Valia Allori
Curriculum Vitae

Education

Fellowships and Awards

• NIU Research and Artistry Award, 2008
• Rutgers Travel Award, 2004
• 1–year Fellowship from Fondazione Fratelli Confalonieri, 1998
• 5–years Fellowship for outstanding students from INPGI (Istituto Nazionale Previdenza Giornalisti Italiani, National Support Institute for Italian Journalists’ Families); 1990–1995

Publications: Books

•  "La Natura delle Cose: Introduzione ai Fondamenti e alla Filosofia della Fisica", (transl.: "The Nature of Things: Introduction to the Philosophy and the Foundation of Physics"), (with M. Dorato, F. Laudisa, N. Zanghi) Carocci eds., Roma (2005)
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• Introduction 
• Press Release
• Reviews

• "Many-Worlds and Schroedinger's First Quantum Theory" . The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, to appear. (with S. Goldstein, R. Tumulka, and N. Zanghi). 
• "On Wave Function Monism in Spontaneous Collapse Theories''. Submitted.
• "On the Classical Limit of Quantum Mechanics"  Foundations of Physics, 10.1007/s10701-008-9259-4 (2008) (with N. Zanghi).
• "On the Common Structure of Bohmian Mechanics and the Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber Theory". The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science  59 (3), 353-389 (2008). (with S. Goldstein, R. Tumulka, and N. Zanghi)
• "Ontologie Quantistiche di Particelle, Campi e Lampi" (transl.: “Quantum Ontologies of Particles, Fields and Flashes”). E. Fano and M. Antonelli (eds.),``Strutture dello spazio tra fisica e psicologia", Teorie e Modelli XII, III, 9-29 (2007). (with N. Zanghi)
• "Puo' la descrizione quanto-meccanica della realta' fisica essere considerata completa?" (transl.: “Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?”) (with N. Zanghi). Il Protagora Vol. 9, 163-180 (2007)
• "What is Bohmian Mechanics". International Journal of Theoretical Physics 43, 1743-1755 (2004). (with N. Zanghi)
• "Seven Steps Toward the Classical World" . Journal of Optics B 4, 482–488 (2002). (with D. Duerr, S. Goldstein, N. Zanghi)

Physics

• "Spectra of Alpha Particles Emitted in the Interaction of ¹²C with ⁹³Nb". NAC Annual Report (1998). (with M. Cavinato, et al.)
• "Angular Distribution and Forward Recoil Range Distributions of the Residue Created in the Interaction of ¹²C and ¹⁶O ions with ¹⁰³Rh" . Nuclear Physics A 641, 271–296 (1998). (with E. Gadioli, et al.).
• "Low Linear Momentum and Energy Transfer Reactions in the Interaction of ¹²C with ¹⁰³Rh" (with E. Gadioli et al.). Proceedings of the International Conference on Heavy Nucleon Reaction, Paris (1998) 
• "The Interaction of ¹²C and ¹⁶O with ¹⁰³Rh". Heavy Ion Physics 7 (1998).  (with E. Gadioli, et al.)
• "Study of the Interaction of ¹²C and ¹⁶O with ¹⁰³Rh". NAC Annual Report (1997) . (with E. Gadioli, et al.)
• "A Comprehensive Study of the Interaction of ¹²C with Nuclei". Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms, Varenna, Ricerca ed Educazione Permanente (1997). (with E. Gadioli, et al.)
• "Comprehensive Study of the Reaction of ¹²C with ¹⁰³Rh up to 33 MeV/nucleon". Physics Letters B 394, 29–36, (1997). (with E. Gadioli, et al.)
• "Comprehensive Study of the Interaction of ¹²C with ¹⁰³Rh up to 33 MeV/nucleon". Proceedings of the International Symposium on Large Scale Collective Motion of Atomic Nuclei, Brolo, Word Scientific, Publ. Co. Ltd, Singapore (1996). (with E. Gadioli, et al.)

Publications: Book Reviews

• Book Review of "Quantum Mechanics- a Philosopher's Overview", Salvator Cannavo. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, to appear.
• Book review of "The Kantian legacy in the Nineteenth -Century Science'', M. Friedman, and A. Nordmann (eds.). Journal of the History of Philosophy 47 (3): pp. 478-479 (2009)

Presentations

• Comments on Chris Pynes's paper: "The Mistake in Monty Fall". Illinois Philosophical Association, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, October 23-24 2009.
• Comments on Gregory Landini's paper "Facts About the Slingshot". Central State Philosophical Association, Dekalb, IL, October 9-10 2009
• "Galileo and the Scientific Method''. Northern  Illinois University, CLAS, Department of Physics and Department of History conference on New Ideas in History and Science: Galileo Conference. Dekalb, Illinois, February 6, 2009.  
• "On Wave Function Monism is Spontaneous Collapse Theories''. Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana, January 30, 2009. 
• "What does Quantum Mechanics tell us about Time?''. Iowa Philosophical Society 65th Annual Conference, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, October 18, 2008 (cancelled).
• Comments on Gregory Landini's "Yablo’s Paradox and Russellian Propositions''. Central States Philosophical Association, St. Paul, Minnesota, September 26-27, 2008.
• Comments on Brad Skow's paper "Why Does Time Pass?''. 2008 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Bellingham,Washington, August 3-7 2008. 
• "What Does Quantum Mechanics Tell us about Time?". Philosophy Department, University of Macerata (Italy), May 28, 2008.
• Comments on Jeffrey Dunn's paper "Counterfactual Dependence, Thermodynamics, and the Special Sciences''. 2008 APA Central Division meeting. Chicago, Illinois, April 17-20, 2008.
• Comments on Cian Dorr's paper "Quantum Mechanics and Space''. Metaphysics and Physics Conference. Rutgers, New Jersey, October 26-8, 2007.
• "Primitive Ontology and the Structure of Fundamental Physical Theories''. FQM Foundations of Quantum Mechanics - Quantum Reality: Ontology, Probability, Relativity. Conference in honor of Sheldon Goldstein on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Rutgers, New Jersey, October 7-9, 2007.
• "On the Common Structure of Quantum Theories without Observers". Philosophy of Physics Colloquium, University of Maryland College Park, Maryland, March 21, 2007. 
• "Pandora’s Cat: On Bohmian Mechanics and GRW theory". XXXVI Conference of the Italian Society of History of Physics and Astronomy. Rome (Italy), June 15-17, 2006. 
• "On the Importance of the Notion of Primitive Ontology". Second School on the Foundations of Physical Theories, University of Urbino (Italy), July 5-9, 2004. 
• "Seven Steps toward the Classical World". Mysteries, Puzzles and Paradoxes in Quantum Mechanics Conference, Gargnano (Italy), August 27-September 1, 2001.
• "Decoherence and the Classical Limit of Quantum Mechanics". IQSA (International Quantum Structures Association) Conference Quantum Structures V, Cesenatico (Italy), March 31- April 3, 2001. 
• "Heavy Ions Reactions at Low Energy''. Centenary of SIF (Italian Society of Physics), Como (Italy), June 1997.