All events take place in the Seaborg Room in the UC Berkeley Faculty Club, unless otherwise stated.

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Welcome from Richard Karp, Director of the Simons Institute
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Introduction to the Workshop<br> Umesh Vazirani, UC Berkeley
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A Classical Leash for a Quantum System
Ben Reichardt (University of Southern California)
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Break
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Limitations of Entanglement in Multiplayer Games
Thomas Vidick (California Institute of Technology)
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Lunch Break
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The Quantum PCP Conjecture
Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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Break
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Approximation Guarantees for the Quantum Local Hamiltonian Problem and Limitations for Quantum PCPs
Fernando Brandao (Microsoft Research)
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Break
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Discussion
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Looking for Spin Liquids with DMRG
Steve White, UC Irvine
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Break
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An Area Law for 1-D Gapped Systems
Itai Arad (Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore)
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Lunch Break
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Area Laws for Excited States of Gapped Quantum Spin Systems
Frank Verstraete (University of Cambridge)
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Break
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A Polynomial Time Algorithm for the Ground State of 1-D Gapped Local Hamiltonians
Zeph Landau, UC Berkeley
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Reception
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PEPS, Boundary Theories and Renormalization Group
Ignacio Cirac (Max Planck Institute, Garching)
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Break
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Topological Phases with Short Ranged Quantum Entanglement
Ashvin Vishwanath, UC Berkeley
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Lunch Break
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Topological Quantum Order and Quantum Error Correcting Codes
Sergey Bravyi, IBM Research
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Break
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Tradeoffs Between Thermal and Quantum Fluctuations in 2D Systems
David Poulin, University of Sherbrooke
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Break
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Discussion
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Entanglement, Renormalization, and Holography
Brian Swingle (Harvard University)
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Break
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Simulating Quantum Field Theory with a Quantum Computer
John Preskill (California Institute of Technology)
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Lunch Break
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Breakout Discussions