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Program Delta ITP retreat 2 and 3 Nov 2017

Thursday 2 November 

13:00 -13:30  Welcome and registration

13:30 - 13:35  Opening by board member Cristiane de Morais Smith (Utrecht)

13:35-14:15 Past, Present and Future of Delta ITP, by Jan Pieter van der Schaar (Amsterdam)

14:15-14:30  SciPost: An open-access story,  by Jean-Sébastien Caux (Amsterdam)

Break (30 minutes)

15:00-16:30  Delta ITP fellow seminars: 

             15:00-15:45  Dionysios Anninos (Amsterdam) - Flavors of Spacetime

             15:45-16:30  Matteo Martinelli (Leiden) - Testing GR with cosmological observations 

Break (30 minutes)

17:00-18:00  Delta ITP colloquium by Gerard ‘t Hooft (Utrecht, Nobel Prize 1999) - Free Will in a Theory of Everything

18:30-21:00  Castle dinner

21:00 - [..]  Evening drinks

Friday 3 November 

9:00-9:30  Coffee

9:30-10:30  Keynote lecture by Tim Tait (UC Irvine) - Searching for New Physics in a Transition of Beryllium-8 

Break (15 minutes)

10:45-12:45  Highlights program:

            10:45-11:05  Wouter Waalewijn (Amsterdam, Nikhef) - New Ideas and Calculations for Jets 

            11:05-11:25  Scott Bender (Utrecht) - Spin transport in antiferromagnetic insulators 

            11:25-11:45  Luca Santoni (Utrecht) - Investigating the IR of curved spacetime 

            11:45-12:05  Koenraad Schalm (Leiden) - Holography and experimental quantum matter 

            12:05-12:25  Miranda Cheng (Amsterdam) - What is new in Moonshine?

            12:25-12:45  Luca Giomi (Leiden) - Geometry, defects and motion in active matter 

13:00-14:00  Lunch

14:00  End of the retreat

The program of the Retreat can be downloaded as a PDF file: