Speakers and Titles

Workshop on Quantum Information and Physics 

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August 19-23, 2024 (Focus Week 1)

Meng Cheng, Physics of Topological Codes

Michael Levin, Entanglement-Based Probes of Topological Phases

Mikhail Lukin, Experiments in Quantum Information

Fermi Ma, Pseudorandom Unitaries and Compressed Purifications

Geoff Penington, The Page Curve from Gravity

Norbert Schuch, Quantum Information Theory

Douglas Stanford,  Chaos and Gravity

Ewin Tang, Quantum Algorithms

Frank Verstraete, Entanglement and Phases of Matter

Henry Yuen, Unitary Complexity and Cryptography
 

August 26-30, 2024 (Focus Week 2)

Andrew Childs , Quantum Simulation

Jeongwan Haah, Incompressibility of Random Walks on Unitary Group

Daniel Harlow, Holography and Quantum Information

Robert Huang, Shallow Quantum Circuits

Tamara Kohler, Complexity and Gravity

David Perez-Garcia, Tensor Networks

Ashvin Vishwanath, Topological Phases and Quantum Information

Avi Wigderson, The Value of Errors in Proofs
(Abstract: A few years ago, a group of theoretical computer scientists posted a paper on the Arxiv with the strange-looking title "MIP* = RE", impacting and surprising not only complexity theory but also some areas of math and physics. Specifically, it resolved, in the negative, the "Connes' embedding conjecture" in the area of von-Neumann algebras, and the "Tsirelson problem" in quantum information theory. You can find the paper here https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04383 

As it happens, both acronyms MIP* and RE represent proof systems, of a very different nature. To explain them, we'll take a meandering journey through the classical and modern definitions of proof systems. A special focus will be on notions of proof which allow interaction, randomness, quantumness and errors, and their surprising power and magical properties, including ZK (Zero Knowledge proofs) and PCPs (Probababilistically Checkable Proofs). 

The talk will be non-technical, and requires no special background.)