Station Q
Freedman Symposium
LOCATION: KITP Main Seminar Room 1003, UCSB Campus
Friday, April 15, 2011
8:00
Shuttle to UCSB - KITP
Morning Session. Chair: Bert Halperin
9:15
Henry Yang
Chancellor UCSB
Opening Comments
[Podcast]
9:20
Chetan Nayak
Nematic Quantized Hall States
[Slides]
[Podcast]
9:50
Kirill Shtengel
Quantum loops and topological order
[Slides]
[Podcast]
10:20
Coffee Break
11:00
Steve Simon
Some Phase Transitions Between Topological Phases
[Slides]
[Podcast]
11:30
Steve Kivelson
Phases of the Infinite U Hubbard Model
[Slides]
[Podcast]
12:30
Lunch
Afternoon Session. Chair: Parsa Bonderson
2:30
Matt Hastings
Quantum Belief Propagation
[Podcast]
3:00
John Preskill
Topology and quantum error correction
[Slides]
[Podcast]
3:30
Coffee Break
4:15
Eddie Farhi
Quantum Money from Knots
[Slides]
[Podcast]
4:45
Xiao-Gang Wen
Topological order and long range entanglements
[Slides]
[Podcast]
6:15
Reception followed by Dinner at Faculty Club
8:30
Shuttle Buses to Pacifica Suites (every 30 minutes)
Saturday, April 16, 2011
8:00
Shuttle to UCSB - KITP
Morning Session. Chair: Nick Read
9:15
Sankar Das Sarma
Majorana Returns!
[Slides]
[Podcast]
9:45
Matthew Fisher
Non-Fermi liquid phases for itinerant electrons
[Slides]
[Podcast]
10:15
Coffee Break
11:00
Dan Freed
Remarks on topological field theory
[Slides]
[Podcast]
11:30
Greg Moore
Modular tensor categories from six dimensional field theories
[Slides]
[Podcast]
12:30
Lunch
Afternoon Session. Chair: Daniel Gottesman
2:30
Peter Shor
Quantum computing and the Jones polynomial
[Podcast]
3:00
John Manferdelli
Quantum Computing and Cryptography
[Slides]
[Podcast]
3:30
Coffee Break
4:15
Laci Lovacs
Characterizing homomorphism functions and the limit theory of graphs
[Slides]
[Podcast]
4:45
Scott Aaronson
Quantum Computing with Noninteracting Bosons
[Slides]
[Podcast]
5:15
Charlie Kane
Topological Insulators and Majorana Fermions
[Slides]
[Podcast]
6:15
Shuttle to Pacifica Suites
Sunday, April 17, 2011
8:00
Shuttle to UCSB - KITP
Morning Session. Chair: Charlie Marcus
9:15
Xiaoliang Qi
Theory of interacting topological superfluids
[Slides]
[Podcast]
9:45
Andreas Ludwig
Classification of Topological Insulators and Superconductors, Responses and Quantum Anomalies
[Slides]
[Podcast]
10:15
Coffee Break
11:00
Alexei Kitaev
Toward a topological classification of quantum states with short-range entanglement
[Podcast]
11:30
Mike Freedman
Charlie Marcus
Closing Remarks
[Slides]
[Podcast]
