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 18, 2026
Day of Jul 18, 2026
2026
Saturday, Jul 18, 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 13 - Jul 19, 2026
Week of Jul 13 - Jul 19, 2026
2026
Monday, Jul 13, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
09:15AM Biological Learning without a Brain
- Francis Corson (ENS Paris) How cells agree on making an embryo
- Elad Schneidman (Weizmann Inst.) Architectural design principles of learning neural circuits
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics
- Baruch Meerson (Hebrew Univ.) Invasion fronts of random walkers with cooperative reproduction
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Simons Amphitheater
03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain
- Menachem Stern (AMOLF) Tutorial: Contrastive physical learning
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Simons Amphitheater
09:15AM Biological Learning without a Brain
- Ahmed El Hady (MPI-AB) Learning to forage
- Mary Lisa Manning (Syracuse) Can physical learning drive hypotheses about mechanisms governing embryonic development?
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Simons Amphitheater
02:00PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics
- Bertrand Lacroix A Chez Toine (King's College London) Parametric correlations in non-Hermitian disordered dynamics
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Simons Amphitheater
09:15AM Biological Learning without a Brain
- Sidhartha Goyal (U. Toronto) Learning in regeneration
- Dmitri Chklovskii (Simons Foundation) Intelligence from Instability: Prediction and Control in Dynamical Worlds
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics
- Madan Rao (NCBS) Active Control of Organelle Size and Number
- Federica Ferretti (NITMB) Towards a statistical characterization of antibody immunodominance
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Simons Amphitheater
03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain
- Nidhi Pashine (Syracuse) Mechanical memories in soft matter systems
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Simons Amphitheater
09:15AM Biological Learning without a Brain
- New Talk
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Adrienne Roeder (Cornell) From Local Growth Fluctuations to Organ-Scale Coordination: Building Robust Plant Organ
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
01:30PM
- J1 Orientation
-
Simons Amphitheater
03:30PM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- All participants () Meet and Greet
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Xavier Trepat (IBEC) Understanding and programming tissue shape transitions
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Ertugrul Ozbudak (Northwestern) Two distinct timers control somite segmentation
- Mattia Serra (UCSD) Positional Information and Information Flows in Dynamic Tissues
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Simons Amphitheater
03:30PM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- All participants () Meet and Greet
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Claude Edouard Hannezo (ISTA) TBA
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Hadrien Oliveri (MPI-PZ) Hydromechanical field theory of plant morphogenesis
- Karen Alim (TU Munich) Morphing of vascular networks
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Vanessa Barone (Stanford) Few cells, endless forms: echinoderms as a model for morphogenetic variation in early development
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Mary Lisa Manning (Syracuse) Features of rigidity transitions that depend on geometry (instead of coordination) in morphogenesis
- Katharina Sonnen (Hubrecht Inst.) Signalling oscillations and waves in somitogenesis
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Agata Burian (Univ. Silesia) Interplay between organ and vascular patterning in plants
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Aryeh Warmflash (Rice) Signaling dynamics and self-organization in stem-cell models of early development
2026
Tuesday, Jul 14, 2026
2026
Wednesday, Jul 15, 2026
2026
Thursday, Jul 16, 2026
2026
Friday, Jul 17, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Saturday, Jul 18, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Jul 19, 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 20 - Jul 26, 2026
Week of Jul 20 - Jul 26, 2026
2026
Monday, Jul 20, 2026
2026
Tuesday, Jul 21, 2026
2026
Wednesday, Jul 22, 2026
2026
Thursday, Jul 23, 2026
2026
Friday, Jul 24, 2026
2026
Saturday, Jul 25, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Jul 26, 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
Month of July, 2026
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