Picture of Dick Slansky

Looking Forward:

Frontiers in Theoretical Science at Los Alamos

A Symposium dedicated to the memory of Dick Slansky

May 20-21, 1998

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

J. Oppenheimer Study Center (May 20)

MSL Auditorium (May 21)

AGENDA

 

WEDNESDAY MAY 20

J. Oppenheimer Study Center

8:00 am Coffee and Refreshments 
Time Speaker
8:30 - 8:45  John Browne  Introductory remarks 
8:45 - 9:10  Pierre Ramond
9:10 - 9:45 Geoffrey West 
9:45 - 10:10 Maurice Jacob 
10:10 - 10:35   Break
10:35 - 10:45 Dan Butler  Introductory remarks
10:45 - 12:00 Anna Hayes Neutrino Sensitivity to the Shape of the Nucleus
Pieter Swart Homogenization in mathematics, simulation and physics
Damir Juric Modeling the Solidification Microstructure of Plutonium-Gallium Alloys 
Michael Mattis Instantons, Supersymmetry, and Exact Results in Quantum Field Theory 
Raymond Laflamme Quantum Computation 
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 1:15 Sig Hecker Introductory remarks 
1:15 - 1:40 Alan Bishop
1:40 - 2:05 Frank Harlow
2:05 - 2:30 Hywel White
2:30 - 2:45 Break
2:45 - 3:00 Mitchell Feigenbaum Introductory Remarks 
3:00 - 4:00 ShiYi Chen Scaling Dynamics of Fluid Turbulence 
Tommy Sewell Physics of Polymer Collapse Onto an Attractive Surface 
Alexander Balatsky Spontaneous Violation of parity and Time Reversal in high-Tc Superconductors 
Bette Korber HIV-1 Evolution and the Implications for Understanding the History of the AIDS Epidemic 
4:00 - 4:25 Alan Perelson
4:25 - 5:00 Jill Slansky Immunologic properties of the mouse tumor antigen, AH1 
5:00 - 5:30 Reflections on Dick Slansky
 

CONTRIBUTED TALKS

Thursday May 21

Material Science Laboratory Auditorium

 
8:00 am  Coffee and Refreshments
Time  Speaker Title
8:30 am Carl Bender The Complex Pendulum
8:50 am Kevin Bedell Magnetism and Superconductivity: Materials on the edge
9:10 am  Lowell Brown  Effective Field Theory for (Quasi-) Classical Plasmas
9:30 am  Norman Dombey  70 Years of the Klein Paradox
9:50 am George Chapline  Is Theoretical Physics the Same Thing as Mathematics
10:10 am break 
10:20 am Baha Balentekin  The Role of Massive Neutrinos in Astrophysical Phenomena
10:40 am Peter Rosen  Sterile Neutrinos and the Sun
11:00 am Jeff Mandula  The Gluon Propagator 
11:20 am Chung-I Tan Diffraction Production at Collider Energies
11:40 am Thomas Ludlam Seeking Quark Matter in High Energy Nuclear Collisions
12:00 Lunch 
1:00 pm Gordon Shaw  Searching for Free Quarks
1:20 pm Fred Goldhaber  Slansky-Goldman-Shaw from the other end of the telescope:  Dual Confinement of grand unified monopoles
1:40 pm  Zvi Bern String Relationships between Gravity and Guage Theories
2:00 pm  John Schwarz  From Superstrings to M Theory 
2:20 pm Stuart Raby  Fermion Masses in Supersymmetric Theories
2:40 pm  break
3:00 pm Sydney Meshkov LIGO-How We'll Detect Gravitational Waves
3:20 pm Salman Habib  The Accelerator Physics Grand Challenge
3:40 pm Rajan Gupta Quark Masses And CP Violation
4:00 pm Jiri Patera Rigorous results on one-dimensional quasicrystals 
4:20 pm Pierre Ramond M(agic) in SO(9)
4:40 pm Richard Haymaker Confinement studies in lattice QCD 

 *Proceedings to be published in Physics Report

LODGING

Holiday Inn Express 
2455 Trinity Drive 
Los Alamos, NM 87544 
505-661-1110 
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Los Alamos Inn 
2201 Trinity Drive 
Los Alamos, NM 87544 
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BANQUET INFORMATION

By invitation only
May 20
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Fuller Lodge
2132 Central Avenue
Los Alamos, NM 87544
$30.00 per person
*must sign up by Friday, May 8.

 
 TECHNICAL HOSTS

      Dan Butler, Fred Cooper and Geoffrey West  (Theoretical Division)
      Al Sattelberger  (Science Technology Base Division)
      Los Alamos National Laboratory
      Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 USA
     Any questions about the information on this page, please contact:
     Leslie Weaver /T-8
     (1-505-667-5336) or lweaver@lanl.gov
 
 

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