Dave & Wolfgang Alumni Fest

Schedule

Friday, May 10th:

3pm: MIT Museum Meetup

Group Dinners:
– 6:30 pm Reception & light dinner chez Wolfgang:  6:30 pm, 80 Clifton Street, Belmont.  Street parking available in Fletcher Street around the corner.
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– 6PM Reception at Andy’s Art Gallery/Dave’s House at 88 Washington Ave (rear of 86 Washington Ave).  Parking on street is OK with permit. At 7:15, we will adjourn down the street to Chalawon Restaurant, 1790 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02140.

 

Saturday, May 11th:

8:30-10am: Breakfast and coffee in 26-214, plus lab tours
10-12:30pm: Alumni Talks (6-120)

10:00 Welcome – MZ
10:05 Dan Kleppner
10:25 John Serri
10:30 Tim Brunner
10:35 Susan Dexheimer
10:40 Vanderlei Bagnato
10:45 Gould, Phil
10:50 Eric Raab
10:55 Stewart, Brian
11:00 BREAK
11:15 Dan Stamper-Kurn
11:35 Klaasjan van Druten
11:45 Michael Andrews
11:50 Roberto Onofrio
11:55 Axel Görlitz
12:00 Ananth Chikkatur
12:05 Subhadeep Gupta
12:10 Kai Dieckmann
12:15 Sebastian Raupach
12:20 BUFFER

12:30pm – 2pm: Lunch (4-349)
2pm – 4:45pm: Alumni Talks (6-120)

2:00 Jay Apt
2:20 Eric A. Cornell
2:40 Christopher Ekstrom
2:45 Debbie Fygenson
2:50 Alex Martin
2:55 Wolfgang Ketterle
3:00 Michael Chapman
3:05 Al-Amin Dhirani
3:10 Alex Cronin
3:15 James Thompson
3:20 Ed Myers
3:25 BUFFER
3:30 BREAK
3:45 Tilman Pfau
4:05 Sebastian Will
4:10 Alan Jamison
4:15 Chandra Raman
4:20 Jamil Abo-Shaeer
4:25 Kaiwen Xu
4:30 Yingmei Liu
4:35 Christian Sanner
4:40 BUFFER 

4:45 Leave for Duck Tour

5:15pm – Private Duck Tour (departing from Kendall T Stop, 80 minutes duration)
6:30pm – Drinks and hors d’oeuvres begin at the Samberg Center for those who are not joining the Duck Tour. Duck Tour attendees will join at the conclusion of the tour (the Samberg Center is just down the street from the Kendall T stop, where the tour will drop off). 
7pm – 11pm: Dinner Reception (Samberg Conference Center, E52, 7th floor). Drinks will continue after dinner until 10:30pm. 

 

Sunday, May 12th, at MIT:

8:30-10am: Breakfast and coffee in 26-214, plus lab tours

10-12:30pm: Alumni Talks (6-120)

10:00 Dave Kokorowski
10:10 Rasil Warnakulasooriya
10:15 Zhongzhou Chen
10:20 Michael Joffe
10:30 Gretchen Campbell
10:50 Dominik Schneble
10:55 BUFFER
11:00 BREAK
11:15 Zoran Hadzibabic
11:35 Claudiu Stan
11:40 Martin Zwierlein
11:45 Tout Wang
11:50 Wenlan Chen
11:55 Ariel Sommer
12:00 Timur Rvachov
12:05 Woo Chang Chung
12:10 Ivana Dimitrova
12:05 Paul Niklas Jepsen
12:10 BUFFER

12:30am-2pm: Lunch (4-349)

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