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KITP Conference: Generalized Symmetries: High-Energy, Condensed Matter and Mathematics
(Apr 7-10, 2025)
Coordinators: Maissam Barkeshli, Michele Del Zotto, Sakura Schafer-Nameki, and Shu-Heng Shao

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Monday, Apr 7, 2025

8:55am Mark Bowick (KITP) Welcome[Video]
9:00am Clay Cordova (U. Chicago) Higgsing Transitions and Non-Invertible Symmetries in Chern-Simons Matter Theories[Video][CC]
9:45am Apoorv Tiwari (SDU) Gapped and Gapless Phases in (2+1)d with Non-Invertible Symmetries[Slides][Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Nati Seiberg (IAS) Ordering the topological order in the fractional quantum Hall effect[Slides][Video][CC]
11:45am Lukasz Fidkowski (Washington) Quantum cellular automata and quantum phases of matter[Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Mike Hermele (CU Boulder) Toward an algebraic theory of fracton orders[Slides][Video][CC]
2:45pm Yichul Choi (Stony Brook) Non-Invertible Symmetry and Entanglement Entropy[Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Dave Penneys (Ohio State) Local topological order and topological holography[Video][CC]
4:45pm Fabio Apruzzi (UNIPD) SymTFT for spacetime symmetries[Video][CC]
5:30pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Tuesday, Apr 8, 2025

9:00am Xie Chen (Caltech) Are all phase transitions symmetry breaking transitions?[Slides][Video][CC]
9:45am Kevin Walker Completed categories and dualities[Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Sahand Seifnashri (IAS) Symmetry transmutation[Slides][Video][CC]
11:45am Julia Plavnik (Indiana) Exact factorizations and bicrossed product of fusion categories[Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Ho Tat Lam (MIT) Conformal Manifolds from Continuous SymTFTs[Video][CC]
2:45pm Thomas Dumitrescu (UCLA) Aspects of QED in 2+1 dimensions[Slides][Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Alison Warman (Oxford) Phases with Non-Invertible Symmetries in (1+1)d: from Categories to Cold Atoms[Slides][Video][CC]
4:45pm Ruben Verresen (U. Chicago) Criticality and Ergodicity Breaking from Higher Symmetries and Anyon Coercion[Embargoed]
5:30pm

RECEPTION

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER

7:30pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025

9:00am Yifan Wang (NYU) Pinning Defect, Fusion and Factorization[Video][CC]
9:45am Nathanan Tantivasadakarn (Caltech) Non-invertible self-duality symmetries on a tensor product Hilbert space[Embargoed]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Ryohei Kobayashi (IAS) Universal microscopic descriptions for anomalies and statistics of excitations[Slides][Video][CC]
11:45am Colleen Delaney (Purdue) Some thoughts on complexity-theoretic hierarchies of topological order[Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Ingo Runkel (U Hamburg) Non-local charges from perturbed defects via SymTFT in 2d CFT[Slides][Video][CC]
2:45pm Brandon Rayhaun (Stony Brook) Topological lines supported on gapless boundaries of 3d TQFTs[Slides][Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Christian Copetti (Oxford) Symmetry constraints on defect RG flows[Video][CC]
4:45pm Carolyn Zhang (Harvard) Non-onsiteable, not gaugeable symmetries with trivially symmetric (product) states[Video][CC]
5:30pm

RECEPTION

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER

7:30pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Thursday, Apr 10, 2025

9:00am Zhenghan Wang (UCSB) Topological symmetries of anyonic chains and quantum computing with CFTs[Slides][Video][CC]
9:45am Margarita Davydova (Caltech) Quantum computation from spacetime defect networks[Slides][Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Yunqin Zheng (KITS-UCAS) Backfiring bosonization[Video][CC]
11:45am Nathaniel Craig (UCSB) Emergent Higher-Symmetry Structure and Particle Phenomenology[Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Luisa Eck (Oxford) Dualities between 2+1d fusion surface models from braided fusion categories[Slides][Video][CC]
2:45pm Po Shen Hsin (King's College London) Applications of Generalized Symmetry in Quantum Computation[Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Frank Verstraete (DAMTP) Entanglement in the generalised Landau paradigm[Slides][Video][CC]
4:45pm Francesco Benini (SISSA) Entanglement asymmetry for non-invertible symmetries[Video][CC]
5:30pm

CONFERENCE END SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location.(See Registration Desk BEFORE THURSDAY to sign up.)

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