Miles Stoudenmire - Flatiron Institute

14 Apr 2026, 09:00 → 15 Apr 2026, 16:00 US/Eastern

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/people/miles-stoudenmire-2/

Miles’ speciality is using tensor networks, a technique for compressing and manipulating large collections of parameters encountered in quantum mechanics and in machine learning. A key area of his research is expanding the reach of tensor networks to include more detailed and realistic aspects of quantum systems, such as the use of chemically accurate basis sets and the inclusion of finite temperature effects.

Miles is also the lead developer of the ITensor software for tensor network calculations. The ITensor interface allows users to directly transcribe tensor network diagrams into efficient code, and is very useful for rapidly prototyping new algorithms.

Tuesday 14 April

1 Arrive at IAMM with host: Adrian Del Maestro

https://tennessee.zoom.us/my/adrian.delmaestro

Speakers: Prof. Adrian Del Maestro (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Matthias Thamm (Leipzig University)

2 Research Meeting

Speaker: Jonathan D'Emidio

3 Research Meeting

Room 262

Speaker: Angkun Wu

12:40 Lunch

4 CCQ Zoom Meeting

5 Research Meeting

Speaker: Zachary Nicolaou

6 Research Meeting

Speaker: Hatem Barghathi

Wednesday 15 April

7 Arrive at IAMM with host: Adrian Del Maestro

research discussion

Speaker: Prof. Adrian Del Maestro (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

10:00 Talk Prep

8 Belief Propagation for 2D and 3D Quantum Systems In and Out of Equilibrium

Simulating the dynamics of strongly correlated, many-particle quantum systems is a technical challenge requiring new algorithms, flexible software, and well-chosen target problems. Belief propagation gives a natural framework for contracting 2D and 3D (and even higher-dimensional) tensor networks so that the costs can be adapted to the difficulty of the problem. I will review recent progress in pushing this method to study dynamics of quenching and annealing large quantum systems, and most recently studying equilibrium properties of 2D frustrated magnets.

Speaker: Dr Miles Stoudenmire

9 Cristian Batista

12:00 Lunch

10 Research Meeting

Speaker: Wonhee Ko (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

11 Research Meeting

Speaker: Mithilesh Nayak (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

12 Research Meeting

Zoom: https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/85681060351

Speaker: Peizhi Mai

13 Research Meeting

Speaker: Rahul Soni (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)

15:30 Depart for Airport

Adrian will drive Miles to Airport.