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Academic Year 2008-2009
12:15 p.m.
Debbie Leung, Univ. Waterloo & KITP
Information, Quantum Information, and Quantum Information Theory[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Kieron Burke, UCI & KITP
The Breadth and Depth of Modern Electronic Structure Theory[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Wim van Dam, UCSB & KITP
The Current State of Quantum Algorithms[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Eric Mjolsness, UC Irvine & KITP
Morphodynamics: Scoping the Field[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Don Ellison, NCSU & KITP
Cosmic Rays, Shocks, and Plasma Physics[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Sean Hartnoll, Harvard & KITP
What Is String Theory For?[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Mac Beasley (Stanford), Doug Scalapino (UCSB)
The Physics of Higher Temperature Superconductivity: Context and Issues[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Misha Ivanov, Imperial College & KITP
Towards Time and Space-Resolved Imaging at Sub-Femtosecond and Angstrom Scale[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
David Tannor, Weizmann Inst & KITP
Quantum Control: From Chemistry to Cooling to Computing[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Steven Simon, Oxford Univ. & KITP
Topological Phases of Matter: Interesting and Useful[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Cole Miller, Univ. Maryland & KITP
Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Sankar Das Sarma, Univ. of Maryland & KITP
Low Dimensional Electron Systems: A Landscape of Graphene, Quantum Hall Effects, MOSFET, Luttinger Liquid, and Beyond[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Joe Polchinski, KITP
What is String Theory?[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Steinn Sigurdsson, Penn State Univ & KITP
Emergent Phenomena in Negative Heat Capacity Systems: Fundamental Physics from Dense Star Clusters[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Charlie Kane, Univ. of Penn & KITP
Topological Band Theory and the Quantum Spin Hall Effect[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Mario Juric, IAS & KITP
The Truth is Out There: How Large Sky Surveys Are Reshaping our Picture of the Milky Way[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Marc Mezard, University of Paris-Sud & KITP
Information Flow on Trees, Reconstruction...and Glasses[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Leo Blitz, UC Berkeley & KITP
Galaxy Evolution[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Martin Kreitman, Univ. of Chicago & KITP
Single Nucleotide Polymorphism[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Thorsten Emig, Universite Paris Sud & KITP
Overview of Fluctuation Forces[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
Academic Year 2007-2008
12:15 p.m.
Michael Manga, UCB & KITP
Overview of Boundary Layers in the Earth[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Paul Kushner, University of Toronto & KITP
Climate Models and Climate Sensitivity[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Steve Tobias, University of Leeds & KITP
Dynamo Theory from Experiments to Galaxy Clusters (via planets and stars)[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Csaba Csaki, Cornell
Searching for the Origin of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking at the LHC[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois
Can You Hear the Shape of Schroedinger's Cat?[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Sam Wang, Princeton
Scaling and the Single Neuron[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Joseph Burns, Cornell
Saturn's Rings: Our Local Astrophysical Disk[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Greg Lemke, Salk Institute
Building Brain Maps[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Neil Turok, DAMTP, Univ. of Cambridge
AIMS for Africa[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
James Wells, CERN & Univ. of Michigan
Why is Everyone so Excited about the LHC?[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Larry Yaffe, University of Washington
What Might Be Going On At RHIC?[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Ulrich Sperhake (Univ Jena) Overview: Interplay between Numerical Relativity and Data Analysis[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Manfred Sigrist, ETH-Honggerberg
Chiral p-wave Superconductivity in Sr2 RuO4 [Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Matthew Hastings, Los Alamos & KITP
How Difficult is Quantum Many-Body Theory?[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Tom Abel, Stanford
Formation of the First Stars in the Universe[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Daniel Khomskii, Univ. Koeln
Correlated Electrons: Charges, Spins, Orbitals and All That[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Leon Balents (UCSB) Overview of the MOTTERIALS07 Program[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Paolo Padoan, UCSD
Overview of Star Formation[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Peter Ruoff (University of Stavanger) How Do Cells Compute?[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
Academic Year 2006-2007
12:15 p.m.
