The 2nd iTHEMS-NCTS Joint Workshop

2025 Program

Location: Okochi Hall (unless otherwise specified)

Interdisciplinary Section: Morning, August 18th
Poster Section: Afternoon, August 19th
Math Section: Afternoon, August 21st
Condensed Matter Section: Afternoon, August 20th; Morning, August 21st
High-Energy Section: Afternoon, August 18th; Morning, August 19th; Morning, August 20th

9:30 - 10:00: Registration
Chair: Ching-Kai Chiu
10:00 - 10:10: iTHEMS Director, Satoshi Iso's Opening Remark
10:10 - 11:10: Plenary Talk: Naoto Nagaosa - Quantum Geometry and Linear and Nonlinear Responses of Solids
11:10 - 11:30: Coffee Break
Chair: Satoshi Iso
11:30 - 12:00: Akinori Tanaka - Understanding generative AI by Feynman's path integral
12:00 - 12:30: Che-Yu Chen - Quantum black hole mimicker: Redshift plays the role
12:30 - 14:00: Discussion Lunch (Registered Participants only) (4F Main Research Building)
Chair: Pei-Ming Ho
14:00 - 14:30: Shuntaro Aoki - Probing New Physics through the Cosmological Collider
14:30 - 15:00: Chong-Sun Chu - Quantum and holographic aspects of spacetime anisotropy
15:00 - 15:30: Sotaro Sugishita - Asymptotic symmetry and infrared safe scattering in QED
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee Break
Chair: Chong-Sun Chu
16:00 - 16:30: Yuta Hamada - A finite 6d supergravity landscape from anomalies
16:30 - 17:00: Yu-Tin Huang - The emergence of strings from bootstrap
17:00 - 17:30: Kantaro Ohmori – Higher Representation Theory and Phases of Gauge Theories

Chair: Yuki Yokokura
9:30 - 10:30: Plenary Talk: Yasunori Nomura - Nonperturbative Quantum Gravity in a Closed Universe
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break
Chair: Che-Yu Chen
11:00 - 11:30: Dongwook Ghim - Hamiltonian Simulation for Energy Spectroscopy of Schwinger Model
11:30 - 12:00: Pei-Ming Ho - UV Physics and Information Paradox
12:00 - 12:30: Masamichi Miyaji - Aspects of Non-perturbative Hilbert Space in Gravity
12:30 - 14:00: Discussion Lunch (Registered Participants only) (4F Main Research Building)
Chair: Ching-Kai Chiu
14:00 - 15:00: 100-second Poster Introduction
15:00 - 17:30: Poster Session with Coffee and Snacks (3F and 4F Main Research Building)

Chair: Masazumi Honda
9:30 - 10:30: Plenary Talk: Hikaru Kawai - Spacetime and Matter from Matrices -Emergence of General Relativity in IIB Matrix Model (Online)
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30: Yasha Neiman - Causality of higher-spin interactions, with application to de Sitter space
11:30 - 12:00: Norihiro Iizuka - Genuine multi-entropy and holography
12:00 - 13:30: Discussion Lunch (Registered Participants only) (4F Main Research Building)
Chair: Tay-Rong Chang
13:30 - 14:00: Guang-Yu Guo - Novel phenomena generated by crystal and spin chirality in solids
14:00 - 14:30: Ken Mochizuki - Measurement-induced spectral/topological transitions
14:30 - 15:00: Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30: Po-Yao Chang - Diagnosing Many-Body Systems with Entanglement: Insights from Non-Unitary CFTs and TQFTs
Chair: Po-Yao Chang
15:30 - 16:00: Chang-Tse Hsieh - Conformal invariance in non-Hermitian free-fermion critical systems
16:00 - 16:30: Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30: Plenary Talk: Shinsei Ryu - Higher Berry phases in quantum many-body systems
18:00 - 20:00: Evening Session, Banquet (Registered Participants only)

Chair: Guang-Yu Guo
9:30 - 10:00: Shun-Jen Cheng - Full-Zone Landscape of Momentum Excitons in Atomically Thin Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides
10:00 - 10:30: Kyosuke Adachi - Decoding Sequence Rules for Condensation of Disordered Proteins
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break
Chair: Chang-Tse Hsieh
11:00 - 11:30: Tay-Rong Chang - Pure Orbital Chern Insulators in Two-dimensional Phosphorene
11:30 - 12:00: Chung-Hou Chung - A mechanism for quantum-critical Planckian metal phase in high-temperature cuprate superconductors
12:00 - 13:40: Discussion Lunch (Registered Participants only) (4F Main Research Building)
Chair: Chi-Kang Chang
13:40 - 14:10: Taketo Sano - A diagrammatic view of Khovanov homology
14:10 - 15:10: Plenary Talk: Chung-Jun Tsai - Some rigidity and dynamical stability results of calibrated submanifolds
Chair: Chang-Tse Hsieh
15:10 - 15:15: Executive Director of Science, Tetsuo Hatsuda's Review
15:15 - 15:25: NCTS Director, Guang-Yu Guo's Closing Remark
15:25 - 16:30: Internal Discussions (iTHEMS and NCTS Organizers)