KITP Weekly Program of Scientific Activities
10:30 a.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Robert van Leeuwen, University of Jyvaskyla & KITP
Conserving Approximations in TDDFT: Connections to Many-body Perturbation Theory
Auditorium
1:30 p.m. Quantum Information Science
Discussion and Welcome
Founders' Room
2:00 p.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Ulf von Barth, Lund University & KITP
Discussion: "Guiding Principles" in Theoretical Spectroscopy
Small Seminar Room
10:30 a.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
John Rehr, University of Washington & KITP
Real-time Approaches for Linear and Nonlinear Optical Response
Auditorium
11:00 a.m. Quantum Information Science
Netanel Lindner, Technion & KITP
A Photonic Cluster State Machine Gun
Small Seminar Room
12:30 p.m. High Energy and Gravity Seminar
Brian Wecht, IAS
New Tools for New SCFTs
Broida 3302
2:00 p.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Discussion: TDDFT Functionals for Spectroscopy of Finite Systems
Small Seminar Room
4:00 p.m. Physics Department Colloquium
Jean-Luc Margot, UCLA
Measurements of the Spin State and Gravity Field of Mercury
Broida 1640
10:30 a.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Paolo Umari, SISSA & KITP
Non Resonant Hyper-Raman Spectra From First Principles: Application to Vitreous Silica
Auditorium
10:30 a.m. Quantum Information Science
Graham Smith, Univ. Birmingham
Charles Bennett, IBM & KITP
Debbie Leung, Univ. Waterloo & KITP
Discussion: Closed Timelike Curves -- What they're good or bad for
Small Seminar Room
12:00 p.m. Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Karen Michaeli, Weizmann Inst.
Quantum Kinetic Approach to the Calculation of Thermal Transport and the Nernst Effect
Small Seminar Room
2:00 p.m. 
KITP Colloquium
Charles Bennett, IBM
Quantum Information and the Birth and Death of Complexity
Main Seminar Room
4:00 p.m. Astrophysics Seminar
Nicolas Bouche, UCSB
On the Origin of the SFR - Stellar Mass Relation
Broida 3302
10:30 a.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Werner Hanke, ITPA & KITP
Superconductivity in the Iron Pnictides: from DFT to a Functional-Renormalization-Group Study
Auditorium
2:00 p.m. High Energy and Gravity Seminar
Kristan Jensen, University of Washington
Mirror Symmetry and M2 branes
Small Seminar Room
2:00 p.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Wei Ku, BNL & KITP
Local Approach for Excitations in Strongly Correlated Materials: Frenkel Excitons and their Propagation
Auditorium
3:30 p.m. Quantum Information Science
Jake Taylor, NIST & KITP
Entanglement and Metrology in Hybrid Quantum Systems
Small Seminar Room
10:30 a.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
Gian-Marco Rignanese, Universite Catholique de Louvain & KITP
Vibrational Spectroscopy
Auditorium
2:00 p.m. Quantum Information Science
Xuedong Hu, & KITP
Recent Progress in Silicon Based Quantum Computing
Auditorium
2:00 p.m. Excitations in Condensed Matter: From Basic Concepts to Real Materials
General Discussion on Theoretical Spectroscopy
Small Seminar Room
New Members Expected: Andrew Briggs, Daniel Loss, Neepa Maitra, Farzad Qassemi Maloomeh, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Beat Roethlisberger, Frank Wilhelm-Mauch
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.
