Harvard UQM Meeting, September 14-15, 2023

Location: Gutman Conference Center,

Harvard Graduate School of Education, 

Corner of Appian Way and Brattle Street.

Dates: September 14-15, 2023

Organizers:

Michael Hermele, Zhu-Xi Luo, Ruben Verresen, Ashvin Vishwanath.

Program:

Thursday September 14

9:00am - 9:05am – Opening remarks

9:05am - 9:35am – David Tong (Cambridge University)
Monopole-fermion scattering is weird

9:35am – 10:05am – Victor Galitski (University of Maryland)
Interaction-driven flat bands and index theorems

10:05am - 11:00am – Break

11:00am - 11:30am – Clay Córdova (University of Chicago)
Anomalies of Non-Invertible Symmetries

11:30am - 12:00pm – Tim Hsieh (Perimeter Institute)
Mixed state quantum phases, renormalization, and decoding

12:00pm - 1:30pm – Lunch

1:30pm - 2:00pm – Xie Chen (Caltech)
Sequential Quantum Circuit

2:00pm - 2:30pm – Michael Hermele (University of Colorado Boulder)
What is a gapped (fracton) phase of matter?

2:30pm - 3:30pm – Break

3:30pm - 5:00pm – Panel discussion (AI for Theoretical Physics and Theoretical Physics for AI)
Panelists: Yasaman Bahri (Google DeepMind), Michael Douglas (SUNY & CMSA), Victor Galitski (UMD) and Xiaoliang Qi (Stanford)

Friday September 15

9:00am - 9:30am – Peter Zoller (University of Innsbruck)
Exploring Large Scale Entanglement in Quantum Simulation

9:30am - 10:00am – Anushya Chandran (Boston University)
Efficient classical shadows with fundamental number conservation

10:00am - 11:00am – Break

11:00am - 11:30am – Norman Yao (Harvard)
Quantum Sensing at Megabar Pressures

11:30am - 12:00pm – Shinsei Ryu (Princeton University)
Generalized inner product and its applications in (1+1)d many-body systems

12:00pm - 2:00pm – Lunch

2:00pm - 2:30pm – Monica Allen (UC San Diego)
In-situ twisting and imaging of moiré superlattices

2:30pm - 3:00pm – Xiaodong Xu (University of Washington)
Observation of Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect

3:00pm - 4:00pm – Break

4:00pm - 4:30pm – Xiaoliang Qi (Stanford University)
Emergent spacetime from generalized free fields

4:30pm - 5:00pm – Subir Sachdev (Harvard University)
Quantum spin liquids and the phases of the cuprates