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RG Flows, Entanglement, and Holography Workshop

September 17-21, 2012

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Workshop Venue:
West Hall
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Lecture Hall: 340 West Hall (3rd Floor)

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Schedule of Talks


Monday
Sept 17
Tuesday
Sept 18
Wednesday
Sept 19
Thursday
Sept 20
Friday
Sept 21
9:00-9:30
Introduction
(R. Myers)




9:30-10:30
Chair: J. Liu
S. Pufu
Chair: A. Lawrence
B. Swingle
Chair: H. Elvang
M. Luty
Chair: V. Hubeny
T. Takayanagi
Chair: R. Akhoury
M. Headrick
10:30-11:00
break
break
break
break
break
11:00-12:00
N. Bobev Z. Komargodski
A. Stergiou
R. Myers
M. Rangamani
12:00-1:30
lunch
lunch
lunch
lunch
 




1:30-2:30
Chair: K. Sun
H. Casini
Chair: Y. Huang
D. Freedman
B. Grinstein
Chair: C. Keeler
H. Liu
2:30-3:00
break
break
discussion
break
3:00-4:00
F. Verstraete
G. Festuccia

B. van Rees


Reception
(6:00-8:00)
Department Colloquium (4:00-5:00)

 Speakers

Speaker Institution Title
Nikolay Bobev
Stony Brook
Holographic uniformization
Horacio Casini
Bariloche
Strong subadditivity of entanglement entropy and quantum field theory
Guido Festuccia
IAS
Chern-Simons contact terms and 3d RG flows
Dan Freedman
MIT
Status of the a-theorem in D=6
Ben Grinstein
UCSD
RG limit cycles: Part II
Matthew Headrick
Brandeis
Properties of entropy in holographic theories
Zohar Komargodski
IAS/Weizmann
The theory of the flux tube
Hong Liu
MIT
Renormalized entanglement entropy and the number of degrees of freedom
Markus Luty
UC Davis
Asymptotics of 4d quantum field theory
Rob Myers
Perimeter
Holographic Renyi entropy
(Introduction: RG flows, entangement and holography)
Silviu Pufu
MIT
Entanglement, holography, and RG flows in 3d and 5d
Mukund Rangamani
Durham
Causal holographic information
Andy Stergiou
UCSD
RG limit cycles: Part I
Brian Swingle
Harvard
Enganglement renormalization and holography at large N
Tadashi Takayanagi
Kyoto
Emergent spacetimes from entanglement renormalization
Balt van Rees
Stony Brook
Recent results regarding holographic renormalization
Frank Verstraete
Vienna
Matrix product states, projected entangled pair states, and boundary theories for strongly correlated quantum many-body systems

 

Workshop Organizers:
Henriette Elvang
(Michigan/MCTP)
Matt Headrick
(Brandeis)
Jim Liu
(Michigan/MCTP)


Workshop Secretary:
Angela Milliken
University of Michigan
450 Church Street
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1040
[P] 734-763-9698
[F] 734-763-2213