Talks+&+Discussions

**Week 9 **
Dec 13 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Ryan Mishmash** || //Exotic gapless Bose metals and insulators on multi-leg ladders// ||  || Dec 14 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Xiaoliang Qi** || **Informal discussion:** //The relation between entanglement// //and edge theory in topological states// ||  || Dec 15 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Anders Sandvik** || //Deconfined spinons at the Neel-VBS transition in two dimensions// ||  || Dec 16 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Tarun Grover** || //Entanglement Entropy of Critical Spin Liquids// ||  || **Week 8 - Focus week on entanglement** Dec 6 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Matt Hastings** || **Pedagogical lecture:** //Entanglement, Computation, and Physics// ||  || //geometrical perspective// ||  || Dec 7 || 2:30 pm || Aud || **Shinsei Ryu** || //What can we learn about many-body entanglement from holography// ||  || Dec 8 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Ignacio Cirac** || //Matrix product states: renormalization, gaps, and symmetries// || joint seminar with optical lattices program || //of gapped quantum states// || joint seminar with optical lattices program || Dec 9 || 10:00 am || Aud || **John Cardy** || **Pedagogical lecture:** //Universal Properties of Entanglement// //Entropy// //in 1+1 dimensions from QFT// ||  || **all participants** || **Informal discussion:** //Open questions in entanglement physics// || post your comments and questions || Dec 10 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Frank Verstraete** || //Applying the variational principle to 1+1 dimensional// //quantum field theories// ||  ||
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 * Mon,
 * || 11:00 am || Aud || **Lesik Motrunich** || //Ladder studies of a Spin Bose Metal// ||  ||
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 * Mon,
 * || 11:00 am || Aud || **Guifre Vidal** || // **Pedagogical lecture:** ////Tensor networks from a//
 * Tue,
 * Wed,
 * || 11:00 am || Aud || **Xiao-Gang Wen** || //Topological Order: Patterns of long range entanglement//
 * || 3:00 pm || MSR |||||| **KITP end-of-year party** ||
 * Thu,
 * || 3:30 pm || SSR || **Steve White /**
 * Fri,
 * || 11:00 am || Aud || **Zhengcheng Gu** || //Tensor-net states: A new perspective on many-body quantum systems// ||  ||

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Week 7
Nov 29 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Roderich Moessner** || //On intrinsic and emergent gauge structures:// //from irrational charge to deconfinement diagnostics// ||  || Dec 1 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Peter Zoller** || //Open system dynamics with cold atoms// || joint seminar with optical lattices program || //topological phase// //and quantum entanglement// || joint seminar with optical lattices program || Dec 2 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Philippe Corboz** || //Fermionic tensor networks// ||  ||
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 * || 3:30 pm || Aud || **Masaki Oshikawa** || //The Haldane phase as a symmetry-protected//
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Week 6
Nov 22 || 2:00 pm || Aud || **Ashvin Vishwanath** || //Correlation Effects in Spin-orbit Systems:// //From Spin Liquids to topological Dirac Metals// ||  || Nov 24 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Gil Refael** || //Putting Floquet Hamiltonians to work:// //Dyson singularity, superfluid enhancement,// //and topological phases in time-periodic Hamiltonians// || joint seminar with optical lattices program || Nov 25 ||||||||||= **Thanksgiving** || Nov 26 || 11:00 am || Aud || **Didier Poilblanc** || //Bi-partite entanglement in// //equilibrium and// //out-of-equilibrium many-body systems// ||  ||
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** Week 5 **
Nov 15 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Roger Melko** || //Entanglement Entropy in Quantum Monte Carlo// ||  || optical lattices program || optical lattices program; post your questions here || Nov 18 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Fakher Assaad** || //SU(N) Hubbard Heisenberg models// //on the honeycomb and square lattices// ||  || //of the Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice// ||  ||
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 * Wed, Nov 17 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Alejandro Muramatsu** || //Strongly correlated quantum systems out of equilibrium// || joint seminar with
 * || 3:30 pm || Aud || **Leon Balents** || ** Pedagogical lecture: ** //Frustration, spin liquids, and more// || joint seminar with
 * Thu,
 * || 11:00 am || Aud || **Bryan Clark** || //A variational understanding of the spin-liquid state//
 * Fri, Nov 19 || 2:00 pm || Aud || **Masud Haque,**
 * Hans-Gerd Evertz** || **Informal discussion:** //Non-equilibrium evolution -- bound-state propagation in one dimension// ||  ||

