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Program

Thursday, October 5, 2006
8:45 - 9:00   Registration
9:00 - 9:15   Welcome
9:15 - 10:00   Daniel I. Goldman: Control of substrate properties to discover principles of locomotion
10:00 - 10:30   Coffee break
10:30 - 11:15   Sayantani Ghosh: Manipulating Spin Coherence in Solid State Systems
11:15 - 12:00   Geoffrey Beach: Dynamics of magnetic domain walls in ferromagnetic nanowires
12:00 - 1:45   Lunch break
1:45 - 2:30   Evan Reed: Frontiers in extreme conditions: Theory and simulation of shock-wave compression of condensed matter
2:30 - 3:15   Tongye Shen: On the Road to a Physics of the Cell
3:15 - 3:30   Coffee break
3:30 - 4:15   Joseph Thywissen: Bose and Fermi gases in single- and double-well chip traps
4:15 - 5:30   Posters: Poster Abstracts
6:30 - 8:30   Banquet: Speaker: Prof. Steven Weinberg.

Banquet venue: Shoreline Grill

(Map and Parking)

Friday, October 6, 2006
9:00 - 9:45   E. Narevicius: Towards Coherent Control of Supersonic Beams: A New Approach to Atom Optics
9:45 - 10:30   A. M. Rey: Noise-resistant entanglement of strongly interacting spin systems
10:30 - 10:45   Coffee break
10:45 - 11:30   Eun-Ah Kim: Self organized structure in strongly correlated electron fluids.
11:30 - 1:00   Lunch break
1:00 - 1:45   Emanuele Berti: Gravitational wave theory/experiment
1:45 - 2:30   H. Elvang: Strings and Supergravity Theory
2:30 - 2:45   Coffee
2:45 - 3:30   B. Flemming: Nu_e or not Nu_e?
3:30 - 3:45   Closing remarks

Supported by the College of Natural Sciences at UT-Austin.