Simons Symposium: Quantum Physics Beyond Simple Systems Schedule

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5 Please choose a restaurant on the Caneel Bay property at which to dine. You will be reimbursed for this meal. Superbowl watching? J

Arrivals & Dinner

7:30 pm

Simons Symposium: Quantum Physics Beyond Simple Systems Schedule

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6 8 am - 9 am 9 am 9:30 am 9:30 am 10:30 am 10:30 am 10:55 am 11 am 11:30 am 11:30 am 11:55 am 12 pm 12:25 pm Breakfast @ Turtle Bay Estate House Breakfast Buffet Opening Remarks Open problems session (organizer: Ryan ODonnell) Madhu Sudan Invariance in Property Testing Break Avi Wigderson Matrix Scaling Rocco Servedio Recent Results on Chow Parameters Lunch @ Turtle Bay Estate House Lunch Buffet. Dining on the Verandah Recreation Reconvene & Coffee Breakout Sessions / Research in Small Groups Alex Samorodnitsky A Conjectural Isoperimetrictype Inequality for Functions on the Hamming Cube Dinner on the Turtle Bay Verandah Informal Discussions

12:30 pm 2:15 pm 2:15 pm 4:30 pm 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm 5 pm - 6:30 pm

6:30 pm 6:55 pm

7 pm 9 pm 9 pm - ?

Simons Symposium: Quantum Physics Beyond Simple Systems Schedule

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 8 am - 9 am Breakfast @ Turtle Bay Estate House Breakfast Buffet Daniel Kane New Structure Theorems for Low-degree Polynomials of Rademachers Per Austrin Adversarial Biasing of Boolean Functions Break Luca Trevisan Higher-order Cheeger Inequalities Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz Extensions of the FKN Theorem Lunch @ Turtle Bay Estate House Lunch Buffet. Dining on the Verandah Recreation Oded Regev Noncommutative Grothendieck Inequalities Breakout Sessions / Research in Small Groups Irit Dinur Coloring and Covering PCPs Dinner @ the Sugar Mill Restaurant Informal Discussions

9 am 9:50 am

10 am 10:50 am 11 am 11:30 am 11:30 am 11:55 am 12 pm 12:25 pm

12:30 pm 2:15 pm 2:15 pm 4:30 pm 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm 5 pm 6:30 pm 6:30 pm 6:55 pm 7 pm 9 pm 9 pm - ?

Simons Symposium: Quantum Physics Beyond Simple Systems Schedule

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 8 am - 9 am Breakfast @ Turtle Bay Estate House Breakfast Buffet Hamed Hatami A structure Theorem for Boolean Functions with Small Total Influences Elchanan Mossel Geometric Influences Break Shachar Lovett Probabilistic Existence of Rigid Combinatorial Objects Lunch @ Turtle Bay Estate House Lunch Buffet. Dining on the Verandah Afternoon Hike to Francis Bay & Annaberg Ruins. Recreation. Dinner on the Turtle Bay Verandah Informal Discussions

9 am 9:55 am

10:05 am 10:30 am 10:30 am 11 am 11 am 11:50 am

12:15 pm 2:15 pm

2:15 pm 7:30 pm

7:30 pm 9:30 pm 9 pm - ?

Simons Symposium: Quantum Physics Beyond Simple Systems Schedule

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9 8 am - 9 am 9 am 9:50 am 10 am 10:50 am 11 am 11:30 am 11:30 am 12:25 pm 12:30 pm 2:15 pm 2:15 pm 4:30 pm 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm 5 pm 6:30 pm 6:30 pm 6:55 pm 7 pm 9 pm 9 pm - ? Breakfast @ Turtle Bay Estate House Breakfast Buffet Tali Kaufmann Locally Testable Codes and Expanders Parikshit Gopalan The Short Code Break Open Problem Session II Lunch @ Turtle Bay Estate House Lunch Buffet. Dining on the Verandah Recreation Guy Kindler Gaussian Noise Sensitivity Breakout Sessions / Research in Small Groups David Ellis Triangle Intersecting Families of Graphs Dinner on the Turtle Bay Verandah Informal Discussions

Simons Symposium: Quantum Physics Beyond Simple Systems Schedule

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10 8 am - 9 am 9:30 am 10:20 am Breakfast @ Turtle Bay Estate House Breakfast Buffet Jelani Nelson Applications of FT-mollification Johan Hstad Ideas for Improved NP-hardness of 2CSPs Break Shubhangi Saraf Lower Bounds for 2-query Locally Correctable Codes Lunch @ Turtle Bay Estate House Lunch Buffet. Dining on the Verandah Recreation Gil Kalai Near Equality Cases for Harper's Inequality Breakout Sessions / Research in Small Groups Dinner on Caneel Bay Terrace Informal Discussions

10:30 am 10:55 am 11 am 11:30 am 11:30 am 12:20 pm

12:30 pm 2:15 pm 2:15 pm 4:30 pm 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm 5 pm 7 pm 7 pm 9 pm 9 pm - ?

Simons Symposium: Quantum Physics Beyond Simple Systems Schedule

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11* 8 am - 10 am Breakfast @ Turtle Bay Estate House Breakfast Buffet Caneel Bay will arrange your ferry transfer back to St. Thomas. Your departure time will be delivered to your room.

Departures

*Saturdays breakfast will be billed directly to the Simons Foundation