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Physics with a twist: The new world of moiré materials
Dive into the wonderful and rapidly developing physics of moiré materials with KITP Postdoctoral Scholar Tessa Cookmeyer.
About Café KITP.

Now is the time to submit program pre-proposals or full proposals for the 2026-2027 academic year.

Submissions will be of greatest use if they arrive by November 8, 2024.

The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara expects to appoint Postdoctoral Scholars in theoretical physics, beginning September 1, 2025. For more information, and to apply, please visit https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/apply/fellowships/postdoctoral-scholars-theoretical-physics.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Talks Schedule

2024

Wednesday, Nov 20, 2024

  • Small Seminar Room 10:00AM Gravitational Wave Background Found in Pulsar Timing Arrays: Implications for Merging Supermassive Black Holes

    • Tamara Bogdanovic (Georgia Tech), Laura Blecha (Florida), Jonathan Zrake (Clemson), Matthew Graham (Caltech) Panel Discussion: Contamination, False Positives, Coordination
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Many-body Quantum Optics

    • Pablo Sala (Caltech) Exploring Quantum Many-Body Systems under Decoherence and Measurements
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Active Solids: From Metamaterials to Biological Tissue

    • Ananyo Maitra (CY Cergy, Paris) Discussion: Elasticity and hydrodynamics of active translation symmetry-broken states