December 7 & 8, 2024
Engineering Sciences Building Room 190
1101 W. Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
The Anthony J. Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory will host a joint symposium on theoretical physics involving participants from University of Chicago and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. This gathering will bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, visitors, and faculty from these institutions in a relaxed atmosphere for talks and informal discussions on exciting topics at the frontiers of theoretical physics and related areas. The organizers ask that those who wish to attend please register here.
Our Invited Speakers
Thomas Faulkner (Illinois)
Kyung-Su Kim (Illinois)
Michael Levin (U. of Chicago)
Ruochen Ma, (U. of Chicago)
Fahad Mahmood (Illinois)
Joe Meese (Illinois)
Laimei Nie (Purdue)
Ramanjit Sohal (U of Chicago)
Bowen Shi (Illinois)
Xiaochuan Wu, (U. of Chicago)
Poster Session on December 7, at 3:00 pm
The organizers are hosting a poster session from 2:30 pm to 4:30 in the common area on the second floor of the Leggett Institute.
We ask that all posters be up before 2:15 pm.
Program
Saturday, December 7, 2024
9:15 am Welcome & Announcements – 190 ESB
9:30 am Bowen Shi (Illinois)
“What is entanglement bootstrap?”
10:00 am Joe Meese (Illinois)
“Impact of elastic fluctuations in structurally disorder electronic nematics”
10:30 am Coffee Break 2nd-floor Commons ESB
11:00 am Fahad Mahmood (Illinois)
“Nonlinear coherent THz electrodynamics of quasiparticles in the presence of long-range Coulomb interactions”
11:30 to 1:30 Lunch Break
1:30 pm Ramanjit Sohal (U. Chicago)
“A Noisy Approach to Intrinsically Mixed-State Topological Order”
2:00 pm Clay Cordova (U. of Chicago)
“Representation Theory of Solitons”
2:30 pm Coffee Break & Poster Session 2nd-floor Commons ESB
4:30 pm Ruochen Ma (U. of Chicago)
“Quantum Cellular Automata on Symmetric Subalgebras”
5:00 pm Thomas Faulkner (Illinois)
“TBD”
6:30 pm Banquet – (By invitation only)
Sunday, December 8, 2024
9:30 am Xiaochuan Wu (U. Of Chicago)
“Bipartite Charge Fluctuations and Many-Body Quantum Geometry”
10:00 am Kyung-Su Kim (Illinois)
“Itinerant Ferromagnetism from One-Dimensional Mobility”
10:30 am Coffee Break 2nd-floor Commons ESB
11:00 am Laimei Nie (Purdue)
“Stabilized analytic continuation: the case with von Neumann entropy”
11:30 am Michael Levin (U. Chicago)
“Recent progress on topological entanglement entropy.”
12:00 pm Final comments
If you have any further questions, please email Janice Benner at jbenner@illinois.edu