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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.

  • KITP Annual Report 2025 Cover
    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 21, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Roger Melko (U. Waterloo) Neural Scaling Laws and Quantum Models
  • Simons Amphitheater 12:15PM Blackboard Lunch

    • Cenke Xu (UCSB) "What happens when a particle breaks apart?"
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Ramanjit Sohal (U. Chicago) Symmetry-twisted multi-entropies: Order parameters for 2D SPT phases

2026

Monday, Sep 21, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Roger Melko (U. Waterloo) Neural Scaling Laws and Quantum Models
  • Simons Amphitheater 12:15PM Blackboard Lunch

    • Cenke Xu (UCSB) "What happens when a particle breaks apart?"
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Ramanjit Sohal (U. Chicago) Symmetry-twisted multi-entropies: Order parameters for 2D SPT phases

2026

Tuesday, Sep 22, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Yi Zhuang You (UCSD) Bring Your Own Agent: Agentic Research Discussion
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Ruochen Ma (KITP) Statistical mechanics of Non-Abelian Learnability Transitions
  • Simons Amphitheater 04:00PM Physics Colloquium

    • Margarita Davydova (Caltech) The unreasonable effectiveness of fractals for quantum matter

2026

Wednesday, Sep 23, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Junyu Liu (Pittsburgh) Understanding LLMs Through Ideas from Theoretical Physics
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Yves Hon Kwan (UT Dallas) TBD
  • Trailer 937 conference room 01:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
    Note: Offsite
    • Xiao-Liang Qi (Stanford University) Blast freezing a black hole

2026

Thursday, Sep 24, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 08:30AM 2026 Undergraduate Research Symposium

    8:30 AM - 4:30 PM: View Full Schedule

    Dynamic 10-minute talks by 62 Undergraduate Researchers from 42 Research Groups Event organized by Brishti Chakraborty, Derek Lee, and Professor Mark Srednicki
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Seyed Alireza Seif Tabrizi (IBM) Learning and mitigation of logical errors
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Thomas Scaffidi (UCI) Topological Superconductivity from Repulsion in a Single Dirac Cone: From Kohn–Luttinger to DMRG, with Applications to Valley-Polarized 2D Materials
  • Trailer 937 conference room 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
    Note: Offsite
    • Emil Martinec (University of Chicago) The black hole S-matrix in gauge/gravity duality
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Gabriel Kotliar (Rutgers) Searching for and finding new strongly correlated electron materials with trained neural tangent kernels and electronic structure methods: a case study

2026

Friday, Sep 25, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 08:30AM 2026 Undergraduate Research Symposium

    8:30 AM - 3:45 PM: View Full Schedule

    Dynamic 10-minute talks by 62 Undergraduate Researchers from 42 Research Groups Event organized by Brishti Chakraborty, Derek Lee, and Professor Mark Srednicki
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Da Chuan Lu (Harvard) Self-dual S_3 gauge theory in (2+1)d: lattice model and anyon proliferation transitions

2026

Saturday, Sep 26, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Sep 27, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Sep 28, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 08:50AM Artificial Intelligence at the Quantum Frontier (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
    • Jens Eisert (Freie Univ. Berlin) TBA
    • 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

    • 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
    • Eun Ah Kim (Cornell) Interpretable and structure-aware AI for superconductivity discovery
    • 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

    • Branislav Nikolic (Delaware) Probing Entanglement and Fractionalized Excitations in Quantum Spin Liquids via Drive, Dissipation, and Spintronic Effects

2026

Wednesday, Sep 30, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Artificial Intelligence at the Quantum Frontier (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Giuseppe Carleo (EPFL) Foundation Neural-Network Quantum States
    • Sam Garratt (Princeton) Machine learning the effects of many quantum measurements
  • 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
    • 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 01:30PM 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

2026

Friday, Oct 02, 2026

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

    • Erez Berg (UCSB) TBD

2026

Saturday, Oct 03, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Oct 04, 2026

No talks scheduled.