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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, Aug 24, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Shiyu Zhou (Perimeter Inst.) Machine learning quantum phases: from universal classification to autonomous discovery
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Yizhi You (Northeastern) Revisiting Haldane conjecture in non-equilibrium

2026

Monday, Aug 24, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Shiyu Zhou (Perimeter Inst.) Machine learning quantum phases: from universal classification to autonomous discovery
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Yizhi You (Northeastern) Revisiting Haldane conjecture in non-equilibrium

2026

Tuesday, Aug 25, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Rouven Koch (TU Delft) Hamiltonian Learning in Quantum Magnets - From Local Spectroscopy to Microscopic Models
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • David Mross (Weizmann Inst.) Anyon dynamics in quantum Hall interferometers
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Taige Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Simulating quantum circuits with neural networks

2026

Wednesday, Aug 26, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Roeland Wiersema (Flatiron Institute) Reliable and Scalable Variational Monte Carlo
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Marin Bukov (MPI-PKS) Floquet ground state order: order without a ground state

2026

Thursday, Aug 27, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Marin Bukov (MPI-PKS) Reinforcement Learning for Quantum Technology
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Wenjie Ji (Westlake Univ.) Self-dual Higgs Transitions: Toric Code and Beyond
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Yubo Yang (Hofstra), Conor Smith (Flatiron Institute) NQS simulations meet Moiré and semiconductor devices

2026

Friday, Aug 28, 2026

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

    • Peleg Emanuel (Weizmann Inst.) TBD
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Jannes Nys (ETH Zurich) TBA
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Taige Wang (Harvard) Chiral superconductivity near fractional Chern insulators

2026

Saturday, Aug 29, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Aug 30, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Aug 31, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 08:50AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Dmitri Feldman (Brown) - Anyons in Quantum Hall Systems and 2D Materials
    • Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
    • Bertrand Halperin (Harvard) Controlled Localization of Anyons in Bilayer Graphene
    • Andrea Young (UCSB) Single anyon quantum dots
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 11:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Anyons in Quantum Hall Systems and 2D Materials
    • Michael Manfra (Purdue) Universal Anyon Tunneling in a Chiral Luttinger Liquid
    • Jie Shan (MPSD) Mott transitions and superconductivity in twisted WSe2
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 02:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Ruben Verresen (U. Chicago) - Topological Qubits and Quantum Codes
    • Bela Bauer (Microsoft) Recent Developments with Majorana-Based Topological Qubits
    • Guanyu Zhu (IBM) Non-Abelian quantum LDPC codes
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 04:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Topological Qubits and Quantum Codes
    • Isaac Kim (UC Davis) Classifying and characterizing topological phases from ground state entanglement

2026

Tuesday, Sep 01, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Ady Stern (Weizmann Inst.) - Fractionalization in Quantum Simulators
    • Eugene Demler (ETH Zurich) New perspectives on magnetism from quantum simulators
    • Monika Aidelsburger (MPQ) Dynamical preparation of U(1) quantum spin liquids in an analogue quantum simulator
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 11:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Fractionalization in Quantum Simulators
    • Tom Manovitz (Weizmann Inst.) Engineering spin liquids with Rydberg atom arrays
    • Nathan Goldman (ULB) Transport in Quantum Engineered Systems … without transport
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 02:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Kai Sun (Michigan) - Spin Liquids, Frustration and Superconductivity
    • Subir Sachdev (Harvard) Superconductivity from quantum spin liquids in the cuprates and organics
    • Dan Mao (Zurich) Fractionalization from Orbital Geometric Frustration
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 04:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Spin Liquids, Frustration and Superconductivity
    • Zhengyan Shi (Stanford) Metallogenic quantum criticality: Fermi surface nucleation at transitions between gapped phases

2026

Wednesday, Sep 02, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Kin Fai Mak (Cornell) -
    • Xiaodong Xu (Washington) Correlated topology and magnetism in twisted MoTe2
    • Tingxin Li (SJTU) Fractional topological phases and unconventional superconductivity in twisted MoTe2
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 11:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Fractional States in Twisted MoTe₂
    • Gil Young Cho (KAIST) Anyon Superconductor and Non-Abelian Topological Phases in Twisted Bilayer MoTe2
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 02:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Erez Berg (UCSB) - Probing Topological Order on Quantum Processors
    • Michael Knap (TU Munich) Probing Fractionalized Phases of Matter with Quantum Processors
    • Henrik Dreyer (Quantinuum) Universal Non-Abelian Topological Order on Trapped-Ion Quantum Computers
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 04:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Probing Topological Order on Quantum Processors
    • Yarden Sheffer (Weizmann Inst.) Quantum polymer clay: topological entanglement measures from replica permutations
    • Yuri Lensky (Stanford) Practical applications of engineered Majoranas in superconducting processors

2026

Thursday, Sep 03, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Trithep Devakul (Stanford) - Correlated and Topological Phases in Graphene
    • Andrei Bernevig (Princeton) The “Berry Trashcan” Model: Analytic Insights into Correlated Phases in Rhombohedral Graphene
    • Long Ju (MIT) Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect and Chiral Superconductivity in Graphene
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 11:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Correlated and Topological Phases in Graphene
    • Steven Kivelson (Stanford) Quantum Hall Effect without a Gap
    • Di Xiao (Washington) Hyperdeterminant: A flexible wave function ansatz for strongly correlated systems
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 02:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Yuval Oreg (Weizmann Inst.) - Information, Decoherence and Fractionalized Matter
    • Tarun Grover (UCSD) Dynamical splitting and its application to gapless topological states and decoherence-induced transitions
    • Ehud Altman (UC Berkeley) Decoherence induced transitions and decoding of non-abelian states

2026

Friday, Sep 04, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Saturday, Sep 05, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Sep 06, 2026

No talks scheduled.