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 Jul 02, 2026
Day of Jul 02, 2026
2026
Thursday, Jul 02, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
09:00AM Biological Learning without a Brain
- Mingming Wu (Cornell) Mechanical adaptation and learning in cells
- Arvind Murugan (U. Chicago) How matter finds the unlikely
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics
Note: General Interest Talk
- John Barton (Pittsburgh) Learning from and forecasting evolutionary dynamics
- Henry Alston (ENS Paris) Optimal sensing with phase separation
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Simons Amphitheater
03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain
- This tutorial will not take place.
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Simons Amphitheater
09:00AM Biological Learning without a Brain
- Armita Nourmohammad (Washington) New Talk
- Ilya Nemenman (Emory) New Talk
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
12:15PM Blackboard Lunch
- Karen Alim (TU Munich) “Learning with the flow”.
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics
- Giuseppe Mussardo (SISSA) Integrability and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Quantum and Classical Field Theory
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Simons Amphitheater
09:00AM Biological Learning without a Brain
- Wallace Marshall (UCSF) the cell as a low pass filter: frequency domain analysis of habituation in Stentor
- Manu Prakash (Stanford) New Talk
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics
- Mathis Guéneau (LPTHE) Spatiotemporal Characterization of Active Dynamics in Channels: Theory and Experiments
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Simons Amphitheater
03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain
- Jeremy Gunawardena (Harvard) Tutorial
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Simons Amphitheater
09:00AM Biological Learning without a Brain
- Alison Patteson (Syracuse) New Talk
- Jordi Garcia Ojalvo (UPF) Minimal internal representations in living systems
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics
- Peter Foster (USC) Physical Bioenergetics of Oocytes
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Simons Amphitheater
09:00AM Biological Learning without a Brain
- Mingming Wu (Cornell) Mechanical adaptation and learning in cells
- Arvind Murugan (U. Chicago) How matter finds the unlikely
-
Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics
Note: General Interest Talk
- John Barton (Pittsburgh) Learning from and forecasting evolutionary dynamics
- Henry Alston (ENS Paris) Optimal sensing with phase separation
-
Simons Amphitheater
03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain
- This tutorial will not take place.
-
Simons Amphitheater
09:00AM Biological Learning without a Brain
- Karen Alim (TU Munich) Learning Matters
- Ilya Nemenman (Emory) Tutorial: AI in Academic Everyday Life
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics
- Pierre Illien (Sorbonne Univ.) Non-Gaussian density fluctuations in the Dean-Kawasaki equation
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Simons Amphitheater
03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain
- Nathalie Balaban (Hebrew Univ.) Tutorial: memory, single cell heterogeneity and consequences for antibiotic response
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Simons Amphitheater
09:00AM Biological Learning without a Brain
- Shenshen Wang (UCLA) Immune learning in a physical world
- Gautam Reddy (Princeton) Learning as Distributed Computation
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics
- Giuseppe Del Vecchio Del Vecchio (Univ. Paris-Sud) Sluggish diffusion and search strategies
- Sriram Ganeshan (CCNY) Chiral cellular automaton and their hydrodynamics
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Simons Amphitheater
09:00AM Biological Learning without a Brain
- Douglas Durian (U. Penn) Intelligent electronic metamaterials that learn how to compute
- Thierry Mora (ENS Paris) Learning diversity in the immune response
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics
- Léo Touzo (ENS Paris) Odd wave turbulence
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Simons Amphitheater
03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain
- Yuhai Tu (Flatiron Institute) Tutorial: Physics of Learning
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Simons Amphitheater
09:00AM Biological Learning without a Brain
- Jen Schwarz (Syracuse) Can Sand Learn?
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Small Seminar Room
01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics
- Corey O'hern (Yale) Cell shape emerges from motion
- Marco Biroli (Univ. Paris-Saclay) Discovering and decoding latent mean-field structure with variational autoencoders
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Simons Amphitheater
09:00AM Biological Learning without a Brain
- . () Topical discussion
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 Jun 29 - Jul 05, 2026
Week of Jun 29 - Jul 05, 2026
2026
Monday, Jun 29, 2026
2026
Tuesday, Jun 30, 2026
2026
Wednesday, Jul 01, 2026
2026
Thursday, Jul 02, 2026
2026
Friday, Jul 03, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Saturday, Jul 04, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Jul 05, 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 Jul 06 - Jul 12, 2026
Week of Jul 06 - Jul 12, 2026
2026
Monday, Jul 06, 2026
2026
Tuesday, Jul 07, 2026
2026
Wednesday, Jul 08, 2026
2026
Thursday, Jul 09, 2026
2026
Friday, Jul 10, 2026
2026
Saturday, Jul 11, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Jul 12, 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 July, 2026
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