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KITP Conference: Jim Hartle’s Legacy
(Feb 12-13, 2024)
Coordinators: Gary Horowitz and Don Marolf
Monday, Feb 12, 2024
8:50am
Lars Bildsten (KITP)
Gary Horowitz (UCSB)
Henry Yang (UCSB)
Welcome
[Video][CC]
9:00am
Kip Thorne (Caltech)
Jim's Astrophysical Legacy
[Slides]
[Video][CC]
9:45am
Todd Brun (USC)
Time Before Time?
[Slides]
[Video][CC]
10:30am
Morning Break
11:15am
Bob Wald (U. Chicago)
Black Holes and Decoherence
[Video][CC]
12:00pm
Lunch Break
1:30pm
Fay Dowker (Imperial College)
The Hilbert space in Jim Hartles Generalized Quantum Mechanics: where does what happens, happen?
[Slides]
[Video][CC]
2:15pm
Andy Strominger (Harvard)
New Twists on Hartle-Hawking Wave Functions and Gell-Mann-Hartle Consistent Histories
[Video]
3:00pm
Afternoon Break
3:30pm
Veronika Hubeny (UC Davis)
Time and Entanglement
[Slides]
[Video][CC]
4:15pm
Sean Carroll (Johns Hopkins)
Do Civilizations Rise and Fall in Empty Space?
[Slides]
[Video][CC]
5:00pm
COCKTAIL RECEPTION
5:30pm
DINNER
8:00pm
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Tuesday, Feb 13, 2024
9:00am
Thomas Hertog (KU Leuven)
Jim's Wave Function Upside Down
[Video][CC]
9:45am
Juan Maldacena (IAS)
Comments on the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction of the universe
[Slides]
[Video][CC]
10:30am
Morning Break
11:15am
Rob Myers (Perimeter Inst.)
Complexity = Almost Anything
[Slides]
[Video][CC]
12:00pm
Lunch Break
1:30pm
Steven Giddings (UCSB)
Quantum gravity and Jims legacy
[Video]
2:15pm
Ted Jacobson (Maryland)
A Lorentzian take on de Sitter entropy: contours, constraints, and simplicial complexes
[Slides]
[Video]
3:00pm
Afternoon Break
3:30pm
Netta Engelhardt (MIT)
Cryptographic Censorship
[Video][CC]
4:15pm
John Whelan (RIT)
Some Things I Learned from Jim
[Slides]
[Video][CC]
5:00pm
CONFERENCE END SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location.(See Registration Desk BEFORE TUESDAY to sign up.)
