Quantum Topology, Quantum Information, and Connections to Mathematical Physics
Texas A&M University, U.S.A.

May 27-31, 2024

Monday, May 27
9:00-9:45 Xiao-Gang Wen A 10-year journey: from non-invertible gravitational anomaly to generalized symmetry -- a holographic theory of generalized symmetry
10:00-10:45 Thang Le Two quantizations of the SL_n surface character variety and the quantum trace map
11:30-12:30 Jinmin Wang Dihedral rigidity and index theory on manifolds with polyhedral boundary
14:30-15:15 Thomas Schick T-duality and equivariant T-duality
16:00-17:00 Ka Ho Wong The 1-loop conjecture of fundamental shadow link complements and their Dehn-fillings
Tuesday, May 28
9:00-9:45 Zhengwei Liu Alterfold theory for TQFT and topological orders in all dimensions
10:00-10:45 Chen Zhao Correlated decoding of logical qubit algorithms with transversal gates
11:30-12:30 Xiang Tang Helton-Howe Trace, Connes-Chern Character, and Quantization
14:30-15:15 Efstratia Kalfagianni Skein modules, character varieties and essential surfaces of 3-manifolds
16:00-17:00 Eric Maskin A Resolution of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
Wednesday, May 29
9:00-9:45 Kaifeng Bu Magic: A New Frontier of Quantum Science
10:00-10:45 Yasuyuki Kawahigashi Flatness for alpha-induced bi-unitary connections and locality of Frobenius algebras
11:30-12:30 Liyuan Chen Magic of random matrix product states
13:00-14:00 Jonathan Weitsman The Chern-Simons Functional Integral, Kauffman's Bracket Polynomial, and other link invariants
Thursday, May 30
9:00-9:45 Jim Glimm Recent Progress in the Modeling of Navier-Stokes Turbulence
10:00-10:45 Jun Yang The Jacquet-Langlands correspondence of Plancherel measures
11:30-12:30 Helen Wong A volume conjecture for surface diffeomorphisms
14:30-15:15 Dennis Sullivan Projective constructions build all closed three manifolds
16:00-17:00 Roy Garcia On the Hardness of Measuring Magic in Experiments
Friday, May 31
9:00-9:45 Zhenghan Wang What is a quantum field mathematically: following Arthur from reflection positivity to quantum information
10:00-10:45 Colleen Delaney An efficient* classical algorithm for some quantum invariants of 3-manifolds
11:30-12:30 Yuanjie Ren Topological quantum computation assisted by phase transitions
14:30-15:15 Xingshan Cui Trisection invariants of 4-manifolds from Hopf algebras
16:00-17:00 David Evans On Quantum Symmetry