Talks Schedule

2026

Tuesday, Sep 22, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Yi Zhuang You (UCSD) Bring Your Own Agent: Agentic Research Discussion
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Ruochen Ma (KITP) Statistical mechanics of Non-Abelian Learnability Transitions
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 04:00PM Physics Colloquium

    • Margarita Davydova (Caltech) The unreasonable effectiveness of fractals for quantum matter

2026

Monday, Sep 21, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Roger Melko (U. Waterloo) Neural Scaling Laws and Quantum Models
  • Simons Amphitheater 12:15PM Blackboard Lunch

    • Cenke Xu (UCSB) "What happens when a particle breaks apart?"
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Ramanjit Sohal (U. Chicago) Symmetry-twisted multi-entropies: Order parameters for 2D SPT phases

2026

Tuesday, Sep 22, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Yi Zhuang You (UCSD) Bring Your Own Agent: Agentic Research Discussion
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Ruochen Ma (KITP) Statistical mechanics of Non-Abelian Learnability Transitions
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 04:00PM Physics Colloquium

    • Margarita Davydova (Caltech) The unreasonable effectiveness of fractals for quantum matter

2026

Wednesday, Sep 23, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Junyu Liu (Pittsburgh) Understanding LLMs Through Ideas from Theoretical Physics
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Yves Hon Kwan (UT Dallas) TBD
  • Trailer 937 conference room 01:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
    Note: Offsite
    • Xiao-Liang Qi (Stanford University) Blast freezing a black hole

2026

Thursday, Sep 24, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 08:30AM 2026 Undergraduate Research Symposium

    8:30 AM - 4:30 PM: View Full Schedule

    Dynamic 10-minute talks by 62 Undergraduate Researchers from 42 Research Groups Event organized by Brishti Chakraborty, Derek Lee, and Professor Mark Srednicki
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Seyed Alireza Seif Tabrizi (IBM) Learning and mitigation of logical errors
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Thomas Scaffidi (UCI) Topological Superconductivity from Repulsion in a Single Dirac Cone: From Kohn–Luttinger to DMRG, with Applications to Valley-Polarized 2D Materials
  • Trailer 937 conference room 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
    Note: Offsite
    • Emil Martinec (University of Chicago) The black hole S-matrix in gauge/gravity duality
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Gabriel Kotliar (Rutgers) Searching for and finding new strongly correlated electron materials with trained neural tangent kernels and electronic structure methods: a case study

2026

Friday, Sep 25, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 08:30AM 2026 Undergraduate Research Symposium

    8:30 AM - 3:45 PM: View Full Schedule

    Dynamic 10-minute talks by 62 Undergraduate Researchers from 42 Research Groups Event organized by Brishti Chakraborty, Derek Lee, and Professor Mark Srednicki
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Da Chuan Lu (Harvard) Self-dual S_3 gauge theory in (2+1)d: lattice model and anyon proliferation transitions

2026

Saturday, Sep 26, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Sep 27, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Sep 28, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 08:50AM Artificial Intelligence at the Quantum Frontier (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • T alk Session (Chair: Yi Zhuang You)
    • Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
    • Hsin Yuan Huang (Caltech) Designing Quantum LDPC Processors
    • Thiparat Chotibut (Chula Univ.) Roles of scrambling and noise in information processing with quantum systems
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Dmitri Feldman (Brown) Noise and Interferometry revisited

2026

Tuesday, Sep 29, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Artificial Intelligence at the Quantum Frontier (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Talk Session (Chair: Antoine Georges)
    • Eun Ah Kim (Cornell) Interpretable and structure-aware AI for superconductivity discovery
    • Ryan Babbush (Google Inc.) Accelerating the field of quantum algorithms with AI
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Branislav Nikolic (Delaware) Probing Entanglement and Fractionalized Excitations in Quantum Spin Liquids via Drive, Dissipation, and Spintronic Effects

2026

Wednesday, Sep 30, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Artificial Intelligence at the Quantum Frontier (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Talk Session (Chair: Shiwei Zhang)
    • Giuseppe Carleo (EPFL) Foundation Neural-Network Quantum States
    • Sam Garratt (Princeton) Machine learning the effects of many quantum measurements
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Jingyu Zhao (Maryland) Magnetic Breakdown and Anomalous Quantum Oscillation in Rhombohedral Tetralayer Graphene

2026

Thursday, Oct 01, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Artificial Intelligence at the Quantum Frontier (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Talk Session (Chair: Xiaoliang Qi)
    • Edwin Stoudenmire (Flatiron Institute) New Capabilities of Tensor Networks: Machine Learning and More
    • Marina Krstic Marinkovic (ETH Zurich) Learning and simulating strongly interacting quantum field theories
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Mikhail Kiselev (ICTP) Universal relations between thermoelectrics and noise in mesoscopic transport across a tunnel junction: how it works for the two-channel charge Kondo circuits

2026

Friday, Oct 02, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators

    • Erez Berg (UCSB) TBD

2026

Saturday, Oct 03, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Oct 04, 2026

No talks scheduled.