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 Nov 10, 2026
Day of Nov 10, 2026
2026
Tuesday, Nov 10, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
- Tetyana Pitik (UCB / LBNL) Accretion-induced collapse
- Ryan Foley (UCSC) Overview: Roman + other transient facilities
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
- Luis Santos (Uni. Hannover) Dipolar lattice gases
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
03:30PM Physics Colloquium
- Ryan Foley (UCSC) It is Time for a Compact Object Paradigm Shift
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
- Ignacio Aucar (CONICET) Genuine Molecular QED Effects Revealed by the Relativistic Connection between NMR Shielding and Nuclear Spin-Rotation
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
- Francois Foucart (UNH), Raffaella Margutti (UC Berkeley), Philipp Moesta (Univ. of Amsterdam), Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame) Meet&greet/Show&tell
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Simons Amphitheater
12:15PM Blackboard Lunch
- Irene Tamborra (N. Bohr Institute) The Microphysics of Transients
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Simons Amphitheater
11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
- Tetyana Pitik (UCB / LBNL) Accretion-induced collapse
- Ryan Foley (UCSC) Overview: Roman + other transient facilities
-
Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
- Luis Santos (Uni. Hannover) Dipolar lattice gases
-
Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
03:30PM Physics Colloquium
- Ryan Foley (UCSC) It is Time for a Compact Object Paradigm Shift
-
Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
- Kang Kuen Ni (Harvard) Probing short-range complex dynamics in ultracold collisions with hyperfine-resolved product detection
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
10:30AM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
- Jesus Perez Rios (Stony Brook) AI applications in AMO physics
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Simons Amphitheater
11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
- Erica Hammerstein (UC Berkeley) Tidal disruption events
- Huei Sears (Rutgers) type Ia supernovae
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
- Christiane Koch (Freie Univ. Berlin) What chiral molecules can teach us about quantum control
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
- Brian Kendrick (LANL) Non-Adiabatic Quantum Dynamics and Complex Formation in Ultracold Chemical Reactions
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Zoom
12:00PM NSBP Insight Seminar
https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UtCwMFibSs-Zae-zEVfRXA#/registration
- Marcell Howard (Brown University) Gravitational Particle Production and Parametric Resonance of Self-Interacting Dark Matter
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
- Shivani Shah (NC State) Metal-poor stars
- Danat Issa (MIT) Collapsar dynamics and nucleosynthesis
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Simons Amphitheater
12:15PM Blackboard Lunch
- Kaden Hazzard (Rice) Very Cold Molecules: Chemistry, Quantum Matter, and the Laws of Nature
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
- Sebastian Will (Columbia) Ultracold Dipolar Molecules: A New Quantum Liquid
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
- Svetlana Kotochigova (Temple) Relativistic study of radioactive molecules in searches for parity-violating effects
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
- Chris Greene (Purdue) Three-body recombination and Efimov physics of microwave-screened polar molecules
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
- Matthew Eiles (MPI-PKS) Ultralong-range Rydberg molecules: what are they good for?
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 Nov 09 - Nov 15, 2026
Week of Nov 09 - Nov 15, 2026
2026
Monday, Nov 09, 2026
2026
Tuesday, Nov 10, 2026
2026
Wednesday, Nov 11, 2026
2026
Thursday, Nov 12, 2026
2026
Friday, Nov 13, 2026
2026
Saturday, Nov 14, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Nov 15, 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 Nov 16 - Nov 22, 2026
Week of Nov 16 - Nov 22, 2026
2026
Monday, Nov 16, 2026
2026
Tuesday, Nov 17, 2026
2026
Wednesday, Nov 18, 2026
2026
Thursday, Nov 19, 2026
2026
Friday, Nov 20, 2026
2026
Saturday, Nov 21, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Nov 22, 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 November, 2026
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