)
Quantum reality: From fundamental questions to a new technology. Naturwissenschaft und die Ganzheit des Lebens
(Science and the Wholeness of Life) Cortona, Italy, September 7-14, 2007.
6. (2006) Dynamic time: The “missing
link” in the search for a unified theory? The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical
Physics, Waterloo, Canada,
April 2006. (2005) Beauty and truth as guides
for scientific theories. An invited paper, read at Naturwissenschaft und die Ganzheit des Lebens
(Science and the Wholeness of Life) Cortona, Italy, September 8-15, 2005.
7. (2005)
(With P. Schuster and E Szathmary) Evolution and
information. Europäisches Forum Alpbach,
Alpbach, Austria, August 2005.
8.
(2005) “Can the assumption
of Becoming help unifying quantum mechanics and relativity?” Colloquium of the Institut für Grenzgebiete
der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Freiburg, Germany, July 13,
2005.
9.
(2004) The psychology of dreams. A workshop held at Naturwissenschaft
und die Ganzheit des Lebens (Science and the Wholeness of Life) Cortona,
Italy, September
7-14, 2004.
10.
(2004) Can consciousness, in
itself, play a causal role? Colloquium of the Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und
Psychohygiene, Freiburg, Germany, June 24,
2004.
11.
(2003)
Creativity, the blessed madness. Naturwissenschaft
und die Ganzheit des Lebens (Science and the Wholeness of Life) Cortona,
Italy, September
6-13, 2003.
12.
(2003) (With A. Zeilinger) Schrödinger’s Cat: Quantum versus classical world? Seminar 3, Europäisches Forum Alpbach,
Alpbach, Austria, August 15-21, 2003.
13.
(2003) On the nature of
consciousness. The Academy of
Consciousness Studies, PEARlab, Princeton University, July 5-13,
2003.
14. (2002) (Arzy, S., &
Elitzur, A.C.) The Kabala pendulum: Between healing the individual and healing
the world. Naturwissenschaft
und die Ganzheit des Lebens
(Science and the Wholeness of Life) Cortona, Italy, September 7-14, 2002.
15. (2001) Emotions, their disorders, and
psychiatry’s identity disorder. Naturwissenschaft
und die Ganzheit des Lebens (Science and the Wholeness of Life) Cortona,
Italy, September
8-15, 2001.
16. (1996) Evolution as a proto-cognitive process. Konrad-Lorenz-Instittut für Evolutions- und
Kognitionsforschung, April 4, 1996, Altenberg, Austria.
9. Non-Refereed Books (Author)
2. (1994)זמן ותודעה: תהיות חדשות על חידות
עתיקות. תל-אביב: משרד הביטחון – האוניברסיטה
המשודרת. (Time and
Consciousness: New Reflections on Age-Old Riddles.) Sixth, Revised Edition,
1997. Tel-Aviv: The Broadcasted University and the Ministry of Defense.
3. (1987) לפני ולפנים: עיונים פסיכואנליטיים
במקרא וביהדות. תל אביב: ירום-אליצור.
(Into the Holy of Holies: Psychoanalytic Insights into the Bible and Judaism.)
Third printing 1988..
10. Editorials, Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Articles
1.
(2008) Can the “open
dialogue policy” be made foolproof? Reflections following some recent articles
published in COP. Old and New Concepts of Physics, 5, 701-706.
2.
(2008) Comment on “On EPR
paradox, Bell's inequalities and experiments that prove nothing” by V. K.
Ignatovich. Old and New Concepts of Physics, 5, 273-276.
3.
(2002) Entropy
enters its fourth year. An editorial. Entropy 4,
1-2.
4.
(1999) חזרה אל "רצח הנפש" (צ. לוטן: תגובה לאבשלום אליצור. א. אליצור:
התעללות היא התעללות – תשובה ללוטן). שיחות, י"ג, 155-165.
5.
(1998)
Review, Delayed Posttraumatic Stress Disorder from Infancy: The Two
Trauma Mechanism by C. D. McKenzie and L. D. Wright. Israel Journal of
Psychiatry and Related Sciences, 35, 242-244.
6.
(1997) Deadly Taboo:
Breaking the silence surrounding suicide. An editorial, Newslink of the
American Association of Suicidology, 23/2, 15-16.
7.
(1995)הערכים "זמן," "קוונטים, פירוש תורת ה-" האנציקלופדיה
העברית, כרך מילואים ג'. תל-אביב: ספריית פועלים. (Entries: Time, Foundations of quantum theory,
The Hebrew Encyclopedia, Update Volume 3. Tel-Aviv: Poalim.
8.
(1994) The origin of life.
Essay review. Contemporary Physics, 34, 275-278.
9.
(1991) Review,
Pseudoscience and the Paranormal by T. Hines. The Journal of Mind and
Behavior, 12, 171-174.
11. Board Memberships
·
(2010) Editorial Board
member, Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics.
·
(2008 to 2010) Editorial
Board member, Old and New Concepts of Physics
by The Institute of Physics, University of Łódź (ISSN
1897-2357).
·
(2008 to date) Editorial
Board member, The Israeli Online Journal for the Study of Dreams and Dreaming.
·
(2003 to date)
Editorial Board member, The
Frontier Collection Series: Monographs and Books on Frontiers of Modern Physics.
Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York.
·
(2001–2006) Associate
Editor, Entropy: International
Journal of Entropy and Information Studies Online (ISSN 1099-4300).
·
(2000
to date) Elected Member, International Board of
Judges for The Origin-of-Life
Prize, The Gene Emergence
Project.
·
(2000
to 2011) Member of the Editorial Board, מעגלי נפש: רבעון
לפסיכולוגיה, לטיפול, לטיפוח רגשי ולחינוך יצירתי (Ma’agalei Nefesh: A Quarterly for Psychology, Therapy,
Emotional Growth and Creative Education).
·
(1998 to date) Elected
Member, Advisory Board of ISIS-Symmetry
(International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry).
·
(1996-2009) Member, The
Executive Board of Directors, The Center for Frontier Sciences,
Temple University, Philadelphia.
·
(1996-2009) Scientific
Editor, Frontier Perspectives, Journal of The Center
for Frontier Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia (ISSN
1062-4767).
·
(1995)עורך, מדור מדעי הטבע, האנציקלופדיה העברית, כרך מילואים ג.
תל-אביב: ספריית פועלים. (Natural Sciences Editor The Hebrew
Encyclopedia, Update Volume 3. Tel-Aviv: Poalim.
·
(1995) עורך, מדור מדעי הטבע, לקסיקון אנציקלופדי חדש (כרכים א-ב).
תל-אביב: פועלים. (Natural
Sciences Editor, The New Encyclopedic Lexicon (Vols. 1-2).
Tel-Aviv: Poalim.
·
(1988–2003) Assessing
Editor, The Journal of
Mind and Behavior (ISSN 0271-0137).
12. Community Services
·
(2001-2015) Chairman, מכנף דרום לציון,
עמותה לעלייה ולקליטה של יהודי אתיופיה
South Wing to Zion, The Association for Ingathering & Absorption of
Ethiopian Jewry, Jerusalem.
·
Pro bono lectures: אגף "נס,"
כלא רמלה; אבנט - אבי נפגעי טרור; אנוש - העמותה הישראלית לבריאות הנפש; מרפאת גל
(פגועי הלם קרב), בית החולים תל-השומר; תחנת הגמילה, עיריית תל-אביב; ער"ן -
עזרה ראשונה נפשית; האגודה למלחמה בסרטן.