Symmetry and Topology in Quantum Matter - IPAM

Symmetry and Topology in Quantum Matter

January 26 - 30, 2015

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, January 26, 2015

Morning Session

08:00-08:55
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-10:10
Xiao-Gang Wen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
SPT order and algebraic topology
10:10-10:30
Break
10:30-11:40
Zhenghan Wang (Microsoft Research)
Symmetry, defects, and gauging of 2D topological phases
11:40-13:10
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:10-14:20
Max Metlitski (University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara))
A symmetry-respecting topologically-ordered surface phase of 3d electron topological insulators
14:20-14:45
Break
14:45-15:55
Aaron Royer (University of Texas at Austin)
K-theory computations for topological insulators
15:55-16:20
Break
16:20-17:30
Andrew Essin (California Institute of Technology)
Composite Dirac liquids and surface topological orders
17:30-19:00
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-10:10
Scott Morrison (Australian National University)
Progress in the small index subfactor classification
10:10-10:50
Break
10:50-12:00
Xie Chen (California Institute of Technology)
Flux Threading and 3+1D Anomalous Symmetry Enriched Topological phases

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:10
Matthew Hastings (Microsoft Research)
Classifying Quantum Phases With the Torus Trick
15:10-15:50
Break
15:50-17:00
Michael Freedman (Microsoft Research)
Squeezing computational universality out of SU(2)_4

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-10:10
Jurgen Fuchs (Karlstads Universitet)
Topological field theory for defects in topological phases
10:10-10:40
Break
10:40-11:50
Dmitri Nikshych (University of New Hampshire)
Symmetry groups of modular categories and their actions on categorical Grassmannians
11:50-13:20
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:20-14:30
Lukasz Fidkowski (SUNY Stony Brook)
3d symmetry protected phases and surface topological order
14:30-14:55
Break
14:55-16:05
Emily Peters (Loyola University, Chicago)
Categories generated by a trivalent vertex
16:05-16:30
Break
16:30-17:40
Alexei Kitaev (California Institute of Technology)
Homotopy-theoretic approach to SPT phases in action: Z_16 classification of three-dimensional superconductors

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-10:10
Kevin Walker (Microsoft Station Q)
Codimension-1 defects, categorified group actions, and condensing fermions
10:10-10:50
Break
10:50-12:00
Ying Ran (Boston College)
Symmetric tensor networks --- practical simulation algorithms to sharply identify classes of quantum phases distinguishable by short-range physics

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:10
Noah Snyder (Indiana University)
Local TFTs and Tensor Categories
15:10-15:50
Break
15:50-17:00
Fiona Burnell (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Anomalous Symmetry Fractionalization and surface topological order

Friday, January 30, 2015

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-10:10
Cenke Xu (University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB))
Interacting Bosonic and Fermionic Topological Insulators, Connection to Gravitational Anomalies and Standard Model
10:10-10:40
Break
10:40-11:50
Vaughan Jones (Vanderbilt University)
Block spins, subfactors, Thompson groups and knots.
11:50-13:20
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:20-14:30
Michael Levin (University of Chicago)
Braiding statistics and symmetry-protected topological phases
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