Nikolaus Rajewsky, MDC-Berlin & KITP
Evolution of Molecular Networks[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Rosanne Di Stefano, Harvard CfA & KITP
Paths to Explosion: What are the Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae?[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Victor Gurarie, U Colorado & KITP
Non-Abelian Statistics with Cold Atoms[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Jim Langer, UCSB
The Mysterious Glass Transition[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Michael Lässig, University of Cologne & KITP
The Arrow of Time in Biology[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Peter Zoller (University of Innsbruck) Condensed Matter Physics with Cold Atomic Gases: an Oxymoron or a New Frontier?[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Robert Kirshner, Harvard & KITP
Exploding Stars for Fun and Profit[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Arnold Levine, IAS
Sex, Food, Stress, Longevity: the Connections[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Ted Jacobson, University of Maryland
The Puzzles of Spacetime Singularities[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Prof. Antonio Castro Neto, Boston University
Drawing Conclusions from Graphene: from Particle Physics to Transistors[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Prof. Matthias Steinmetz, Astrophys. Inst. Potsdam
Understanding Galaxy Formation: Prospects and Challenges[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Prof. Michael Dine, UCSC & KITP
Prospects for a String Phenomenology[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Prof. Joe Polchinski, UCSB, KITP
Cosmic Strings and Superstrings[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Peter Schneider, Inst. für Astrophysik
Gravitational Lensing: An Overview[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
3:30 p.m.
Prof. Greg Lawler, University of Chicago
Random Planar Curves and the Schramm-Loewner Evolution[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Prof. Gordy Kane, University of Michigan
String Phenomenology -- What Could That Be?[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Prof. Ilya Gruzberg, University of Chicago
What is Stochastic Geometry?[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
Academic Year 2005-2006
12:15 p.m.
Prof. Ken Schafer, Louisiana State University
The Quest for Attosecond Pulses[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Prof. Louise Kellogg, UCD
Dynamics of the Earth's Mantle[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Prof. Simon White, Max Planck Institute
Fundamentalist Physics: Why Dark Energy May Be Bad for Astronomy[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Scott Hughes, MIT & KITP
Black Holes and Binary Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. David Bensimon, ENS-LPS, Paris & KITP
Challenges of Single Molecules and Single Cells Studies[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Michael Flatté, University of Iowa
Towards Quantum Computation Via Semiconductor Spintronics[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Chetan Nayak, KITP & Microsoft Project Q
The Quantum Hall Effect and Topological Quantum Computation[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Rob Phillips, Caltech
Physical Biology of the Cell[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Allan MacDonald, University of Texas
Spintronics for Fun and Profit[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Michael Freedman, Microsoft
Topological Phases of Matter and Computation[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Shri Kulkarni, Caltech
Cataclysmic and Catastrophic Cosmic Explosions: The Next Frontier[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Moses Chan (Penn State University), Dr. David Ceperley (University of Illinois)
The Supersolid State of Matter[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Chris Fryer, LANL
The Supernova/gamma-ray Burst Connection from the Eyes of a Mechanism Theorist[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Rob Myers, KITP & Perimeter Institute
Scanning New Horizons: GR Beyond 4 Dimensions[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Lars Bildsten, KITP
The Life of a Star[Slides] [Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Mark Robbins, Johns Hopkins University
Friction Mechanisms: Lessons from Simple Analytic Models[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Hirosi Ooguri, Caltech
Probing Geometry by Strings[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Michael Falk (U Michigan) Friction and Fracture at Atomic and Tectonic Scales[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Nikita Nekrasov, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
The Standard Model of the Physics-Mathematics Interaction[Podcast] [Audio] [WebCam]
Academic Year 2004-2005
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Omer Blaes, KITP & UCSB
How Astrophysical Disks Work[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Peter Mészáros (Penn State) Current Prospects in Ultra-High Energy Astrophysics[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Robin C. Ball, KITP & University Warwick
Emergent Fermions in Arbitrary Dimension[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Mr. Tom Siegfried, Science Journalist in Residence, KITP
Science Journalism from First Principles[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Henk Spruit, Max-Planck Astrophysics
