Gluck Professor of Theoretical Physics Lars Bildsten, Director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, elected as a new member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2026. Read more
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The Breakthrough Prize Foundation today announced physicist David J. Gross, of UC Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, among the winners of the 2026 Breakthrough Prizes, honoring scientists whose discoveries are significantly driving growth of human knowledge. Read more
Talks Schedule
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Day of May 20, 2026
Day of May 20, 2026
2026
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments
- Alfred Spormann (Stanford) Some Principles of Microbial Metabolism
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics
- Giuseppe Gonnella (Univ. di Bari) Collective properties of active systems: from ABP to polar and nematic fluids
- Federico Ghimenti (Stanford) Endogenous fluctuations and dispersal stabilize microbial diversity
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Simons Amphitheater
03:30PM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments
- Sergei Maslov (Univ. of Illinois) Crossfeeding Dynamics in Energy-Limited and Auxotrophic Microbial Communities