• 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.

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Coffee and Check-In
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Opening Remarks
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QMA Completeness of the Bose Hubbard Model
Andrew Childs, University of Maryland
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Interactive Proofs for QMA
Thomas Vidick (California Institute of Technology)
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Break
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Overlapping Qubits
Ben Reichardt (University of Southern California)
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Lunch Break
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Adiabatic Optimization and Quantum Monte Carlo
Aram Harrow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Quantum Gibbs Samplers
Fernando Brandao (Microsoft Research)
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Non-workshop event: Simons Institute Open Lecture (Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall)
Rüdiger Urbanke (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
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Coffee and Check-In
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Local Algorithms for 1D Quantum Systems
Zeph Landau (UC Berkeley)
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Break
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Symmetry Breaking in Many Body Physics
Frank Verstraete (University of Cambridge)
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Lunch Break
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Local Reversibility and Entanglement Structure of Many Body Ground States
Itai Arad, Centre for Quantum Technologies
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Break
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Counterexample to the Generalized Area Law
Mario Szegedy (Rutgers University)
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Reception
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Coffee and Check-In
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Quantum Randomness Expansion
Carl Miller (University of Maryland)
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EPR Alignment of Reference Frames
Giulio Chiribella (Tsinghua University)
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Break
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Quantum-Proof Extractors
Xiaodi Wu (University of Maryland, College Park)
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QCMA Completeness of Ground State Connectivity
Sevag Gharibian (Virginia Commonwealth University)
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Lunch Break
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Lightning Talks
Speakers tbd.
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Coffee and Check-In
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The Double Semion Theory in Higher Dimensions
Mike Freedman, Microsoft Research Station Q
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Break
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Entanglement, Thermodynamics, and Renormalization Group Fixed Points
Brian Swingle (Harvard University)
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Lunch Break
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Exact Holographic Mapping and Black Hole Geometry
Xiao-Liang Qi, Stanford University
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Break
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Symmetry Protected Topological Phase
Bela Bauer (Microsoft Research, Station Q)
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MINI-WORKSHOP ON QUANTUM INFORMATION, SPACETIME AND TENSOR NETWORKS
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Session I: GRAVITY & QUANTUM INFORMATION
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Coffee and Check-In
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Spacetime, Entropy, and Quantum Information
Patrick Hayden (Stanford University)
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Black Holes, Firewalls, and Chaos
Stephen Shenker, Stanford University
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Session II: TENSOR NETWORKS AND GEOMETRY
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Break
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Tensor Networks and Gravity
Mike Zaletel, Microsoft Research, Station Q
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MERA and Holography
Shinsei Ryu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Lunch Break
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Session III: QUANTUM ERROR CORRECTION AND HOLOGRAPHY
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Quantum Error Correction
Daniel Gottesman (University of Maryland)
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QEC in AdS/CFT
Daniel Harlow, Princeton University
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Break
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SESSION IV: WRAP-UP
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Moderated Discussion