KITP Weekly Program of Scientific Activities
Monday, Apr 15
12:15pm Blackboard Lunch Auditorium
Sabrina Maniscalco (Univ. of Turku)
Open quantum systems: opportunities and challenges
1:30pm Dynamical Models for Stars and Gas in Galaxies in the Gaia Era Small Seminar Room
All Participants
Organizational meet and greet
1:30pm Open Quantum System Dynamics: Quantum Simulators and Simulations Far From Equilibrium Auditorium
All Participants
Organizational meet & greet
2:30pm Better Stars, Better Planets: Exploiting the Stellar-Exoplanetary Synergy Small Seminar Room
All participants
Organizational meeting
Tuesday, Apr 16
9:30am Better Stars, Better Planets: Exploiting the Stellar-Exoplanetary Synergy Small Seminar Room
Johanna Teske (Carnegie Observatories)
Latest Exoplanet Results from TESS
10:30am Open Quantum System Dynamics: Quantum Simulators and Simulations Far From Equilibrium Auditorium
Hanspeter Büchler (University of Stuttgart)
Symmetry protected topological phase for interacting bosons with Rydberg atoms
12:30pm High Energy Seminar Broida 3302
Ahmed Almheiri (IAS)
Evaporating Eternal Black Holes
3:45pm Physics Department Colloquium Broida 1640
Mark Bowick (KITP)
Statistical Mechanics of 2D-Metamaterials
Wednesday, Apr 17
10:30am Better Stars, Better Planets: Exploiting the Stellar-Exoplanetary Synergy Small Seminar Room
Dan Huber (University of Hawaii)
Jim Fuller (Caltech)
Working Group Brainstorm Session
10:30am Open Quantum System Dynamics: Quantum Simulators and Simulations Far From Equilibrium Auditorium
Marzena Szymanska (University College London)
Driven-dissipative quantum fluids of light
Mari-Carmen Bañuls (Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics)
Tensor Networks: possibilities and limitations for non-equilibrium dynamics
1:30pm Dynamical Models for Stars and Gas in Galaxies in the Gaia Era Small Seminar Room
All Participants
astro-ph & discussion (TBD)
Thursday, Apr 18
10:30am Better Stars, Better Planets: Exploiting the Stellar-Exoplanetary Synergy Small Seminar Room
Aldo Serenelli (Institute of Space Sciences)
Stellar Models: Current Uncertainties and Limitations
10:30am Open Quantum System Dynamics: Quantum Simulators and Simulations Far From Equilibrium Auditorium
Ines de Vega (Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich)
Blackboard Lecture: Open quantum systems in non-harmonic environments
2:00pm High Energy Seminar Small Seminar Room
Eugenio Bianchi (Penn State)
Black hole entropy and gravitational wave observations
Friday, Apr 19
10:30am Open Quantum System Dynamics: Quantum Simulators and Simulations Far From Equilibrium Auditorium
All Participants
Informal Discussions (topics to be decided)
1:30pm Dynamical Models for Stars and Gas in Galaxies in the Gaia Era Small Seminar Room
Rosie Wyse (Johns Hopkins)
Local Escape Velocity & Inferred Mass of the Milky Way
Daisuke Kawata (UCL)
Towards non-equilibrium Galactic disk modeling
Benoit Famaey (Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg)
Perturbed Distribution Functions for Milky Way Disk
3:00pm Better Stars, Better Planets: Exploiting the Stellar-Exoplanetary Synergy Auditorium
All participants
Bring-A-Plot Session
Seminar Rooms, Auditorium, Commons Room, and Founders' Room are located on
the 1st floor of Kohn Hall. Coffee and cookies are served daily in Kohn Hall
Commons Room at 3:15 p.m. except on those Tuesdays when there is a Physics
Department Colloquium.
Indicates
a talk of general interest.
