Graduate Summer School: Mathematics of Topological Phases of Matter - IPAM

Graduate Summer School: Mathematics of Topological Phases of Matter

August 29 - September 3, 2021

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Sunday, August 29, 2021

Afternoon Session

16:00-20:00
Check in at Lake Arrowhead
18:30-20:00
Dinner
20:00-21:00
Welcome & Opening Session
21:00-22:00
Social Hour (Iris)

Monday, August 30, 2021

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-10:30
Jeongwan Haah (Microsoft Research)
Locally indistinguishable ground states
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Nathan Seiberg (Institute for Advanced Study)
Virtual Talk: Quantum Field Theory of Exotic Systems

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:30
Xie Chen (California Institute of Technology)
Foliated Fracton and Beyond
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
David Aasen (Microsoft Station Q)
Topological Defect Networks for Fracton Models
18:30-20:00
Dinner
20:00-21:00
Q&A with Xie Chen, Jeongwan Haah and Nathan Seiberg
21:00-22:00
Social Hour (Iris)

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Eric Rowell (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))
Classification of Modular Tensor Categories

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:30
Eric Rowell (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))
Classification of Modular Tensor Categories
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Colleen Delaney (Indiana University)
Modular Isotopes
18:30-20:00
Dinner
20:00-21:00
Q&A with Zhenghan Wang, Eric Rowell and Colleen Delaney
21:00-22:00
Social Hour (Iris)

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-10:30
Matthew Hastings (Microsoft Research)
Introduction to Quantum Cellular Automata
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Lukasz Fidkowski (University of Washington)
Floquet topological phases and QCA

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:30
Jeongwan Haah (Microsoft Research)
Nontrivial Clifford QCAs
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Fiona Burnell (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Introduction to Quantum Cellular Automata
18:30-20:00
Dinner
20:00-21:00
Daniel Ranard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Approximate QCAs and a converse to the Lieb-Robinson bounds
20:00-21:00
Daniel Ranard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Approximate QCAs and a converse to the Lieb-Robinson bounds
21:00-22:00
Social Hour (Iris)

Thursday, September 2, 2021

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-10:30
Matthew Hastings (Microsoft Research)
Building Manifolds from Error Correcting Codes
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Xie Chen (California Institute of Technology)
Symmetry Protected Topological Phases
11:00-12:00
Xie Chen (California Institute of Technology)
Symmetry Protected Topological Phases

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:30
Fiona Burnell (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Building Manifolds from Error Correcting Codes
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Lukasz Fidkowski (University of Washington)
Symmetry Protected Topological phases, cobordism, and QCA
18:30-20:00
Dinner
21:00-22:00
Social Hour (Iris)

Friday, September 3, 2021

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-10:00
Nathan Seiberg (Institute for Advanced Study)
Virtual Talk: Quantum Field Theory of Exotic Systems
09:00-10:00
Nathan Seiberg (Institute for Advanced Study)
Virtual Talk: Quantum Field Theory of Exotic Systems
10:00-11:00
Q&A with Xie Chen, Lukasz Fidkowski and Nathan Seiberg
11:00-11:00
1st Shuttle Leaves Lake Arrowhead
11:00-12:00
Checkout

Afternoon Session

12:00-12:40
Lunch (on your own)
12:45-12:45
2nd Shuttle Leaves Lake Arrowhead