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KITP Program: Bits, Branes, Black Holes (Mar 19 - May 25, 2012)
Coordinators: Vijay Balasubramanian, Alex Maloney, Don Marolf, Joan Simon
Scientific Advisors: Joseph Polchinski, Theodore Jacobson

Time Speaker Title
3/19, 2:00 p.m. Coordinators Organizational Meeting
3/19, 2:40 p.m. Marty Einhorn
KITP Deputy Director
What's a Wiki Good For?[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/20, 11:00 a.m. All Brainstorm - Goals For The Program[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/21, 11:00 a.m. Ted Jacobson
(Univ. Maryland & KITP)
Joe Polchinski
(UCSB)
Discussion: Black Hole Information Paradox[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/21, 1:45 p.m. Anninos
Hartman, Shenker
Moderator
Working Group on Quantum Framework for Eternal Inflation & dS/CFT[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/22, 10:30 a.m. Samir Mathur
OSU
The Black Hole Information Paradox[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/22, 1:30 p.m. Simon Ross
Moderator
Discussion on the Nature of Black Hole Microstates[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/26, 12:15 p.m. Gary Gibbons
Univ. of Cambridge & KITP
Black Holes and Information[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
3/26, 2:00 p.m. Aron Wall
Univ. Maryland & KITP
Working Group on Quantum Horizon Fluctuations
3/27, 10:30 a.m. Steve Shenker
Stanford
Aspects of Vector-like Holography[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/27, 1:45 p.m. Gary Horowitz
(UCSB)
Veronika Hubeny
(DU & KITP)
Gilad Lifschytz
(Univ. Haifa & KITP)
Working Group on Bulk Locality
3/28, 10:30 a.m. Andy Strominger
Harvard
Progress on dS/CFT[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/28, 1:30 p.m. Dionysios Anninos
Stanford & KITP
Working Group on Issues in de Sitter Space[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/29, 10:30 a.m. Thomas Hartman
IAS & KITP
Higher Spin Gravity from 2D CFT[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/03, 10:30 a.m. Erik Verlinde
UvA & KITP
The Dark Phase Space of de Sitter[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/04, 10:30 a.m. Leonard Susskind
Stanford
Fractal Flows and the Arrow of Time[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/04, 1:30 p.m. Leonard Susskind
Stanford
Working Group on Issues in de Sitter Space[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/05, 10:30 a.m. Wei Song
Harvard & KITP
Introduction to Vasiliev Theory[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/05, 1:30 p.m. Juan Maldacena
IAS, Princeton
Constraints on Higher Spin Gravity Theories[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/10, 10:30 a.m. Fay Dowker
Imperial College & KITP
Counting the Entropy of Any Causal Horizon[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/10, 1:30 p.m. Dan Kabat
Lehman College-CUNY & KITP
Working Group on Bulk Locality[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/12, 10:30 a.m. Veronika Hubeny
DU & KITP
Working Group on Bulk Locality[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/12, 1:30 p.m. Mukund Rangamani
DU & KITP
The Fluid/Gravity Correspondence[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/13, 10:30 a.m. Monica Guica
Univ. Penn & KITP
Kerr/CFT: Review and New Directions[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/16, 1:30 p.m. Ted Jacobson
Univ. Maryland & KITP
Discussion: What Part of the Asymptotically AdS Gravitational Phase Space is Dual to a CFT?[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/17, 10:30 a.m. Sheer El-Showk
CEA, Saclay & KITP
The Resurgent Bootstrap and the 3D Ising Model[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/18, 10:30 a.m. Eva Silverstein
Stanford & KITP
Progress on dS/dS and FRW Holography: Unitarity, Symmetries, and Double Trace Terms[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/19, 1:30 p.m. Kyriakos Papadodimas
CERN & KITP
Discussion: CFTs Having Holographic Duals[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/20, 10:30 a.m. Jay Armas
(NBI & KITP)
Niels Obers
(Niels Bohr Inst. & KITP)
Discussion: Blackfolds[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/24, 10:30 a.m. Balt van Rees
Stony Brook & KITP
A Natural Language for AdS / CFT Correlators[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/25, 10:30 a.m. Steven Giddings
UCSB
Hilbert Space Networks and Unitary Models for Black Hole Evolution[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/26, 1:30 p.m. Bill Unruh
UBC & KITP
Discussion: Info Loss vs. Energy Conservation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4/27, 10:30 a.m. Donald Marolf
(UCSB & KITP)
Joan Simon
(Univ. Edinburgh & KITP)
Discussion: Holography and Unitarity in Black Hole Evaporation[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/01, 10:30 a.m. Mirjam Cvetic
Univ. Penn & KITP
Conformal Invariance of General Black Holes[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/02, 10:30 a.m. Steven Giddings
UCSB
Discussion: What Have We Learned About Info Loss/Conservation From 1+1 BHs?[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/03, 1:30 p.m. Jose L. Barbon
(Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas & KITP)
Nima Lashkari
(McGill Univ & KITP)
Discussion: Fast Scrambling[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/07, 1:30 p.m. Jose L. Barbon
(CSIC & KITP)
Albion Lawrence
(Brandeis Univ. & KITP)
Eva Silverstein
(Stanford & KITP)
Discussion: Singularities[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/08, 10:30 a.m. Thomas Hertog
K.U.Leuven
Accelerated expansion and AdS/CFT[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/09, 10:30 a.m. William Donnelly
(Univ. Maryland & KITP)
Aron Wall
(UCSB & KITP)
Working group discussion: Black hole entanglement entropy and renormalization[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/10, 10:30 a.m. Albion Lawrence
Brandeis Univ. & KITP
Discussion: Singularities[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/11, 10:30 a.m. Tom Banks
Rutgers/UCSC
The Quantum Theory of Stable de Sitter Space
5/15, 10:30 a.m. Atish Dabholkar
Univ P&M Curie & KITP
Localization and Exact Holography[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/16, 10:30 a.m. Matthew Headrick
Brandeis Univ. & KITP
What We Talk About When We Talk About Holographic Entanglement Entropy[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/17, 1:30 p.m. Mark Van Raamsdonk
UBC & KITP
Discussion: Entanglement, Holography and the Emergence of Space-time[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/21-25 Conference: Black Holes and Information

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