Talks Schedule

2026

Tuesday, Mar 31, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Yixuan Wu (UC Davis) Unveiling Sex-specific Mechanisms of Atrial Ca2+ Dysregulation and Ca2+-driven Arrhythmia via Multiscale Modeling
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Probing our Understanding of Quark-Gluon matter (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Krishna Rajagopal (MIT) -
    • Zhoudunming Tu (BNL) Initial stages in heavy ion collisions and the EIC
    • Austin Baty (UIC) Collectivity in the smallest systems
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

  • Broida 1640 03:30PM Physics Colloquium
    Note: Offsite

    • Nina Miolane (UCSB) Symmetry in Brains and Machines: A Physics Perspective

2026

Monday, Mar 30, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 08:50AM Probing our Understanding of Quark-Gluon matter (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Laura Havener (Yale) -
    • Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
    • Berndt Mueller (Duke) Critical assessment of the status of the field of heavy ion physics
    • Chun Shen (Wayne State) Evidence for hydrodynamics in heavy ion collisions
  • Simons Amphitheater 09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Yohannes Shiferaw (CSU Northridge) Nonlinear calcium and sodium dynamics underlie arrhythmia initiation at the Purkinje-ventricular junction
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

2026

Tuesday, Mar 31, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Yixuan Wu (UC Davis) Unveiling Sex-specific Mechanisms of Atrial Ca2+ Dysregulation and Ca2+-driven Arrhythmia via Multiscale Modeling
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Probing our Understanding of Quark-Gluon matter (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Krishna Rajagopal (MIT) -
    • Zhoudunming Tu (BNL) Initial stages in heavy ion collisions and the EIC
    • Austin Baty (UIC) Collectivity in the smallest systems
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

  • Broida 1640 03:30PM Physics Colloquium
    Note: Offsite

    • Nina Miolane (UCSB) Symmetry in Brains and Machines: A Physics Perspective

2026

Wednesday, Apr 01, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Probing our Understanding of Quark-Gluon matter (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Jiangyong Jia (Stony Brook) -
    • Gergely Endrodi (Eötvös Univ.) Latest developments in finite T Lattice QCD
    • Govert Nijs (CERN) Extracting the QCD EOS from experiment
  • Simons Amphitheater 09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Emiliano Medei (UFRJ) Resident macrophages mediate arrhythmia through IL-1b
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Amin Forouzandehmehr (UC Davis) Systems-Level Transcriptomics Reveals Pathway-Selective Translational Alignment Across Murine Models of Cardiometabolic HFpEF
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

2026

Thursday, Apr 02, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Enrique Lacalle (Barcelona Tech) Are calcium waves always arrhythmogenic? Insights from the nanoscale biophysics of RyR2 regulation and Calsequestrin-RyR2 coupling : Part I
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Probing our Understanding of Quark-Gluon matter (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Yen Jie Lee (MIT) -
    • Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Vanderbilt) Jet measurements and connections to hadronization
    • Yi Chen (Vanderbilt) Medium response to jet quenching
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Enrique Lacalle (Barcelona Tech) Are calcium waves always arrhythmogenic? Insights from the nanoscale biophysics of RyR2 regulation and Calsequestrin-RyR2 coupling : Part II
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

2026

Friday, Apr 03, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

2026

Saturday, Apr 04, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM The Physics of the Heart and Teaching BioPhysics in the Classroom (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Lars Bildsten (KITP) Intro to KITP
    • Flavio Fenton (Georgia Tech) Overview
    • Stefan Luther (Max Planck Inst.) () Biophysics of the Heart: How Experiments Reveal the Physics of Cardiac Arrhythmias

2026

Sunday, Apr 05, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Apr 06, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Tuesday, Apr 07, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Wednesday, Apr 08, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Thursday, Apr 09, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Friday, Apr 10, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Saturday, Apr 11, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Apr 12, 2026

No talks scheduled.