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Talks Schedule
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Day of Nov 04, 2026
Day of Nov 04, 2026
2026
Wednesday, Nov 04, 2026
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
09:00AM Quantum Science and Technology with Ultracold Molecules (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Michal Tomza (Univ. of Warsaw) -
- Simon Cornish (Durham Univ.) Interfacing individual ultracold polar molecules and Rydberg atoms in optical tweezers
- Tim Langen (TU Wien) Laser cooling of complex molecules
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Simons Amphitheater
11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
- Gail Mc Laughlin (NC State) Overview: neutrino physics
- Julien Froustey (IFSC (CSIC-UV)) Flavor transformations
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
08:50AM Quantum Science and Technology with Ultracold Molecules (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Tijs Karman (RU Nijmegen) -
- Lisa Stewart (KITP) Welcome
- Waseem Bakr (Princeton) Strongly correlated systems of polar molecules: from quantum magnets to droplets
- David DeMille (Johns Hopkins) Probing the electroweak structure of nuclei with diatomic molecules
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Simons Amphitheater
11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
- Philipp Moesta (Univ. of Amsterdam), Francois Foucart (UNH), Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame), Raffaella Margutti (UC Berkeley) Meet and greet / Show and tell
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
09:00AM Quantum Science and Technology with Ultracold Molecules (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Guido Pupillo (Unistra) -
- Eric Hudson (UCLA) New Talk
- Reuben Wang (ITAMP) Highly elastic molecular interactions: diatomics and polyatomics
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Simons Amphitheater
11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
- Carla Frohlich (NC State) Nucleosynthesis
- Matthew Mumpower (LANL) Connection to nuclear experiment
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Broida 3302
12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
Note: Offsite
- Washington Taylor (MIT) An elliptic approach to Reid's fantasy: towards connectivity and finiteness of the string/F-theory landscape
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Broida 1640
03:30PM Physics Colloquium
- Michael Manfra (Purdue University) “Experimental Discovery of Anyonic Braiding Statistics”
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
09:00AM Quantum Science and Technology with Ultracold Molecules (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Michal Tomza (Univ. of Warsaw) -
- Simon Cornish (Durham Univ.) Interfacing individual ultracold polar molecules and Rydberg atoms in optical tweezers
- Tim Langen (TU Wien) Laser cooling of complex molecules
-
Simons Amphitheater
11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
- Gail Mc Laughlin (NC State) Overview: neutrino physics
- Julien Froustey (IFSC (CSIC-UV)) Flavor transformations
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
09:00AM Quantum Science and Technology with Ultracold Molecules (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Thomas Pohl (TU Wien) -
- Timur Tscherbul (Nevada) Quantum information dynamics in cold chemical reactions: Out-of-time-ordered correlators and Pauli propagation
- Kaden Hazzard (Rice) Shielded molecules in optical lattices: Hubbard physics and SU(N) symmetry
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Simons Amphitheater
11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
- Jocelyn Read (Cal State Fullerton) Dense matter overview
- Aldana Grichener (Univ. of Arizona/Steward Observatory) Transient theory
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Simons Amphitheater
02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
- Tadashi Takayanagi (YITP Kyoto) Time-like Entanglement and dS Holography
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
- Andrei Derevianko (Nevada) Beyond the Standard Model, one nuclear tick at a time
- Peter Schmelcher (Univ. Hamburg) Latent and Hidden Symmetries: Fundamentals and First Applications
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
- Philipp Moesta (Univ. of Amsterdam), Francois Foucart (UNH), Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame), Raffaella Margutti (UC Berkeley) Open discussion
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
- Ignacio Aucar (CONICET) Genuine Molecular QED Effects Revealed by the Relativistic Connection between NMR Shielding and Nuclear Spin-Rotation
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
- Francois Foucart (UNH), Raffaella Margutti (UC Berkeley), Philipp Moesta (Univ. of Amsterdam), Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame) Meet&greet/Show&tell
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
- Luis Santos (Uni. Hannover) Dipolar lattice gases
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
- Kang Kuen Ni (Harvard) Probing short-range complex dynamics in ultracold collisions with hyperfine-resolved product detection
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
- Christiane Koch (Freie Univ. Berlin) What chiral molecules can teach us about quantum control
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
- Brian Kendrick (LANL) Non-Adiabatic Quantum Dynamics and Complex Formation in Ultracold Chemical Reactions
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Zoom
12:00PM NSBP Insight Seminar
https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UtCwMFibSs-Zae-zEVfRXA#/registration
- Marcell Howard (Brown University) Gravitational Particle Production and Parametric Resonance of Self-Interacting Dark Matter
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Nov 02 - Nov 08, 2026
Week of Nov 02 - Nov 08, 2026
2026
Monday, Nov 02, 2026
2026
Tuesday, Nov 03, 2026
2026
Wednesday, Nov 04, 2026
2026
Thursday, Nov 05, 2026
2026
Friday, Nov 06, 2026
2026
Saturday, Nov 07, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Nov 08, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Nov 09 - Nov 15, 2026
Week of Nov 09 - Nov 15, 2026
2026
Monday, Nov 09, 2026
2026
Tuesday, Nov 10, 2026
2026
Wednesday, Nov 11, 2026
2026
Thursday, Nov 12, 2026
2026
Friday, Nov 13, 2026
2026
Saturday, Nov 14, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Nov 15, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Month of November, 2026
Month of November, 2026
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