Introduction of the Jets and Disks Program[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Thomas C. Halsey, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering
The World in a Grain of Sand: A Perspective on Granular Physics[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Dirk Morr, University of Illinois at Chicago
Quantum Photography and Quantum Drums or How to Take Pictures and Play Music in the Quantum World[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Sid Drell, SLAC
The Gravest Danger--Nuclear Weapons[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Mike Norman, Argonne National Laboratory
Fermi Surfaces and Quantum Critical Points[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Michael Creutz, Brookhaven National Lab
Spontaneous CP Violation in the Strong Interactions and Quark Mass Ambiguities[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. John Kogut, UIUC
Lattice Gauge Theory From Confinement to Extreme Environments[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Piers Coleman, Rutgers
Quantum Phase Transitions - A New Challenge in the Cryostat and Possibly Also the Cosmos
[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Joseph Silk, Oxford
Some Current Issues in Star and Galaxy Formation[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Charles Stevens, The Salk Institute
What the Cortex Computes[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Matthias Steinmetz, KITP & Astrophysical Institute Potsdam
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Baryons[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Nicholas Sourlas, KITP & ENS, Paris
Statistical Mechanics and Error Correcting Codes[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Joe Polchinski, KITP
QCD, Strings and Duality[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Simon Laughlin, Cambridge
The Design of the Brain[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Rich Brower, Boston University
String Theory and QCD: The Long Search for a Dual Theory of Hadrons[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Andy Schwartz, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Introduction to Brain Computer Interface[Audio] [WebCam]
Academic Year 2003-2004
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Subir Sachdev, Yale
Quantum Criticality: From the "Trivial" to the Exotic[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Barbara Goss Levi, KITP Journalist in Residence & Physics Today
Reporting the News for Physics Today[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Chris Pethick (Nordita), Dr. Jason Ho (Ohio State), Dr. Sandy Fetter (Stanford), Dr. Gora Shlyapnikov (Orsay)
What's New in Quantum Gases[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Leon Balents, KITP UCSB
Electrons as Exotic Dancers[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Alexandro Morbidelli, KITP & Nice Observatory
A New Planet in the Solar System?[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Zoltan Kunszt, KITP & ETH
Quest for Precision in Collider Physics[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Peter Bodenheimer, KITP & UC Santa Cruz
Formation and Evolution of Gas Giant Planets[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Lance Dixon, KITP & SLAC
Searching for Physics Beyond the Standard Model at Colliders[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Doug Lin, UCSC
Formation of Planets and Diversity of Planetary Systems[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Tamás Vicsek, Eötvös University, Hungary
Crowd Control[Audio] [WebCam] [Vid]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Pierre Hohenberg KITP & Yale
This Year's Nobel Prize in Physics[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Joe Polchinski, KITP
Cosmological Singularities in String Theory[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Eshel Ben-Jacob, Tel-Aviv University
Reflections on Engineered Self-Organization of Living Systems from SSC Perspective with Tabletop Demonstrations[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Ms. Rosalind Reid, KITP
Colliding Domains: Journalists and Scientists[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Sean Carroll, University of Chicago
Cosmology and String Theory Outside the Box[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Eberhard Bodenschatz, KITP & Cornell
Pattern Formation in Physics and Biology[Audio] [WebCam] [Vid]
Academic Year 2002-2003
12:30 p.m.
Dr. Abhay Ashtekar, Penn State University
Quantum Geometry and Its Applications: Big Bang & Black Holes[Audio] [WebCam]
12:30 p.m.
Dr. Luis Lehner, KITP & LSU
Numerical Relativity, Spherical Cows and Beyond[Audio] [WebCam]
12:30 p.m.
Dr. Paul M. Goldbart, KITP & UIUC
How Judges Set Damages (or Should)![Audio] [WebCam]
12:30 p.m.
Dr. Kevin Plaxco, UCSB
My Protein Folds Faster than Yours; Testing Theories of Relative Folding Kinetics[Audio] [WebCam]
12:30 p.m.
Dr. Thierry Giamarchi, KITP & Universite de Geneve
Disordered Elastic Systems: From Magnets to Electrons[Audio] [WebCam]
12:30 p.m.
Dr. Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, KITP & Saclay
Financial Markets: From Statistical Models to Trading[Audio] [WebCam]
12:30 p.m.
Dr. Joe Polchinski, KITP
String Theory, Dark Energy, and the Anthropic Principle[Audio] [WebCam]
12:30 p.m.
Dr. Boris Shraiman, Rutgers & KITP
Biology -- What is There to Compute?[Audio] [WebCam]
12:30 p.m.
Dr. Boris Kayser, FNAL
Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry, Neutrinos, and Life[Audio] [WebCam]
12:30 p.m.
Dr. Michel Kerszberg, KITP & Pasteur Institute
Is Biology Computable?[Audio] [WebCam]
12:30 p.m.
