Chaos, Scars, Thermalization

from Monday, 11 May 2026 (08:50) to Friday, 15 May 2026 (17:00)
CERN (4/3-006)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
11 May 2026
12 May 2026
13 May 2026
14 May 2026
15 May 2026
AM
08:50 Welcome - Enrique Rico Ortega (CERN)  
09:00 Non-ergodic dynamics in SU(2) lattice gauge theory: scars, fragmentation, and disorder-free localization - Giovanni Cataldi (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics)  
10:00 --- Coffee-break ---
10:45 Quasiparticle wavepackets for glueball scattering on a qutrit chain - Dr Marco Rigobello (Max-Planck Quantum Optics)  
11:45 --- Lunch break ---
09:00 Emergent spacetime geometry for quantum matter - Stefan Floerchinger (University of Jena)  
10:00 --- Coffee-break ---
10:45 Hydrodynamic attractors in ultracold atoms - Dr Tilman Enss (Heidelberg)  
11:45 --- Lunch break ---
09:00 From phase space to Krylov space: complexity and the geometry of chaos - Julian Sonner (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
10:00 --- Coffee-break ---
10:45 Tensor Network methods for real-time dynamics of Gauge Field Theories - Giuseppe Magnifico  
11:45 --- Lunch break ---
09:00 Ergodicity-breaking scenarios in quantum link lattice gauge theories - Debasish Banerjee (University of Southampton)  
10:00 --- Coffee-break ---
10:45 Interface phases and dynamics in two-dimensional quantum magnets: Theory and novel quantum simulation opportunities - Alessio Lerose  
11:45 --- Lunch break ---
09:00 Bubble nucleation in long-range systems - Laura Batini (ETH Zürich)  
10:00 --- Coffee-break ---
10:45 Quantum computation of Quantum Electrodynamics beyond one spatial dimension - Dr Bipasha Chakraborty (University of Southampton)  
11:45 --- Lunch break ---
PM
14:00 Group Invariant Quantum Many-Body Scars and Unconventional Electron Pairing - Dr Kiryl Pakrouski (ETH Zurich)  
15:00 --- Coffee-break ---
14:00 From projected to observable-projected ensembles - Sara Murciano  
15:00 --- Coffee-break ---
14:00 Color Glass to Color Fluid: Thermalization in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions - Raju Venugopalan (BNL and Univ. of Edinburgh)  
15:00 --- Coffee-break ---
16:00 New ideas for nonthermal fixed points - Michal Heller  
14:00 False vacuum decay in quantum spin chains and quantum simulators - Gianluca Lagnese  
15:00 --- Coffee-break ---
14:00 Thermalization Under Generalized Symmetries - Joao C. Pinto Barros (Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich)  
15:00 --- Coffee-break ---