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: Walter Kohn, Robert Schrieffer, James Langer, James Hartle |
| 1:45pm | Steven Weinberg \"Where Do We Stand?\" |
| 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\" |
| 3:45pm | PANEL: Beyond the Standard Model, Moderator: Savas Dimopoulos Panelists: Nima Arkani-Hamed, Tom Banks, Michael Peskin, Lisa Randall |
| 4:15pm | Nathan Seiberg \"Quantum Field Theory - The Past 25 Years\" |
| 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\" |
| 8:50am | PANEL: Quantum Matter in the 21st Century, Moderator: Matthew Fisher Panelists: Philip Anderson, Nicholas Read, Subir Sachdev, Xiao- Gang Wen |
| 9:15am | Sankar das Sarma \"Mesoscopic Miracles and Beyond\" |
| 9:35am | PANEL: The Nascent Nanophysics Revolution?, 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\" |
| 10:50am | Christopher McKee \"Formation of Stars\" |
| 11:10am | Rashid Sunyaev \"The Life of a Black Hole\" |
| 11:30am | PANEL: Future of Gravitational Waves, 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 $apos;t Hooft \"The Future of Quantum Mechanics\" |
| 1:55pm | PANEL: The Nature of Quantum Mechanics, Moderator: Anthony Zee Panelists: James Hartle, Anthony Leggett, Roger Penrose, Wojciech Zurek |
| 2:30pm | PANEL: The Future of Quantum Computing, 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 | Thomas Lubensky \"Order, Geometry and Fluctuations in Soft Matter\" |
| 3:50pm | Marc Mezard \"Frustrated Systems - from Physics to Computer Science\" |
| 4:10pm | Sidney Nagel \"Experimental Contributions to Pattern Formation\" |
| 4:30pm | PANEL: The Future of Soft Condensed Matter Physics, 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, Moderator: Joseph Polchinski Panelists: Hirosi Ooguri, Alexander Polyakov, Misha Shifman, Isadore Singer, Robert Sugar |
| 9:00am | Edward Witten \"Future of String Theory\" |
| 9:30am | PANEL: What is Quantum Gravity?, Moderator: Stephen Shenker Panelists: Abhay Ashtekar, Juan Maldacena, Leonard Susskind, Gerard $apos;t Hooft, Cumrun Vafa |
| 10:00am | MORNING BREAK |
Session VIII: COSMOLOGY
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| 10:30am | Alan Guth \"The Physics of the Very Early Universe\" |
| 10:45am | Michael Turner \"The Physics of the Dark Sector\" |
| 11:00am | Jeremiah Ostriker \"The Physics of the Low Redshift Universe\" |
| 11:15am | PANEL: Future of Cosmology, Moderator: James Peebles Panelists: Richard Bond, Marc Kamionkowski, Andrei Linde, Joseph Silk, Paul Steinhardt |
| 12:00pm | LUNCH BREAK |
Session IX:LIVING MATTER
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| 1:30pm | Larry Abbott \"Neurophysics - Past and Future\" |
| 2:00pm | Stanislas Leibler \"Biological Networks from a Physicist$apos;s Perspective\" |
| 2:30pm | PANEL: Physicists in Biology, 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 Edouard Brezin, Boris Kayser, Ray Orbach, Charles Townes |
| 4:15pm | David Gross \"The Future of Physics\" |
| 5:00pm | THE END |
| 5:30pm | Van to Best Western South Coast Inn/Holiday Inn |
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