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Schedule DPF ‘99
Wednesday, January 6th - Parallel Sessions
| 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Break 10:30-11:00 a.m.) | ||
| Number | Session Title | Conveners |
| 1a | Electroweak Interactions | Morris Swartz (Johns Hopkins Univ.) & Roberto Tenchini (INFN-Pisa) |
| 3a | Heavy Flavor Physics | Adam Falk (Johns Hopkins) & Alan Weinstein (CalTech) |
| 6 | Non Perturbative QCD | Claude Bernard (Washington Univ.) & Paul MacKenzie (Fermilab) |
| 7a | Physics Beyond the Standard Model | Howard Haber (UC Santa Cruz) & Hitoshi Murayama (UC Berkeley) |
| 10a | High Energy Astrophysics | Todd Haines (Los Alamos Nat'l Lab) & Rene Ong (Univ. of Chicago) |
| 11a | Advanced Accelerator Techniques | William Foster (Fermilab) & Robert Siemann (SLAC) |
1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Break 3:00-3:30 p.m.) |
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| 1b | Electroweak Interactions | Morris Swartz (Johns Hopkins Univ.) & Roberto Tenchini (INFN-Pisa) |
| 3b | Heavy Flavor Physics | Adam Falk (Johns Hopkins) & Alan Weinstein (CalTech) |
| 5a | Perturbative QCD | Lance Dixon (SLAC) & Joey Huston (Michigan State University) |
| 7b | Physics Beyond the Standard Model | Howard Haber (UC Santa Cruz) & Hitoshi Murayama (UC Berkeley) |
| 10b | High Energy Astrophysics | Todd Haines (Los Alamos Nat'l Lab) & Rene Ong (Univ. of Chicago) |
| 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | ||
| Special Session (co-sponsored by DPF and APS
Committee on the Status of Women in Physics) Session Chair: Cathy Newman-Holmes Speaker: Marc Sher (College of William and Mary) "Results from the Dual Career Couple Survey" |
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Thursday, January 7th- Parallel Sessions
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Break 10:30-11:00 a.m.)
| Number | Session Title | Convener |
| 2a | Neutrino Masses and Oscillations | Wick Haxton (U. Washington) & Henry Sobel (UC Irvine) |
| 3c | Heavy Flavor Physics | Adam Falk (Johns Hopkins) & Alan Weinstein (CalTech) |
| 4a | Weak Decays and CP Violation | Kam-Biu Luk (UC Berkeley) & German Valencia (Iowa State) |
| 5b | Perturbative QCD | Lance Dixon (SLAC) & Joey Huston (Michigan State University) |
| 8a | Quantum Gravity, Strings and Duality | Juan Maldacena (Harvard) & Joseph Polchinski (UC Santa Barbara) |
| 9a | Cosmology and Dark Matter | Kim Griest (UC San Diego) & Martin White (Univ. of Illinois) |
| 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Break 3:00-3:30 p.m.) | ||
| 2b | Neutrino Masses and Oscillations | Wick Haxton (U. Washington) & Henry Sobel (UC Irvine) |
| 4b | Weak Decays and CP Violation | Kam-Biu Luk (UC Berkeley) & German Valencia (Iowa State) |
| 12 | Novel Detector Developments | Alan Bross (Fermilab) & Daniel Marlow (Princeton) |
| 8b | Quantum Gravity, Strings and Duality | Juan Maldacena (Harvard) & Joseph Polchinski (UC Santa Barbara) |
| 9b | Cosmology and Dark Matter | Kim Griest (UC San Diego) & Martin White (Univ. of Illinois) |
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
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| Outreach program organized by Quarknet | ||
Special Session 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
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| 11b | Future Accelerator Projects | B. Foster (Fermilab) & B. Siemann (SLAC) Speakers: D. Burke (SLAC), B. Foster (Fermilab), K. McDonald (Princeton |
5:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. |
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| Town Meeting with Martha Krebs, Director of the
Office of Energy Research (DOE); B. Richter (SLAC), Chair |
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Friday, January 8th - Plenary Sessions
| 8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. | Status of Electroweak Physics | William Marciano (Brookhaven National Lab) |
| 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | Recent Progress in QCD | George Sterman (SUNY Stony Brook) |
| 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Break | |
| 10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. | New Facilities: B Factories at the Threshold | Jonathan Dorfan (SLAC) |
| 11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | New Facilities: Physics at the Main Injector | Hugh Montgomery (Fermilab) |
| 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch | |
| 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. | Perspectives on Future Accelerators | Claudio Pellegrini (UCLA) |
| 1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | High Energy Astrophysics | Trevor Weekes (Harvard) |
| 2:45 p.m. | Busses leave for Getty Museum | |
| 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | Visit to Getty Museum | |
| 6:00 p.m. | Busses depart Getty Museum | |
| 7:30 p.m. | Conference Dinner |
Saturday, January 9th - Plenary Sessions
| 8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. | Heavy Flavor Physics | J. Ritchie Patterson (Cornell) |
| 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | Rare Decays and CP Violation | Edward Blucher (University of Chicago) |
| 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Break | |
| 10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. | Physics Beyond the Standard Model | Michael Dine (UC Santa Cruz) |
| 11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Strings, Branes and Beyond | Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University) |
| 12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. | DPF Business meeting | |
| 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch | |
| 1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. | LIGO - Searching for Gravitational Waves | Barry Barish (CalTech) |
| 2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Neutrino Physics | Gary Feldman (Harvard University) |
| 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. | Particle Physics and the Early Universe | Neil Turok (Cambridge) |
| 4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Summary and Outlook | David Gross (UC Santa Barbara) |