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KITP Weekly Program of Scientific Activities

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Monday, Dec 07

10:00 a.m. Direct, Indirect and Collider Signals of Dark Matter (Mini-Program)
Orientation for New Arrivals
Auditorium
11:00 a.m. Quantum Information Science
David Awschalom, Greg Fuchs
Gigahertz Dynamics of a Strongly-Driven Single Spin in Diamond
Small Seminar Room
12:15 p.m. Blackboard Lunch
Murray Gell-Mann, SANTA FE INSTITUTE
More on Distant Language Relationships
Auditorium
1:30 p.m. Direct, Indirect and Collider Signals of Dark Matter (Mini-Program)
TBA
Main Seminar Room
2:00 p.m. Quantum Information Science
Charles Marcus, Harvard
Progress Report on Spin Qubits
Auditorium
2:00 p.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Ann Mattsson, Sandia National Labs & KITP
The Subsystem Functional Scheme: The Armiento-Mattsson 2005 (AM05) Functional and Beyond
Small Seminar Room
4:00 p.m. Quantum Information Science
Massoud Borhani, SUNY at Buffalo
Electrical Manipulation of the Electron Spin in a QD
Founders' Room

Tuesday, Dec 08

10:00 a.m. Direct, Indirect and Collider Signals of Dark Matter (Mini-Program)
TBA
Auditorium
11:00 a.m. Quantum Information Science
Peter Zoller, Univ. Innsbruck & KITP
Quantum Optics-Solid State Hybrid Systems
Small Seminar Room
12:30 p.m. High Energy and Gravity Seminar
Richard Eager, UCSB
TBA
Broida 3302
2:00 p.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Discussion
Small Seminar Room
2:00 p.m. Quantum Information Science
Sankar Das Sarma, Univ. Maryland & KITP
TBA
Auditorium

Wednesday, Dec 09

10:00 a.m. Direct, Indirect and Collider Signals of Dark Matter (Mini-Program)
TBA
Auditorium
11:30 a.m. Quantum Information Science
Jeremy Levy, Univ. Pittsburgh
TBA
Auditorium

Thursday, Dec 10

2:00 p.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Discussion
Auditorium
2:00 p.m. Direct, Indirect and Collider Signals of Dark Matter (Mini-Program)
TBA
Main Seminar Room
2:00 p.m. High Energy and Gravity Seminar
Nima Arkani-Hamed, IAS
Dualities for Local Spacetime Physics from the Grassmannian
Small Seminar Room

Friday, Dec 11

10:00 a.m. Direct, Indirect and Collider Signals of Dark Matter (Mini-Program)
TBA
Auditorium
10:30 a.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
TBA
Small Seminar Room
2:00 p.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Discussion
Small Seminar Room

Saturday, Dec 12

Sunday, Dec 13

New Members Expected:     Luis Agapito, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Mirko Boezio, Spencer Chang, Marco Cirelli, Joakim Edsjö, Rouven Essig, Douglas Finkbeiner, Andrew Fitzpatrick, Patrick Fox, Eberhard Gross, Fabio Iocco, Gordon Kane, Nicholas Kioussis, Graham Kribs, Michael Kuhlen, Rafael Lang, Jeremy Levy, Simona Murgia, Piergiorgio Picozza, Maxim Pospelov, Lisa Randall, Matthias Scheffler, Philip Schuster, Peter Shor, Tracy Slatyer, Louis Strigari, Timothy Tait, Natalia Toro, Neal Weiner, Itay Yavin, Kathryn Zurek

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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