Wednesday, February 28 - Friday, March 1, 2024
Agenda
Wednesday February 28
6:15 pm - Walking tour to Tobacco Road Sports Cafe, Meet 21C Museum & Hotel Foyer
6:30 pm - Dinner with the Graduate Students, Tobacco Road Sports Cafe, Durham NC
Thursday, February 29
*all events below held in the Bolton Family Tower, Brodhead Center unless otherwise noted
8:00 am - 21C Museum & Hotel Foyer, shuttle to West Campus
8:30 am - Breakfast with Professor Steffen Bass, Chair
9:00 am - Welcome, Professor Mark Kruse, Director of Graduate Studies
9:30 am - Graduate School with Dean Alan Kendrick
10:00 am - Break
10:15 am - Cosmology and Astrophysics
10:45 am - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
11:15 am - Nonlinear Complex Systems
11:45 am - Biological Physics
12:15 pm - Lunch with Graduate Student Organization (GSO) Representatives
1:00 pm - Breakout Sessions: Women in Physics (Bolton Family Tower) or Life in Durham, NC (Rm 241)
1:30 pm - Breakout Sessions: First Year Overview (Bolton Family Tower) or Life in Durham, NC (Rm 241)
2:00 pm - Break
2:15 pm - Theoretical & Particle Physics
2:45 pm - High Energy Physics
3:15 pm - Experimental Nuclear Physics
3:45 pm - Walk to Triangle University Nuclear Labs (TUNL) Building
4:00 pm - TUNL Tour
5:15 pm - Board Shuttle, meet in Physics Building lobby
5:30 pm - Cocktail Reception, Main Gallery, 21C Museum & Hotel
6:30 pm - Chair's Dinner with Faculty, Current and Visiting Graduate Students, 21C Museum & Hotel
Friday, March 1
9:00 am - Board Shuttle, 21c Museum & Hotel (Check out of hotel and bring luggage with you)
9:30 am - Quantum Information Science, Chesterfield Building, Durham NC
10:00 am - Duke Quantum Center Panel Discussions and Lab Tours, Chesterfield Building, Durham, NC
12:00 noon - pick up luggage and depart for RDU