Monday, August 23, 2010
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Morning Session Chair: Clare Yu (UC Irvine)
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Session Topic: Noise and Decoherence in Josephson Junction Qubits Talks are 30 min plus 15 min discussion
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8:50am |
David Gross (KITP Director)
Clare Yu (UC Irvine) |
Welcome [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
9:00am |
John Martinis (UCSB)
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Microscopic Measurements of Two Level States in Josephson Qubits [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
9:45am |
Nadav Katz (Hebrew Univ.)
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Lifetime and Coherence of Two-Level Defects in a Josephson Junction [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
10:30am |
MORNING BREAK |
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Mid-Morning Session Chair: Miguel Ortuno (Univ. Murcia)
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11:00am |
Frank Wilhelm (Univ. Waterloo)
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Noise in Josephson Qubits -- Roughness, Traps, and Quasiparticles [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
11:45am |
Chris Laumann (Princeton)
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Quantum Computational Complexity, Phase Transitions and Glassiness [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: John Martinis (UC Santa Barbara)
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Session Topic: Flux Noise in Josephson Junction Qubits [Talks are 30 min + 15 min discussion]
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2:00pm |
Frederick Wellstood (Univ. Maryland)
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The Unusual Behavior of 1/f Flux Noise at Temperatures Below 1 K [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
2:45pm |
Robert McDermott (UW-Madison)
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Noise and Dephasing from Surface Magnetic States in Superconducting Circuits [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3:30pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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4:00pm |
Hendrik Bluhm (Harvard Univ.)
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Probing and Controlling the Nuclear Spin Bath of Electron Spin Qubits [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4:45pm |
Clare Yu (UC Irvine)
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Spins on Metals: Noise in SQUIDs and Spin Glasses [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
5:30pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
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Morning Session Chair: Igor Lerner (Univ. Birmingham)
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Session Topic: Quantum Disorder Talks are 30 min plus 15 min discussion
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9:00am |
Ravin Bhatt (Princeton)
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Effect of Coulomb Interactions in the Insulating Phase of a Quantum Disordered Hubbard Model [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
9:45am |
Thierry Giamarchi (Univ. Geneve)
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Quantum Systems in Presence of Nonequilibrium Noise [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
10:30am |
MORNING BREAK |
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11:00am |
John Chalker (Oxford)
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Integer Quantum Hall Edge States Out of Equilibrium [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
11:45am |
Boris Shapiro (Technion)
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Cold Atoms in the Presence of Disorder and Interactions [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Lara Faoro (Rutgers)
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Session Topic: Quantum Information [Talks are 30 min + 15 min discussion]
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2:00pm |
Dima Averin (Stony Brook)
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Violation of the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem in Time-Dependent Mesoscopic Heat Transport
[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
2:45pm |
Claudio Castelnovo (Oxford)
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Quantum Mechanical and Information Theoretic View on Classical Glass Transitions [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3:30pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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4:00pm |
Helmut Katzgraber (Texas A&M)
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Understanding the Stability of Topologically-protected Quantum Computing Proposals Using Spin Glasses [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4:45pm |
Lin Tian (UC Merced)
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From Circuit QED to Mechanical Cooling: TLS Fluctuators in Solid-State Resonators [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
5:30pm |
RECEPTION |
KITP Courtyard |
6:00pm |
SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER |
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8:00pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
Time is flexible. |
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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Morning Session Chair: Joseph Imry (Weizmann Inst. of Science)
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Session Topic: Randomness and Magnetism Talks are 30 min plus 15 min discussion
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9:00am |
Frances Hellman (UC Berkeley)
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Magnetic States in Disordered Magnetically Doped Semiconductors Near the Metal-Insulator Transition: From Kondo-like Systems to Local Moments [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
9:45am |
Mikhail Feigelman (Landau Inst.)
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Unusual Ground-states Formed in Very Disordered Superconducting Films [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
10:30am |
MORNING BREAK |
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11:00am |
Myriam Sarachik (CUNY)
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Random Fields in Molecular Magnets [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
11:45am |
Aviad Frydman (Bar Ilan Univ.)
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Granular Ni - A Ferromagnetic Electron Glass [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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2:00pm |
FREE AFTERNOON |
Shuttle available to BWSCI. |
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
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Morning Session Chair: Michael Pollak (UC Riverside)
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Session Topic: Disorder and Superconductivity Talks are 30 min plus 15 min discussion
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9:00am |
Allen Goldman (Univ. Minnesota)
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Out of Equilibrium Behavior of One and Two-Dimensional Systems of Highly Disordered Metals [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
9:45am |
Peter Armitage (JHU)
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Ultrafast (but Many-Body) Relaxation in a Low-Density Electron Glass [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
10:30am |
MORNING BREAK |
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11:00am |
Lev Ioffe (Rutgers)
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Disorder Driven Transitions in Superconductors and Magnets [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
11:45am |
Eldad Bettelheim (Hebrew Univ.)
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Non-equilibrium BCS Superconductivity and Multi-gapped States [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Jiansheng Wu (UC Irvine)
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Session Topic: Systems Out of Equilibrium [Talks are 30 min + 15 min discussion]
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2:00pm |
Mehran Kardar (MIT)
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Casimir Forces In and Out of Equilibrium [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
2:45pm |
Christian Enss (Heidelberg)
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Tunneling Systems in Glasses at Ultralow Temperatures [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3:30pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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4:00pm |
Christos Panagopoulos (Nanyang Tech/Univ. Crete)
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Spin and Charge Glass in Functional Transition Metal Oxides [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4:45pm |
Dragana Popovic (Florida State)
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Out-of-Equilibrium Dynamics in a Two-Dimensional Coulomb Glass [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
5:30pm |
RECEPTION |
KITP Courtyard |
6:00pm |
SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER |
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8:00pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
Time is flexible. |
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Friday, August 27, 2010
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Morning Session Chair: Miguel Ortuno (Univ. Murcia)
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Session Topic: Theory of Electronic Glasses Talks are 30 min plus 15 min discussion
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9:00am |
Ariel Amir (Weizmann Inst.)
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Slow Relaxations and Aging in Electron Glasses [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
9:45am |
Markus Mueller (ICTP, Trieste)
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Criticality and Avalanches in Spin and Electron Glasses [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
10:30am |
MORNING BREAK |
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11:00am |
Deepak Kumar (JNU)
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Anomalous Thermal Conduction in Quantum Chains [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
11:45am |
Alexander Burin (Tulane Univ.)
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Slow Relaxation of Conductance in Anderson Insulators and Discussion of Fluctuator Models [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Andreas Glatz (Argonne Nat'l Lab)
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Session Topic: Coulomb Effects
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2:00pm |
Boris Shklovskii (Univ. Minnesota)
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The World's Thinnest Capacitor [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
2:45pm |
Andres Somoza (Murcia Univ.)
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Numerical Simulations of Relaxation in Coulomb Glasses [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3:30pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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4:00pm |
Arnuf Moebius (IFW-Dresden)
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Indications for Finite-Temperature Phase Transitions Connected with the Apparent Metal-Insulator Transition in 2d Systems [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4:45pm |
Michael Pollak (UC Riverside)
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Conference Summary [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
5:30pm |
CONFERENCE END |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Also available to SB Airport, SB Airbus - Goleta location, and Goleta Amtrak Station. (See Jocelyn to sign up.)
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