Lecture Series by Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University (USA)

Lectures at UPC: Large-scale fluctuations in many-body dynamics using hydrodynamics

Monday, May 19 (11:00 – 13:00)

Wednesday, May 21 (11:00 – 13:00)

Venue: Aula de Graus ETSETB, Ground Floor, Building C4, Campus Nord

Lectures at ICFO: Phases of open quantum systems

Monday, May 26 (10:00 – 12:00)

Friday, May 30 (10:00 – 12:00)

Tuesday, June 3 (10:00 – 12:00)

Biography:

Sarang Gopalakrishnan is a multifaceted and very prolific physicist (as can be gauged from his Google Scholar profile). Central topics of Sarang’s recent research are:

– Understanding the dynamics of large-scale fluctuations in many-body dynamics using hydrodynamics (in particular, finding regimes where many-body systems produce non-gaussian fluctuations at all times)
– Learnability transitions in monitored systems: understanding the information content of local measurements in many-body systems, how much quantum information can be extracted from them, and how this is connected to quantum error correction

– Phases of open quantum systems: developing notions like adiabatic continuity for open systems and mixed states, to define mixed-state phases in a sharp way; understanding mixed-state transitions through concepts like strong-to-weak symmetry breaking; connecting these phenomena to spectral and eigenstate properties of Lindblad master equations

– Quantum-Optical Spin Glasses and Associative Memories

If you are interested in joining the Lecture Series, please email cqa@icfo.eu