KITP Weekly Program of Scientific Activities
10:30 a.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Hong Jiang, Peking Univ. & KITP
Localized and Itinerant States in a Unified Picture beyond DFT
Auditorium
11:00 a.m. Quantum Information Science
Frank Verstraete, Univ. Wien & KITP
TBA
Small Seminar Room
1:30 p.m. Quantum Information Science
Welcome and Discussion
Founders' Room
2:00 p.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Discussion "Beyond DFT"
Small Seminar Room
2:15 p.m. Quantum Information Science
Jens Eisert, Univ. Potsdam & KITP
Learning Much from Little: Compressed Sensing Approach to Quantum State Tomography and Other Ideas of Systems Identification
Auditorium
4:00 p.m. Quantum Information Science
Massoud Borhani, SUNY at Buffalo
Electrical Manipulation of the Electron Spin in a QD
Founders' Room
10:30 a.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Sergey Savrasov, UC Davis
Electronic Structure Calculations with Dynamical Mean Field Theory
Auditorium
11:30 a.m. Quantum Information Science
Lieven Vandersypen, TU Delft
TBA
Small Seminar Room
12:30 p.m. High Energy and Gravity Seminar
Eva Silverstein, KITP, UCSB
Towards Strange Metallic Holography
Broida 3302
2:00 p.m. Quantum Information Science
Ignacio Cirac, MPI & KITP
TBA
Auditorium
2:00 p.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Discussion "Beyond DFT"
Small Seminar Room
4:00 p.m. Physics Department Colloquium
Songi Han, UCSB
Hyperpolarized Water as a Novel Probing Tool for Molecular Interaction and Interfaces
Broida 1640
10:30 a.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Mark van Schilfgaarde, ASU
Quasiparticle Self-consistency
Auditorium
11:00 a.m. Quantum Information Science
David DiVincenzo, IBM/Watson & KITP
TBA
Small Seminar Room
2:00 p.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Discussion "Beyond DFT"
Small Seminar Room
2:00 p.m. Quantum Information Science
Misha Lukin, Harvard & KITP
TBA
Auditorium
4:00 p.m. Quantum Information Science
Ataç Imamoglu, ETH
TBA
Small Seminar Room
4:00 p.m. Astrophysics Seminar
Rob Preece, University of Alabama, Hunstville
GRB Observations with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Broida 3302
10:30 a.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Kai-Ming Ho, ISU
Beyond LDA - The Gutzwiller Approach
Small Seminar Room
11:00 a.m. Quantum Information Science
William Coish, Univ. Waterloo & KITP
Spin-bath Decoherence: Old Results and New Surprises
Auditorium
1:30 p.m. Quantum Information Science
Amir Yacoby, Harvard
Ultra long coherence of 2 electron logical spin qubits in GaAs quantum dots
Main Seminar Room
2:00 p.m. High Energy and Gravity Seminar
Yasuhiro Sekino, Stanford
FRW/CFT Duality: Holographic Formulation of Eternal Inflation, and its Applications
Small Seminar Room
2:00 p.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Discussion "Beyond DFT"
Auditorium
3:30 p.m. Quantum Information Science
John Preskill, Caltech
Protected Gates for Robust Superconducting Qubits
Small Seminar Room
10:30 a.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Discussion
Auditorium
2:00 p.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Discussion "Beyond DFT"
Small Seminar Room
New Members Expected: Luis Agapito, Juan Cirac, Sankar Das Sarma, David DiVincenzo, Giulia Galli, Eberhard Gross, Kai-Ming Ho, Ataç Imamoglu, Hong Jiang, Nicholas Kioussis, Andreas Knorr, Mikhail Lukin, Charles Marcus, Ann Mattsson, Christian Meisenbichler, Oleg Pankratov, Xinguo Ren, Sergey Savrasov, Matthias Scheffler, Alexandre Tkatchenko, Mark van Schilfgaarde, Lieven Vandersypen, Susanne Yelin
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.
Indicates
a talk of general interest.
