Workshops

Spring 2014

Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity Reunion

May 4, 2015 to May 8, 2015

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Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract, slides and archived video. Video recordings are only available for the talks in the mini-workshop on Friday.

All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.

Monday, May 4th, 2015
8:30 am–8:50 am		Coffee and Check-In
8:50 am–9:00 am		Opening Remarks
9:00 am–9:45 am		QMA Completeness of the Bose Hubbard Model Andrew Childs, University of Maryland
10:00 am–10:45 am		Interactive Proofs for QMA Thomas Vidick, California Institute of Technology
10:45 am–11:15 am		Break
11:15 am–12:00 pm		Overlapping Qubits Ben Reichardt, University of Southern California
12:00 pm–1:45 pm		Lunch Break
1:45 pm–2:15 pm		Adiabatic Optimization and Quantum Monte Carlo Aram Harrow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:30 pm–3:15 pm		Quantum Gibbs Samplers Fernando Brandao, Microsoft Research
4:00 pm–5:00 pm		Non-workshop event: Simons Institute Open Lecture (Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall) Ruediger Urbanke, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Tuesday, May 5th, 2015
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:15 am		Local Algorithms for 1D Quantum Systems Zeph Landau, UC Berkeley
10:15 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–11:45 am		Symmetry Breaking in Many Body Physics Frank Verstraete, University of Vienna
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch Break
2:00 pm–2:45 pm		Local Reversibility and Entanglement Structure of Many Body Ground States Itai Arad, Centre for Quantum Technologies
2:45 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:15 pm		Counterexample to the Generalized Area Law Mario Szegedy, Rutgers University
4:30 pm–6:00 pm		Reception

Wednesday, May 6th, 2015
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:00 am–9:45 am		Quantum Randomness Expansion Carl Miller, University of Michigan
9:45 am–10:15 am		EPR Alignment of Reference Frames Giulio Chiribella, Tsinghua University
10:15 am–10:45 am		Break
10:45 am–11:30 am		Quantum-Proof Extractors Xiaodi Wu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:30 am–12:15 pm		QCMA Completeness of Ground State Connectivity Sevag Gharibian, Virginia Commonwealth University
12:30 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch Break
2:00 pm–3:30 pm		Lightning Talks Speakers tbd.

Thursday, May 7th, 2015
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:15 am		The Double Semion Theory in Higher Dimensions Mike Freedman, Microsoft Research Station Q
10:15 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–11:45 am		Entanglement, Thermodynamics, and Renormalization Group Fixed Points Brian Swingle, Stanford University
11:45 am–2:00 pm		Lunch Break
2:00 pm–2:45 pm		Exact Holographic Mapping and Black Hole Geometry Xiao-Liang Qi, Stanford University
2:45 pm–3:15 pm		Break
3:15 pm–4:00 pm		Symmetry Protected Topological Phase Bela Bauer, Microsoft Research Station Q

Friday, May 8th, 2015
		MINI-WORKSHOP ON QUANTUM INFORMATION, SPACETIME AND TENSOR NETWORKS
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee and Check-In
		Session I: GRAVITY & QUANTUM INFORMATION
9:00 am–9:45 am		Spacetime, Entropy, and Quantum Information Patrick Hayden, Stanford University
9:45 am–10:30 am		Black Holes, Firewalls, and Chaos Stephen Shenker, Stanford University
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
		Session II: TENSOR NETWORKS AND GEOMETRY
11:00 am–11:45 am		Tensor Networks and Gravity Mike Zaletel, Microsoft Research, Station Q
11:45 am–12:30 pm		MERA and Holography Shinsei Ryu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
12:30 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch Break
		Session III: QUANTUM ERROR CORRECTION AND HOLOGRAPHY
2:00 pm–2:45 pm		Quantum Error Correction Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute
2:45 pm–3:30 pm		QEC in AdS/CFT Daniel Harlow, Princeton University
3:30 pm–4:00 pm		Break
		SESSION IV: WRAP-UP
4:00 pm–5:30 pm		Moderated Discussion