Dr. Wick Haxton, U of Washington
News about Nu's[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. John Little, University of Arizona
How Do Molecular Biologists Think?[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Lars Bildsten, KITP
Physics of the White Dwarf Frontier[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Matthew Fisher, KITP
Cuprates Amiss: Sublime Simplicity or a Matted Mess[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Lawrence Krauss, Case Western Reserve
Why We Believe in Lambda[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Antoine Georges, KITP & Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'École Normale Supérieure
'Top to Bottom' Approaches to Strong Electron Correlations in Solids: Some Successes and Some Hopes[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. David Lyth, University of Lancaster
Some New Ideas About Inflation and the Primordial Density Perturbation[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Gabriel Kotliar, KITP & Rutgers Univ
Challenges in Electronic Structure of Correlated Electrons: A Dynamical Mean Field Perspective[Audio] [WebCam]
Academic Year 2001-2002
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Emil Mottola, KITP & LANL
From Quantum Fields to Hydrodynamics[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Krishna Rajagopal, KITP & MIT
The Condensed Matter Physics of QCD: Using Heavy Ion Collisions to Study Hot Quark Matter[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Krishna Rajagopal, KITP & MIT
The Condensed Matter Physics of QCD[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Tom McLeish, ITP & Leeds
Non-Relativistic Brownian Strings: A Common Motif in Nature[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Joe Polchinski, ITP
What Can String Theory Teach Us About QCD?[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Dima Kharzeev, ITP & Brookhaven Natl Lab
Quantum Chromodynamics and Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Peter Olmsted, ITP & University Leeds
Nonlinearity and Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Complex Fluids[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Dana Longcope, ITP & Montana State Univ
Topological Defects in Coronal Magnetic Fields: A Theory for Equilibrium Current Sheets in Complex Geometries[Audio] [WebCam] [Vid]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Ilya Nemenman, ITP
Field Theory Meets the Brain[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Fred MacKintosh, ITP & Vrije Univ, Amsterdam
Semiflexible Polymers: Polymer Physics Meets Cell Biology[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Hendrik Spruit, ITP & Max Planck Institute
Do Sunspots Influence the Earth's Climate?[Audio] [WebCam] [Vid]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Joe Imry, ITP & Weizmann Institute
Quantum Noise, Decoherence and Dissipation[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Fred Wolf, MPI Gottingen
Learning to See: The Development of Maps in the Brain[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Haim Sompolinsky, Hebrew University
Manifolds of the Mind[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Paul McEuen, ITP & Cornell
Nanoscience - Current Status and Future Prospects[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Steve Giddings, UCSB
Black Hole Production at TeV Energies?[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Atac Imamoglu (UCSB) &
The 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Misha Tsodyks, Weizmann
Dynamics and Information Encoding in Neural Networks[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Dan Gottesman, UC Berkeley
Heisenberg Representation of Quantum Computation[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Carlo Beenakker, Instituut-Lorentz, Univ Leiden
Quantum Optics with Quantum Chaos[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. John Collins, Penn State
The Emperor's New Mind: Why is Penrose Wrong?[Audio] [WebCam]
Academic Year 2000-2001
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Mehran Kardar, ITP & MIT
Generalizing From Polymers to Fluctuating Manifolds[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Matthew Fisher, ITP, UCSB
Splitting the Electron[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Luca Peliti, ITP & U. Napoli
Statistical Physics and Evolution Modelling[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Nigel Goldenfeld, ITP & U. Illinois
Solving Differential Equations with the Renormalization Group[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Eva Silverstein, ITP & SLAC
A Few Aspects of Branes, Spacetime Geometry, and Particle Physics in M/String Theory[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Steve Giddings, ITP & UCSB Physics
What is M-Theory?
[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Ralf Bundschuh, ITP, UCSD & OSU
Biopolymers - Information Carriers and Structural Building Blocks
[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Lars Bildsten, ITP, Dr. Bennett Link, MSU
Young Neutron Stars: Progress and New Questions[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Raphael Bousso, ITP
The World as a Hologram: A Generic Feature of Quantum Gravity[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Drs. Girvin, Lee, Millis, Kivelson, Langer
Ten Top Questions in Condensed Matter & Materials Physics[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. David Gross, ITP
Ten Top Questions in Fundamental Physics[Audio] [WebCam]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Robert Laughlin, ITP & Stanford
A Larger View of the Cuprate Problem: Emergence, Field Theory, and the Dark Side of Universality[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Lars Bildsten, ITP
Neutron Stars - A View from the Outside[Audio]
12:15 p.m. Dr. Patrick Lee, ITP & MIT Major Issues in High Tc[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Malvin Ruderman, ITP & Columbia Univ
Neutron Stars - The Inside Story[Audio]
Academic Year 1999-2000
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Tom Banks, ITP & Rutgers Univ
Branes, Black Holes and Gauge Theories
[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Rajiv Singh, ITP & UC Davis
Why Are Heisenberg Antiferromagnets Still Interesting?
