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SUMMARY:Negative probabilities: What they are and what they are for
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DESCRIPTION:By Yuri Gurevich - University of Michigan\n\nBio\nYuri Gurevic
 h is Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. The last 20 years o
 f his career he spent at Microsoft Research as a Principal Researcher. He 
 is a Fellow of AAAS\, ACM\, EATCS\, and Guggenheim\, a foreign member of A
 cademia Europaea\, and Dr. Honoris Causa of a Belgian and a Russian univer
 sities.\n\nAbstract\nRichard Feynman\, the pioneer of quantum computing\, 
 wrote in his 1982 book Simulating Physics with Computers: “The only diff
 erence between a probabilistic classical world and the equations of the qu
 antum world is that somehow or other it appears as if the probabilities wo
 uld have to go negative.”\nNegative probabilities make no sense. Yet the
 y are tolerated in quantum tomography and elsewhere. So what reality\, or 
 at least intuition\, is behind negative probabilities? And what negative p
 robabilities are good for?\nWe address these and related questions. The ta
 lk does not presume quantum expertise\, though having such expertise would
  be helpful of course.\n\nMore information\n\n 
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