KITP Activities

Activity Name Start Date End Date Application Deadline Coordinators Scientific Advisors
Harnessing Quantum-optical Techniques in Solid-state Materials 2025-02-03 2025-02-06 2025-01-05 Martin Claassen, Michael Sentef, and Susanne Yelin
Quantum Optics of Correlated Electron Systems 2025-01-13 2025-02-28 2023-11-12 Martin Claassen, Mohammad Hafezi, Michael Sentef, and Susanne Yelin I. Cirac, Eugene Demler, Tony Heinz, and Atac Imamoglu
What is Particle Theory? 2025-01-06 2025-04-11 2023-11-19 Nima Arkani-Hamed, Nathaniel Craig, Lance Dixon, and Aida El-Khadra Masha Baryakhtar, Roni Harnik, Matthew McCullough, Eva Silverstein, and Jesse Thaler
Gravitational Wave Background Found in Pulsar Timing Arrays: Implications for Merging Supermassive Black Holes 2024-11-12 2024-11-22 2024-09-15 Luke Kelley, Chiara Mingarelli, and Gabi Sato-Polito
Many-body Quantum Optics 2024-10-29 2024-12-20 2023-10-30 Ana Asenjo-Garcia, Darrick Chang, Aashish Clerk, and Alejandro Gonzalez Tudela Immanuel Bloch, Mikhail Lukin, Ana Maria Rey, and Monika Schleier-Smith
New Perspectives in Many-body Physics with Quantum Optical Systems 2024-10-29 2024-11-01 2024-09-29 Darrick Chang, Aashish Clerk, and Alejandro Gonzalez Tudela
The Many Faces of Active Mechanics 2024-10-15 2024-10-18 2024-09-22 Daphne Klotsa, M. Cristina Marchetti, Daniel Sussman, and Anton Souslov
Active Solids: From Metamaterials to Biological Tissue 2024-10-15 2024-12-20 2023-10-22 Daphne Klotsa, M. Cristina Marchetti, Anton Souslov, and Daniel Sussman
Interactions and Co-evolution between Viruses and Immune Systems 2024-09-24 2024-10-11 2023-10-15 Michael Desai, Thierry Mora, and Armita Nourmohammad
Cosmic Dawn Revealed by JWST: The Physics of the First Stars, Galaxies, and Black Holes 2024-08-26 2024-08-29 2024-07-21 Volker Bromm, Roberto Maiolino, Brant Robertson, Rachel Somerville, and Marta Volonteri