[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Eugene Chudnovsky, ITP & CUNY
Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in Magnets[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Lisa Randall, ITP & MIT
Do We Live in 5 Dimensions?[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Lars Bildsten, ITP
Dating Young Stars with Lithium Burning[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Robert Sugar, UCSB
Lattice Gauge Theory -- Where Do We Stand?[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Senthil Todadri, ITP
Breaking Electrons Apart in Condensed Matter Physics[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Ramin Golestanian, ITP
Like-Charge Attraction: Science or Fiction[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Harry Nelson, UCSB
New Physics from Cleo?[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Vijay Balasubramanian, ITP & Harvard
How We See: Information Transmission by the Retina[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Simon White, ITP & Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Galaxy Formation[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Katepalli Sreenivasan, ITP & Yale
Turbulence: Everything You Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Dick Bond, ITP & CITA
Microwave Background Fluctuations and the Formation of the First Structures[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Harry Nelson, UCSB
The Search for Dark Matter[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Ellen Zweibel, ITP & Univ Colorado
Astrophysical Turbulence[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Grisha Falkovich, ITP & Weizmann Inst
Particles and Fields in Turbulence[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Amanda Peet, ITP
The Holographic Principle[Audio]
Academic Year 1998-1999
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Sankar Das Sarma, ITP & Univ of Maryland
Quantum Hall Effects and Related Phenomena:
Mostly Related Phenomena[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Steven Girvin, ITP & Indiana Univ
Introduction to the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect:
Quantum Plasmas and Fractional Charges[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Bill Gelbart, ITP & UCLA
Bio-inspired Electrostatics:
Condensation and Complexation of Highly-Charged Polymers and
Membranes[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Marc Mezard, ITP & Ecole Normale Sup, Paris
Towards a Theory of the Glass Phase[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Fyl Pincus, ITP & UC Santa Barbara
When Like Charges Attract[Audio]
Monday, October 26
12:15 p.m.
Dr.Joe Polchinski, ITP & UC Santa Barbara
Recent Progress in String Theory[Audio]
Monday, November 2
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Adrianus Pruisken, ITP & ITP Amsterdam
The Instanton Vacuum and Abelian Quantum Hall States[Audio]
Monday, November 30
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Sharad Ramanathan, ITP & UCSB
Dynamics of Elastic Boundaries: Friction and Fracture[Audio]
Monday, December 7
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Elihu Abrahams, ITP & Rutgers Univ.
2D Metal-Insulator Transition?[Audio]
Monday, December 14
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Marshall Fixman, ITP & Colorado State
Stress, and Stress Relaxation, in Polymer Melts[Audio]
Monday, February 8
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Matthew Choptuik, ITP & Univ of TX, Austin
Black Hole Critical Phenomena[Audio]
Monday, February 24
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Abhay Ashtekar, ITP & Penn State
Glimpses of Quantum Gravity[Audio]
Monday, March 8
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Jean-Pierre Lasota, ITP & I.A.P., Paris, France
Why Cataclysmic Binaries are Fun[Audio]
Monday, March 22
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Piero Madau, ITP & Johns Hopkins Univ.
Black Holes in the Universe[Audio]
Monday, April 12
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Senthil Todadri, ITP
Superconducting ``Metals" and ``Insulators"[Audio]
Monday, April 26
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Lee Smolin, ITP & Penn State
How are the Parameters of Nature
Selected?[Audio]
Monday, May 24
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Mark Srednicki, UCSB, Physics
Quantum Chaos[Audio]
Monday, Jun 14
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Roger Blandford, ITP & Caltech
Black Hole Astrophysics - A Progress Report[Audio]
Monday, Jun 21
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Gary Horowitz, ITP & UCSB, Dr. Jim Isenberg, ITP & Univ Oregon
Highlights of the Classical and Quantum Gravity Program
Academic Year 1997-1998
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Joe Polchinski, ITP, UCSB
String Theory: What's New?[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Amanda Peet, ITP, UCSB
Black Holes -- Why String Theory?
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Sean Carroll, ITP, UCSB
A State-of-the-Universe Report[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Hirosi Ooguri, ITP & LBL
Supersymmetry and Duality, Before 1995
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Tom Banks, ITP & Rutgers Univ.
String Duality and M Theory
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Sean Carroll, ITP, UCSB
The Cosmological Constant and Other Crazy Ideas About What
Dominates the Universe[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. David Morrison, ITP & Duke University
Mathematical Surprises from String Theory
[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Atac Imamoglu, ITP & UCSB, ECE
Recent Advances in Bose-Einstein Condensation
[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
James Langer, UCSB, Physics
The Role of the American Physical Society
- A Town Meeting[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Leon Balents, ITP
Duality and Nodal Liquid Theory of High T_c
Superconductors[Audio]
12:15 p.m.
Dr. Jason Ho, ITP & Ohio State
What Does BEC Do for Condensed Matter Physics?
[Audio]
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KITP Blackboard Lunch 
