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.