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Thursday April 23, 2009 | Time | Speaker or Event | Location | | 8:30 - 8:55AM | Registration and Coffee | Black Hole Bistro, 4th Fl | | 8:55 - 9:00AM | Welcome Michel Gingras, University of Waterloo | Mike Lazaridis Theatre | | | Morning Session Chair: | | | 9:00 - 10:00AM | Key Note Speaker Piers Coleman, Rutgers Composite pairing in the new "high Tc" Heavy Fermion Superconductors | Mike Lazaridis Theatre | | 10:00 - 10:30AM | Jan Kycia, University of Waterloo Characterization of the Dilute, Dipolar-Coupled, Ising Magnet LiHo_xY_{1-x}F4 through Specific Heat and AC Susceptibility Measurements | Mike Lazaridis Theatre | | 10:30 - 11:15AM | Morning Coffee Break | Black Hole Bistro, 4th Fl | | 11:15 - 11:45AM | Bill Atkinson, Trent University Physics of the Disorder-Induced Zero Bias Anomaly in Strongly-Correlated Systems | Mike Lazaridis Theatre | | 11:45 - 12:15PM | John de Bruyn, University of Western Ontario Using Microrheology to Probe the Microstructure of Complex Fluids | Mike Lazaridis Theatre | | 12:15 - 12:45PM | Frank Wilhelm, Institute for Quantum Computing Quantum Device Theory at the University of Waterloo | Mike Lazaridis Theatre | | 1:00 - 2:30PM | Lunch Break | Black Hole Bistro | | | Afternoon Session Chair: | | | 2:30 - 3:30PM | Key Note Speaker Bill Halperin, Northwestern University Unconventional Pairing and Impuritites in Superfluid Helium-3 | Mike Lazaridis Theatre | | 3:30 - 4:00PM | Afternoon Coffee Break | Black Hole Bistro | | 4:00 - 4:30PM | Jeff Chen, University of Waterloo Monte Carlo Simulations of the Interaction Between a Self-Avoiding Polymer and a Membrane | Mike Lazaridis Theatre | | 4:30 - 5:00PM | Arun Paramekanti, University of Toronto Superfluid to Band Insulator Transition of Cold Fermionic Atoms | Mike Lazaridis Theatre |
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