** Week 4 **
Nov 8 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Emanuel Gull** || //Large Cluster Dynamical Mean Field Simulations// ||  || optical lattices program || optical lattices program || Nov 11 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Oleg Starykh** || //Triangular lattice antiferromagnets -- open questions// ||  ||
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 * Wed, Nov 10 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Boris Svistunov** || //Worm algorithm and diagrammatic Monte Carlo// || joint seminar with
 * || 3:30 pm || Aud || **Cenke Xu** || ** Pedagogical lecture: ** //Unconventional quantum critical points// || joint seminar with
 * Thu,
 * || 10:30 am || Aud || **Tarun Grover** || //Spin liquids in triangular lattice organic compounds: a nodal fractionalized state?// ||  ||
 * || 11:00 am || Aud || **Federico Becca** || //Metal-insulator transition on the anisotropic triangular lattice// ||  ||

====**Week 3 - Focus week on equilibrium and non-equilibrium dynamics** ==== Nov 1 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Andreas Läuchli** || //Numerical Simulations of Quenches in Bose Hubbard models// ||  || Nov 2 || 2:00 pm || Aud || **Marcos Rigol** || //Dynamics and thermalization in isolated// //one-dimensional systems// ||  || //thermalization in quantum many-body systems// ||  || Nov 3 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Anatoli Polkovnikov** || //Universal dynamics in thermally isolated systems// || joint seminar with optical lattices program || //in the kagome Antiferromagnet// ||  || //Low-temperature physics of the kagome antiferromagnet// ||  || Nov 4 || 10:00 am || Aud || **David Huse** || //The many-body localization transition// ||  || //of the quantum adiabatic algorithm// ||  || Nov 5 || 1:30 pm || Aud || **Yong-Baek Kim** || //Non-equilibrium criticality in itinerant electron systems// ||  ||
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 * Mon,
 * || 11:00 am || Aud || **Ehud Altman** || //Non equilibrium Ferromagnetism and Stoner transition in an ultracold Fermi gas// ||  ||
 * Tue,
 * || 3:00 pm || Aud || **Stefan Kehrein** || //Weak interaction quenches and//
 * Wed,
 * || 3:30 pm || Aud || **Claire Lhuillier** || //The kagome antiferromagnet -- a short overview// ||  ||
 * || 3:45 pm || Aud || **Steve White** || //Quantum Spin Liquid Ground State//
 * || 4:30 pm || Aud || **Andreas Läuchli,**
 * Rajiv Singh, Hongchen Jiang** || **Informal discussion:**
 * Thu,
 * || 11:00 am || Aud || **Ed Farhi** || //Many-body localization from the perspective//
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** Week 2 **
**Ann Kallin,** **Sylvain Capponi** || **Informal discussion:** //Computing Entanglement Scaling in Condensed Matter Ground States// ||  ||
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 * Mon, Oct 25 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Nikolay Prokof'ev** || //Feynman's diagrams to high-order: Whether and when they make sense// ||  ||
 * || 12:15 pm || Aud || **Simon Trebst** || **Blackboard Lunch:** //Disentangling quantum many-body systems// || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * Wed, Oct 27 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Lode Pollet** || //Developing the bosonic DMFT formalism// || joint seminar with optical lattices program ||
 * || 3:30 pm || Aud || **Cenke Xu** || ** Pedagogical lecture: ** //Conventional and unconventional Quantum Critical Points// || joint seminar with optical lattices program ||
 * Thu, Oct 28 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Stefan Wessel & Cenke Xu** || //Quantum spin liquids in the half-filled Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice// ||  ||
 * Fri, Oct 29 || 3:30 pm || SSR || **Thomas Barthel,**

**Week 1**
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 * Mon, Oct 18 || 2:00 pm || Aud || **All participants** || //Organizational Meeting// ||  ||
 * Tue, Oct 19 || 12:30 pm || SSR || **All participants** || **Informal discussion:** // Open questions and problems // ||  ||
 * Wed, Oct 20 || 10:00 am || Aud || **Matthias Troyer** || //Ab initio simulations of cold atoms// || joint seminar with optical lattices program ||
 * || 3:30 pm || Aud || **Leon Balents** || //** Pedagogical lecture: **Correlation physics from a condensed matter perspective I - a menu and some amuse-bouche// || joint seminar with optical lattices program ||
 * Thu, Oct 21 || 1:30 pm || Aud || **Rajiv Singh** || //Experimental Candidates for Quantum Spin-Liquids: Current Status'// ||  ||
 * Aud=Auditorium, SSR=Small Seminar Room, MSR=Main Seminar Room** **FR=Founders' Room**
 * Aud=Auditorium, SSR=Small Seminar Room, MSR=Main Seminar Room** **FR=Founders' Room**