Schedule

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Tuesday, May 25

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopic 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

TimeSpeaker or EventTopicLocation
 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


Thursday, May 27

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopic 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)
 


Friday, May 28

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopic 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)


Saturday, May 29

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopic 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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