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PROGRAM |
| Sunday, August 22 | |
| 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Pre-Registration & Reception -- Georgia O'Keefe Museum |
| All Sessions
will be held at the Hotel Santa Fe (except the reception & banquet) |
|
| Monday, August 23 | Morning
Session Welcome and
Feenberg Medal Session - Chair: J. Negele (MIT) |
|
8:00 - 9:30 am |
Registration |
| 9:30 |
Welcome:
Alan Bishop ( T-Div. Director, LANL) |
| 9:45 |
J. Negele (MIT): Feenberg Medal Session Introduction |
| 10:00 |
David Pines (LANL): Laudation: Lev Gor'kov |
| 10:20 |
L. Gor'kov (Florida State): Surface and Superconductivity |
| 11:00 | break |
| 11:30 |
V.
Zelevinksy (Michigan State): Laudation:
Spartak Belyaev |
| 11:50
|
S. Belyaev Finite systems with spontaneous symmetry breaking: a generalized density matrix approach |
| Afternoon Session Strongly Correlated Systems - Chair: P.
Littlewood (Cambridge) |
|
| 2:00
pm |
S.-C.
Zhang (Stanford): Dissipationless
Quantum Spin Current |
| 2:45 |
A. J. Millis (Columbia): Surface and Interface Physics of Correlated Electron Compounds |
| 3:30 |
break |
| 4:00 |
B. S. Shastry (UCSC): Correlations and Frustration in Alkali Cobaltates |
| 4:45 |
X.-G. Wen (MIT): String-Net Condensation: from New States of Matter to a Unification of Light and Electrons |
| Tuesday, August 24 | Morning Session
Phase Transitions - Chair:
M. Hastings (LANL) |
| 8:30 |
J. Cardy (Oxford): Exact Results for Many-Body Problems Using Few-Body Methods |
| 9:15 | T.
Senthil (MIT): Deconfined Quantum
Criticality |
| 10:00 | break |
| 10:30 |
S. L. Sondhi (Princeton): Ordering and Phase Transitions in Frustrated Magnets and their Duals |
| 11:15 |
A. A.
Middleton (Syracuse): Growing and Flowing Through Rugged Terrain: How Fast
Exact Algorithms Illuminate Big Glassy Systems |
| Afternoon
Session New
Frontiers - Chair: J. Gubernatis (LANL) |
|
| 2:00 |
D. M. Ceperley (Urbana): Coupling Quantum Monte Carlo with Ionic Simulations |
| 2:45 |
R. F. Bishop (Manchester): Microscopic Calculations of Quantum Phase Transitions in Frustrated Magnetic Lattices |
| 3:20 | break |
| 3:50 | K. Hallberg (Bariloche): Recent Applications of the DMRG Method |
| 4:25 |
C. Honerkamp (MPI-Stuttgart): Functional Renormalization Group for the 2-Dimensional Hubbard Model |
|
5:00 |
S. Chandrasekharan (Duke): Strong-Coupling Lattice QCD in the Chiral Limit |
| Wednesday, August 25 | Morning
Session Nuclear Physics and QCD - Chair: J. Ginocchio (LANL) |
| 8:30 |
J. W. Negele (MIT): Solving the Quark-Gluon Many-Body Problem Using Lattice QCD |
| 9:10 |
S. Reddy (LANL): Matter at Extreme Density and its Role in Neutron Stars and Supernovae |
| 9:50 | break |
| 10:20 |
J. Engel (Chapel Hill): Nuclear-Structure Theory in the Search for New Fundamental Physics |
| 11:00 | F. Iachello (Yale): Quantum Phase Transitions in Mesoscopic Systems |
| 11:40 |
A. Bulgac (Seattle): Superfluid LDA: Local Density Approximation for Systems with Superfluid Correlations |
| Afternoon
Session Contributed
Short Talks - Chair: J. Clark (Washington University) |
|
| 2:00 |
V. Zelevinsky (MSU): Random Interactions and Ground State Spin of Finite Fermi Systems |
| 2:15 | B. Normand (Fribourg): Spin-Charge Separation and Topological
Phase Transitions in Aharnov-Bohm Rings |
| 2:30 | A. Schwenk (OSU) : Nuclear Interactions from the Renormalization Group |
| 2:45 | M. Geller (Georgia) : Superconducting Qubit Storage and Entanglement with Nanomechanical Resonators |
| 3:00 | break
|
| 3:30 | C. Presilla (Roma "La Sapienza"): Ground State of Many-Body
Lattice Systems: An Analytical Probabalistic Approach |
| 3:45 | M. Boninsegni (Alberta) : Phase Diagram of
2-dimensional H2 |
| 4:00 | L. Mitas (NC State) : Topological
Fermion
Nodes and Local Current Conservation |
| 4:15 | I. Deutsch (UNM): Quantum Information Processing with Ultracold Atoms |
| Evening
Session Banquet
-- Palace of the Governors |
|
| Keynote Speaker
P. W. Anderson (Princeton): The Future Lies Ahead |
|
| Thursday, August 26 | Morning
Session
Cold Atom Physics - Chair: I. Deutsch
(UNM) |
| 8:30 |
T.-L. Ho (Ohio State): Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases: Current Issues and Future Prospects |
| 9:10 |
G. Baym (Urbana): How Do Rapidly Rotating Bose Condensates Carry Angular Momentum? |
| 9:50 | break |
| 10:20 | M. Greiner (JILA): Resonance Condensation of Fermionic Atom Pairs |
| 11:00 | G. Shlyapnikov (FOM-Amsterdam): Superfluid Regimes in Degenerate Fermi Gases |
| 11:40 | S. Rolston (Maryland) : Bosons in Optical Lattices |
| Afternoon
Session Quantum Information - Chair: M. Boshier (LANL) |
|
| 2:00 |
M. A. Nielsen (Queensland): Entanglement and Many-Body Physics |
| 2:45 | J. Preskill (CalTech): Topologically Protected Quantum Computation |
| 3:30 | break |
| 4:00 | R.
Somma (LANL): Entanglement and Quantum Phase Transitions |
| 4:35 | A. Kitaev (CalTech): Anyons in a Spin Model on the Honeycomb Lattice |
| 5:10 | E. Farhi (MIT): Quantum Computation by Adiabatic Evolution |
| Friday, August 27 | Morning
Session Complex
Systems - Chair: D. Sherrington (LANL) |
| 8:30 | L. I. Glazman (Minnesota): Quantum Criticality in a Quantum Dot Device |
| 9:10 |
J. Chalker (Oxford): Spin Textures and Random Fields in Dirty Quantum Hall Ferromagnets |
| 9:50 | break |
| 10:20 | L.
Cugliandolo (Paris):
Quantum (spin) Glasses |
| 11:00 | H.
Nishimori (Tokyo):
Possibly Exact Solution for
the Multicritical |
| 11:40 |
R. Zecchina (ICTP-Trieste): From Statistical Physics Methods to Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization and Source Coding |
| Afternoon
Session Quantum Fluids and Solids - Chair: C. Campbell
(Minnesota) |
|
| 2:00 | M. Chan (Penn State): A Solid Can Be "Superfluid" |
| 2:40 | E.
Krotscheck (Linz):
Pair Excitations in He3 |
| 3:20 | break |
| 3:50 | E. Manousakis (FSU): Path-Integral Monte
Carlo Studies of Quantum Films |
| 4:20 | G. Chapline (LLNL): Quantum Phase Transitions and Event Horizons - Condensed Matter Analogies |