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Thursday, October 07, 2004
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9:00am |
Informal Tours of the KITP |
10:00am |
DEDICATION CEREMONY |
11:00am |
Reception, tours and lunch |
Session I: PAST & PRESENT
Chair: David Gross
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1:00pm |
Remarks of the KITP Directors[Aud][Cam]: Walter Kohn, James Langer, James Hartle |
1:45pm |
Steven Weinberg "Where Do We Stand? [Aud][Cam]" |
2:30pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
Session II: PARTICLE PHYSICS
Chair: Joseph Polchinski
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3:15pm |
Frank Wilczek "Past, Present and Future Triumphs Around the Standard Model [Slides][Aud][Cam]" |
3:45pm |
PANEL: Beyond the Standard Model[Slides][Aud][Cam], Moderator: Savas Dimopoulos Panelists: Nima Arkani-Hamed, Tom Banks, Michael Peskin, Lisa Randall |
4:15pm |
Nathan Seiberg "Quantum Field Theory - The Past 25 Years [Slides][Aud][Cam]" |
4:45pm |
END OF SESSION |
5:00pm |
Van to Best Western South Coast Inn/Holiday Inn |
6:00pm |
Bus to Cabrillo Arts Pavilion from hotel |
6:30pm |
RECEPTION & DINNER Cabrillo Arts Pavilion |
10:00pm |
Bus to Best Western South Coast Inn/Holiday Inn |
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Friday, October 08, 2004
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Session III: QUANTUM MATTER
Chair: Matthew Fisher
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8:30am |
Steve Kivelson "Status of Strongly Correlated Systems [Slides][Aud][Cam]" |
8:50am |
PANEL: Quantum Matter in the 21st Century[Slides][Aud][Cam], Moderator: Matthew Fisher Panelists: Philip Anderson, Nicholas Read, Subir Sachdev, Xiao- Gang Wen |
9:15am |
Sankar das Sarma "Mesoscopic Miracles and Beyond [Slides][Aud][Cam]" |
9:35am |
PANEL: The Nascent Nanophysics Revolution?[Slides][Aud][Cam], Moderator: Patrick Lee Panelists: Bertrand Halperin, Anthony Leggett, Allan MacDonald, David Thouless |
10:00am |
MORNING BREAK |
Session IV: ASTROPHYSICS
Chair: Peter Goldreich
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10:30am |
Scott Tremaine "Stability of the Solar System [Slides][Aud][Cam]" |
10:50am |
Christopher McKee "Formation of Stars [Slides][Aud][Cam]" |
11:10am |
Roger Blandford "The Life of a Black Hole [Slides][Aud][Cam]" |
11:30am |
PANEL: Future of Gravitational Waves[Slides][Aud][Cam], Moderator: Lars Bildsten Panelists: Roger Blandford, Sterl Phinney, Kip Thorne |
12:00pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
Session V: QUANTUM MECHANICS
Chair: Anthony Zee
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1:30pm |
Gerard 't Hooft "The Future of Quantum Mechanics [Slides][Aud][Cam]" |
1:55pm |
PANEL: The Nature of Quantum Mechanics[Slides][Aud][Cam], Moderator: Anthony Zee Panelists: James Hartle, Anthony Leggett, Roger Penrose, Wojciech Zurek |
2:30pm |
PANEL: The Future of Quantum Computing[Slides][Aud][Cam], Moderator: Anthony Zee Panelists: Carlton Caves, Michael Freedman, Sankar das Sarma |
3:00pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
Session VI: COMPLEX MATTER
Chair: Mehran Kardar
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3:30pm |
Tom Lubensky "Order, Geometry and Fluctuations in Soft Matter [Slides][Vid][Aud][Cam]" |
3:50pm |
Marc Mezard "Frustrated Systems - from Physics to Computer Science [Slides][Aud][Cam]" |
4:10pm |
Sidney Nagel "Experimental Contributions to Pattern Formation [Slides][Aud][Cam]" |
4:30pm |
PANEL: The Future of Soft Condensed Matter Physics [Slides][Aud][Cam], Moderator: Susan Coppersmith Panelists:Michael Fisher, Pierre Hohenberg, James Langer, Cristina Marchetti |
5:00pm |
END OF SESSION |
5:30pm |
RECEPTION |
6:30pm |
BANQUET at the KITP |
9:30pm |
Van to Best Western South Coast Inn/Holiday Inn |
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Saturday, October 09, 2004
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Session VII: STRING THEORY
Chair: Eva Silverstein
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8:30am |
PANEL: Field Theory and Mathematics[Slides][Aud][Cam], Moderator: Joseph Polchinski Panelists: Hirosi Ooguri, Alexander Polyakov, Misha Shifman, Isadore Singer, Robert Sugar |
9:00am |
Edward Witten "Future of String Theory [Slides][Aud][Cam]" |
9:30am |
PANEL: What is Quantum Gravity?[Slides][Aud][Cam], Moderator: Eva Silverstein Panelists: Abhay Ashtekar, Juan Maldacena, Leonard Susskind, Gerard 't Hooft, Cumrun Vafa |
10:00am |
MORNING BREAK |
Session VIII: COSMOLOGY
Chair: James Peebles
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10:30am |
Alan Guth "The Physics of the Very Early Universe [Slides][Aud][Cam]" |
10:45am |
Michael Turner "The Physics of the Dark Sector [Slides][Aud][Cam]" |
11:00am |
Jeremiah Ostriker "The Physics of the Low Redshift Universe [Slides][Aud][Cam]" |
11:15am |
PANEL: Future of Cosmology[Slides][Aud][Cam], Moderator: James Peebles Panelists: Richard Bond, Marc Kamionkowski, Andrei Linde, Joseph Silk, Paul Steinhardt |
12:00pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
Session IX:LIVING MATTER
Chair: Boris Shraiman
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1:30pm |
Larry Abbott "Neurophysics - Past and Future [Slides][Aud][Cam]" |
2:00pm |
Stanislas Leibler "Biological Networks from a Physicist's Perspective" |
2:30pm |
PANEL: Physicists in Biology[Slides][Aud][Cam], Moderator: Boris Shraiman Panelists: William Bialek, Jean Carlson, Daniel Fisher, Terry Hwa, Charles Stevens |
3:00pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
Session X: THE FUTURE OF PHYSICS
Chair: Michael Fisher
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3:30pm |
Physics and Society[Slides][Aud][Cam] Edouard Brezin, Boris Kayser, Ray Orbach, Charles Townes |
4:15pm |
David Gross "The Future of Physics [Aud][Cam]" |
5:00pm |
THE END |
5:30pm |
Van to Best Western South Coast Inn/Holiday Inn |
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