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

All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.

Click here for a set of introductory notes on the field of Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity intended to complement the Boot Camp.

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Coffee and Check-In
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Opening Remarks
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Introduction to Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity
Umesh Vazirani (Simons Institute, UC Berkeley)
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Break
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Delegated Quantum Computation
Anne Broadbent (University of Ottawa)
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Lunch Break
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Untrusted Quantum Devices
Yaoyun Shi (University of Michigan)
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Break
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Mini Crash Course: Quantum Games and Semi-Definite Programming
Thomas Vidick (California Institute of Technology)
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Coffee and Check-In
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Many-body Physics and Complexity I
Daniel Nagaj (University of Vienna, Austria)
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Break
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The Complexity of Ground States
Zeph Landau (UC Berkeley)
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Lunch Break
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Mini Crash Course: Quantum Information Theory
Ashwin Nayak (University of Waterloo)
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Break
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Application of Quantum Information Theory in QHC
Aram Harrow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Quantum Information Measures and Black Holes
Patrick Hayden (Stanford University)
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Coffee and Check-In
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Mini Crash Course: The Classical PCP Theorem
Luca Trevisan (Bocconi University)
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Break
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The Quantum PCP Theorem
Thomas Vidick (California Institute of Technology)
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Lunch Break
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SDP Hierarchies and Quantum States
Aram Harrow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Break
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Mini Crash Course: Quantum Error Correction
Ben Reichardt (University of Southern California)
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Coffee and Check-In
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Mini Crash Course: Tensor Networks
Zeph Landau (UC Berkeley)
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Break
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Many-body Physics and Complexity II
Daniel Nagaj (University of Vienna, Austria)
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Simulating Quantum Field Theory with a Quantum Computer
John Preskill (California Institute of Technology)