Curriculum Vitae of Michael P

Curriculum Vitae of Michael P. Seevinck
D. van Poldersveldtweg 180, 6523 DE, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Phone:+31-6122-57082
Email: seevinck@phys.uu.nl
Date of birth: 27 February 1977
Nationality: Dutch
University Education
• Ph.D student at the Institute for History and Foundations of Physics at Utrecht
University, the Netherlands, since May 2002. Under supervision of Dr. Jos Uffink (copromotor)
and Prof. Dr. Dennis Dieks (promotor). Expected defense of thesis will be in
fall 2007. Content of thesis: novel multipartite Bell inequalities, novel aspects of
entanglement in quantum physics, interpretational issues involving holism, separability
and non-locality in quantum physics as well as its relationship to special relativity
(questions of superluminal signalling and spacelike causation). See also the list of
published and submitted papers.
• Graduated cum laude for the Masters in Foundations of Physics at Utrecht
University (the Netherlands), June 24 th 2002. Supervisor: Dr. Jos Uffink. Graduate level
courses included courses on the foundations of thermodynamics and statistical
mechanics, on the foundations of space-time theories (special and general relativity), on
the foundations of probability theory, on the foundations of quantum mechanics, and on
general philosophy of science.
• Graduated cum laude for the Masters in Theoretical Physics at Radboud University
Nijmegen (the Netherlands), March 28 th 2002. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ronald Kleiss and
Dr. Hans Maassen.
• Scholarship from Oriel College to study at Oxford University, UK. January-July
2000. Conducted research for my Masters thesis. Supervised by Dr. D. Bouwmeester of
the Centre for Quantum Computation at the Clarendon Laboratory. Attended courses in
the philosophy of physics. Actively involved in the philosophy of physics community at
the Philosophy Faculty.
• Courses in Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen. Januari 1997 - June 2001.
Attended individual courses on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, anthropology, history
of modern philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, logic. Passed all
examinations.
University Teaching
• Guest Lecturer for graduate course in philosophy at the philosophy faculty of
Radboud University Nijmegen on the topic of ‘Einstein and Quantum Mechanics’. Two
lectures. March 2007.
• Lecturer in Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Fall Semester 2004. Graduate
Course, University of Utrecht. Replacement for Dr. Uffink who was on sabbatical at the

University of Pittsburgh. Weekly lecturing on the foundations of quantum mechanics (16
lectures). Directed a weekly reading group (16 sessions). Grading homework assignments,
conducted examining for this course. Assisted students in writing papers on a
topic in the foundations of quantum mechanics.
• Teaching Assistant for undergraduate course in Quantum Mechanics. Spring
Semester of 2004, University of Utrecht. Directed weekly problem solving sessions.
• Teaching Assistant for graduate course in Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Fall
Semester of 2002 and 2003, University of Utrecht. Directed a weekly reading group.
• Teaching Assistant for undergraduate course in Thermal Physics. Spring Semester of
2003, University of Utrecht. Directed weekly problem solving sessions.
• Teaching Assistant for undergraduate course in Thermodynamics. Fall Semester of
1999, Radboud University Nijmegen. Directed weekly problem solving sessions.
Further Relevant Work Experience
• Research Assistent at the Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen) in
the ‘comprehension’ group directed by Prof. Dr. Anne Cutler. September 2001- May
2002. Designing and performing psycholinguistic experiments. Implementing research
questions into a concrete experimental environment.
Interests and activities
• Member of the PhD student board Facultair Overleg Promovendi (FOP) of the
Faculty of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Utrecht. FOP defends the
interests of PhD students within the faculty. May 2002-May 2006.
• Secretary of the student rugby club NSRV Obelix. July 2004-July 2005.
• Editor of Splijtstof. Splijtstof is a periodical of the Philosophy Faculty at Radboud
Universiteit Nijmegen. September 2000 – June 2002.
• Supervisor at Technisch Creatief Centrum Nijmegen. Volunteer work. Supervised
14-16 year old youth conducting scientific experiments and engineering projects. January
1998 - June 1998
• Amateur Photographer, black and white documentary work. Member since 1996 of the
photography society Cycloop in Nijmegen.
Skills
• Languages: Dutch, English: excellent. German, French: reasonable.
• Computing: Unix, Linux, Microsoft Office, Mathematica, Maple, HTML

