Scientific Program

Workshop on Quantum Information and Spacetime
December 6-8, 2021

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All talks will take place in Wolfensohn Hall.
Talks are 35 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions.

*NOTE: Lunch is available between 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm (Dining room closes at 1:30 pm SHARP!)

Monday, December 6, 2021

8:00 am & 8:15 am Shuttle pickup from Nassau Inn to Fuld Hall
8:15 am - 8:55 am Registration - Fuld Hall Common Room
Pastries & Coffee - Simons Hall
8:55 am - 9:00 am Welcome Remarks - Wolfensohn Hall (ALL TALKS)
9:00 am - 9:45 am "Bending the Padic Tensor Network and Emergent Einstein Equation"
Ling-Yan (Janet) Hung (Zoom)
9:45 am - 10:30 am "Quantum Complexity of Experiments"
Jordan Cotler
10:30 am - 11:15 am Coffee Break - Simons Hall
11:15 am - 12:00 pm "Proofs of Two Brown-and-Susskind Complexity Conjectures"
Nicole Yunger Halpern
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm "On Estimating the Entropy of Shallow Circuit Outputs"
Andru Gheorghiu (Zoom)
1:00 pm - 2:45 pm Lunch - Simons Hall
Discussions - Bloomberg Hall / Wolfensohn Hall
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm "Tensor Network and Approximate Holographic Codes"
ChunJun (Charles) Cao
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Afternoon Tea - Simons Hall
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm "Lorentzian Threads and Holographic Complexity"
Juan Pedraza (Zoom)
5:15 pm - 6:00 pm "Spin Glasses and Holography"
Felix M. Haehl
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Dinner - Simons Hall
7:30 pm & 8:30 pm Return shuttle from Fuld Hall to Nassau Inn

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

8:00 am & 8:15 am Shuttle pickup from Nassau Inn to Fuld Hall
8:15 am - 9:00 am Pastries & Coffee - Simons Hall
9:00 am - 9:45 am "Topological Pseudo Entropy"
Tatsuma Nishioka (Zoom)
9:45 am - 10:30 am "Branching Time in SYK-like Models"
Pengfei Zhang (Zoom)
10:30 am - 11:15 am Coffee Break - Simons Hall
11:15 am - 12:00 pm "Quantum Circuit and Collisions in the Black Hole Interior"
Ying Zhao
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm "Late Time von Neumann Entropy and Measurement-induced Phase Transition"
Shaokai Jian
1:00 pm - 2:45 pm Lunch - Simons Hall
Discussions - Bloomberg Hall / Wolfensohn Hall
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm "Comments on Wormholes and Factorization"
Phil Saad
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Afternoon Tea - Simons Hall
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm "Gravity Factorized"
Jorrit Kruthoff
5:15 pm - 6:00 pm "The Volume of the Black Hole Interior at Late Times"
Luca Iliesiu
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Dinner - Simons Hall
7:30 pm & 8:30 pm Return shuttle from Fuld Hall to Nassau Inn

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

8:00 am & 8:15 am Shuttle pickup from Nassau Inn to Fuld Hall
8:15 am - 9:00 am Pastries & Coffee - Simons Hall
Luggage Drop - Bloomberg Hall
9:00 am - 9:45 am "Failure of the Split Property in Gravity and the Information Paradox"
Suvrat Raju (Zoom)
9:45 am - 10:30 am "A Page-like Transition in Quantum Cosmology"
Thomas Hertog
10:30 am - 11:15 am Coffee Break - Simons Hall
11:15 am - 12:00 pm "Island Finder and Singularity Theorem"
Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm "Scattering Strings Off Quantum Extremal Surfaces"
Adam Levine
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch - Simons Hall
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm "One-Shot Holography"
Geoffrey Penington
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm "Charge Fluctuation Entropy of Hawking Radiation: A Replica-free Way to Find Large Entropy"
Alexey Milekhin
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Afternoon Tea - Simons Hall
Discussions - Bloomberg Hall
5:00 pm Bus to New York City for IFQ Collaboration Members and Invited Guests - Front of Fuld Hall