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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 19, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Daniel Fisher (Stanford) Why is there so much microbial diversity?
  • Broida 3302 12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Gela Patashuri (Ohio State University) Dimensional Reduction in Parisi-Sourlas Supersymmetry
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Ananyo Maitra (CY Cergy Paris Univ.) Active ordering in disordered environments
    • Jean Baptiste Fournier (MSC) Active particles interacting with their trails