Talks Schedule

2026

Monday, Aug 17, 2026

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

    • Salem Mosleh (UMES) Geometry and Dynamics of Robust Organ Morphogenesis: From Beaks to Leaves
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Estelle Inack (Perimeter Inst.) Data-enhanced self-learning projection quantum Monte Carlo with Rydberg-atom measurements
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Wolfgang Keil (Inst. Curie) Quantitative guidance of developmental cell-fate patterns based on gene-free mathematical modelling

2026

Monday, Aug 17, 2026

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

    • Salem Mosleh (UMES) Geometry and Dynamics of Robust Organ Morphogenesis: From Beaks to Leaves
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Estelle Inack (Perimeter Inst.) Data-enhanced self-learning projection quantum Monte Carlo with Rydberg-atom measurements
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Wolfgang Keil (Inst. Curie) Quantitative guidance of developmental cell-fate patterns based on gene-free mathematical modelling

2026

Tuesday, Aug 18, 2026

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

    • Stephanie Woo (UC Merced) Cell dispersal and convergence shape the zebrafish endoderm
    • Alexandru Bacanu (Harvard) Driving tissues into shape: controlling mechanical patterning in the early human brain
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Murphy Yuezhen Niu (UCSB) Machine Learning for Full Stack Quantum Co-Design
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Fridtjof Brauns (MPI-PKS) Mechanical self-organization of morphogenesis
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Anna Dawid (Leiden Univ.), Giovanni Cemin (MPI-PKS) Blackboard tutorial on reinforcement learning & RL applications in quantum physics

2026

Wednesday, Aug 19, 2026

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

    • Dominic Skinner (Flatiron Institute) A quantitative model of a phenotypically variable genetic defect
    • Nicolas Romeo (U. Chicago) Canalizing organ shape through physical constraints
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Isaac Kim (UC Davis) Local definition of quantum phases

2026

Thursday, Aug 20, 2026

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

    • Adrienne Roeder (Cornell) qBio student talks
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Timothy Hsieh (Perimeter Inst.) Decodable and unlearnable phases and transitions
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Sebastian Streichan (UCSB) qBio student talks
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Eun Ah Kim (Cornell) TBA

2026

Friday, Aug 21, 2026

2026

Saturday, Aug 22, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Aug 23, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Aug 24, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Shiyu Zhou (Perimeter Inst.) Machine learning quantum phases: from universal classification to autonomous discovery

2026

Tuesday, Aug 25, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Rouven Koch (TU Delft) Hamiltonian Learning in Quantum Magnets - From Local Spectroscopy to Microscopic Models
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Taige Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Simulating quantum circuits with neural networks

2026

Wednesday, Aug 26, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Roeland Wiersema (Flatiron Institute) Reliable and Scalable Variational Monte Carlo

2026

Thursday, Aug 27, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Friday, Aug 28, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Saturday, Aug 29, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Aug 30, 2026

No talks scheduled.