Each of the participants was invited to provide a one-page, vision
statement, listing the major open questions in the
speaker’s area of correlated matter, and where the big challenges lie.
The following are the draft versions of these statements.
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G. Whitesides:
"Synthesis: From Molecules to
Complexity”
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Z. Fisk
"Applying
f-electron Physics"
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P. Pincus
Electrodynamics in soft matter
and biophysics
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G. Lonzarich
“First and second order
Ferromagnetic
quantum phase transitions”
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P. Chaikin
"Packings, Jammings,
Correlations and Entropies in Condensed
Matter and Candy"
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H. Stone
"Complex Fluids"
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P. Wolynes
“Disciplined
Disorder and Disordered
Disciplines: Themes in the emerging Science of Matter” (word version)
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P. Bouchaud
Vision: Why don't
glasses flow?
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T. Witten
“Solidity,
liquidity and energy focusing”
Q: How do
singularities form in collective matter and in spacetime?
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J. Schmalian
“Are
there gels in the quantum world?”
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R. Goldstein
"Large-Scale Coherence in
Bacterial Dynamics".
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D. Weitz
Mechanics and Statistical
Mechanics of
Living Cells |
M. Sarachik
Strongly
interacting electrons in 2D in the absence of magnetic field: Fermi
liquid? New phases ?
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D. Scalapino
“Numerical
studies of the
cuprate problem”
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R. Laughlin |
J. Gollub
The
Dynamics of Granular Flows
(Vision statement)
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S. Davis
"The
Fourth State"
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G. Kotliar
"Strongly correlated
electrons: a dynamical
mean field perspective"
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M. Cohen
"World Year of Physics: where
is Physics going ?
- The standard
model for Solids"
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M. Brenner
"Some
questions in optimal design"
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H. Alloul
"Experiments
on correlated electron matter:
their seminal role,
their importance for education : innovation versus
engeneering"
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L. Greene
"Unconventional superconductors:
Playgrounds for broken symmetries"
talk
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M. Cates
"Landscape
and Memory"
Vision
talk
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F. Steglich
"Experimental
studies of
quantum critical
phenomena in heavy electron metals" Vision
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P. W. Anderson
"Some major
open
questions worthy of
discussion"
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P. Coleman
Debating the frontier
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