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Schedule of Activities

 

Thursday, October 07, 2004

9:00am  Informal Tours of the KITP    
10:00am  DEDICATION CEREMONY    
11:00am  Reception, tours and lunch    

Session I: PAST & PRESENT
Chair: David Gross

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

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    
 

Friday, October 08, 2004

Session III: QUANTUM MATTER
Chair: Matthew Fisher

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

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

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

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    
 

Saturday, October 09, 2004

Session VII: STRING THEORY
Chair: Eva Silverstein

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

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

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

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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