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1:30pm Welcome
Dave Pritchard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
♫ For Dan
Peter Krasinski, piano
Bill Phillips
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Dan’s Love Affair with Hydrogen: From Masers to Bose-Einstein Condensation
Serge Haroche
Collège de France
Remembering Dan as a Scientist and as a Friend
Wolfgang Ketterle
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dan, the Godfather of BEC
Dave Pritchard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dan: From Advisor to Colleague, 60 Years of Words
3pm Coffee Break
Remembrances
♫ Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat, Op. 100: 2. Andante con moto by Franz Schubert
Barbara Hughey, violin
Paul Glenn, cello
Peter Krasinski, piano
Paul Kleppner
Phil Bucksbaum
Stanford University
From Rydberg Chaos to Richard II
John Doyle
Harvard University
Dan as Advisor, JAMS Host, and CUA Founder
♫ Beginning My Studies by Lee Hoiby with text by Walt Whitman
Gregory Zavracky, tenor
Kanako Nishikawa, piano
Ted Ducas
Wellesley College
Dan Across the Ages
Kate Kirby
American Physical Society, and Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Reflections on Dan’s Leadership
Vanderlei Bagnato
University of São Paulo
Dan, David as Mentors: From MIT to the Cold Atoms in Brazil
♫ Viens, Mon Bien-aimé by Cécile Chaminade
Deborah Selig, soprano
Kanako Nishikawa, piano
Xuzong Chen
Peking University
Dan and Chinese Physics
Sofie Kleppner
♫ They Can’t Take That Away From Me by George and Ira Gershwin
Deborah Selig, soprano
Gregory Zavracky, tenor
Kanako Nishikawa, piano
5:30pm Reception
6:30pm Dinner, by invitation