THE FUTURE OF PHYSICS
Schedule of Activities
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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