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 30, 2026
Day of Jul 30, 2026
2026
Thursday, Jul 30, 2026
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Francis Corson (ENS Paris) The geometric basis of morphogenesis
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Matija Medvidovic (ETH Zurich) Variational and supervised learning of effective electronic potentials
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Dillon Cislo (Rockefeller Univ.) Shaping Fate: Geometric Methods for Cell Fate Transitions, Tissue Patterning, and Morphogenesis
- Akankshi Munjal (Duke) Under Pressure: How a developing tissue achieves robust form
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM AI for Quantum Matter
- Dezhe Jin (Penn State) Computing with sparse spikes: towards energy-efficient brain-inspired AI
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
02:00PM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- group discussion (), Frank Jülicher (MPI-PKS), Danelle Devenport (Princeton) Polarity Discussion
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Anne Lise Routier Kierzkowska (U. de Montréal) The apical hook paradox: how to make an organ grow while keeping its shape
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Anna Dawid (Leiden Univ.) Interpretable machine learning for quantum simulators
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Adrian Jacobo (CZ Biohub) How do cells count? Cell number control in a regenerating organ.
- Alessandro De Simone (Univ. of Geneva) Signaling dynamics and bone morphogenesis in regenerating zebrafish scales
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Matteo Rauzi (Univ. Côte d'Azur) Composite morphogenesis: how can a tissue fold and extend at the same time
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Ehsan Khatami (SJSU) Exploring the Fermi-Hubbard Model with AI Tools
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Sidney Shaw (Indiana) Microtubule pattern specification in axially growing plant cells
- Allison Kann (Harvard) De novo organ regeneration requires coordinated multi-tissue morphogenesis
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Alexis Maizel (Univ. Heidelberg) On growth, form and polarity in plants
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Victor Albert (QuICS) Research in the AI age: first experiences
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Danelle Devenport (Princeton) Establishing tissue-scale polarity in an expansive epithelium
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Francis Corson (ENS Paris) The geometric basis of morphogenesis
-
Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Matija Medvidovic (ETH Zurich) Variational and supervised learning of effective electronic potentials
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Dillon Cislo (Rockefeller Univ.) Shaping Fate: Geometric Methods for Cell Fate Transitions, Tissue Patterning, and Morphogenesis
- Akankshi Munjal (Duke) Under Pressure: How a developing tissue achieves robust form
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM AI for Quantum Matter
- Dezhe Jin (Penn State) Computing with sparse spikes: towards energy-efficient brain-inspired AI
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
02:00PM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- group discussion (), Frank Jülicher (MPI-PKS), Danelle Devenport (Princeton) Polarity Discussion
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Manu Prakash (Stanford) Information propagation in structured environments: From biomineral lattices to ecological scale patterns
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Laura Rustarazo Calvo (EMBL Heidelberg) Different roads to tissue rigidity: How mechanical phase transitions impact morphogenesis
- Yusuke Mori (Duke) A self-limiting mechanotransduction feedback loop ensures robust organ formation
- Susie Wopat (UCSB) Stationary and germ layer–specific tissue flows shape the vertebrate embryo
- Matt Lefebvre (UCSB) DV Patterning Directs Morphogenesis During Drosophila Gastrulation
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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
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Kartiek Agarwal (ANL) Learning quantum ground states in the space of measurement outcomes
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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
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Simons Amphitheater
12:15PM Blackboard Lunch
- Anne-Lise Routier-Kierzkowska (Montréal) "How to shape an organ? A physics journey, from ears to flowers."
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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
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Juan Carrasquilla Alvarez (ETH Zurich) Entropy of randomized measurements and estimating it with generative models
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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
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM AI for Quantum Matter
- Zhengcheng Gu (CUHK), Cheryne Jonay (Univ. of Ljubljana), Ying Jer Kao (NTU), Xiaoliang Qi (Stanford) Discussion: Agents in Quantum Research
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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
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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
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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)
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Agnes Valenti (Flatiron Institute) From 2D materials to quantum impurity solvers: A neural-network perspective
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 27 - Aug 02, 2026
Week of Jul 27 - Aug 02, 2026
2026
Monday, Jul 27, 2026
2026
Tuesday, Jul 28, 2026
2026
Wednesday, Jul 29, 2026
2026
Thursday, Jul 30, 2026
2026
Friday, Jul 31, 2026
2026
Saturday, Aug 01, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Aug 02, 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 Aug 03 - Aug 09, 2026
Week of Aug 03 - Aug 09, 2026
2026
Monday, Aug 03, 2026
2026
Tuesday, Aug 04, 2026
2026
Wednesday, Aug 05, 2026
2026
Thursday, Aug 06, 2026
2026
Friday, Aug 07, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Saturday, Aug 08, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Aug 09, 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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