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Walter Kohn's 90th Birthday Symposium at UCSB
(June 7, 2013)

Friday, June 7, 2013

Scientific Session: Chairs: David Berenstein, Chetan Nayak

2:15pm Henry Yang (Chancellor) Introductory Remarks[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:30pm Doug Scalapino Kohn and Luttinger's "New Mechanism for Superconductivity" and the high Tc problem[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm Alan Heeger One-Dimensional Lattice Dynamics as a result of the Giant Kohn Anomaly[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:40pm Matthew Fisher From Density Functional Theory to Strongly Correlated Electronic Materials?[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:10pm James Langer Much of the physics I know I learned from Walter-- but not all of it[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
     

Reception in KITP Courtyard: MC: Lars Bildsten

5:10pm Toasts James Hartle (for Bob Sugar), Douglas Scalapino, Vinay Ambegaoka, David Mermin