KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Day of Dec 30, 2025
Day of Dec 30, 2025
2025
Tuesday, Dec 30, 2025
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Dec 29 - Jan 04, 2026
Week of Dec 29 - Jan 04, 2026
2025
Monday, Dec 29, 2025
No talks scheduled.
2025
Tuesday, Dec 30, 2025
No talks scheduled.
2025
Wednesday, Dec 31, 2025
No talks scheduled.
2026
Thursday, Jan 01, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Friday, Jan 02, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Saturday, Jan 03, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Jan 04, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Jan 05 - Jan 11, 2026
Week of Jan 05 - Jan 11, 2026
2026
Monday, Jan 05, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Tuesday, Jan 06, 2026
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
08:50AM Hard Problems in Soft Earth Geophysics (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Douglas Jerolmack (Univ. of Penn) - Fracture in soft earth materials
- Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
- David Weitz (Harvard) Lab-scale models for hydro-fracture
- Jill Marshall (Portland State) Are some break-ups harder than others? Pondering the state of 'crackiness', wind,-forest structure, and soft-earth mechanics over time
2026
Wednesday, Jan 07, 2026
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
09:00AM Hard Problems in Soft Earth Geophysics (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Nathalie Vriend (CU Boulder) - Icy, confined, and rare
- Ching Yao Lai (Stanford) Dense granular rheology from fluctuations
- Justin Burton (Emory) A dynamical model for the rheology of polycrystalline glacial ice
2026
Thursday, Jan 08, 2026
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
09:00AM Hard Problems in Soft Earth Geophysics (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Shravan Pradeep (Univ. of Penn) - Creep, yield and failure
- Ezequiel Ferrero (CAB-CNEA) Soils as yield-stress materials? Athermal creep facilitated by cyclic perturbations
- Cacey Bester (Swarthmore) Sand’s Approach to Yield: How Granular Materials Creep and Fail
2026
Friday, Jan 09, 2026
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
09:00AM Hard Problems in Soft Earth Geophysics (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Karen Daniels (NC State) -
- Alban Sauret (Maryland) How to make a mudslide?: Open questions
- Tejas S Murthy (IISc) Sticky sand - looking at cohesive granular materials at multiple length scales
2026
Saturday, Jan 10, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Jan 11, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Month of December, 2025
Month of December, 2025
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
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| 30 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
| 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
