Talks Schedule

2026

Monday, Aug 24, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Shiyu Zhou (Perimeter Inst.) Machine learning quantum phases: from universal classification to autonomous discovery
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Yizhi You (Northeastern) Revisiting Haldane conjecture in non-equilibrium

2026

Monday, Aug 24, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Shiyu Zhou (Perimeter Inst.) Machine learning quantum phases: from universal classification to autonomous discovery
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Yizhi You (Northeastern) Revisiting Haldane conjecture in non-equilibrium

2026

Tuesday, Aug 25, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Rouven Koch (TU Delft) Hamiltonian Learning in Quantum Magnets - From Local Spectroscopy to Microscopic Models
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • David Mross (Weizmann Inst.) Anyon dynamics in quantum Hall interferometers
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Taige Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Simulating quantum circuits with neural networks

2026

Wednesday, Aug 26, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Roeland Wiersema (Flatiron Institute) Reliable and Scalable Variational Monte Carlo
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Marin Burkov (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems) Floquet ground state order: order without a ground state

2026

Thursday, Aug 27, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Marin Bukov (MPI-PKS) Reinforcement Learning for Quantum Technology
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Wenjie Ji (Westlake Univ.) Self-dual Higgs Transitions: Toric Code and Beyond
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Yubo Yang (Hofstra), Conor Smith (Flatiron Institute) NQS simulations meet Moiré and semiconductor devices

2026

Friday, Aug 28, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Jannes Nys (ETH Zurich) TBA
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Taige Wang (Harvard) Chiral superconductivity near fractional Chern insulators

2026

Saturday, Aug 29, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Aug 30, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Aug 31, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 08:50AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Dmitri Feldman (Brown) - Anyons in Quantum Hall Systems and 2D Materials
    • Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
    • Bertrand Halperin (Harvard) Controlled Localization of Anyons in Bilayer Graphene
    • Andrea Young (UCSB) Single anyon quantum dots
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 11:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Anyons in Quantum Hall Systems and 2D Materials
    • Michael Manfra (Purdue) Universal Anyon Tunneling in a Chiral Luttinger Liquid
    • Jie Shan (MPSD) Mott transitions and superconductivity in twisted WSe2
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 02:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Ruben Verresen (U. Chicago) - Topological Qubits and Quantum Codes
    • Bela Bauer (Microsoft) Recent Developments with Majorana-Based Topological Qubits
    • Guanyu Zhu (IBM) Non-Abelian quantum LDPC codes
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 04:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Topological Qubits and Quantum Codes
    • Isaac Kim (UC Davis) Classifying and characterizing topological phases from ground state entanglement

2026

Tuesday, Sep 01, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Ady Stern (Weizmann Inst.) - Fractionalization in Quantum Simulators
    • Eugene Demler (ETH Zurich) New perspectives on magnetism from quantum simulators
    • Monika Aidelsburger (MPQ) Dynamical preparation of U(1) quantum spin liquids in an analogue quantum simulator
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 11:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Fractionalization in Quantum Simulators
    • Tom Manovitz (Weizmann Inst.) Engineering spin liquids with Rydberg atom arrays
    • Nathan Goldman (ULB) Transport in Quantum Engineered Systems … without transport
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 02:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Kai Sun (Michigan) - Spin Liquids, Frustration and Superconductivity
    • Subir Sachdev (Harvard) Superconductivity from quantum spin liquids in the cuprates and organics
    • Dan Mao (Zurich) Fractionalization from Orbital Geometric Frustration
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 04:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Spin Liquids, Frustration and Superconductivity
    • Zhengyan Shi (Stanford) Metallogenic quantum criticality: Fermi surface nucleation at transitions between gapped phases

2026

Wednesday, Sep 02, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Kin Fai Mak (Cornell) -
    • Xiaodong Xu (Washington) Correlated topology and magnetism in twisted MoTe2
    • Tingxin Li (SJTU) Fractional topological phases and unconventional superconductivity in twisted MoTe2
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 11:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Fractional States in Twisted MoTe₂
    • Gil Young Cho (KAIST) Anyon Superconductor and Non-Abelian Topological Phases in Twisted Bilayer MoTe2
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 02:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Erez Berg (UCSB) - Probing Topological Order on Quantum Processors
    • Michael Knap (TU Munich) Probing Fractionalized Phases of Matter with Quantum Processors
    • Henrik Dreyer (Quantinuum) Universal Non-Abelian Topological Order on Trapped-Ion Quantum Computers
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 04:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Probing Topological Order on Quantum Processors
    • Yarden Sheffer (Weizmann Inst.) Quantum polymer clay: topological entanglement measures from replica permutations
    • Yuri Lensky (Stanford) Practical applications of engineered Majoranas in superconducting processors

2026

Thursday, Sep 03, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Trithep Devakul (Stanford) - Correlated and Topological Phases in Graphene
    • Andrei Bernevig (Princeton) The “Berry Trashcan” Model: Analytic Insights into Correlated Phases in Rhombohedral Graphene
    • Long Ju (MIT) Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect and Chiral Superconductivity in Graphene
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 11:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Correlated and Topological Phases in Graphene
    • Steven Kivelson (Stanford) Quantum Hall Effect without a Gap
    • Di Xiao (Washington) Hyperdeterminant: A flexible wave function ansatz for strongly correlated systems
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 02:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Yuval Oreg (Weizmann Inst.) - Information, Decoherence and Fractionalized Matter
    • Tarun Grover (UCSD) Dynamical splitting and its application to gapless topological states and decoherence-induced transitions
    • Ehud Altman (UC Berkeley) Decoherence induced transitions and decoding of non-abelian states

2026

Friday, Sep 04, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Saturday, Sep 05, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Sep 06, 2026

No talks scheduled.