Talks Schedule

2025

Friday, Jul 18, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

    • Matthew Wachowiak (Utah) The neurochemistry of active sensing by the olfactory system: Odorant metabolism suggests a novel role for inhalation-linked timing in odor coding and perception
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM The Physics of Changing Polar Climate

    • Participants (KITP) Synthesis
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

    • David Kleinfeld (UCSD) The neurophysics of orofacial active sensing
    • Marie Suver (Vanderbilt) Active antennal sensing in Drosophila

2025

Monday, Jul 14, 2025

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM The Physics of Changing Polar Climate

    • Aneesh Subramanian (U Colorado, Boulder) Harnessing Data and Model Revolution in the Polar Region

2025

Tuesday, Jul 15, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

    • Kathy Nagel (NYU Med) Disinhibition of a recurrent attractor gates a persistent goal signal for olfactory navigation
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM The Physics of Changing Polar Climate

    • Doyeon Kim (NASA Langley) Arctic Albedo Trends: Drivers and the Missed Warming Signal in Models
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:45AM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

    • Venki Murthy (Harvard) Tracking scent trails: strategies and mechanisms

2025

Wednesday, Jul 16, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

    • David Schoppik (NYU) Something fishy about eye movements and locomotion
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM The Physics of Changing Polar Climate

    • Marilyn Raphael (UCLA) Structural change in Antarctic sea ice: determining the causal mechanisms
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:45AM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

    • Thierry Emonet (Yale) Flies navigational responses to odor motion and gradient cues are tuned to plume statistics

2025

Thursday, Jul 17, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

    • Eugenia Chiappe (Champalimaud) Go with the Visual Flow: Circuit Mechanisms for Active Gaze Control
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM The Physics of Changing Polar Climate

    • Participants (KITP) Synthesis
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:45AM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

    • Massimo Vergassola (UCSD) Navigation by sensing olfactory cues
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 03:45PM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

2025

Friday, Jul 18, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

    • Matthew Wachowiak (Utah) The neurochemistry of active sensing by the olfactory system: Odorant metabolism suggests a novel role for inhalation-linked timing in odor coding and perception
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM The Physics of Changing Polar Climate

    • Participants (KITP) Synthesis
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

    • David Kleinfeld (UCSD) The neurophysics of orofacial active sensing
    • Marie Suver (Vanderbilt) Active antennal sensing in Drosophila

2025

Saturday, Jul 19, 2025

No talks scheduled.

2025

Sunday, Jul 20, 2025

No talks scheduled.

2025

Monday, Jul 21, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

    • Mitya Chklovskii (Flatiron) What does the neuron do? A new model for Neuroscience and AI
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 11:00AM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

    • John Tuthill (UW) Neural mechanisms of sensorimotor control in Drosophila
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM Relativistic Plasma Physics: From the Lab to the Cosmos

    • Dmitri Uzdensky, Louise Willingale, Sasha Philippov, Anatoly Spitkovsky (Oxford, Michigan, UMD, Princeton) Welcome to KITP, Introduction and Orientation

2025

Tuesday, Jul 22, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

    • Kathy Cullen (Johns Hopkins) Predictive Coding of Self-Motion: Cerebellar Computations for Active Perception and Motor Control
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:45AM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

    • Yonatan Aljadeff (UCSD) High dimensional predictive coding and active hiding

2025

Wednesday, Jul 23, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

    • Tanya Sharpee (Salk) How hyperbolic organization facilities learning and control
  • Founders' Room 10:00AM Relativistic Plasma Physics: From the Lab to the Cosmos

    • Alexandra Veledina (Univ. of Turku) Recent progress in understanding coronae and X-ray polarization in X-ray binaries
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:45AM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

    • Lisa Fenk (Max Planck) Neural mechanisms for active eye movements in Drosophila

2025

Thursday, Jul 24, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

    • Scott Pluta (Purdue) Behavioral intent shapes the bandwidth and symmetry of sensory information in motor cortex
  • Founders' Room 10:00AM Relativistic Plasma Physics: From the Lab to the Cosmos

    • Jason Dexter (University of Colorado) Modeling magnetized thin accretion disks and applications to X-ray binaries and AGN
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:45AM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

    • Lisa Stowers (Scripps (TSRI)) Mouse vomeronasal pheromone sensing requires active touch
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:45PM Relativistic Plasma Physics: From the Lab to the Cosmos

    • Julien Fuchs (LULI, Ecole Polytechnique) Probing our magnetized universe in the laboratory: examples and perspectives
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:45PM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

    • Dima Rinberg (NYU) THEORY: what the nose tells the brain

2025

Friday, Jul 25, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

    • Andrew Gordus (Johns Hopkins) Dynamic sensing of web vibrations by postural changes in spiders
  • Founders' Room 10:00AM Relativistic Plasma Physics: From the Lab to the Cosmos

    • Fan Guo (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Particle acceleration in relativistic magnetic reconnection
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:45AM Neurophysics of Active Sensing

    • Matt Smear (Oregon) Olfactory bulb and hippocampus track breathing rhythms and place

2025

Saturday, Jul 26, 2025

No talks scheduled.

2025

Sunday, Jul 27, 2025

No talks scheduled.