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Some Fundamental Aspects of Quantum Mechanics, Paradoxes and Potential Solutions

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Dr. Ivan Arraut, PhD, graduated from the School of Science, department of Physics at Osaka University (Japan), under the supervision of Yutaka Hosotani and Hideo Kodama (KEK). He was also a collaborative researcher at the YITP from Kyoto University. His research areas include gravity and cosmology, high-energy physics, quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, as well as other diverse topics, including game theory and quantum finance. Ivan has accomplished several achievements in his career, including being a prestigious JSPS fellow in Japan, a CAS PIFI fellow in China, receiving the MEXT scholarship in Japan, and receiving a national recognition in Colombia. Ivan is currently working on some of the most important problems in physics and he has an h-index of 15 in agreement with Google Scholar. He is currently an Assistant Professor for the Institute for Data Engineering and Sciences at the University of Saint Joseph in Macau, China. He is currently the main lecturer for the courses in Physics and Mathematics at this institution.

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The Quantum Yang–Baxter Equation, Quantum Mechanics, and the Open Access

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Dr. Florin Felix Nichita graduated from the University of Bucharest (1994), and received his Ph.D. from The State University of New York at Buffalo (2000). After several temporary positions in the USA, the UK, etc., he is currently a Senior Scientific Researcher at the “Simion Stoilow” Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy. He has published many articles in open access journals like Axioms, Symmetry, Sci, etc., receiving interesting feedback and citations. His primary research interests are in the areas of Yang–Baxter equations, Physics, Topology, Noncommutative Algebra, Geometry, etc. With approximately 70 published works, and many invited talks and visitor positions, he has recently interacted with many scientists, poets, and writers.

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Relativistic Quantum Mechanics on the Light-Front

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During his Ph.D., Dr. Joao Pacheco Bicudo Cabral de Mello spent the year, 1997, at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Hannover, Germany, with a DAAD (Germany) scholarship, in the group of Prof. Peter Sauer, where he developed works that were later published. At the time, he also collaborated with Dr. Rik Naus, then an Associate Professor at the University of Hannover. After completing his Ph.D. in 1998 at IFUSP, Dr. de Mello pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in the group of Prof. Robert Vinh Mau, working with Prof. Benoît Loiseau on nucleon–nucleon interaction using the so-called Paris Potential plus degrees of freedom from quantum chromodynamics (QCD). This work resulted in several publications, including in Physical Review C (APS). In 2001, Dr. de Mello returned to Brazil and carried out a postdoctoral fellowship at IFT/UNESP, under the supervision of Prof. Lauro Tomio, where he worked on few-body problems in Theoretical Nuclear Physics and Hadronic Physics. Over the years, Dr. de Mello has established several international collaborations, including with Prof. Giovanni Salmè (INFN, University La Sapienza, Roma I), Prof. E. Pace (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Roma II), and the group of Prof. Chueng-R. Ji (North Carolina State University, USA). This last collaboration received financial support from both FAPESP and CNPq for a total of seven years, and remains ongoing. Currently, as coordinator of the Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Physics (LFTC/UCS/UNICID), Dr. de Mello leads his group’s participation in the international Electron–Ion Collider (EIC) collaboration (https://www.bnl.gov/eic-theory/), the major electron accelerator being built in the USA.