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//from the point of view of Condensed Matter, part I// || Notes || //matter and holography// ||  || //the holographic superconductor.// ||  ||
 * ~ **Week1** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Aug 29 || 2:00 pm || SSR || **All participants** || //Organizational Meeting I// || Minutes ||
 * Tues, Aug 30 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Dam Thanh Son** || //Hall viscosity and electromagnetic response// || Notes ||
 * Wed, Aug 31 || 3:30 pm || SSR || **All participants** || //Organizational Meeting II// || Minutes, Notes ||
 * Thurs, Sept 1 || 2:00 pm || Aud || **Sung-Sik Lee** || //Holographic matter: deconfined string at criticality// || Notes ||
 * Fri, Sept 2 || 12:00 pm ||  || **Per Kraus** || //Higher spin holography and black holes// || Notes ||
 * ~ **Week 2** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Sep 5 ||  ||   ||   || //LABOR DAY// || **HOLIDAY** ||
 * Tues, Sep 6 || 10:00 am || Aud || **David Tong** || //Aspects of Holographic Fermions// || Notes ||
 * Wed, Sep 7 || 12:00 pm || Aud || **Discussion led by**
 * Joe Polchinski** || //Renormalization Group and Holography// || Notes ||
 * Thurs, Sep 8 || 2:00 pm || Aud || **Hong Liu &**
 * Joe Polchinski** || //Fermi Liquids & Holography// || Notes ||
 * Fri, Sept 9 || 12:00 pm || Aud || **Max Metlitski** || //Fermi Quantum Criticality//
 * ~ **Week 3** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Tues, Sep 13 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Andy O'Bannon and**
 * Andrei Parnachev** || //Aspects of Probe Branes in Holography// || Notes ||
 * Wed, Sep 14 || 12:00 pm || Aud || **Discussion led by**
 * N. Iqbal and D. Hofman** || //From Black Holes to Electron Stars// || Notes ||
 * Thurs, Sep 15 || 2:00 pm || Aud || **Gordon Semenoff** || //Graphene and Holographic 3D Fermions// || Notes ||
 * Fri, Sep 16 || 12:00 pm || Aud || **Max Metlitski** || //Fermi Quantum Criticality, part II// || Notes ||
 * **Week 4** || **__Time__** || __Place*__ || **__Speaker__** || **__Title__** || **__Comments, Links,...__** ||
 * Tues, Sep 20 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Andrei Starinets** || //Holographic zero sound at finite temperature// ||  ||
 * Wed, Sep 21 || 12:00 pm || Aud || **Discussion led by Tarun Grover**
 * and Shinsei Ryu** || //Entanglement entropy in condensed//
 * Thurs, Sep 22 || 2:00 pm || Aud || **Jan Zaanen** || //Testing AdS/CMT in the laboratory://
 * **Week 5** || __**Time**__ || __**Place**__ || __**Speaker**__ || **Title** || **__Comments, Links,...__** ||
 * Tues, Sep 27 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Pavel Kovtun** || //Parity-breaking hydrodynamics in 2+1 dimensions// ||  ||
 * Wed, Sep 28 || 12:00 pm || Aud || **Discussion led by Joe Bhaseen** || //Exploring non-equilibrium dynamics using AdS/CFT// ||  ||
 * Thu, Sep 29 || 2:00 pm || Aud || **Subir Sachdev** || //Holography and compressible quantum phases// ||  ||
 * Fri, Sep 30 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Tom Faulkner** || //Introduction to holography// ||  ||
 * **Week 6** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Mon, Oct 3 || 2pm || Aud || **Sean Hartnoll** || //Focus week introduction: Criticality and instability in holography// ||  ||
 * Tue, Oct 4 || 10am || Aud || **Andrew Mackenzie** || //Thermodynamics near magnetically tuned quantum critical points - past work & future prospects// ||  ||
 * Tue, Oct 4 || 12.30pm || Aud || **Eva Silverstein** || //Large N gauge theories and ``strange metallic" transport// ||  ||
 * Wed, Oct 5 || 10am || Aud || **Steve Kivelson** || //Achieving confusion - the puzzle of bad metals// ||  ||
 * Wed, Oct 5 || 2pm || Aud || **John McGreevy** || //Black hole entropy and intermediate-temperature states of matter// ||  ||
 * Thu, Oct 6 || 10am || Aud || **Gil Lonzarich** || //Unconventional phenomena on the border of metallic magnetism// ||  ||
 * Thu, Oct 6 || 4pm || Aud || **Senthil Todadri** || //Non-fermi liquid metals: Some facts, ideas, and speculations// ||  ||
 * Fri, Oct 7 || 10am || Aud || **Johanna Erdmenger** || //Imbalanced mixtures and anisotropic hydrodynamics from gauge/gravity duality// ||  ||
 * Fri, Oct 7 || 3.30pm || Aud || **Discussion led by McGreevy and Hartnoll** ||  ||   ||
 * **Week 7** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Mon,10 || 2pm || Aud || **Tom Faulkner** || //Introduction to holography// II ||  ||
 * Tue,11 || 10am || Aud || **Gary Horowitz** || //A Turbulent Instability of Anti-de Sitter Space// ||  ||
 * Wed,12 || 12 noon || Aud || **Joe Polchinski** || //Magnetic AdS Branes// ||  ||
 * Thu,13 || 2pm || Aud || **Catherine Pepin** || //Heavy fermions: condensed matter theory perspective// ||  ||
 * **Week 8** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Tue || 10am || Aud || **Andreas Karch** || Topological Insulators - Fractional and Holographic ||  ||
 * Wed || 12 noon || Aud || **Tadashi Takayanagi** || Recent Updates of Holographic Entanglement Entropy ||  ||
 * Thu || 2pm || Aud || **Liza Huijse** || A supersymmetric model for lattice fermions ||  ||
 * **Week 9** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Tue || 10am || Aud || **Umut Gursoy** || Gravity, spin models and continuous phase transitions ||  ||
 * Wed || 12 noon || Aud || **Cenke Xu** || Topological Terms of Nonlinear Sigma Models ||  ||
 * Thu || 2pm || Aud || high energy seminar ||  ||   ||
 * Fri || 10am || Aud || **Chris Herzog** || ADE-CST ||  ||


