Workshop on Quantum Information Science and Many-Body Physics

Program

Dec. 19 (Sat.)
Time	Speaker	Title
12:00-13:30	Registration & Lunch
Opening & Chairman: Hsi-Sheng Goan
13:30-14:30	Prof. J. Ignacio Cirac	Efficient Description of Many-Body Systems with Projected Entangled-Pair States
14:30-15:30	Prof. Rosario Fazio	Adiabatic Dynamics of A Quantum Critical System Coupled to An Environment
15:30-15:40	Group Photo
15:40-16:00	Break
Chairman: Min-Fong Yang
16:00-16:40	Prof. Hai-Qing Lin	Fidelity Susceptibility, Scaling, and Universality in Quantum Phase Transitions
16:40-17:20	Dr. Ian McCulloch	Information theoretic measures and phase transitions in spin chains
17:20-18:00	Dr. Tzu-Chieh Wei	Detecting Elusive Phase Transitions with Geometric Entanglement
18:30-	Banquet

Dec. 20 (Sun.)
Time	Speaker	Title
Chairman: Yueh-Nan Chen
09:00-10:00	Prof. Guifre Vidal	The Multi-scale Entanglement Renormalization Ansatz
10:00-10:40	Prof. Naoki Kawashima	MERA study of quantum spin models on triangular lattice
10:40-11:10	Break
Chairman: Sungkit Yip
11:10-12:10	Prof. Tao Xiang	Tensor Renormalization Group Method and Its Application
12:10-12:50	Prof. Po-Chung Chen	Field Induced Spin Supersolidity in Frustrated Spin-1/2 Spin-Dimer Models
12:50-14:00	Lunch
Chairman: Zheng-Yao Su
14:00-15:00	Prof. A. Peter Young	Complexity of the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm
Chairman: Ming-Chiang Chung
15:00-15:40	Prof. Anders Sandvik	Mechanism of symmetry breaking in matrix-product states
15:40-16:10	Prof. Ying-Jer Kao	Plaquette Renormalized Tensor Network States: Application to Frustrated Systems
16:10-16:30	Discussion and Closing