Talks Schedule

2026

Saturday, Aug 08, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Aug 03, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Diana Pinheiro (IMP) Embryonic Origami: The emergence of fate and form in vertebrate gastrulation
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Kartiek Agarwal (ANL) Learning quantum ground states in the space of measurement outcomes
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Elliot Meyerowitz (Caltech) Cell Biology and Mechanical Response in the Shoot Apical Meristem
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 12:15PM Blackboard Lunch

    • Anne-Lise Routier-Kierzkowska (Montréal) "How to shape an organ? A physics journey, from ears to flowers."

2026

Tuesday, Aug 04, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Sharad Ramanathan (Harvard) Introduction to and modeling of early human development
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Juan Carrasquilla Alvarez (ETH Zurich) Entropy of randomized measurements and estimating it with generative models
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Claire Wyart (ICM Paris) Growing & keeping a straight body throughout life
    • Aram Gurzadyan (SLCU) Stem cell feedback from the inner stem: vascular and floral development across modalities
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Zhengcheng Gu (CUHK), Cheryne Jonay (Univ. of Ljubljana), Ying Jer Kao (NTU), Xiaoliang Qi (Stanford), Chaoxing Liu (Penn State) Discussion: Agents in Quantum Research

2026

Wednesday, Aug 05, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • James Briscoe (Francis Crick Inst.) The Dynamics of Neural Tube Development
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Antoine Georges (Flatiron Institute) Does the Hubbard model host high-Tc superconductivity? - A view from Neural Quantum States
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Dominique Bergmann (Stanford) Getting to the center of plant stomata
    • Stefano Di Talia (Duke) Long-range signaling coordination in development and regeneration
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Matija Medvidovic (ETH Zurich) Tutorial on Neural Quantum States
    • Antoine Georges (Flatiron Institute) Open Discussion on Neural Quantum States

2026

Thursday, Aug 06, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Nicoletta Petridou (EMBL Heidelberg) Timing, noise and collectives: how the cell cycle shapes the early embryos
    • Nikolas Claussen (Princeton) Tissue shape from cell-scale tension (and two software tools)
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Agnes Valenti (Flatiron Institute) From 2D materials to quantum impurity solvers: A neural-network perspective
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Chloe Roffay (IMP) Long-range mechanical communication through tissue flows in human gastruloid discs
    • Maura Zimmerman (Cornell) Growth dynamics of wrinkled leaves
    • Cedric Finet (OIST) How butterflies create color - about geometry and chitin deposition at the single-cell level
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 02:00PM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • James Briscoe (Francis Crick Inst.), Sharad Ramanathan (Harvard) Cell Fate Discussion

2026

Friday, Aug 07, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Sebastian Streichan (UCSB) qBio student talks
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Sebastian Streichan (UCSB) qbio student talks
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

2026

Saturday, Aug 08, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Aug 09, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Aug 10, 2026

  • 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
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM 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
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Naomi Nakayama (OIST) Material instruction of morphogenesis and morphing

2026

Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026

  • 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
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Qimin Yan (Northeastern) Symmetry-aware and property-constrained generative design of quantum materials
  • 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
  • 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) AI for Materials Design

2026

Wednesday, Aug 12, 2026

  • 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)
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Filippo Gaggioli (MIT) Expressive and Accurate Self-Attention Wavefunctions for Many-Electron Problems in the Continuum
  • 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

2026

Thursday, Aug 13, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Rita Mateus (MPI-CBG) Controlling Organ Growth Across Scales
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Ehud Altman (UC Berkeley) Using generative models to observe measurement induced entanglement and learnability transitions
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Frank Jülicher (MPI-PKS) Electro-hydraulics of tissues
  • 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

2026

Friday, Aug 14, 2026

  • 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
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Annis Richardson (Edinburgh U.) What's interesting about grasses?

2026

Saturday, Aug 15, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Aug 16, 2026

No talks scheduled.