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Tuesday, May 25 | Time | Speaker or Event | Topic | Location | 8:30 - 9:30 am
| Registration & Coffee | | Atrium & Bistro | 9:30 - 9:45 am
| Introductory Remarks by the Scientific Organizing Committee | Bob Room (#405) | | Topic Area: Quantum Information Methods in Condensed Matter Systems 1 | 9:45 - 10:30 am
| Ignacio Cirac
Max Planck Institute | Description of many-body systems using MPS, PEPS, and other families of states | Bob Room (#405) | 10:30 - 11:15 am
| Jens Eisert
University of Potsdam | Grasping quantum many-body systems in terms of tensor networks | Bob Room (#405) | 11:15 - 11:45 am
| Coffee Break | | Black Hole Bistro | 11:45 - 12:30 pm
| Paolo Zanardi
University of
Southern California | Unitary Equilibrations: Temporal and Hilbert Space Typicality of Loschmidt Echo
| Bob Room (#405) | 12:30 - 2:00 pm
| Lunch | | Black Hole Bistro | Topic Area: Quantum Information Methods in Condensed Matter Systems 2
| | 2:00 - 2:45 pm | Frank Verstraete
Universität Wien | A variational wave-function based method for simulating quantum field theories | Bob Room (#405) | | 2:45 - 3:30 pm | Guifre Vidal
University of
Queensland | Entanglement renormalization and gauge symmetry | Bob Room (#405) | 3:30 - 4:00 pm
| Coffee Break | | Black Hole Bistro | 4:00 - 4:45 pm
| Claudio Chamon
Boston University
| Quantum mechanical and information theoretic view on classical glass transitions | Bob Room (#405) | 4:45 - 5:30 pm
| Sougato Bose
University College of
London | Entanglement across a separation in spin chains: statics & dynamics | Bob Room (#405) |
| Wednesday, May 26
| Time | Speaker or Event | Topic | Location | Topic Area: Entanglement 1
| 9:45- 10:30 am
| Max Metlitski
Harvard University | Entanglement entropy in the O(N) model | Bob Room (#405) | 10:30 - 11:15 am
| Roger Melko
University of Waterloo | Computing Entanglement in Simulations of Quantum Condensed Matter | Bob Room (#405) | 11:15 - 11:45 am
| Coffee Break | | Black Hole Bistro | | 11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Gil Refael
California Institute of
Technology | Entanglement entropy and infinite randomness fixed points in disordered magnetic and non-abelian quasi-particle chains | Bob Room (#405) | 12:30-2:00 pm
| Lunch | | Black Hole Bistro | | 2:00 - 3:30 pm | Anthony Leggett
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign | Does entanglement persist at the macroscopic level? | Mike Lazaridis Theatre | 3:30 - 4:00 pm
| Coffee Break | | Black Hole Bistro | | Topic Area: Entanglement 2 | 4:00 - 4:45 pm
| Karyn Le Hur
Yale University
| Entanglement and Fluctuations in Many-Body Quantum Systems | Bob Room (#405) | 4:45 - 5:30 pm
| Michel Gingras
University of Waterloo | Recent developments in the physics of spin ice and related quantum cousin. | Bob Room (#405) | 6:00 pm
| Banquet Dinner | | Black Hole Bistro |
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Thursday, May 27
| Time | Speaker or Event | Topic | Location | | Topic Area: Topological Order | 9:45 - 10:30 am
| Paul Fendley
University of Virginia | From few to many | Bob Room (#405) | 10:30 - 11:15 am
| Matthew Fisher
California Institute of
Technology | Gapless Spin Liquids in Two Dimensions | Bob Room (#405) | 11:15 - 11:45 am
| Coffee Break | | Black Hole Bistro | 11:45 - 12:30 pm
| Xiao-Gang Wen
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology | Local unitary transformation, long-range quantum entanglement, wave function renormalization, and topological order
| Bob Room (#405) | 12:30 - 2:00 pm
| Lunch | | Black Hole Bistro | 2:00 - 2:45 pm
| Israel Klich
University of Virginia | Cluster expansions and the stability of topological phases. | Bob Room (#405) | 2:45 - 3:30 pm
| Chetan Nayak
Microsoft Station Q and
University of California,
Santa Barbara | TBA | Bob Room (#405) | 3:30 - 4:00 pm
| Coffee Break | | Black Hole Bistro | 4:00 - 4:45 pm
| Barbara Terhal
IBM | How to make a low-dimensional thermally stable quantum memory | Bob Room (#405) | 4:45 - 5:30 pm
| Xie Chen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| TBA | Bob Room (#405) |
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Friday, May 28
| Time | Speaker or Event | Topic | Location | | Topic Area: Emergence | | 9:45 - 10:30 am | Cenke Xu
Harvard University | Emergent gauge theories in Quantum spin Hall superconductor Josephson arrays and cold atom system | Bob Room (#405) | | 10:30 - 11:15 am | Taylor Hughes
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign | Entanglement Spectra and Topological Insulators | Bob Room (#405) | | 11:15 - 11:45 am | Coffee Break | | Black Hole Bistro | | 11:45 - 12:30 pm | John McGreevy
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology | Strange metal from holography | Bob Room (#405) | | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | Lunch | | Black Hole Bistro | | 2:00 -2:45 pm | Ian Affleck
University of
British Columbia | Impurity entanglement entropy and the Kondo model | Bob Room (#405) | 2:45 - 3:30 pm
| Yong Baek Kim
University of Toronto | Spin Liquid and Topological Insulator in Frustrated Magnets | Bob Room (#405) | | 3:30 - 4:00 pm | Coffee Break | | Black Hole Bistro | 4:00- 4:45 pm
| Eduardo Fradkin
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign | Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Criticality | Bob Room (#405) |
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Saturday, May 29
| Time | Speaker or Event | Topic | Location | | Topic Area: ADS/CFT | 9:45 - 10:30 am
| Sung-Sik Lee
McMaster University
| Holographic description of quantum field theory | Bob Room (#405) | 10:30 - 11:15 am
| Andreas Karch
University of Washington | A particle physicist's perspective on topological insulators | Bob Room (#405) | 11:15 - 11:45 am
| Coffee Break | | Black Hole Bistro | 11:45 - 12:30 pm
| Subir Sachdev
Harvard University | Quantum "disordering" magnetic order in insulators, superconductors, and metals | Bob Room (#405) | 12:30 - 2:00 pm
| Lunch | | Black Hole Bistro | | 2:00 - 2:45 pm | Shamit Kachru
KITP/Stanford | An isotropic to anisotropic transition in a fractional quantum Hall state | Bob Room (#405) | 2:45 - 3:30 pm
| Omid Saremi
McGill University | Mode-Coupling, Hydrodynamic Long-time tails from Anti de Sitter Space | Bob Room (#405) | 3:30 - 3:40 pm
| | Closing Remarks | Bob Room (#405) | 3:40 - 4:10 pm
| Coffee Break | | Black Hole Bistro |
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