#  Harvard UQM Meeting, September 14-15, 2023 

 



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**Location:** [Gutman Conference Center](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Gutman%20Conference%20Center/@42.374902,-71.1266167,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x89e37720c67da283:0x77e90cfea710e0c5!8m2!3d42.3748981!4d-71.1217512!16s/g/11ss_404d1?entry=ttu),

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*