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KITP Program: Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory: High Energy Physics, Condensed Matter, and Quantum Gravity
(Mar 10 - May 9, 2025)
Coordinators: Maissam Barkeshli, Michele Del Zotto, Sakura Schafer-Nameki, and Shu-Heng Shao

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Time Speaker Title
3/10, 10:30am Everyone
Everywhere
Meet and Greet
3/13, 1:00pm Fiona Burnell
Minnesota
Stacks and arrays of topological defects in 2 dimensions: building phases of matter from topological defect networks[Embargoed]
3/13, 2:15pm Clay Cordova
Chicago
Higgs Transitions + Maverick CSM[Video][CC]
3/14, 10:30am Seth Koren
(Notre Dame)
Jake McNamara (TBC)
(Caltech)
Discussion Session: Generalized symmetries and applications to particle physics
3/17, 10:30am Everyone
Everywhere
Show and Tell
3/18, 1:00pm Ryohei Kobayashi
IAS
Overview Talk: Symmetry of gauge theories and gates of quantum codes[Slides][Video]
3/19, 10:30am Janet Hung
(Tsinghua)
Yunquin Zheng
(UCAS)
Symmetry, entanglement, and holography[Video]
3/20, 1:00pm Hirosi Ooguri
Caltech
Gravity is Different: Counter examples to the Wilsonian paradigm of low energy effective theory based on generalized symmetries[Video][CC]
3/20, 2:15pm Dominic Else
Perimeter
Anomalies of global symmetries on the lattice[Video][CC]
3/24, 10:30am Everyone
Everywhere
Meet and Greet
3/24, 12:15pm Thomas Dumitrescu
UCLA
Thoughts on Generalized Symmetries and Particle Physics [Video]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
3/25, 1:00pm Yichul Choi
IAS
Non-Invertible Symmetries in higher dimensions[Video][CC]
3/26, 10:30am Andrea Antinucci
(Oxford)
Sahand Seifnashri
(IAS)
Discussion Session: What is an Anomaly of a Generalized Symmetry? Lattice and Continuum[Embargoed]
3/27, 1:00pm Xiao-Gang Wen
MIT
Emergent generalized symmetry in singularity-free non-linear sigma model[Slides][Video][CC]
3/27, 2:15pm Dave Penneys
OSU
Levin-Wen is a gauge theory: entanglement from topology[Video][CC]
3/31, 10:30am Everyone
Everywhere
Meet and Greet
4/01, 1:00pm Lukasz Fidkowski
(Washington)
Ruben Verresen
(Chicago)
Discussion Session: Anomalies on the lattice, SPTs, and QCAs[Embargoed]
4/02, 10:30am Frank Verstraete
Cambridge
Entanglement, Tensor Networks and Generalized Symmetries[Video][CC]
4/03, 1:00pm Sal Pace
MIT
SPT-LSM theorems from projective non-invertible symmetry[Video][CC]
4/03, 2:15pm Daniel Brennan
UCSD
Callan Rubakov[Video][CC]
4/7-4/10 Conference: Generalized Symmetries: High-Energy, Condensed Matter and Mathematics
4/11, 10:30am Ryan Thorngren
UCLA
Chiral symmetries of lattice fermions in 3+1d[Video]
4/14, 10:30am Everyone
Everywhere
Show and Tell
4/15, 1:00pm Yunquin Zheng
KITS, UCAS
Overview Talk: SymTFT[Video]
4/16, 10:30am Kyle Kawagoe
OSU
Computing categorical data in symmetry enriched topological order[Video]
4/17, 1:00pm Nayan Myerson-Jain
UCSB
Generalized Symmetries in open quantum systems[Video]
4/17, 2:15pm German Sierra
Madrid
Where the Lattice Meets the Continuum, via CFT[Video]
4/18, 10:30am Tarun Grover
UCSD
Discussion Session: Mixed State TO[Video][CC]
4/21, 10:30am Everyone
Everywhere
Show and Tell
4/22, 1:00pm Nat Tantivasadakarn
(Caltech)
Ho Tat Lam
(MIT)
Zhenghan Wang
(Q/UCSB)
What is Condensation? A discussion in three parts.[Video]
4/23, 10:30am Carolyn Zhang
Harvard
Thermalization, "anomalous" relaxation, and symmetry breaking[Video][CC]
4/24, 1:00pm Federico Bonetti
Murcia
3d Topological Order from T[M3][Video][CC]
4/24, 2:15pm Theo Johnson-Freyd
Dalhousie University, Perimeter Institute
The ungauging surgery exact sequence[Video][CC]
4/25, 10:30am Kyle Kawagoe
OSU
Enriched string-nets, their excitations, and applications to mixed state topological order[Video][CC]
4/28, 10:30am Nathanan Tantivasadakarn
Caltech
QI Learning Group
4/29, 1:00pm Guanyu Zhu
IBM
A bird’s eye view of generalized symmetries and quantum computing[Video]
4/30, 10:30am Arkya Chatterjee
MIT
Fermion anomalies from exact lattice symmetries[Video]
4/30, 11:30am Colleen Delaney
Purdue
Fusion rules for permutation defects
5/01, 1:00pm Sheng-Jie Huang
Oxford
Logical magic state preparation with the aid of non-Abelian topological order[Video][CC]
5/01, 2:00pm Yu-Hsueh Chen
UCSD
Non-invertible symmetry induced criticality in open and closed quantum systems[Video][CC]
5/02, 10:30am Zheng-Cheng Gu
Hong Kong
Fixed-point tensor network construction and generalized symmetry for conformal field theory[Video][CC]
5/05, 10:30am TBA
TBA
Show and tell
5/06, 1:00pm Yimu Bao
KITP
QI learning group
5/07, 10:30am Dan Freed
(Harvard)
Constantin Teleman
(Berkeley)
Discrete quantum systems and TFTs with defects
5/08, 1:00pm Masahito Yamazaki
Tokyo
Yang-Mills theta-angle on the lattice Part I[Video][CC]
5/08, 2:00pm Masazumi Honda
RIKEN
Yang-Mills theta-angle on the lattice Part II[Video][CC]
5/09, 10:30am Andrea Antinucci
(Oxford)
Colleen Delaney
(Purdue)
Theo Johnson-Freyd
(Dalhousi)
Ho-Tat Lam
(MIT)
Nathanan Tantivasadakarn
(Caltech)
Carolyn Zhang
(Harvard)
Open Problems: Views from High Energy Physics, Condensed Matter/QI and Mathematics[Video][CC]
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