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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

Monday, Sep 28, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 08:50AM Artificial Intelligence at the Quantum Frontier (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Yi Zhuang You (UCSD) - Talk Session (Chair: Yi Zhuang You)
    • Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
    • Hsin Yuan Huang (Caltech) Designing Quantum LDPC Processors
    • Thiparat Chotibut (Chula Univ.) Roles of scrambling and noise in information processing with quantum systems
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Dmitri Feldman (Brown) Noise and Interferometry revisited

2026

Monday, Sep 28, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 08:50AM Artificial Intelligence at the Quantum Frontier (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Yi Zhuang You (UCSD) - Talk Session (Chair: Yi Zhuang You)
    • Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
    • Hsin Yuan Huang (Caltech) Designing Quantum LDPC Processors
    • Thiparat Chotibut (Chula Univ.) Roles of scrambling and noise in information processing with quantum systems
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Dmitri Feldman (Brown) Noise and Interferometry revisited

2026

Tuesday, Sep 29, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Artificial Intelligence at the Quantum Frontier (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Antoine Georges (Flatiron Institute) - Talk Session (Chair: Antoine Georges)
    • Eun Ah Kim (Cornell) Interpretable and structure-aware AI for superconductivity discovery
    • Ryan Babbush (Google Inc.) Accelerating the field of quantum algorithms with AI
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Branislav Nikolic (Delaware) Probing Entanglement and Fractionalized Excitations in Quantum Spin Liquids via Drive, Dissipation, and Spintronic Effects
  • Broida 1640 03:30PM Physics Colloquium

    • David Caratelli (UCSB) Exploring Nature with Neutrinos

2026

Wednesday, Sep 30, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Artificial Intelligence at the Quantum Frontier (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Shiwei Zhang (Simons Foundation) - Talk Session (Chair: Shiwei Zhang)
    • Giuseppe Carleo (EPFL) Foundation Neural-Network Quantum States
    • Eric Wang (UCSB) AI Agents for Open-Ended Scientific Discovery
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Jingyu Zhao (Maryland) Magnetic Breakdown and Anomalous Quantum Oscillation in Rhombohedral Tetralayer Graphene

2026

Thursday, Oct 01, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Artificial Intelligence at the Quantum Frontier (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Xiaoliang Qi (Stanford) - Talk Session (Chair: Xiaoliang Qi)
    • Edwin Stoudenmire (Flatiron Institute) New Capabilities of Tensor Networks: Machine Learning and More
    • Marina Krstic Marinkovic (ETH Zurich) Learning and simulating strongly interacting quantum field theories
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Mikhail Kiselev (ICTP) Universal relations between thermoelectrics and noise in mesoscopic transport across a tunnel junction: how it works for the two-channel charge Kondo circuits
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Zachary Gelles (Princeton University) Charged Instabilities of Near-Extremal Spacetimes

2026

Friday, Oct 02, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Han Bo () Exotic Symmetries and Nishimori Structures in Quantum memory
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Erez Berg (UCSB) Preparing topological ground states on quantum simulators

2026

Saturday, Oct 03, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Oct 04, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Oct 05, 2026

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

    • Stefan Divic (U. Penn) Coupled-wire theory of crystalline geometric response in quantum Hall fluids

2026

Tuesday, Oct 06, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Wednesday, Oct 07, 2026

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

    • Roderich Moessner (MPI-PKS) Dynamical signatures of fractionalisation
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Fangjun Hu (Quera Computing) Towards Nontrivial Phases in Generative AI

2026

Thursday, Oct 08, 2026

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

    • Hans Peter Büchler (Univ. of Stuttgart) Topological phases of matter in blockade structures
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Wanda Hou (UCSD) Design a Quantum Data Processing Unit

2026

Friday, Oct 09, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Saturday, Oct 10, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Oct 11, 2026

No talks scheduled.