All science is either physics or stamp collecting.—Ernest Rutherford

2014 Winter Conferences



* Denotes physicist in charge of diversity

Condensed Matter Physics
January 5 - 11, 2014


Sunday evening reception

Unconventional Order in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems

Organizers:
Elihu Abrahams, UCLA
Sudip Chakravarty, UCLA
*Steven Kivelson, Stanford


Deadline to apply is October 31, 2013.


Condensed Matter Physics
January 12 - 18, 2014

Sunday evening reception

Beyond Quasiparticles: New Paradigms for Quantum Fluids

Organizers:
Olexei Motrunich, Caltech
Satoru Nakatsuji, University of Tokyo
Senthil Todadri, MIT


Deadline to apply is October 31, 2013.


Particle Physics
January 18 - 24, 2014

Saturday evening reception

Frontiers in Particle Physics: From Dark Matter to the LHC and Beyond

Organizers:
Kyle Cranmer, ATLAS
Kalanand Mishra, CMS
Michele Papucci, LBL
*Tomer Volansky, Tel Aviv University
Jure Zupan, University of Cincinnati


Deadline to apply is October 31, 2013.


Nonlinear Dynamics
January 27 - February 2, 2014

Monday evening reception

Active Fluids: Bridging Complex Fluids and Biofluids

Organizers:
Arezoo Ardekani, University of Notre Dame
Eric Lauga, UC San Diego
Yuriko Renardy, Virginia Tech
David Saintillan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Jun Zhang, New York University


Deadline to apply is October 31, 2013.


Astrophysics
February 2 - 8, 2014

Sunday evening reception

Born in the Deep: The Amazing Lives of Massive Elliptical Galaxies

Organizers:
Maruŝa Bradač, UC Davis
Charlie Conroy, UC Santa Cruz
Richard Ellis, Caltech
*Oleg Gnedin, University of Michigan
Andrey Kravtsov, University of Chicago
Tommaso Treu, UC Santa Barbara
Alexey Vikhlinin, Harvard University


Deadline to apply is October 31, 2013.


Condensed Matter Physics
March 9 - 14, 2014

Sunday evening reception

Advances in Quantum Algorithms and Computation

Organizers:
Adam Harrow, MIT
*Krysta Svore, Microsoft Research
Matthias Troyer, ETH Zurich


Deadline to apply is November 30, 2013.

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Particle and Condensed Matter Physics
March 16 - 22, 2014

Sunday evening reception

New Perspectives on Thermalization: Condensed Matter, Quantum Information, QCD and String Theory

Organizers:
Vijay Balasubramanian, University of Pennsylvania
Matthew Hastings, UC Santa Barbara, Microsoft Station Q
Patrick Hayden, McGill University, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics


Deadline to apply is November 30, 2013.