Scientific Program

Online Workshop on Qubits and Black Holes
December 7-9, 2020

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All talks will take place on Zoom. Talks are 35 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions.

Monday, December 7, 2020
9:55 am - 10:00 am Welcome Remarks
10:00 am - 11:00 am "Free Energy from Replica Wormholes"
Netta Engelhardt
11:00 am - 12:00 pm "Quantum Tasks in Holography"
Alex May
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch Break / Informal Conversation (registered participants)
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm "Real-Time Gravitational Replicas"
Mukund Rangamani
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm "Pseudorandomness and the AdS/CFT Correspondence"
Adam Bouland
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Coffee Break / Informal Conversation (registered participants)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Discussion Session (registered participants)

Tuesday, December 8, 2020
10:00 am - 11:00 am "Liouville and JT Quantum Gravity - Holography and Matrix Models"
Thomas Mertens
11:00 am - 12:00 pm "Entropic Order Parameters for the Phases of QFT"
Javier Magan
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch Break / Informal Conversation (registered participants)
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm "Programmable Non-Local Interactions: Towards Fast Scrambling with Cold Atoms"
Monika Schleier-Smith
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm "Comments about Wormholes and Quantum Noise"
Douglas Stanford
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Coffee Break / Informal Conversation (registered participants)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Discussion Session (registered participants)

Wednesday, December 9, 2020
10:00 am - 11:00 am "Some Comments on Energy Inequalities"
Edward Witten
11:00 am - 12:00 pm "Inside the Hologram: The Bulk Observer's Experience"
Lampros Lamprou
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch Break / Informal Conversation (registered participants)
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm "Quantum Minimal Surfaces from Quantum Error Correction"
Chris Akers
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm "Life without Pythons would be so Simple"
Geoffrey Penington
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Coffee Break / Informal Conversation (registered participants)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Discussion Session (registered participants)