FetterFest 2007: Schedule

Date & Time:
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Full day program includes lunch and will be followed by a banquet dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel.

Hewlett Teaching Center     8:30am – 4:00pm
   370 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305 (Map)
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Welcome
9:15 am Professor Matti Krusius, Helsinki University of Technology
"Structure and Dynamics of Quantized Vortices in Helium Superfluids"
10:00 am Break
10:15 am Professor Michael Stone, University of Illinois
"Vortices, Zero Modes, and Non-Abelian Statistics"
11:00 am Professor James Eisenstein, California Institute of Technology
"Beyond the Quantum Hall Effect: Novel Collective States of Electrons in Two Dimensions"
11:45 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Professor Bertrand Halperin, Harvard University
"Fractional Statistics and the Quantum Hall Effects"
1:45 pm
Professor Jason Ho, Ohio State University
"Quantum Gases with Internal Degrees of Freedom"
2:30 pm Break
2:45 pm Professor Eric Cornell, University of Colorado and NIST/JILA
"Set My Vortices Free: Proliferation of Vortices in a 2-d Lattice of BEC in the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Regime"
3:30-4:00 Summation

Four Seasons Hotel        6:00pm – 9:30pm
   2050 University Avenue, E. Palo Alto, CA 94303 (Map)
6:00 pm No Host Bar with Hors d’Oeuvres
7:00 pm Welcome & Dinner
8:15 pm Dessert & Entertainment
8:30 pm Professor Robert Laughlin
8:40 pm Professor J. Dirk Walecka
8:50 pm Professor Malcolm Beasley
9:00-9:30 Open Mike