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)
Graduate Summer School: Mathematics of Topological Phases of Matter
August 29 - September 3, 2021
Schedule
All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)
Monday, August 30, 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
Nathan Seiberg (Institute for Advanced Study)
Virtual Talk: Quantum Field Theory of Exotic SystemsAfternoon Session
12:00-13:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:30
Xie Chen (California Institute of Technology)
Foliated Fracton and Beyond15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
David Aasen (Microsoft Station Q)
Topological Defect Networks for Fracton Models18:30-20:00
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
Dmitri Nikshych (University of New Hampshire)
learning low degree functions in logarithmic number of random queries10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Eric Rowell (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))
Classification of Modular Tensor CategoriesAfternoon 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 Categories15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Colleen Delaney (Indiana University)
Modular Isotopes18:30-20:00
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 Automata10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Afternoon Session
12:00-13:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:30
Jeongwan Haah (Microsoft Research)
Nontrivial Clifford QCAs15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Fiona Burnell (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Introduction to Quantum Cellular Automata18:30-20:00
Dinner
20:00-21:00
Daniel Ranard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Approximate QCAs and a converse to the Lieb-Robinson bounds20:00-21:00
Daniel Ranard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Approximate QCAs and a converse to the Lieb-Robinson bounds21:00-22:00
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 Codes10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Xie Chen (California Institute of Technology)
Symmetry Protected Topological Phases11:00-12:00
Xie Chen (California Institute of Technology)
Symmetry Protected Topological PhasesAfternoon 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 Codes15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Lukasz Fidkowski (University of Washington)
Symmetry Protected Topological phases, cobordism, and QCA18:30-20:00
Dinner
20:00-21:00
Michael Freedman (Microsoft Research)
Generating Reference Data and Controlling Accuracy in DFT and Hybrid DFT Simulations21:00-22:00
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 Systems09:00-10:00
Nathan Seiberg (Institute for Advanced Study)
Virtual Talk: Quantum Field Theory of Exotic Systems10:00-11:00
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