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    KITP Announces Research Programs for 2027-2028

    Working with KITP's Advisory Board and the international physics community, KITP has developed new programs for the 2027-2028 academic year.

    Applications are now open for participation in all programs.

    View upcoming 2027-2028 programs and apply at https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/scientific-activities/visit/future-programs.

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    Annual Report 2025

    Established in 1979 with an originating grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), KITP is a facility for the theoretical physics community. Our major activities are programs and conferences, which convene more than 1,400 visitors at KITP for both prolonged stays (usually three weeks or longer) and four-day conferences. The institute also benefits from international participation, as over 40% of visitors come from outside the United States. KITP’s mission is to be “the place” where new research is initiated, collaborations are formed and new connections are made across disciplines. High demand keeps our facilities full 50 weeks out of the year!

     

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Talks Schedule

2026

Friday, Oct 16, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Minho Luke Kim (MIT) Symmetry-enforced Fermi Surfaces
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Cenke Xu (UCSB) Nonequilibrium "condensation" of particles and anyons

2026

Monday, Oct 12, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi (U. Penn) Light-matter interaction in Altermagnets

2026

Tuesday, Oct 13, 2026

  • Broida 3302 12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Xinkang Wang (University of Chicago) Alternative AdS Boundary Conditions and Their Implications
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Maksym Serbyn (ISTA) Beyond quantum many-body scars: emergent quasiparticles and anomalous transport
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 03:30PM Physics Colloquium

    • David Caratelli, Xiao Luo, and Hugh Lippincott (UCSB) “Nobel Prize Spotlight: Detecting Astrophysical Neutrinos at the South Pole”

2026

Wednesday, Oct 14, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Sergej Moroz (Karlstad Univ.) Fractionalizing qudits with noninvertible symmetries

2026

Thursday, Oct 15, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Chao Ming Jian (Cornell) Theory of Topologically Ordered Superfluids in 2+1 Dimensions

2026

Friday, Oct 16, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Minho Luke Kim (MIT) Symmetry-enforced Fermi Surfaces
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Cenke Xu (UCSB) Nonequilibrium "condensation" of particles and anyons

2026

Saturday, Oct 17, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Oct 18, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Oct 19, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Intermediate-Scale AI for Physics

    • Nathaniel Craig (UCSB), Xiaoliang Qi (Stanford), Daniel Roberts (OpenAI), Eva Silverstein (Stanford) Welcome & Introductions
    • Surya Ganguli (Stanford) AI, Math and Physics: the State of Play
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Intermediate-Scale AI for Physics

    • Michael Douglas (Harvard), Luca Iliesiu (UC Berkeley), Matthew Schwartz (Harvard), Thomas Hartman (Stanford), Patrick Hayden (Stanford) The AI math/physics gap? (panel)
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Sarang Gopalakrishnan (Princeton) Long-lived local quantum coherences at high temperature
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Intermediate-Scale AI for Physics

    • Christian Bauer (LBNL), Adam Brown (Google DeepMind), Ethan Dyer (Anthropic), Jeongwan Haah (Stanford), Juan Maldacena (IAS), Daniel Roberts (OpenAI), Subir Sachdev (Harvard), Clifford Johnson (UCSB), Vedika Khemani (Stanford) The theoretical physics / frontier lab interface (discussion)

2026

Tuesday, Oct 20, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Intermediate-Scale AI for Physics

    • Lance Dixon (SLAC/Stanford), Julie Pagès (SLAC) The 9-loop 6-gluon MHV amplitude
    • Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech) Positive eigenvalues of the relative SU(2) BFSS Hamiltonian
    • Clay Córdova (U. Chicago) Scale vs conformal invariance
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Intermediate-Scale AI for Physics

    • Boris Alexeev (OpenAI) Verification in mathematics and physics (discussion)
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Biao Lian (Princeton) Quantum Breakdown Model: from Disorder-free Glass to SPT
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Intermediate-Scale AI for Physics

    • Sirui Lu (MPQ) Bridging Gaps with Tensor Networks: The Haldane Gap Proof and Beyond
    • Zohar Komargodski (SCGP), Maissam Barkeshli (Maryland), Ven Chandrasekaran (OpenAI) Humans in the loop (discussion)
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 03:30PM Physics Colloquium

    • Chenhao Jin (UCSB) “Shining Light on Quantum Phenomena in Real-World Materials”

2026

Wednesday, Oct 21, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Intermediate-Scale AI for Physics

    • David Tong (Cambridge), Daniel Green (UCSD), Dam Son (U. Chicago), Clifford Johnson (UCSB) Academics-only session (discussion)
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Intermediate-Scale AI for Physics

    • Daniel Green (UCSD), Surya Ganguli (Stanford), Gordon Watts (Washington), Andreas Kronfeld (Fermilab) AI at the interface with data (panel)
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Carolyn Zhang (Harvard) TBD
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Intermediate-Scale AI for Physics

    • Juan Maldacena (IAS), Paul Ginsparg (Cornell), Leon Balents (UCSB) How will research communication look in the AI era? (panel)

2026

Thursday, Oct 22, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Intermediate-Scale AI for Physics

    • Cenke Xu (UCSB), Marina Krstic Marinkovic (ETH Zurich) Formulating frameworks based on observed phenomena
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Yan Qi Wang (Maryland) Defects as Probes: From Chiral Topological Phases to Higher-Charge Superconductivity
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Intermediate-Scale AI for Physics

    • David Tong (Cambridge), Clifford Johnson (UCSB) Academics-only session (discussion)
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Jacqueline Caminiti (Perimeter Inst) Inner Horizon Saddles and a Spectral KSW Criterion

2026

Friday, Oct 23, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Intermediate-Scale AI for Physics

    • Program participants () Theoretical physics / frontier lab interface: takeaway messages (discussion)

2026

Saturday, Oct 24, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Oct 25, 2026

No talks scheduled.