Except for the banquet, all events will take place at the Beckman Institute Auditorium.
A PDF version of the program, with abstracts, is available here.
| 9:50 am | Introduction |
| 10:00 am | Patrick Hayden Where and When can a Qubit be? [PDF] |
| 10:50 am | Break |
| 11:20 am | Lenny Susskind The AMPS Effect |
| 12:10 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 pm | Scott Aaronson Hidden Variables as Fruitful Dead Ends [PPT] |
| 2:50 pm | Debbie Leung Computational and Cryptanalytic Consequences of Time Travel [PPT] [PDF] |
| 3:40 pm | Break |
| 4:10 pm | Jeff Kimble Quantum Optics in 1- and 2-Dimensional Photonic Crystals [PDF] |
| 9:15 am | Kip Thorne Physics Bets and Conversations with John [PDF] |
| 10:05 am | Sandip Trivedi Gravity and Condensed Matter Physics: The Beginnings of a Dialogue? [PDF] |
| 10:55 am | Break |
| 11:25 am | Paul Ginsparg A Stylometric Assessment [MOV][PDF] |
| 12:15 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 pm | Charles Bennett Apocalypses, Firewalls, and the Meaning of Post-Selection [PDF] |
| 2:50 pm | Robert Raussendorf Computation by Measurement — A Tour from Quantum Optics to Quantum Foundations [PDF] |
| 3:40 pm | Break |
| 4:10 pm | Peter Shor Quantum weirdness and cryptography |
| 6:00 pm | Reception |
| 7:00 pm | Dinner |
| 9:15 am | Mark Wise Unusual Sources of Baryon Number Violation [PPT] |
| 10:05 am | Lisa Randall Holographically Dual Effective Field Theories With Broken Conformal Symmetry [PPT] |
| 10:55 am | Break |
| 11:25 am | Alexei Kitaev Berry curvature for many-body systems |
| 12:15 pm | Box Lunch |
Location: The Athenaeum, 551 S Hill Ave, Pasadena, 626-395-8200
Time: Friday, March 15
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