KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Day of Aug 16, 2026
Day of Aug 16, 2026
2026
Sunday, Aug 16, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Aug 10 - Aug 16, 2026
Week of Aug 10 - Aug 16, 2026
2026
Monday, Aug 10, 2026
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Lucy Erin O'brien (Stanford) Plasticity of adult organ size under functional demand
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Simons Amphitheater
10:15AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Masatoshi Imada (Sophia Univ.) AI/NQS Aided ab initio Studies on Strongly Correlated Electrons ― Cases of Cuprate Superconductors and Quantum Spin Liquids in Molecular Solids
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Naomi Nakayama (OIST) Material instruction of morphogenesis and morphing
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Daniel Kierzkowski (U. de Montréal) Building Plant Organs: Gradients, Conflicts, and Forms
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Qimin Yan (Northeastern) Symmetry-aware and property-constrained generative design of quantum materials
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Henrik Weyer (KITP) Mechanical patterning in cardiac organoids
- Jessica Feldman (Stanford) Mechanisms of epithelial symmetry breaking
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM AI for Quantum Matter
- Miguel Morales Silva (Flatiron Institute) Insights into the physics of 2D correlated electrons from Neural Quantum States
- Binghai Yan (Penn State) Altermagnetism: an AI-assisted Quantum Materials Study
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- L. Mahadevan (Harvard) Simple aspects of morphogenetic singularities (and regularities)
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Filippo Gaggioli (MIT) Expressive and Accurate Self-Attention Wavefunctions for Many-Electron Problems in the Continuum
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Jake Cornwall Scoones (Francis Crick Inst.) Coarse-graining cis-regulatory elements to rationalise and redesign developmental patterns
- Katerina Ragkousi (Amherst) The primary epithelium of the sea anemone embryo
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Rita Mateus (MPI-CBG) Controlling Organ Growth Across Scales
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Ehud Altman (UC Berkeley) Using generative models to observe measurement induced entanglement and learnability transitions
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Frank Jülicher (MPI-PKS) Electro-hydraulics of tissues
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
02:00PM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Lucy Erin O'brien (Stanford), Rita Mateus (MPI-CBG) Regeneration discussion
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Massimo Vergassola (UCSD) The first two hours of a fly's life
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Annis Richardson (Edinburgh U.) What's interesting about grasses?
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Salem Mosleh (UMES) Geometry and Dynamics of Robust Organ Morphogenesis: From Beaks to Leaves
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Simons Amphitheater
10:15AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Estelle Inack (Perimeter Inst.) Data-enhanced self-learning projection quantum Monte Carlo with Rydberg-atom measurements
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Wolfgang Keil (Inst. Curie) Quantitative guidance of developmental cell-fate patterns based on gene-free mathematical modelling
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Stephanie Woo (UC Merced) Cell dispersal and convergence shape the zebrafish endoderm
- Alexandru Bacanu (Harvard) Driving tissues into shape: controlling mechanical patterning in the early human brain
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Fridtjof Brauns (MPI-PKS) Mechanical self-organization of morphogenesis
-
Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM AI for Quantum Matter
- Anna Dawid (Leiden Univ.), Giovanni Cemin (MPI-PKS) Blackboard tutorial on reinforcement learning & RL applications in quantum physics
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Dominic Skinner (Flatiron Institute) A quantitative model of a phenotypically variable genetic defect
- Nicolas Romeo (U. Chicago) Canalizing organ shape through physical constraints
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Isaac Kim (UC Davis) Local definition of quantum phases
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Adrienne Roeder (Cornell) qBio student talks
-
Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Timothy Hsieh (Perimeter Inst.) Decodable and unlearnable phases and transitions
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Sebastian Streichan (UCSB) qBio student talks
-
Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM AI for Quantum Matter
- Eun Ah Kim (Cornell) TBA
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Zoom
01:00PM NSBP Insight Seminar
https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_digKIyJATwiw0sbhIyHawQ
- Divine Kumah (Duke) Emergent Superconductivity at Oxide Heterointerfaces
2026
Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026
2026
Wednesday, Aug 12, 2026
2026
Thursday, Aug 13, 2026
2026
Friday, Aug 14, 2026
2026
Saturday, Aug 15, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Aug 16, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Aug 17 - Aug 23, 2026
Week of Aug 17 - Aug 23, 2026
2026
Monday, Aug 17, 2026
2026
Tuesday, Aug 18, 2026
2026
Wednesday, Aug 19, 2026
2026
Thursday, Aug 20, 2026
2026
Friday, Aug 21, 2026
2026
Saturday, Aug 22, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Aug 23, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Month of August, 2026
Month of August, 2026
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