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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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Invariants for Gapped Ground State Phases
Bruno Nachtergaele, UC Davis
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Break
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Wavelets, MERA, and Holography
Steve White, UC Irvine
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Bifurcation in Entanglement Renormalization Group Flow of a Gapped Spin Model
Jeongwan Haah (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Lunch
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Tensor Network States for Chiral Topological Phases
Nicholas Read, Yale University
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Topological Order in Projected Entangled Pair States
Norbert Schuch (University of Vienna)
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Coffee and Check-In
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Tensor Networks and Conformal Field Theory
German Sierra, Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC
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Break
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Einstein's Equations Starting from Qubits
Brian Swingle (Harvard University)
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Lunch
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2D and 3D Topological Orders: Universal Wave Function Overlap and String Statistics
Xiao-Gang Wen, Perimeter Institute
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Exact Holographic Mapping and Emergent Space-time Geometry
Xiao-Liang Qi, Stanford University
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Break
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'Gauging' Time Reversal Symmetry in Tensor Network States
Xie Chen (UC Berkeley)
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Coffee and Check-In
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Efficient Classical Simulation of Many-body Systems with Local Integrals of Motion
Guifre Vidal, Perimeter Institute
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Break
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RG Fixed Points in PEPS
David Pérez-García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Lunch
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MPO-injectivity and Topologically Ordered PEPS
Jutho Haegeman (Ghent University)
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Walking Graph States: General Ansatz for Non-equilibrium Density Operators of Quantum Chains
Tomaz Prosen, University of Ljubljana
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Break
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A Polynomial-time Algorithm for Finding Ground States of Gapped Local Hamiltonians in 1D
Thomas Vidick (California Institute of Technology)
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Reception and Poster Session
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Coffee and Check-In
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Tensor Networks and Quantum Algorithms
Zeph Landau (UC Berkeley)
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Break
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Area Laws and Topological Order in a Many-body Localized State
Bela Bauer (Microsoft Research, Station Q)
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Lunch
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Doped Bosonic and Fermionic Resonating Valence Bond States
Didier Poilblanc, University of Toulouse
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The Algebraic Bethe Ansatz and Tensor Networks
Vladimir Korepin, Stony Brook University
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Break
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Symmetry and Topological Order in Quantum States
Frank Pollmann, Max Planck Institute, Dresden