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Physics Next: From Quantum Fields to Condensed Matter Workshop Agenda

August 24-26, 2017

Hyatt Place Long Island hotel, Riverhead, NY

Thursday, August 24
8:00 - 8:45 Breakfast (Terrace)
8:45 - 9:00 Opening remarks
9:00 - 10:30 Session 1.1: Topological Phases
9:00 - 9:05 Opening remarks from session chair: Max Metlitski, MIT
9:05 - 9:30 Quantum Fields to Condensed Matter: New Topological Phases of Matter in Natural and Artificial Materials
Zahid Hasan, Princeton University
9:35 - 10:00 Topology of the Fermi surface wavefunctions and magnetic oscillations in metals
Leonard Glazman, Yale University
10:05 - 10:30 Spin ice thin films: a platform to study geometrically-constrained strongly correlated systems described by an emergent gauge theory
Michel Gingras, University of Waterloo
10:35 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:05 - 12:30 Session 1.2: Topological Phases (continued)
11:05 - 11:30 Criticality in topologically ordered systems: a case study
Fiona Burnell, University of Minnesota
11:35 - 12:00 Symmetry protected phases of fermions
Lukasz Fidkowski, Stony Brook University
12:05 - 12:30 Time-reversal and spatial reflection symmetries in (2+1)D topological phases of matter
Maissam Barkeshli, University of Maryland
12:40 - 1:40 Lunch (Terrace)
2:00 - 3:30 Peconic riverboat excursion for invited participants
4:00 - 5:00 Meet the APS Editors Reception (Terrace)
5:00 - 6:30 Session 1.3: Overview Talks
New Horizons in Quantum Matter
Subir Sachdev, Harvard University

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics meets Relativistic Quantum Field Theory – Some Examples
N.P. Ong, Princeton University
7:00 - 9:30 Dinner in the Aquarium (Coliseum)
Friday, August 25
8:00 - 8:45 Breakfast (Terrace)
9:00 - 10:30 Session 2.1: Many Body Localization and Quantum Chaos
9:00 - 9:05 Opening Remarks from Session Chair: V. Oganesyan, City University of New York
9:05 - 9:30 The many-body localized phase transition
Vedika Khemani, Harvard University
9:35 - 10:00 Information Encoded in a Single Eigenstate and Universal Aspects of Eigenstate Thermalization
Tarun Grover, University of California at Santa Barbara
10:05 - 10:30 New paradigms for the spread of quantum information
Brian Swingle, Stanford University
10:35 - 10:55 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Session 2.2: Many-Body Localization and Quantum Chaos (continued)
11:00 - 11:25 Scrambling quantum Information in cold atoms with light
Monica Schleier-Smith, Stanford University
11:30 - 11:55 Diffusion and chaos in quantum matter
Mike Blake, MIT
12:00 - 12:30 Discussion Session
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (Terrace)
1:30 - 3:00 Session 3.1: Anomalous Transport
1:30 - 1:35 Opening remarks from Session Chair: N.P. Ong, Princeton University
1:35 - 2:00 Experiments on electron hydrodynamics with and without applied magnetic fields
Andy McKenzie, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden
2:05 - 2:30 Transport in strongly correlated bad metals
Aharon Kapitulnik, Stanford University
2:35 - 3:00 An upper bound on transport
Sean Hartnoll, Stanford University
3:05 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 5:30 Session 3.2: Anomalous Transport (continued)
3:30 - 3:55 Kinetic theory of transport for inhomogeneous electron fluids
Andrew Lucas, Stanford University
4:00 - 4:25 Anomalies and thermoelectric transport in a hydrodynamic theory of Weyl semi-metals
Richard Davison, Harvard University
4:30 - 4:55 Anomalous transport in perturbed Heisenberg chains
Vadim Oganesyan, City University of New York
5:00 - 5:30 Macroscopic character of composite D-wave superconductors and enhancement of superconductivity by magnetic field
Boris Spivak, University of Washington
6:00 - 9:00 Dinner in the Terrace (Plated menu with vegetarian options)
Saturday, August 26
8:00 - 8:45 Breakfast (Terrace)
9:00 - 9:05 Opening remarks from session chairs: S.Hartnoll, Stanford University and Lucasz Fidkowski, Stony Brook University
9:05 - 10:30 Session 4.1: Gravitational and Gauge Dualities
Chair: Sean Hartnoll, Stanford University
9:05 - 9:30 Spectra and Chaos in the SYK Model
Jacobus Verbaarschot, Stony Brook University
9:35 - 10:00 A 2D perspective on the SYK model
Herman Verlinde, Princeton University
10:05 - 10:30 Strange metal from local quantum chaos
John McGreevy, University of California at San Diego
10:35 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:25 Session 4.2: Gravitational and Gauge Dualities (continued)
Chair: Lucasz Fidkowski, Stony Brook University
11:00 - 11:25 Dualities in condensed matter physics
Todadri Senthil, MIT
11:30 - 11:55 Emergent particle-hole symmetry in composite fermi liquids
Chong Wang, Harvard University
12:00 - 12:25 Deconfined quantum critical points: Symmetries and dualities
Max Metlitski, MIT
12:30 - 1:30 Box Lunch (Terrace) and Conclusion of Workshop

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