Workshops | Spring 2013Quantum Hamiltonian ComplexityFebruary 19-22, 2013

Organizers: Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Matt Hastings (Duke University and Station Q), Umesh Vazirani (UC Berkeley), Frank Verstraete (University of Vienna).

This is a planning workshop for the interdisciplinary program on Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity scheduled for Spring 2014. The goal of the workshop is to expand and refine the scope of the program and to initiate collaborations that will be pursued intensively during the program.

The workshop will take place in the Seaborg Room at the UC Berkeley Faculty Club

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Participants
  • Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
  • Itai Arad (Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore)
  • Michael Ben-Or (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
  • Fernando Brandao (ETH Zürich)
  • Sergey Bravyi (IBM Research)
  • Xie Chen (UC Berkeley)
  • Paul Christiano (UC Berkeley)
  • Ignacio Cirac (Max Planck Institute, Garching)
  • Bryan Clark (Station Q)
  • Wim van Dam (UC Santa Barbara)
  • Lukasz Fidkowski (UC Berkeley)
  • David Pérez García (UCM, Madrid)
  • Sevag Gharibian (UC Berkeley)
  • Shayan Oveis Gharan (Stanford)
  • Daniel Gottesman (Perimeter Institute)
  • Yichen Huang (UC Berkeley)
  • Alberto Ibort (UC Berkeley)
  • Sandy Irani (UC Irvine)
  • Christoph Karrasch (UC Berkeley)
  • Alexei Kitaev (Caltech)
  • Zeph Landau (UC Berkeley)
  • James R. Lee (University of Washington)
  • Yuan-Ming Lu (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
  • Urmila Mahadev (UC Berkeley)
  • Spiros Michalakis (Caltech)
  • Roderich Moessner (Max Planck Institute, Dresden)
  • Joel Moore (UC Berkeley)
  • Bruno Nachtergaele (UC Davis)
  • David Poulin (University of Sherbrooke)
  • John Preskill (Caltech)
  • Prasad Raghavendra (UC Berkeley)
  • Ben Reichardt (University of Southern California)
  • Norbert Schuch (RWTH Aachen)
  • Leonard Schulman (Caltech)
  • Jonah Sherman (UC Berkeley)
  • Seung Woo Shin (UC Berkeley)
  • Shivaji Sondhi (Princeton University)
  • Martin Suchara (UC Berkeley)
  • Brian Swingle (Harvard University)
  • Luca Trevisan (Stanford)
  • Umesh Vazirani (UC Berkeley)
  • Frank Verstraete (University of Vienna)
  • Thomas Vidick (MIT)
  • Ashvin Vishwanath (UC Berkeley)
  • Guoming Wang (UC Berkeley)
  • Stephen White (UC Irvine)
  • Jon Yard (Station Q)
  • Peter Young (UC Santa Cruz)
  • Mike Zaletel (UC Berkeley)

For scientific questions about the workshop, please contact the main organizer, Umesh Vazirani. For logistical questions, please contact our Events Coordinator, Caroline Allum.