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Tuesday, Apr 21, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Thomas Bury (McGill Univ.) Predicting bifurcations in cardiac dynamics: from chick heart aggregates to the clinic
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Shahriar Iravanian (Emory) The Detection and Significance of High-Order Repolarization Dynamics in Ex-Vivo Human Ventricles
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Alex Buchel (Western Univ.) Causality and instability of the relativistic hydrodynamics from holography
  • Broida 3302 12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Abouzar Kaboudian (AKcelerate Computing) Real-Time Computational Research: Applications to the Topics Discussed at KITP
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 03:30PM Physics Colloquium

    • Francis Halzen (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) ICECUBE: The First Decade of Neutrino Astronomy