Scientific Program
Symposium on Quantum Information, Complexity, and the Physical World
Monday, December 5, 2022 - Princeton University
Workshop on Spacetime and Quantum Information
Tuesday & Wednesday, December 6-7, 2022 - Institute for Advanced Study
Main Menu Speakers and Abstracts
Talks on December 5 will take place in McDonnell A02 at Princeton University
Talks on December 6-7 will take place in Wolfensohn Hall at the IAS
Talks are 35 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions.
*NOTE: Lunch at the IAS is available between 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm (Dining room closes at 1:30 pm SHARP!)
Monday, December 5
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| 8:15 am - 8:50 am | Registration - (Brush Gallery) |
| 8:50 am - 9:00 am | Welcome Remarks - (McDonnell A02) |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | "An Observer in de Sitter Space" Edward Witten (IAS, Princeton) |
| 9:45 am - 10:30 am | "Quantum Computing and Simulation with Errors" Ignacio Cirac (Max Planck, Munich) |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:45 am | "Exploring Many-Body Physics with Superconducting Quantum Processors" Xiao Mi (Google Quantum AI) |
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm |
"Influence Functionals, Temporal Entanglement, and Quantum Many-Body Dynamics" |
| 12:45 pm - 2:15 pm | Lunch - (Jadwin Hall, PCTS & Gravity Initiative) |
| 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm | "Emergent Gravitational Dynamics in Quantum Experiments" Daniel Jafferis (Harvard University) |
| 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm | "Complexity of Random Circuit Sampling" Umesh Vazirani (UC, Berkeley) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Tea Time & Discussions |
| 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm | "Gravity and Black Holes from a Quantum System" Juan Maldacena (IAS, Princeton) |
| 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Informal Reception |
| 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Dinner - (Jadwin Hall, PCTS & Gravity Initiative) |
Tuesday, December 6
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| 8:00 am & 8:30 am |
Bus pickup from Nassau Inn to Fuld Hall |
| 8:15 am - 9:00 am | Registration - Fuld Hall Common Room |
| 8:55 am - 9:00 am | Welcome Remarks - (Wolfensohn Hall) |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | "Complexity Coarse-Graining in the Black Hole Information Problem" Netta Engelhardt |
| 9:45 am - 10:30 am | "Cauchy Slice Holography and the Information Paradox" Aron Wall *remote |
| 10:30 am - 11:15 am | Coffee Break - Simons Hall |
| 11:15 am - 12:00 pm | "Causality and Entanglement in Holography: The Connected Wedge Theorem Revisited" Jonathan Sorce |
| 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm | "Holographic Measurements and Quantum Teleportation" Brian Swingle |
| 1:00 pm - 2:45 pm | Lunch - Simons Hall Discussions - Bloomberg Hall / Wolfensohn Hall |
| 2:45 pm - 3:30 pm | "Firewalls from Wormholes" Zhenbin Yang *remote |
| 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Tea Time & Discussions - Simons Hall |
| 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm | "Algebra and Geometry from Chords" Henry Lin |
| 5:15 pm - 6:00 pm | "Path Integrals for Chords" Ahmed Almheiri |
| 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Dinner - Simons Hall |
| 7:30 pm & 8:00 pm | Return bus from Fuld Hall to Nassau Inn |
Wednesday, December 7 (IAS) |
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| 8:00 am & 8:30 am | Bus pickup from Nassau Inn to Fuld Hall |
| 8:15 am - 9:00 am |
Participant Luggage Drop Areas: |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am |
"Black Hole Microstate Counting from Gravity" |
| 9:45 am - 10:30 am | "Quantum Pseudoentanglement" Bill Fefferman |
| 10:30 am - 11:15 am | Coffee Break - Simons Hall |
| 11:15 am - 12:00 pm | "A Generalized Protocol for Bulk Reconstruction from Generalized Free Fields" Tamra Nebabu |
| 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm | "Discrete Bulk Reconstruction" Scott Aaronson |
| 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch - Simons Hall |
| 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm | "Microstates of the 2d Non-Supersymmetric Black Hole" Ronak Soni |
| 2:45 pm - 3:30 pm | "The Boundary Algebras in JT Gravity" Geoff Penington |
| 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Afternoon Tea - Simons Hall Discussions - Bloomberg Hall |
| 4:30 pm - 4:55 pm | Participant Luggage Pickup |
| 4:50 pm | Board buses to NYC for IFQ Collaboration Members and Invited Guests - Front of Fuld Hall |
| 5:00 pm | Bus departs to New York City |