| 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 |
| 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) |