the other, other program running in parallel with the clusters09 program at KITP is "Low Dimensional Electron Systems", which seems intensely worried about the supply of pencils, or some such - at least graphene seems to be their buzzword du jour.
They, also, are having lots of talks, most all of which are also online video and podcast.
Monday they had their "Director's Seminar", to explain what the big deal is to the rest of us, and themselves:
Sankar Das Sarma "Low Dimensional Electron Systems: A Landscape of Graphene, Quantum Hall Effects, MOSFET, Luttinger Liquid, and Beyond"
most interesting, and with a title even longer than mine...
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