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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

Tuesday, Sep 08, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Maciej Koch Janusz (Haiqu Inc.) Information Bottleneck for learning the operator content of quantum and classical theories from data
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Qiong Ma (Boston College) Monolayer TaIrTe4 for tunable Topology and Correlations
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Nisarga Paul (Caltech) Quantum learning theory for condensed matter: learning the Hamiltonian from the dynamical structure factor

2026

Monday, Sep 07, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Tuesday, Sep 08, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Maciej Koch Janusz (Haiqu Inc.) Information Bottleneck for learning the operator content of quantum and classical theories from data
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Qiong Ma (Boston College) Monolayer TaIrTe4 for tunable Topology and Correlations
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Nisarga Paul (Caltech) Quantum learning theory for condensed matter: learning the Hamiltonian from the dynamical structure factor

2026

Wednesday, Sep 09, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Kunal Sharma (IBM) Learning Ground State Observables from Quantum Experiments
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • W. Vincent Liu (Pittsburgh) Engineering Beyond-Standard Models with Orbital Quantum Gases

2026

Thursday, Sep 10, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Tomohiro Soejima (NYU) Large scale neural quantum states reveal the interplay between superconductivity and quantum criticality
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Yang Zhang (Tennessee) A fractional quantum Hall factory on quantum processors: constant-depth preparation of clustered non-Abelian states

2026

Friday, Sep 11, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:00AM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Ruben Verresen (U. Chicago) Condensation without confinement: non-unitary higher symmetries
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Zlatko Papic (Univ. of Leeds) Very high energy physics of fractional quantum Hall states

2026

Saturday, Sep 12, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Sep 13, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Sep 14, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 12:15PM Blackboard Lunch

    • Eliska Greplova (KIND) More Is Different (With Machine-Learned Calculators)
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Kai Sun (Michigan) From Landau Levels to Topological Flat Bands: Can Flat Bands Outperform Landau Levels as Hosts for Fractional States?

2026

Tuesday, Sep 15, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Wednesday, Sep 16, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Thursday, Sep 17, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Friday, Sep 18, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Saturday, Sep 19, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Sep 20, 2026

No talks scheduled.