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KITP Conference: Glassy States of Matter and Nonequilibrium Quantum Dynamics (Mar 31 - Jun 27, 2003)
Coordinators: B.Altshuler, P.Chandra, L.Cugliandolo, P.Goldbart, M.Mezard
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Monday, May 19, 2003
8:45am
David
Gross, KITP Director
(University of California ~ Santa Barbara)
WELCOME TO THE KITP
[Aud]
9:00am
Jim Langer (University of California ~ Santa Barbara)
Dynamics of Shear Transformation Zones in Amorphous Solids
[Slides]
[Aud]
[Cam]
10:00am
Alex Kamenev (University of Minnesota)
Transport in 1D Granular Arrays
[Slides]
[Aud]
[Cam]
11:00am
MORNING BREAK
11:30am
Eduardo Fradkin (University of Illinois)
Liquid Crystal Phases in Strongly Correlated Systems
[Slides]
[Aud]
[Cam]
12:30pm
LUNCH BREAK
2:00pm
Leticia Cugliandolo (l'École Normale Supérieure de Paris-LPTHE Paris VI)
Common features in the dynamics of glassy systems (classical, quantum and optimization processes)
[Slides]
[Aud]
[Cam]
3:00pm
Gergely Zimanyi (University of California ~ Davis)
Hysteresis in Spin Glasses and Glassy States of Vortex Systems
[Slides]
[Aud]
[Cam]
4:00pm
AFTERNOON BREAK
4:30pm
Frédéric Pierre (Yale)
Electrons in Mesoscopic Wires: Energy Exchange and Dephasing
[Aud]
[Cam]
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
9:00am
J. S. Tsai (NEC Fundamental Research Laboratories)
Coherent control of coupled charge-qubit system
10:00am
Dimitris Achlioptas (Microsoft Research)
Locating the Thresholds for k-SAT and MAX l-SAT
(talk based on joint works with C. Moore, A. Naor, and Y. Peres)
[Slides]
[Aud]
[Cam]
11:00am
MORNING BREAK
11:30am
David Reichman (Harvard University)
Beyond Idealized Mode-Coupling Theory: Calculation of Aging, Quantum, and non-Mean-Field Effects in Liquids
[Slides]
[Aud]
[Cam]
12:30pm
LUNCH
2:00pm
Lev Ioffe (Rutgers)
Implementation of discrete lattice gauge theories with topologically protected degenerate ground states in Josephson Junction arrays and their possible use as ideal qubits
3:00pm
Alexy Bezryadin (University of Illinois)
Superconductor-insulator transition and phase slips in one-dimensional wires
[Aud]
[Cam]
4:00pm
AFTERNOON BREAK
4:30pm
Joerg Schmalian (Iowa State University)
On quantum Griffith effects in metallic systems
[Aud]
[Cam]
5:30pm
WINE AND CHEESE PARTY
6:00pm
SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
Wednesday, May 21, 2003
9:00am
Jorge Kurchan (ESPCI)
New methods for determining reaction paths and barriers (based on the sypersymmetry derivation of Morse theory)
[Aud]
[Cam]
10:00am
David Dean (Université de Toulouse III)
Applications of statistical mechanics for searching and sorting in computer science
[Slides]
[Aud]
[Cam]
11:00am
MORNING BREAK
12:30pm
LUNCH BREAK
2:00pm
AFTERNOON FREE
Thursday, May 22, 2003
9:00am
Alexei Kitaev (Caltech)
Anyons in a spin model on the honeycomb lattice
[Aud]
[Cam]
10:00am
Vassiliy Lubchenko (University of California ~ San Diego)
Random First Order Transition Theory of Vitrification: From Quantum Anomalies in Glasses to Control of Protein Conformational Dynamics by Supercooled Solvent
[Slides]
[Aud]
[Cam]
11:00am
MORNING BREAK
11:30am
Andrea Montanari (l'École Normale Supérieure)
Is there a spin glass in your cellular phone?
[Slides]
[Aud]
[Cam]
12:30pm
LUNCH
2:00pm
Anton Andreev (Lucent Technologies-Bell Labs)
Spontaneous current pattern formation as the origin of the zero-resistance state
[Aud]
[Cam]
3:00pm
Luca Cipelletti (Université Montpellier de France)
Intermittence and non-Gaussian fluctuations in the dynamics of jammed soft materials
[Slides]
4:00pm
AFTERNOON BREAK
4:30pm
Evelyn Hu (University of California ~ Santa Barbara)
A Short Primer on GaN and Related Materials
[Aud]
[Cam]
5:30pm
SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
Friday, May 23, 2003
9:00am
Heiko Rieger (Universitie des Saarlandes)
Disordered systems, ground states and combinatorial optimzation
[Slides]
[Aud]
[Cam]
10:00am
John Preskill (Caltech)
How more is different: a quantum information perspective
[Slides]
[Aud]
[Cam]
11:00am
MORNING BREAK
11:30am
Leon Balents (University of California ~ Santa Barbara)
Field Theory of Droplets and Rare Events in Glasses
[Slides]
[Aud]
[Cam]
12:30pm
LUNCH
2:00pm
David Awschalom (University of California ~ Santa Barbara)
Manipulating Spins in Semiconductors for Quantum Information Processing
[Aud]
[Cam]
3:00pm
END OF CONFERENCE
last modified 5/22/03 dme
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