• Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract, slides and archived video.

All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.

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Coffee and Check-In
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Opening Remarks
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The Quest for Parameterizing the Manifold of Low-energy States of Quantum Spin Systems

Frank Verstraete (University of Cambridge)
Video
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Break
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AGSPs and an Area Law for Gapped 1D Systems

Zeph Landau (UC Berkeley)
Video
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Lunch
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Counter-example to Generalized Area Laws

Mario Szegedy (Rutgers University)
Video
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Break
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Exact Holographic Mapping and Emergent Space-time Geometry

Xiao-Liang Qi, Stanford University
Video
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Reception
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Coffee and Check-In
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Space Time Circuit to Hamiltonian Construction

Barbara Terhal, RWTH Aachen
Video
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Break
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Quantum Expanders

Aram Harrow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Video
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Lunch
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Prospects for a Quantum PCP Theorem

Matt Hastings (Microsoft Research)
Video
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Break
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Quantum Local Testability

Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Video
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Coffee and Check-In
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Entanglement and the Quantum Phases of Matter

Ashvin Vishwanath (UC Berkeley)
Video
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Break
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Lattice Quantum Codes

Jeongwan Haah (Stanford University)
Video
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Lunch
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Lightning Talks I
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Break
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Lightning Talks II
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Coffee and Check-In
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Correlations, Area Laws, and Stability of Open and Thermal Many-body Quantum Systems

Jens Eisert (FU Berlin)
Video
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Break
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Many Body Localization and Adiabatic Quantum Optimization

Chris Laumann, University of Washington
Video
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Lunch
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Experiments with D-Wave

Sergio Boixo, Google Research
Video
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Break
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How Quantum is D-Wave?

Seung Woo Shin (UC Berkeley)
Video