 * ~ **Week 10** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, October 31 ||  ||   ||   || //HALLOWEEN// ||   ||
 * Tues, November 1 || 10 am || Aud || **Matthew Fisher** || //Bose and Non-Fermi Liquid Metals// ||  ||
 * Wed, November 2 || 12 noon || Aud || **Alejandra Castro** || //The gravity dual of the Ising model// ||  ||
 * Thurs, November 3 || 2 pm || Aud || **R. Loganayagam** || //Anomaly Polynomial as a Hydrodynamic Property// ||  ||


 * ~ **Week 11** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, November 7 || 4 pm || Aud || **Koenraad Schalm** || //Towards a Holographic Fermi Liquid// ||  ||
 * Tues, November 8 || 10 am || Aud || **Shamit Kachru** || //Maximally Supersymmetric Dirt// ||  ||
 * Wed, November 9 || 12 noon || Aud || **Julian Sonner** || //Holographic noise near quantum critical points// ||  ||
 * Thurs, November 10 || 2 pm || Aud || **Rob Myers** || //Holographic Entanglement Entropy// ||  ||

//through a functional formalism// ||  ||
 * ~ **Week 12** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, November 14 || 4 pm || Aud || **Philip Phillips** || //Holography and Mottness: A Discrete Marriage// ||  ||
 * Tues, November 15 || 10 am || Aud || **Xiaoliang Qi** || //An attempt to understand the holographic duality//
 * Wed, November 16 || 12 noon || Aud || **Benson Way**

//and embeddings// //String theory duals of Lifshitz-Chern-Simons gauge theories// ||  || //for holography and for topological insulators// ||  || ***Aud=Auditorium, SSR=Small Seminar Room, MSR=Main Seminar Room, FR=Founders' Room, PL=Porthole Lounge** ⬆TOP
 * Koushik Balasubramanian** || //Lifshitz holography in string theory: singularities//
 * Thurs, November 17 || 2 pm || Aud || **John McGreevy** || //Free the slave particles: fractionalized states//
 * Fri, 18 || 11am || Aud || **All** || //Final discussion!// ||  ||