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KITP Weekly Program of Scientific Activities

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Monday, Nov 09

1:30 p.m. Quantum Information Science
Founders' Room
2:00 p.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Organizational Meeting and Carlos Garcia-Cervera: Asymptotic-Based Sublinear Scaling Methods for Electronic Structure Computations of Materials
Small Seminar Room

Tuesday, Nov 10

10:30 a.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Walter Thiel, MPI & KITP
QM/MM Methods: Current Developments and Applications
Auditorium
11:00 a.m. Quantum Information Science
Sarah Croke, Perimeter Inst. & KITP
Streaming Universal Entanglement Concentration
Founders' Room
12:30 p.m. High Energy and Gravity Seminar
Tim Jones, Univ. Liverpool
Anomaly Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking and Flavour Physics
Broida 3302
2:00 p.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Rudolph Magyar, Sandia & KITP
Exact Solution to 1D Hydrogen, Hubbard Model, and TDDFT
Small Seminar Room
4:00 p.m. Physics Department Colloquium
Roberto Abraham, Univ. of Toronto
A Near-Infrared Excess in the Continuum of High-Redshift Galaxies: A Tracer of Star Formation, Circumstellar Disks, and (maybe) Extra- Galactic Planets?
Broida 1640

Wednesday, Nov 11

8:00 a.m. Administrative Holiday
Staff Offices Closed
2:00 p.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Kris Delaney, UCSB
15 min on "GW Calculations: Total Energies and Input Dependence"
Discussion: QM/MM
Small Seminar Room
4:00 p.m. Astrophysics Seminar
Roberto Abraham, Univ. of Toronto
Retro-Morphology or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sloan Survey
Broida 3302

Thursday, Nov 12

10:30 a.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
TBA
Auditorium
2:00 p.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
TBA
Auditorium
2:00 p.m. High Energy and Gravity Seminar
Christoph Sieg, Niels Bohr Institute
Perturbative Spectra in Gauge Theories with Gravity Duals at Four Loops and Beyond
Small Seminar Room
3:30 p.m. Quantum Information Science
Todd Brun, USC & KITP
Quantum Steganography
Small Seminar Room

Friday, Nov 13

10:30 a.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
TBA
Auditorium
2:00 p.m. Quantum Information Science
Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Inst. & KITP
Computationally Hard Problems in Translationally-Invariant Spin Systems
Auditorium
2:00 p.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Open Discussion
Small Seminar Room

Saturday, Nov 14

Sunday, Nov 15

New Members Expected:     Mary Alberg, Charles Bennett, Stefano Chesi, Werner Hanke, Netanel Lindner, Daniel Loss, Rudolph Magyar, Carla Molteni, Sangchul Oh, Farzad Qassemi Maloomeh, Jacob Taylor, Lin Tian, Frank Wilhelm-Mauch

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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