Meeting Schedule
Thursday, Sept. 12 – Morning
Registration will take place in the Jefferson/Lyman Lobby, Near Lyman 236
All talks will be held in Jefferson 250
All breaks and meals will be held in the Physics Library (Jefferson 450)
9:00 – 9:30 | Breakfast/Registration | Lyman Lobby/Library |
9:30 – 9:45 | Kickoff Remarks | Ashvin Vishwanath |
9:45 – 10:30 | Overview of Fracton UQM, and "Entanglement renormalization of fractonic gauge theories” | Xie Chen |
10:30 – 11:00 | “Higher symmetries, p-string condensation and fractons” | Michael Hermele |
11:00 – 11:25 | Break | Library |
11:25 – 11:55 | "Mimicking the edge of 2d topological insulators and superconductors in a 1d lattice model" | Max Metlitski |
11:55 – 1:30 | Lunch | Library |
Thursday, Sept. 12 – Afternoon
1:30 – 1:45 | Topological UQM – Overview | John McGreevy |
1:45 – 2:15 | "Bridging the gap between lattice models and TQFTs" | Michael Levin |
2:15 – 2:45 | "Emergent higher symmetry in condensed matter systems" | Xiao-Gang Wen |
2:45 – 3:15 | “UQM in Experiments” | Leon Balents |
3:15 – 3:45 | Break | Library |
3:45 – 4:00 | Gapless UQM -- Overview | Shamit Kachru |
4:00 – 4:30 | "Dynamics of composite fermions near half filling" | Dam Thanh Son |
4:30 – 5:00 | "Planckian metals " | Subir Sachdev |
5:00 – 6:00 | Poster Session | Library |
6:30 – 9:00 | Dinner for UQM Collaboration Members; by invitation only
| Harvest Restaurant |
Friday, Sept. 13 – Morning
9:00 – 9:30 | Breakfast | Library |
9:30 – 9:45 | QFT and UQM – Overview | Andreas Karch |
9:45 – 10:15 | "Landau ordering transitions beyond the Landau paradigm" | Senthil Todadri |
10:15 – 10:45 | "Continuum field theory with a vector global symmetry" | Nathan Seiberg |
10:45 – 11:15 | Break | Library |
11:15 – 11:30 | Dynamics and entanglement in synthetic UQM — Overview | Victor Gurarie |
1130 – 12:00 | "Many-body localization landscape" | Victor Galitski |
12:00 – 12:30 | "Quantum entanglement and measurements" | Matthew Fisher |
Friday, Sept. 13 – Afternoon
UQM PIs ONLY | Lunch & Business Meeting | Harvard Faculty Club |
Other Participants | Pizza Lunch & Student/Postdoc Talks* | Jefferson 250 |
*All interested participants are welcome to attend both the pizza lunch and talks.