KITP Conference: Order from Chaos

KITP Conference: Order from Chaos
(Dec 10-14, 2018)
Coordinators: Xiao-Liang Qi, Subir Sachdev, Stephen Shenker, and Douglas Stanford


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Monday, Dec 10, 2018
	Session Chair: stephen Shenker (Stanford)
8:50am	Lars Bildsten (KITP Director)	Welcome[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:00am	Leonard Susskind (Stanford)	Size, Momentum and Scrambling[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am	Shiraz Minwalla (TIFR Mumbai)	The Exact Quantum Effective Potential for Large N Matter Chern Theories[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:00am	Morning Break
11:30am	Netta Engelhardt (Princeton)	Coarse Graining = Area Laws[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Talks are 40 min + 20 min discussion
2:00pm	Cenke Xu (UCSB)	Candidate theory for the Strange Metal Phase based on SYK Physics[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm	Erez Berg (Weizmann)	Bad metals and quantum chaos
4:00pm	Afternoon Break
4:30pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Tuesday, Dec 11, 2018
	Talks are 40 min + 20 min discussion, Chair: Spenta Wadia (ICTS)
9:00am	Alexei Kitaev (Caltech)	On the Relation Between the Magnitude and Exponent of OTOCs[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am	Josephine Suh (Caltech)	The Quantum Mechanics of Jackiw-Teitelboim Gravity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:00am	Morning Break

11:30am	Jennifer Lin (IAS)	Entanglement Entropy in Jackiw-Teitelboim Gravity[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Talks are 40 min + 20 min discussion, Chair: Subir Sachdev (Harvard)
2:00pm	Ehud Altman (UC Berkeley)	Universal Operator Growth and Emergent Dissipation in Hamiltonian Dynamics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm	Brian Swingle (Maryland)	The Simplicity of Thermal States[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:00pm	Afternoon Break

4:30pm	Monika Schleier-Smith (Stanford)	Quantum Spin Dynamics with Non-Local Interactions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm	RECEPTION-KITP COURTYARD
6:00pm	SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER-KITP COURTYARD
8:00pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Wednesday, Dec 12, 2018
	Talks are 40 min + 20 min discussion, Chair: Veronika Hubeny (UC Davis)
9:00am	Daniel Jafferis (Harvard)	Stringy ER=EPR[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am	Xi Dong (UCSB)	Flat Entanglement Spectra in Fixed-Area States of Quantum Gravity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:00am	Morning Break

11:30am	Juan Maldacena (IAS)	Towards the symmetries of the near horizon region of black holes[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
2:00pm	FREE AFTERNOON-Shuttle Available to BWSCI
Thursday, Dec 13, 2018
	Talks are 40 min + 20 min discussion, Chair: Jeff Murugan (U Cape Town)
9:00am	Igor Klebanov (Princeton)	Instability of the Conformal Phase in Some Tensor and SYK Models[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Grigory Tarnopolsky (Harvard)	Remarks on the Complex SYK Model[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:00am	Morning Break

11:30am	David Simmons-Duffin (Caltech)	Shocks and Superconvergence[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Talks are 40 min + 20 min discussion, Chair: Cynthia Keeler (ASU)
2:00pm	Jacobus Verbaarschot (Stony Brook)	Spectral Properties of the SYK Model[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm	Alexander Altland (U. Cologne)	Nonlinear Sigma-Model Approach to the (deformed) SYK Model[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:00pm	Afternoon Break

4:30pm	Ahmed Almheiri (IAS)	The Black Hole Interior in SYK[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm	RECEPTION-KITP COURTYARD
6:00pm	SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER-KITP COURTYARD
8:00pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Friday, Dec 14, 2018
	Talks are 40 min + 20 min discussion, Chair: Xiaoliang Qi (Stanford)
9:00am	Edward Witten (IAS)	Open Strings on the Rindler Horizon[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am	Micha Berkooz (Weizmann)	Towards a Full Solution of the Large N Double Scaled SYK Model[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:00am	Morning Break

11:30am	Vladimir Rosenhaus (IAS)	SYK, Harmonic Analysis, and Multipoint Conformal Blocks[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Talks are 40 min + 20 min discussion, Chair: Douglas Stanford (IAS)
2:00pm	Dionysios Anninos (King's Coll)	(A)dS_2[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm	Herman Verlinde (Princeton)	Comments about TTbar and SYK[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm	Douglas Stanford (IAS)	Thanks to the KITP Staff![Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:00pm	Afternoon Break
4:30pm	CONFERENCE END SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location. (See Registration Desk BEFORE FRIDAY to sign up.)

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Monday, Dec 10, 2018

Session Chair: stephen Shenker (Stanford)

Tuesday, Dec 11, 2018

Talks are 40 min + 20 min discussion, Chair: Spenta Wadia (ICTS)

Talks are 40 min + 20 min discussion, Chair: Subir Sachdev (Harvard)

Wednesday, Dec 12, 2018

Talks are 40 min + 20 min discussion, Chair: Veronika Hubeny (UC Davis)

Thursday, Dec 13, 2018

Talks are 40 min + 20 min discussion, Chair: Jeff Murugan (U Cape Town)

Talks are 40 min + 20 min discussion, Chair: Cynthia Keeler (ASU)

Friday, Dec 14, 2018

Talks are 40 min + 20 min discussion, Chair: Xiaoliang Qi (Stanford)

Talks are 40 min + 20 min discussion, Chair: Douglas Stanford (IAS)