1. Activities
  2. Talks Schedule

Talks Schedule

2026

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Mikhail Tikhonov (Washington Univ., StL) Toward a statistical physics of physiological constraints in microbial ecosystems
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Jaron Kent Dobias (ICTP-SAIFR) Schemes for quantifying landscapes by counting, slicing, walking, wedging and inflating
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Clare Abreu (NYU) Predicting biotic and abiotic effects on fitness in microbial communities

2026

Monday, May 25, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Tuesday, May 26, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Silvia De Monte (IBENS) Structured interactions in many-species communities: effects on patterns, ecological and evolutionary dynamics
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • All participants () Participants informal introduction
    • Valentina Ros (LPTMS) Many fixed points and out-of-equilibrium dynamics in high-D: a few examples
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 03:30PM Physics Colloquium

    • Christoph Haselwandter (USC) Emergent functional structures in membrane signaling

2026

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Mikhail Tikhonov (Washington Univ., StL) Toward a statistical physics of physiological constraints in microbial ecosystems
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Jaron Kent Dobias (ICTP-SAIFR) Schemes for quantifying landscapes by counting, slicing, walking, wedging and inflating
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Clare Abreu (NYU) Predicting biotic and abiotic effects on fitness in microbial communities

2026

Thursday, May 28, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Otto Cordero (MIT) TBA
  • Zoom 11:00AM NSBP Insight Seminar

    https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XB3Z3TimSIepZsc0fHBffQ#/registration
    • Laurynette Griffin (Vanderbilt University) Background Subtraction for Energy-Energy Correlators
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Mark Bowick (KITP) Topological Rigidity in 3D Chiral Nematics
    • Heiko Rieger (Saarland Univ.) Non-reciprocal flocking
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Jiuci Xu (UCSB) TBA

2026

Friday, May 29, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Michael Manhart (Rutgers) How do ecological interactions between microbes affect mutant fitness?
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Peter Morse (Seton Hall) In search of the true inherent state for hard spheres

2026

Saturday, May 30, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, May 31, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Jun 01, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 08:50AM Non-equilibrium Dynamics, from Active Matter to Evolutionary Dynamics (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Julien Tailleur (MIT) -
    • Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
    • Jeff Gore (MIT) Emergent dynamics of multispecies communities
    • Sriram Ramaswamy (IISc) Spin waves and vortices in nonreciprocal planar lattice models

2026

Tuesday, Jun 02, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Non-equilibrium Dynamics, from Active Matter to Evolutionary Dynamics (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Pierre Le Doussal (ENS Paris) -
    • Andrey Sokolov (ANL) Acoustically Energized Active Liquid Crystal
    • Satyanarayan Majumdar (CNRS) Dynamically Emergent Correlations
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Ami Bhatt (Stanford) TBA

2026

Wednesday, Jun 03, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Non-equilibrium Dynamics, from Active Matter to Evolutionary Dynamics (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Sarah Loos (MPI-DS) -
    • Daniel Fisher (Stanford) Ecological and Evolutionary Chaos
    • Ned Wingreen (Princeton) B cell affinity maturation - it's all about the nose
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Leonora Bittleston (Boise St.) TBA
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Maria Rebolleda Gomez (UCI) Some ecological consequences of utilizing different carbon sources

2026

Thursday, Jun 04, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Non-equilibrium Dynamics, from Active Matter to Evolutionary Dynamics (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Giuseppe Gonnella (Univ. di Bari) -
    • Guy Bunin (Technion) Reaction-diffusion systems that evolve and adapt
    • Cesare Nardini (CEA Saclay) Nucleation theory and non-local stationary measure in active systems
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Benjamin Callahan (NC State) TBA
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Jonah Kudler Flam (IAS) TBA

2026

Friday, Jun 05, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Eric Slessarev (Yale) TBA

2026

Saturday, Jun 06, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Jun 07, 2026

No talks scheduled.