Caltech Meeting Fall 2022

All talks and panels will be held in Noyes 153, breaks and lunches will be at East Bridge Portico.

Schedule:

Monday 9/19/2022

 

9:00-9:05  Welcome

9:05-9:35  Michael Levin (University of Chicago) - "Effect of long-range interactions on topological ground state degeneracy"

9:35 - 10:05 Anton Kapustin (Caltech) - "Hohenberg-Mermin-Wagner theorems for systems with a dipole symmetry"

10:05-10:30  Break

10:30 - 11:00 Michael Hermele (University of Colorado Boulder) - "Generalized foliated fracton phases"

11:00 - 11:30  Zhu-Xi Luo (Harvard University) - "X-cube model: from the bulk to the boundary and back"

11:30 - 12:00 Wilbur Shirley (Institute for Advanced Study) - "Fracton self-statistics"

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:00 Chong Wang (Perimeter Institute) - "Average SPT and average anomaly"

2:00-2:30  Dave Aasen (Microsoft Station Q) - "From automorphism codes to adiabatic paths and back"

2:30 - 3:15 Break

3:15 - 5:00  “Future of topological and fracton quantum matter” panel with Xie Chen, John McGreevy and Nathan Seiberg, moderated by Michael Hermele

 

Tuesday 9/20/2022

 

9:00 - 9:30    Dam Thanh Son (University of Chicago) - "Nonlinear bosonization of Fermi surfaces: The method of coadjoint orbits"

9:30-10:00    Yin-Chen He (Perimeter Institute) - "Stiefel liquids: anomaly, emergibility and classification"

10:00 - 10:45  Break

10:45-12:00  “Future of Gapless UQM” panel with Subir Sachdev and T. Senthil

12:00 - 1:30  Lunch

1:30-2:00  Ruben Verresen (Harvard University) - "Long-range entanglement from measuring a state only once: Nishimori's cat, criticality, and non-Abelions"

2:00-2:30  Pedram Roushan (Google) - "Toward discovering novel physics with a NISQ processor"

2:30-3:15  Break

3:15 - 5:00  “Future of realizations & beyond equilibrium” panel with Jason Alicea, Ehud Altman, and Matthew Fisher, moderated by Ashvin Vishwanath

 

Wednesday 9/21/2022

 

9:15-9:45  Sarah Sheldon (IBM) - "The path to quantum advantage through error mitigation"

9:45-10:15  Iliya Esin (Caltech) - "Universal transport in periodically driven systems without long-lived quasiparticles"

10:15 - 11:00  Break

11:00-11:30  Sanjay Moudgalya (Caltech) - "Unconventional Symmetries from Commutant Algebras"

11:30-12:00  Mike Zaletel (University of California Berkeley) - "Non-abelian phases in bilayer graphene"

12:00 - 1:30  Lunch