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Lars Bildsten elected as member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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

David Gross Wins 2026 Special Breakthrough Prize
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

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2026

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Patrick Charbonneau (Duke) Active exploration of caging and criticality in the random Lorentz gas
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 03:30PM Physics Colloquium

    • Alice Shapley (UCLA) Transformative Insights into the Cosmic Baryon Cycle from JWST