Chaos, Scars, Thermalization

from Monday, May 11, 2026 (8:50 AM) to Friday, May 15, 2026 (5:00 PM)
CERN (4/3-006)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
May 11, 2026
May 12, 2026
May 13, 2026
May 14, 2026
May 15, 2026
AM
8:50 AM Welcome - Enrique Rico Ortega (CERN)  
9:00 AM 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 AM --- Coffee-break ---
10:45 AM Quasiparticle wavepackets for glueball scattering on a qutrit chain - Dr Marco Rigobello (Max-Planck Quantum Optics)  
11:45 AM --- Lunch break ---
9:00 AM Emergent spacetime geometry for quantum matter - Stefan Floerchinger (University of Jena)  
10:00 AM --- Coffee-break ---
10:45 AM Hydrodynamic attractors in ultracold atoms - Dr Tilman Enss (Heidelberg)  
11:45 AM --- Lunch break ---
9:00 AM From phase space to Krylov space: complexity and the geometry of chaos - Julian Sonner (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
10:00 AM --- Coffee-break ---
10:45 AM Tensor Network methods for real-time dynamics of Gauge Field Theories - Giuseppe Magnifico  
11:45 AM --- Lunch break ---
9:00 AM Ergodicity-breaking scenarios in quantum link lattice gauge theories - Debasish Banerjee (University of Southampton)  
10:00 AM --- Coffee-break ---
10:45 AM Interface phases and dynamics in two-dimensional quantum magnets: Theory and novel quantum simulation opportunities - Alessio Lerose  
11:45 AM --- Lunch break ---
9:00 AM Bubble nucleation in long-range systems - Laura Batini (ETH Zürich)  
10:00 AM --- Coffee-break ---
10:45 AM Quantum computation of Quantum Electrodynamics beyond one spatial dimension - Dr Bipasha Chakraborty (University of Southampton)  
11:45 AM --- Lunch break ---
PM
2:00 PM Group Invariant Quantum Many-Body Scars and Unconventional Electron Pairing - Dr Kiryl Pakrouski (ETH Zurich)  
3:00 PM --- Coffee-break ---
2:00 PM From projected to observable-projected ensembles - Sara Murciano  
3:00 PM --- Coffee-break ---
2:00 PM Color Glass to Color Fluid: Thermalization in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions - Raju Venugopalan (BNL and Univ. of Edinburgh)  
3:00 PM --- Coffee-break ---
4:00 PM New ideas for nonthermal fixed points - Michal Heller  
2:00 PM False vacuum decay in quantum spin chains and quantum simulators - Gianluca Lagnese  
3:00 PM --- Coffee-break ---
2:00 PM Thermalization Under Generalized Symmetries - Joao C. Pinto Barros (Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich)  
3:00 PM --- Coffee-break ---