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All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.

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Coffee and Check-In
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Opening Remarks
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The Quest for Parameterizing the Manifold of Low-energy States of Quantum Spin Systems
Frank Verstraete (University of Cambridge)
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Break
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AGSPs and an Area Law for Gapped 1D Systems
Zeph Landau (UC Berkeley)
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Lunch
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Counter-example to Generalized Area Laws
Mario Szegedy (Rutgers University)
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Break
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Exact Holographic Mapping and Emergent Space-time Geometry
Xiao-Liang Qi, Stanford University
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Reception
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Coffee and Check-In
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Space Time Circuit to Hamiltonian Construction
Barbara Terhal, RWTH Aachen
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Break
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Quantum Expanders
Aram Harrow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Lunch
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Prospects for a Quantum PCP Theorem
Matt Hastings (Microsoft Research)
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Break
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Quantum Local Testability
Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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Coffee and Check-In
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Entanglement and the Quantum Phases of Matter
Ashvin Vishwanath (UC Berkeley)
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Break
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Lattice Quantum Codes
Jeongwan Haah (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Lunch
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Lightning Talks I
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Break
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Lightning Talks II
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Coffee and Check-In
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Correlations, Area Laws, and Stability of Open and Thermal Many-body Quantum Systems
Jens Eisert (FU Berlin)
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Break
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Many Body Localization and Adiabatic Quantum Optimization
Chris Laumann, University of Washington
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Lunch
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Experiments with D-Wave
Sergio Boixo, Google Research
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Break
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How Quantum is D-Wave?
Seung Woo Shin (UC Berkeley)