Talks+&+Discussions

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 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * **Week 1** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Mon-Jun-29 || 1:30pm || MSR || //All// || **Overview Discussion** || Summary ||
 * ||  || MSR || //Gary Horowitz// || **General Relativity in a Nutshell** ||   ||
 * Tue, Jun 30 || 11:30am || MSR || //John McGreevy// || **Applied AdS/CFT I** || References ||
 * || 3:30pm || MSR || //Shivaji Sondhi// || **Quantum Criticality I** ||  ||
 * Wed, Jul 1 || 10:30am || MSR || //John McGreevy// || **Applied AdS/CFT II** ||  ||
 * || 1:30pm || MSR || //Michael Hermele// || **Quantum Criticality II** || References ||
 * Thu, Jul 2 || 11:30am || MSR || //John McGreevy// || **Applied AdS/CFT III** ||  ||
 * || 2:00pm || MSR || //Chris Herzog// || **Holographic Superconductors** || References ||
 * || 4:00pm || MSR || //Sung-Sik Lee// || **Quantum Criticality III** || References ||
 * Fri, Jul 3 || 2pm || MSR || //John McGreevy// || **Applied AdS/CFT IV** ||  ||
 * || 4pm || MSR || //Michael Hermele// || **Quantum Criticality IV** ||  ||
 * **Week 2** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Mon Jul 6 || 12:15pm || Aud || //Mac Beasley & Doug Scalapino// || **The Physics of Higher Temperature Superconductivity: Context and Issues** || Director's Blackboard Seminar (Bag Lunch) ||
 * || 2:00pm || MSR || //Subir Sachdev// || **Quantum critical transport and AdS/CFT** || References ||
 * Tues, Jul 7 || 10.30am || MSR || //Pavel Kovtun// || **RHIC, spectral functions and AdS/CFT** ||  ||
 * || 1.30pm || MSR || //Hong Liu// || **(Non)-Fermi liquids and emergent quantum criticality from gravity** ||  ||
 * Wed, Jul 8 || 1.30pm || MSR || //Dam Son// || **Towards an AdS/Cold Atoms correspondence** || References ||
 * Thu, Jul 9 || 1.30pm || MSR || //Cenke Xu// || **Emergent gauge symmetries in condensed matter systems** || References ||
 * || 4pm || MSR || //Allan Adams// || **Nonrelativistic holography II** ||  ||
 * Fri, Jul 10 || 1.30pm || MSR || //Sung-Sik Lee// || **Critical spin liquid with spinon fermi surface** || References ||
 * **Week 3** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Mon, Jul 13 || 12.15am || Aud || //Sean Hartnoll// || **What is string theory for?** || Director's Blackboard Seminar (Bag Lunch) ||
 * || 2.00pm || MSR || //Michael Mulligan// || **Holography and dynamical critical phenomena** || References ||
 * Tue, Jul 14 || 1.30pm || MSR || //Krishna Rajagopal// || **The search for the QCD critical point** ||  ||
 * Wed, Jul 15 || 10.30am || MSR || //Sean Hartnoll// || **Quantum matter and black hole ringing** ||  ||
 * || 1.30pm || MSR || //Xiaoliang Qi// || **Topological insulators and phase space Chern-Simons theory** ||  ||
 * Thu, Jul 16 || 10am ||  || //Subir Sachdev// || **Where is the QCP in the cuprates?** || Part of higher Tc program ||
 * || 1.30pm || MSR || //Zaanen + Schalm// || **Fermions, fermions, fermions** ||  ||
 * Fri, Jul 17 || 10am || MSR || //Andreas Karch// || **DC conductivities for holographic matter** ||  ||
 * || 1.30am || MSR || //Larry Yaffe// || **Horizon Formation and Far-from-equilibrium Dynamics in Strongly Coupled Plasmas** ||  ||
 * **Week 4** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Mon, Jul 20 || 1.30pm || MSR || //Tadashi Takayanagi// || **Holographic entanglement entropy** || References ||
 * || 4pm || MSR || //Johanna Erdmenger// || **A flavour superconductor from string theory** || References ||
 * Tue, Jul 21 || 1.30pm || MSR || //Per Kraus// || **Holographic approach to the quantum Hall effect** ||  ||
 * || 4pm || MSR || //Joe Polchinksi// || **AdS/CFT FAQ** ||  ||
 * Wed, Jul 22 || 10.30pm || MSR || //Petr Horava// || **Quantum gravity with anisotropic scaling** ||  ||
 * || 1.30pm || MSR || //Igor Klebanov// || **Chern-Simons theories and AdS/CFT** ||  ||
 * Thu, Jul 23 || 1.30pm || MSR || //Eduardo Fradkin// || **Quantum dynamics of the Fermi surface and the breakdown of Fermi liquids** ||  ||
 * || 4pm || MSR || //Mike Hermele// || **Monopoles and the fermionic dual of the O(4) vector model** || References ||
 * Fri, Jul 24 || 12 noon ||  || //All// || **Closing Discussion** ||   ||