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KITP Teachers' Conference: Light Meets Matter: Atoms and Lasers (May 16, 2009)
Coordinator: Mikhail Ivanov
Overview | talks | PodcastXML | Pictures | Registration Info | Contest | Las Cumbres Obs. | Reception | Conference Schedule

Friday, May 15, 2009
6:30pm WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION Best Western South Coast Inn
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Saturday, May 16, 2009
8:00am REGISTRATION Coffee and Light Refreshments

Morning Session Chair: Almut Beige (Univ. of Leeds)

8:45am David Gross
(KITP Director) 		Welcome [Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:00am Martin Plenio
(Imperial College, London) 		Clocks and Entanglement [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:50am QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION
10:00am MORNING BREAK
10:30am Peter Knight
(Imperial College, London) 		Quanta and Non-Classicality [Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:20am QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION
11:30am Jon Anderson
(Teacher, Circle Pines, MN) 		Entering the Contest: A View from One of Last Year's Prize Winners [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:50am TOWN HALL DISCUSSION Led by David Gross [Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session Chair: Serguei Patchkovskii (Nat'l Research Council Canada)

2:00pm Yaron Silberberg
(Weizmann Inst., Israel) 		Lasers and Microscopy [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:50pm QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION
3:00pm AFTERNOON BREAK
3:30pm Paul Corkum
(Nat'l Research Council of Canada) 		Attosecond Science [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:20pm QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION
4:30pm Rachel Ross
(Las Cumbres Observatory) 		Overview of the LCOGT: A Network of 0.4-1.0 Meter Telescopes for Education [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:00pm CONFERENCE END Shuttle Available to BWSCI, SB Airport, SB Airbus *See Jocelyn to Sign Up

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Sunday, May 17, 2009
9:00am Las Cumbres Observatory
(Training Session) 		Best Western South Coast Inn
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