Scientific Program

Workshop on Quantum Information and the Structure of Spacetime
December 4-5, 2018

Most talks will take place in Wolfensohn Hall. The last two talks on Wednesday afternoon will be held in Bloomberg Hall.
*NOTE: Lunch is available between 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm (Dining room closes at 1:30 pm SHARP!)

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

8:10 am & 8:30 am Shuttle times for pickup from Nassau Inn
8:30 am - 8:55 am Coffee & Registration - Wolfensohn Hall
8:55 am - 9:00 am Welcome
9:00 am - 9:45 am "Flat Entanglement Spectra in Fixed-area Eigenstates of Quantum Gravity"
Don Marolf
9:45 am - 10:30 am "Entanglement Entropy Relations via Holography"
Veronika Hubeny
10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break - Wolfensohn Hall
11:00 am - 11:45 am "Entanglement as a Connection for Holographic Spacetimes"
Lampros Lamprou
11:45 am - 12:30 pm "Scrambling Time and Causal Structure in a Schwarzchild Black Hole"
Peter Shor
12:30 pm - 2:45 pm Lunch - Simons Hall
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm "A Toy Model of the Information Paradox in Empty Space"
Suvrat Raju
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Tea - Fuld Hall Common Room
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm "Nonperturbative Effects in Jackiw-Teitelboim Gravity"
Phil Saad
5:15 pm - 6:00 pm "Symmetry in QFT and Gravity"
Hirosi Ooguri
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Buffet Dinner - Simons Hall
8:35 pm & 8:55 pm Shuttle times to return to Nassau Inn
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
8:10 am & 8:30 am Shuttle times for pickup from Nassau Inn
8:30 am - 9:00 am Coffee - Wolfensohn Hall
9:00 am - 9:45 am "Open Strings on the Rindler Horizon"
Edward Witten
9:45 am - 10:30 am "Comments about TTbar and SYK"
Herman Verlinde
10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee - Wolfensohn Hall
11:00 am - 11:45 am "Quantum Chaos and Effective Field Theory"
Felix Haehl
11:45 am - 12:30 pm "Recovering the QNEC from the ANEC"
Thomas Faulkner
12:30 pm - 2:45 pm Lunch - Simons Hall
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm "Black Hole Entropy and Soft Hair"
Andrew Strominger
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Tea - Fuld Hall Common Room
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm "Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction and the Hayden-Preskill Protocol"
Ahmed Almheiri - Bloomberg Lecture Hall
5:15 - 6:00 pm "Constraining Correlation Functions using Modular Theory"
Nima Lashkari - Bloomberg Lecture Hall
6:00 - 6:30 pm Pick up box supper in Bloomberg Hall Common Room
Bus to New York City for It from Qubit Collaboration Members