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Showcase Conference Schedule

DATE: Wed, May 11, 2005 VENUE: First Nations Longhouse (UBC)
TIME EVENT/SPEAKER TITLE/DETAILS
1530-1730 Registration  
1800-1930 Free Time (Dinner)  
1930-2130 PUBLIC LECTURE
Prof G 't Hooft
Title: The Universe inside an Atom
This lecture is addressed to the general public.
It is strongly recommended that one arrive well before 7:30 pm.
VENUE: IRC Woodward Lecture Room 2

DATE: Thurs, May 12, 2005 VENUE: First Nations Longhouse (UBC)
TIME EVENT/SPEAKER TITLE/DETAILS
0830-0920 Registration  
0920-0930 PCE Stamp Introductory Remarks
0930-1000 M Piper (President, UBC) Opening Welcome Address
1000-1030 WG Unruh Black Holes/Dumb Holes: Condensed Matter Analogues
1035-1100 Refreshments  
1100-1130 Y Imry Quantum Noise: New Aspects of the Casimir Effect
1135-1205 F Raab The Status of Gravitational Wave Detection
1200-1330 Free Time (Lunch)  
1330-1400 G Kotliar The Mott Transition
1405-1435 N Nagaosa Berry Phases in Optics and Solids
1440-1510 S John Photonic Band Gap Materials: Engineering Light
1515-1530 Refreshments  
1530-1615 Conversation Break  
1615-1645 G 't Hooft Holographic Mapping of the Standard Model onto a Black Hole Horizon
1650-1720 G Milburn Relational Time and Intrinsic Decoherence
1725-1755 M White A Cosmology Overview

DATE: Fri, May 13, 2005 VENUE: First Nations Longhouse (UBC)
TIME EVENT/SPEAKER TITLE/DETAILS
0900-0930 J Schwarz String Theory: Past, Present and Future
0935-1005 L Randall Relaxing to 3 Dimensions
1010-1030 Refreshments  
1030-1200 1rst Panel Discussion:
The Theory of Everything?
Interlocutor: S Shenker
Panel Members:
Prof Gerard 't Hooft (Royal Dutch Academy)
Prof Lisa Randall (Harvard)
Prof John Schwarz (Caltech)
Prof Bill Unruh (UBC)
Prof Robert Wald (Chicago)
1200-1330 Free Time (Lunch)  
1330-1400 R Wald Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime
1405-1435 J Cardy Fractal Geometry of Critical Phenomena
1440-1510 SC Zhang Intrinsic and Quantized Spin Hall Effects
1515-1530 Refreshments  
1530-1615 Conversation Break  
1615-1645 G Aeppli Quantum Phase Transitions
1650-1720 PB Wiegmann Dispersive Hydrodynamics of Degenerate Quantum Systems
1725-1755 S Shenker Emergent Quantum Gravity
1800-1930 Free Time (Dinner)  
1930-2130 PUBLIC LECTURE
Prof PCW Davies
Title: Did Life on Earth Come From Mars?
This lecture is addressed to the general public.
It is strongly recommended that one arrive well before 7:30 pm.
VENUE: IRC Woodward Lecture Room 2

DATE: Sat, May 14, 2005 VENUE: First Nations Longhouse (UBC)
TIME EVENT/SPEAKER TITLE/DETAILS
0900-0930 RW Clark Science and Technology Emerging from Quantum Computer Research
0935-1005 H Ooguri Baby Universes in Quantum Gravity
1010-1030 Refreshments  
1030-1200 2nd Panel Discussion:
Quantum Mechanics: Dreams and Reality
Interlocutor: GA Sawatzky
Panel Members:
Prof Gabe Aeppli (London Centre for Nanotechnology)
Prof Bob Clark (Sydney)
Prof Gerard Milburn (Queensland)
Prof Hari Manoharan (Stanford)
Prof Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech)
1200-1330 Free Time (Lunch)  
1330-1400 H Manoharan Manipulation of Matter at the Spatial Limit
1405-1435 T Eguchi Boundary States and Modular Bootstrap in CFT
1440-1510 KA Moler Motion of a Single Quantum Vortex
1515-1530 Refreshments  
1530-1615 Conversation Break  
1615-1645 DD Osheroff Stabilizing a New Phase of Superfluid He-3
1650-1720 BL Spivak Intermediate Phases of the 2-Dimensional Electron Fluid
1725-1755 M Rho New States of Strongly-Interacting Astrophysical Matter
1800-1900 Conversation Break  
1900-2230 CONFERENCE BANQUET
+ Borealis String Quartet
Green College, UBC

DATE: Sun, May 15, 2005 VENUE: First Nations Longhouse (UBC)
TIME EVENT/SPEAKER TITLE/DETAILS
0900-0930 RW Myers Cosmic Superstrings
0935-1005 IK Affleck Boundary Conformal Field Theory and Non-Fermi Liquid Nanodevices
1010-1030 Refreshments  
1030-1200 3rd Panel Discussion:
What are the Fundamental Questions of Physics?
Interlocutor: PCE Stamp
Panel Members:
Prof Phil Anderson (Princeton)
Prof Paul Davies (Sydney)
Prof Kathryn Moler (Stanford)
Prof Mannque Rho (Saclay)
Prof Lenny Susskind (Stanford)
1200-1320 Free Time (Lunch)  
1320-1350 AH MacDonald Bose-Einstein Condensation of Excitions in Quantum Hall Systems
1355-1425 AM Tremblay Theory with no Small Parameter: The Hubbard Model
1430-1500 D Friedan Entropy Flow in Near-Critical Quantum Circuits
1505-1535 D Goldhaber-Gordon Electrons in Semiconductor Nanostructures
1540-1800 Free Time  
1800-1930 Free Time (Dinner)  
1930-2130 PUBLIC LECTURE
Prof M Chan
Title: Einstein's Legacy in Low-Temperature Physics: Superfluids and Supersolids
This lecture is addressed to the general public.
It is strongly recommended that one arrive well before 7:30 pm.
VENUE: IRC Woodward Lecture Room 2

IMPORTANT NOTE: The Monday morning session is a JOINT SESSION between the Showcase Conference and the Emergence Workshop.

The Emergence Workshop continues until lunchtime of Wednesday, 18 May 2005.

DATE: Mon, May 16, 2005 VENUE: SUB Auditorium (UBC)
TIME EVENT/SPEAKER TITLE/DETAILS
0845-0900 PCE Stamp Emergence Workshop: Opening Remarks
0900-0940 PW Anderson Emergence and the Theory of Everything
0945-1025 L Susskind The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design
1030-1045 Refreshments  
1045-1125 FDM Haldane Berry's Phase and the Quantum Geometry of the Fermi Surface
1130-1230 Discussion Session  
1230-1240 GA Sawatzky Showcase: Closing Remarks
1240-1400 Free Time (Lunch)  

End of Showcase Conference.

For those attending the Emergence Workshop until Wed 18 May, please see separate notice for this workshop (the schedule for the Emergence workshop is available).
All those who attended
Showcase are welcome to stay on at the Emergence Workshop.

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