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KITP Conference: Geometry from the Quantum
(Jan 13-17, 2020)
Coordinators: Tom Faulkner, Veronika Hubeny, Juan Maldacena and Eva Silverstein

Monday, Jan 13, 2020

Session Chair: Juan Maldacena (IAS)

8:50am Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:00am Steve Shenker (Stanford) Beyond geometry[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am Netta Engelhardt (MIT) Remarks on Quantum Extremality (tentative)[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:00am Ahmed Almheiri (IAS) Replica wormholes and the entropy of Hawking radiation part 1[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am Tom Hartman (Cornell) Replica wormholes and the entropy of Hawking radiation part 2[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Session Chair: Robert Myers (Perimeter)

2:00pm Douglas Stanford (Stanford) Replica wormholes and the black hole interior[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm Geoffrey Penington (Stanford) The Python's Lunch: Geometric Obstructions to Decoding Hawking Radiation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Xiaoliang Qi (Stanford) Toy models for evaporating black hole[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm Daniel Harlow (MIT) Euclidean vs. Lorentzian quantum gravity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Tuesday, Jan 14, 2020

Session Chair: Donald Marolf (UCSB)

9:00am Herman Verlinde (Princeton) Quantum error correction and the black hole interior[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am Sergei Dubovsky (NYU) Geometry from Confinement[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Wei Song (Tsinghua U /IAS) Black strings from TsT and irrelevant deformations[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am Edgar Shaghoulian (Cornell) 1d T-Tbar and Hamiltonian deformations in quantum mechanics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Session Chair: Raphael Bousso (UC Berkeley)

2:00pm Eva Silverstein (Stanford) A detailed audit of the Gibbons-Hawking dS entropy[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm Ronak Soni (Stanford) TTbar as a Movie, With and Without 3d Glasses.[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Victor Gorbenko (IAS) On QFT in dS[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm Henry Maxfield (UCSB) Return of the baby universes[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm

RECEPTION

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENT DINNER

8:00pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Wednesday, Jan 15, 2020

Session Chair: Ted Jacobson (UMD)

9:00am Steve Giddings (UCSB) Localization of information in quantum gravity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am Aron Wall (Cambridge U) Holographic Cosmology and Negative Probability[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Mark Mezei (Stonybrook) Entanglement hydrodynamics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am Daniel Jafferis (Harvard) Entanglement entropy in JT gravity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Thursday, Jan 16, 2020

Session Chair: Xi Yin (Harvard)

9:00am Leonardo Rastelli
(Stonybrook/CERN)
The analytic bootstrap, sphere packing and quantum gravity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am David Simmons Duffin (Caltech) Transverse spins in the light-ray OPE[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Eric Perlmutter (Caltech) Geometry from the Quantum Corrections: Loop Amplitudes and Extra Dimensions in AdS/CFT[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am Mukund Rangamani (UC Davis) Open quantum systems and holographic thermal baths[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Session Chair: Veronika Hubeny (UC Davis)

2:00pm Roberto Emparan (Barcelona) Recent progress and future prospects in the large-D approach to gravity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm Nick Warner (USC) The States of Microstate Geometries[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Walter Goldberger (Yale) Effective field theory for quantum black hole horizons[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS) Emergent Bulk Causal Diamonds, Generalized Particles and Strings, and Cluster Algebras[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm

RECEPTION

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENT DINNER

8:00pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Friday, Jan 17, 2020

Session Chair: Mark Srednicki (UCSB)

9:00am John Preskill (Caltech) The ghost in the radiation: Robust encodings of the black hole interior[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am Matt Headrick (Brandeis U) Bit Threads for Multiple Regions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Brian Swingle (UMD) Spacetime Locality and the Motion of Quantum Information[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am Patrick Hayden (Stanford) Black hole microstates versus the additivity conjecture[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Tadashi Takayanagi (Kyoto) Looking at Shadows of Entanglement Wedges[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm Lenny Susskind (Stanford) Three Aspects of Complexity[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm

CONFERENCE ENDS-SHUTTLE BACK TO BWSCI-*Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location (See Registration Desk BEFORE FRI-DAY to sign up*