List of Publications
M. Seevinck. Classification and monogamy of three-qubit biseparable Bell correlations. Accepted
by Physical Review A. Available at arXiv: xxx.lanl.gov/quant-ph/0702257.
F.A. Muller, M. Seevinck, Is standard quantum mechanics technologically inadequate? Accepted by
the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. August 2006. Available at the PhilSci archive:
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00003051/
M. Seevinck, The quantum world is not built up out of correlations. Foundations of Physics, Vol.
36, 1573-1586 (2006).
M. Seevinck, Belleterie van EPR. (in Dutch), Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Natuurkunde, Vol. 71, p.
354 (2005).
G. Toth, O. Guhne, M. Seevinck, J. Uffink. Addendum to ''Sufficient conditions for three particle
entanglement and their tests in recent experiments”. Physical Review A, Vol. 72, 014101 (2005).
M. Seevinck, Holism, Physical Theories and Quantum Mechanics, Studies in the History and
Philosophy of Modern Physics, Vol. 35B, 693-712 (2004).
M. Seevinck, G. Svetlichny, Bell-type Inequalities for Partial Separability in N-particle
systems and Quantum Mechanical Violations, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 89, 060401
(2002).
M. Seevinck, J. Uffink, Sufficient conditions for three particle entanglement and their
tests in recent experiments, Physical Review A, Vol. 65, 012107 (2001)
Submitted Publications
M. Seevinck, J. Uffink. Local commutativity versus Bell inequality violation for entangled states
and versus non-violation for separable states. Submitted to Physical Review A. Available at arXiv:
xxx.lanl.gov/quant-ph/0703134.
M. Seevinck, J-A. Larsson. Comment on "A local realist model for correlations of the singlet state"
(Eur.Phys.J.B 53:139-142, 2006). Submitted to Europhysics Jounal B. Available at arXiv:
xxx.lanl.gov/quant-ph/0703120.
M. Seevinck. Deriving standard Bell inequalities from non-locality and its repercussions for the
(im)possibility of doing experimental metaphysics. Submitted for a volume of Elsevier series in
Philosophy and Foundations of Physics (to appear). Edited by C. de Ronde and S. Aerts.
J. Uffink, M. Seevinck. A stronger Bell inequality for two spin 1/2 particles. Submitted to Physical
Review Letters. Available at arXiv: xxx.lanl.gov/quant-ph/0604145.

Conference presentations
• 15 th UK and European Meeting on the Foundations of Physics, Leeds, March 28-31, 2007.
Title: “Deriving standard Bell inequalities from non-locality and its repercussions for the
(im)possibility of doing experimental metaphysics”
• European One-day Conference in the Philosophy and Foundations of Physics, Utrecht, May
24, 2006. Title: “Stunningly Stronger Bell inequalities”
• 33rd annual Philosophy of Science Conference, Dubrovnik, April 10-14, 2006.
Title: “Simulating Local Realism by Quantum Mechanics “
• Philosophical and Foundational Issues in Quantum Theory, Budapest, September 1-5,
2005. Title: “The Quantum world is not build up out of correlations (although the
quantum state is)”
• 13 th UK Meeting on the Foundations of Physics, York, September 20-24, 2004
Title: ”Historical and Conceptual Aspects of von Neumann's No Hidden Variables
Argument”
• 12 th UK Meeting on the Foundations of Physics, Leeds, September 9-12, 2003. ”A Criterion
for Holism in Quantum Mechanics”
• 12 th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Oviedo,
August 7-13, 2003. Title: “Quantum Operations and Measurement”
• ESF Workshop on Holism in Physics (invited speaker), Bonn, July 4-5, 2003. Title: ”A
Criterion for Holism in Quantum Mechanics”
• 11 th UK Meeting on the Foundations of Physics, Oxford, September 10-14, 2002. Title:
“Multi-partite Entanglement versus Multi-partite Non-locality”