FRG Workshop on Quantum Spin Systems
and Quantum Information Theory
University of Rochester, May 21 -- 25


Hotel Accommodations:
Staybridge Suites ROCHESTER UNIVERSITY
1000 GENESEE STREET, ROCHESTER, NY 14611 UNITED STATES
Hotel Front Desk: 585-527-9110
Hotel Fax: 585-436-0346
Staybridge Suites
NOTE: For those arriving on May 20, the first night will be at the Holiday Inn Rochester Airport.
Holiday Inn ROCHESTER AIRPORT
911 Brooks Avenue • Rochester, New York 14624
Phone: (585) 328-6000 • Fax: (585) 328-1012
Toll Free: 1-800-HOLIDAY
Holiday Inn Website

Transportation for Arrival/Departure
Arriving Thursday, May 20:
1. The Holiday Inn has a free shuttle to and from the airport. There is a courtesy telephone in the United baggage area of the Rochester Airport, where you can call them to order the shuttle.
2. We are making arrangements to have a shuttle from the Staybridge pick up passengers at the Holiday Inn on the morning of May 21. It will pick up passengers at the Holiday Inn at 10am and then again at 10:15am.
It will then transport passengers from the Staybridge Inn to Hylan hall at 10:45 am and 11am.
The first lecture will start at 11:30am.
Arriving Friday, May 21 or later and departures: The Staybridge suites has a complimentary shuttle to and from the airport. Contact them to reserve it. If you want any help with this, please contact me (Shannon).

Taxis in Rochester
To/from the airport: The minimum fare for a taxi to and from the airport is $10 and the usual fare to the Staybridge or UofR is $12. It is a 5 minute drive between the airport and the Staybridge or UofR. There is a taxi stand at the airport. For ordering taxis to the airport, call 585 235-3333.
General purposes: For general taxis, there are many taxi companies. It is best to consult with your hotel for the reliable ones. If you are at a restaurant or bar downtown, ask them to call you a taxi. Two taxi companies I have used that are reliable are: MK Taxi (driver is Mike), (585) 738-3390, US Express Taxi (driver is Yemane) (585) 503-1234.

Arriving by train: There is usually a long line of taxis in front of the train station even at night. But you may want to reserve a taxi to pick you up at the airport, just to be sure. If you want any help reserving a taxi, please contact me (Shannon).

Meeting Place:
11th floor, Hylan Building, River Campus, University of Rochester
The mathematics lounge on the 9th floor of Hylan is also open.
Maps for University of Rochester
Note: The Staybridge hotel is across the Genesee river. In the upper left of the River campus map you will see a foot bridge across the river. The hotel is just at the end of that bridge (at the end of the block). The Hylan building is near the bottom center of the map, attached to the larger building Hutchison.

Events:
Sunday, May 23. Banquet at Staybridge Suites Hotel.
Monday, May 24, afternoon. Excursion to Niagara Falls.
About the trip to the Falls: There will be a bus leaving from the University of Rochester at 1pm, planning to arrive around 3:30pm. It will take us to the US side of Niagara Falls. Those wishing to may cross the Rainbow Bridge and go to the Canadian side, if you have the proper travel documents and visa. The bus will pick us back up around 7:30pm. If they wish to, one or two participants may still rent cars to travel to the Falls.

Participants:
Sven Bachmann (UC Davis), Vita Borovyk (Univ. Arizona), Sergey Bravyi (IBM Research), Mark Herman (Univ. Rochester), Umar Islambekov (Univ. Arizona), Andrew Jordan (Univ. Rochester), Robert Koenig (Caltech IQI), Antti Knowles (Harvard), Richard Lavine (Univ. Rochester), Spyridon Michalakis (Los Alamos), Bruno Nachtergaele (UC Davis), Stephen Ng (UC Davis), Yoshiko Ogata (Univ. Tokyo), Shane Passon (Univ. Arizona), Hillel Raz (Univ. Cardiff), Robert Sims (Univ. Arizona), Shannon Starr (Univ. Rochester), Barbara Terhal (IBM Research), Anna Vershynina (UC Davis)

Program:
This schedule is preliminary. We are particularly open to additional talks. The purpose of the FRG is also for participants to talk informally, and to foster new collaborations.

Friday, May 21
11:30 -- 12:30. Rick Lavine. Detectors and the Quantum Zeno Effect.
2:30 -- 3:30. Mark Herman. Convergence Issues of Moller-Plesset Perturbation Theory in Helium-like Atoms.

Saturday, May 22
10:30 -- 11:30. Sven Bachmann. The Anderson Model on a Strip and Random Matrix Theory.
1:30 -- 2:30. Sergey Bravyi. Topological quantum order: stability under local perturbations.
3 -- 4. Robert Koenig. Quantum computation with Turaev-Viro codes.

Sunday, May 23
10:30 -- 11:30. Anti Knowles. Quantum Diffusion and Eigenvector Delocalization for Random Band Matrices.
1:30 -- 2:30. Hillel Raz. Minimal Partitions of Quantum Graphs.
3:00 -- 4:00. Andrew Jordan. TBA.
4:15 -- 6:00. Wine and cheese reception. (Note: since the NSF does not pay for alcohol, small contributions are accepted, on a voluntary basis.)
6:30: Banquet at the Staybridge Suites. There will be no alcohol at dinner. Sorry!

Monday, May 24
10:30 -- 11:30. Barbara Terhal. How to make a low-dimensional thermally stable quantum memory.
Afternoon: Excursion to Niagara Falls.
The bus will leave from the Staybridge Suites at 1pm. It will drop us at a spot on the US side of the Falls. The estimated arrival at the Falls is 3:30pm. Those who want to may walk across the Rainbow Bridge to view the Falls from the Canadian side. We will plan on departing from Niagara Falls, NY at around 7:30pm to arrive back at Rochester at 10 or 10:30pm.

Tuesday, May 25
10:30 -- 11:30. Yoshiko Ogata. TBA
1:30 -- 2:30. Bruno Nachtergaele. TBA.

There is 1 large room, big enough for the whole group, and 3 smaller classrooms for parallel discussions. Also, if senior researchers are willing to give additional lectures of a basic nature to teach the non-experts among us, that would be particularly welcome.