Schedule

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The following is the schedule for the Young Researchers Conference, December 3 - 7, 2007. Please note some talks' times have been changed.

Monday, December 3

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopic FieldLocation
10:00 AM

Continental Breakfast

REGISTRATION

 

Atrium
Black Hole Bistro

10:30 - 10:45 AMLee Smolin

Welcome

 Bob Room
10:45 - 11:30 AMRobin Blume-Kohout

Introduction to Quantum Information

Quantum InformationBob Room
11:30 AM - 12:15 PMTomasz PaterekA quantum view on locality, realism and information.Quantum Information/ Quantum FoundationsBob Room
12:15 – 2:00 PMLUNCH

 Black Hole Bistro
2:00 – 2:45 PMMarina CortesIs the dynamics of tracking Dark Energy detectable? CosmologyBob Room
2:45 – 3:30 PMCharles Shapiro Cosmic Acceleration and Weak Gravitationial LensingCosmologyBob Room
3:30 – 4:00 PM COFFEE  Black Hole Bistro
4:00 – 4:45 PMBrian BatellWarped extra dimensions and partial compositenessParticle PhysicsBob Room 
4:45 – 5:30 PMJohn MasonEnhanced Radiative Corrections to Supersymmetric Relations Particle PhysicsBob Room
5:30 - 7:00 PMReception with PI Residents  Black Hole Bistro
 7:00 PM DINNER  Black Hole Bistro

 

Tuesday, December 4

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopic AreaLocation
10:15 - 10:45 AMCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

 

 

Black Hole Bistro

10:45 - 11:30 AMDavid Morrissey

Cosmic Strings from Supersymmetric Flat Directions

Particle PhysicsBob Room
11:30 AM - 12:15 PMMichael TrottHiggs Effective Field Theories for LHCParticle PhysicsBob Room
12:15 – 2:00 PMLUNCH

 Black Hole Bistro
2:00 – 2:45 PMNicolas Menicucci

Entangling Power of an Expanding Universe

Quantum InformationBob Room
2:45 – 3:30 PMAkimasa Miyake

Phase transition of computational power of measurement-based quantum computer

Quantum InformationBob Room
3:30 – 4:00 PM COFFEE  Black Hole Bistro
4:00 – 4:45 PMLeonardo ModestoGravitons and black holes in loop quantum gravityQuantum GravityBob Room
4:45 – 5:30 PMSamuel Vazquez

Introduction to String Theory

String TheoryBob Room
 6:00 PMDINNER  Black Hole Bistro

 

Wednesday, December 5

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopic AreaLocation
10:15 - 10:45 AMCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

 

 

Black Hole Bistro

10:45 - 11:30 AMTom Giblin

Gravitational Radiation from Preheating

CosmologyBob Room
11:30 AM - 12:15 PMLouis Strigari 

Dark Matter and the Milky Way

Cosmology Bob Room
12:15 – 2:00 PMLUNCH

 Black Hole Bistro
2:00 – 2:45 PMOwen Maroney

Introduction to Quantum Foundations

Quantum FoundationsBob Room
2:45 – 3:30 PM Jukka Kiukas Moment problem and homodyne detectionQaunatum FoundationsBob Room
3:30 – 4:00 PM COFFEE  Black Hole Bistro
4:00 – 4:45 PMYousef Ghazi-Tabatabai The Spacetime approach to quantum mechanicsQuantum Foundations Bob Room
4:45 – 5:30 PMBret UnderwoodWarped String Phenomenology: Cosmology and Particle PhysicsStringsBob Room
5:30 - 6:30 LIGHT SUPPER   Black Hole Bistro 
6:30PM Shuttle Departs for Public Lecture   Meet in Atrium 
 7:00 PM Public LectureThe Physics of Information: From Entanglement to Black Holes WCI 
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Thursday, December 6

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopic AreaLocation
8:30 - 9:00 AMCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST  Black Hole Bistro 
9:00 - 9:45 AM Korneel van den Broek

(almost) Stable Islands in the Landscape

StringsBob Room
9:45 - 10:30 AMYukaka OokouchiMeta-stable Supersymmetry Breaking Vacua in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories Strings

Bob Room

10:30 - 11:00 AMCOFFEE

 

 Black Hole Bistro
11:00 - 11:45 AM Bianca Dittrich Introduction to Quantum Gravity Quantum GravityBob Room
11:45 AM - 12:30 PMKristina GieselReduced Phase Space Quantization for Loop Quantum Gravity and Algebraic Quantum GravityQuantum GravityBob Room
12:30 – 2:00 PMLUNCH

 Black Hole Bistro
2:00 – 2:45 PMEdward AndersonRelational Particle MechanicsQuantum GravityBob Room
2:45 – 3:30 PMGabriel CatrenCan Classical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?Quantum FoundationsBob Room 
3:30 – 4:00 PM COFFEE  Black Hole Bistro
4:00 – 4:45 PM Johannes KoflerQuantum, classical & coarse-grained measurementsQuantum FoundationsBob Room
4:45 – 5:30 PMSurpriseSurprise Bob Room
6:00 PMPUB NIGHT  Black Hole Bistro 

 

Friday, December 7

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopic AreaLocation
8:30 - 9:00 AMCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST  Black Hole Bistro
9:00 - 9:45 AMJoshua LapanComputing the Massless Spectrum of Non-Kahler CompactificationsStrings Bob Room 
9:45 - 10:30 AMCynthia Keeler Alternative Worldsheet Gauges and Closed-String Tachyon CondensationStringsBob Room
10:30 - 11:00 AMCOFFEE

 

 

Black Hole Bistro

11:00 - 11:45 AMAntonio Marciano Quantum fields and Noether charges for kappa-Minkowski space-time symmetries Quantum GravityBob Room
11:45 AM - 12:30 PMGeoffrey CompereCentrally extended algebras in 3d gravityQuantum GravityBob Room
12:15 – 2:00 PM LUNCH

 Black Hole Bistro
2:00 – 2:45 PMBrian Shieh  Cold Nuclear Matter in Holographic QCDStringsBob Room 
2:45 – 3:45 PMLeonard Susskind

TBA

 Bob Room
3:45 - 5:00PM WINE AND CHEESE  Reflecting Lounge
 
 
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