Scientific Program

Symposium on Quantum Information, Complexity, and the Physical World
Monday, December 5, 2022 - Princeton University

Workshop on Spacetime and Quantum Information
Tuesday & Wednesday, December 6-7, 2022 - Institute for Advanced Study

Main Menu      Speakers and Abstracts

Talks on December 5 will take place in McDonnell A02 at Princeton University
Talks on December 6-7 will take place in Wolfensohn Hall at the IAS
Talks are 35 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions.

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

Monday, December 5
(Princeton University
)          

8:15 am - 8:50 am Registration - (Brush Gallery)
8:50 am - 9:00 am Welcome Remarks - (McDonnell A02)
9:00 am - 9:45 am "An Observer in de Sitter Space"
Edward Witten (IAS, Princeton)
9:45 am - 10:30 am "Quantum Computing and Simulation with Errors"
Ignacio Cirac (Max Planck, Munich)
10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:45 am "Exploring Many-Body Physics with Superconducting Quantum Processors"
Xiao Mi (Google Quantum AI)
11:45 am - 12:30 pm

"Influence Functionals, Temporal Entanglement, and Quantum Many-Body Dynamics"
Dmitry Abanin, (University of Geneva)

12:45 pm - 2:15 pm Lunch - (Jadwin Hall, PCTS & Gravity Initiative)
2:15 pm - 3:00 pm "Emergent Gravitational Dynamics in Quantum Experiments"
Daniel Jafferis (Harvard University)
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm "Complexity of Random Circuit Sampling"
Umesh Vazirani (UC, Berkeley)
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm Tea Time & Discussions
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm "Gravity and Black Holes from a Quantum System"
Juan Maldacena (IAS, Princeton)
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm Informal Reception
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Dinner - (Jadwin Hall, PCTS & Gravity Initiative)
 

Tuesday, December 6       
(IAS)                                                           

8:00 am & 8:30 am

Bus pickup from Nassau Inn to Fuld Hall

8:15 am - 9:00 am Registration - Fuld Hall Common Room
8:55 am - 9:00 am Welcome Remarks - (Wolfensohn Hall)
9:00 am - 9:45 am "Complexity Coarse-Graining in the Black Hole Information Problem"
Netta Engelhardt
9:45 am - 10:30 am "Cauchy Slice Holography and the Information Paradox"
Aron Wall *remote
10:30 am - 11:15 am Coffee Break - Simons Hall
11:15 am - 12:00 pm "Causality and Entanglement in Holography: The Connected Wedge Theorem Revisited"
Jonathan Sorce
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm "Holographic Measurements and Quantum Teleportation"
Brian Swingle
1:00 pm - 2:45 pm Lunch - Simons Hall
Discussions - Bloomberg Hall / Wolfensohn Hall
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm "Firewalls from Wormholes"
Zhenbin Yang *remote
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Tea Time & Discussions - Simons Hall
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm "Algebra and Geometry from Chords"
Henry Lin
5:15 pm - 6:00 pm "Path Integrals for Chords"
Ahmed Almheiri
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Dinner - Simons Hall
7:30 pm & 8:00 pm Return bus from Fuld Hall to Nassau Inn
 

Wednesday, December 7    (IAS)                       

8:00 am & 8:30 am Bus pickup from Nassau Inn to Fuld Hall
8:15 am - 9:00 am

Participant Luggage Drop Areas:
NYC Attendees - Rubenstein Commons Room 4

Other Attendees - Bloomberg Hall Coat Area

9:00 am - 9:45 am

"Black Hole Microstate Counting from Gravity"
Gustavo Joaquin Turiaci

9:45 am - 10:30 am "Quantum Pseudoentanglement"
Bill Fefferman
10:30 am - 11:15 am Coffee Break - Simons Hall
11:15 am - 12:00 pm "A Generalized Protocol for Bulk Reconstruction from Generalized Free Fields"
Tamra Nebabu
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm "Discrete Bulk Reconstruction"
Scott Aaronson
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch - Simons Hall
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm "Microstates of the 2d Non-Supersymmetric Black Hole"
Ronak Soni
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm "The Boundary Algebras in JT Gravity"
Geoff Penington
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Afternoon Tea - Simons Hall
Discussions - Bloomberg Hall
4:30 pm - 4:55 pm Participant Luggage Pickup
4:50 pm Board buses to NYC for IFQ Collaboration Members and Invited Guests - Front of Fuld Hall
5:00 pm Bus departs to New York City