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KITP Weekly Program of Scientific Activities

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Monday, Sep 9

8:50am NULL Main Seminar Room Turbulence, Waves, and Instabilities (Part I)
11:00am NULL Main Seminar Room
2:00pm Topological Quantum Matter: Concepts and Realizations Auditorium
All Participants
Organizational meeting
2:00pm NULL Main Seminar Room Turbulence, Waves, and Instabilities (Part II)
4:00pm NULL Main Seminar Room

Tuesday, Sep 10

9:00am NULL Main Seminar Room Plasma Dynamo
11:00am NULL Main Seminar Room Magnetic Reconnection: Particle Energization and Current-Sheet Dynamics
11:00am Topological Quantum Matter: Concepts and Realizations Auditorium
Federico Becca (University of Trieste, Italy)
Dynamical structure factor of frustrated spin models: a variational Monte Carlo approach
2:00pm NULL Main Seminar Room
4:00pm NULL Main Seminar Room New Numerical Methods for Simulating Plasmas

Wednesday, Sep 11

9:00am NULL Main Seminar Room New Numerical Methods for Simulating Plasmas (cont’d)
11:00am NULL Main Seminar Room
11:00am Topological Quantum Matter: Concepts and Realizations Auditorium
Taylor Hughes (University of Illinois)
Connections between higher topological phases and fractons
12:30pm NULL Main Seminar Room
2:00pm NULL Main Seminar Room Cosmic-Ray Transport, Acceleration, and Feedback
4:00pm NULL Main Seminar Room

Thursday, Sep 12

9:00am NULL Main Seminar Room Non-thermal Particle Acceleration in Shocks, Jets, and Turbulence (Part I)
11:00am NULL Main Seminar Room
11:00am Topological Quantum Matter: Concepts and Realizations Auditorium
Gang Chen (Fudan University)
Quantum excitations of "hidden orders" and thermal transports of "hidden particles"
2:00pm NULL Main Seminar Room Non-thermal Particle Acceleration in Shocks, Jets, and Turbulence (Part II)
4:00pm NULL Main Seminar Room

Friday, Sep 13

11:00am Topological Quantum Matter: Concepts and Realizations Auditorium
Maia G. Vergniory (Donostia International Physics Center)
Introduction to topological quantum chemistry
1:30pm Multiscale Phenomena in Plasma Astrophysics Small Seminar Room
All Participants
TBA

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.
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