KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Day of Mar 31, 2026
Day of Mar 31, 2026
2026
Tuesday, Mar 31, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
- Yixuan Wu (UC Davis) Unveiling Sex-specific Mechanisms of Atrial Ca2+ Dysregulation and Ca2+-driven Arrhythmia via Multiscale Modeling
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
09:00AM Probing our Understanding of Quark-Gluon matter (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Krishna Rajagopal (MIT) -
- Zhoudunming Tu (BNL) Initial stages in heavy ion collisions and the EIC
- Austin Baty (UIC) Collectivity in the smallest systems
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Simons Amphitheater
10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
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Broida 1640
03:30PM Physics Colloquium
Note: Offsite
- Nina Miolane (UCSB) Symmetry in Brains and Machines: A Physics Perspective
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Mar 30 - Apr 05, 2026
Week of Mar 30 - Apr 05, 2026
2026
Monday, Mar 30, 2026
-
Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
08:50AM Probing our Understanding of Quark-Gluon matter (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Laura Havener (Yale) -
- Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
- Berndt Mueller (Duke) Critical assessment of the status of the field of heavy ion physics
- Chun Shen (Wayne State) Evidence for hydrodynamics in heavy ion collisions
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Simons Amphitheater
09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
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Simons Amphitheater
10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
- Yohannes Shiferaw (CSU Northridge) Nonlinear calcium and sodium dynamics underlie arrhythmia initiation at the Purkinje-ventricular junction
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
2026
Tuesday, Mar 31, 2026
-
Simons Amphitheater
09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
- Yixuan Wu (UC Davis) Unveiling Sex-specific Mechanisms of Atrial Ca2+ Dysregulation and Ca2+-driven Arrhythmia via Multiscale Modeling
-
Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
09:00AM Probing our Understanding of Quark-Gluon matter (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Krishna Rajagopal (MIT) -
- Zhoudunming Tu (BNL) Initial stages in heavy ion collisions and the EIC
- Austin Baty (UIC) Collectivity in the smallest systems
-
Simons Amphitheater
10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
-
Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
-
Broida 1640
03:30PM Physics Colloquium
Note: Offsite
- Nina Miolane (UCSB) Symmetry in Brains and Machines: A Physics Perspective
2026
Wednesday, Apr 01, 2026
-
Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
09:00AM Probing our Understanding of Quark-Gluon matter (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Jiangyong Jia (Stony Brook) -
- Gergely Endrodi (Eötvös Univ.) Latest developments in finite T Lattice QCD
- Govert Nijs (CERN) Extracting the QCD EOS from experiment
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Simons Amphitheater
09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
- Emiliano Medei (UFRJ) Resident macrophages mediate arrhythmia through IL-1b
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Simons Amphitheater
10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
- Amin Forouzandehmehr (UC Davis) Systems-Level Transcriptomics Reveals Pathway-Selective Translational Alignment Across Murine Models of Cardiometabolic HFpEF
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
2026
Thursday, Apr 02, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
- Enrique Lacalle (Barcelona Tech) Are calcium waves always arrhythmogenic? Insights from the nanoscale biophysics of RyR2 regulation and Calsequestrin-RyR2 coupling : Part I
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
09:00AM Probing our Understanding of Quark-Gluon matter (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Yen Jie Lee (MIT) -
- Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Vanderbilt) Jet measurements and connections to hadronization
- Yi Chen (Vanderbilt) Medium response to jet quenching
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Simons Amphitheater
10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
- Enrique Lacalle (Barcelona Tech) Are calcium waves always arrhythmogenic? Insights from the nanoscale biophysics of RyR2 regulation and Calsequestrin-RyR2 coupling : Part II
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
2026
Friday, Apr 03, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
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Simons Amphitheater
10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
-
Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
2026
Saturday, Apr 04, 2026
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
09:00AM The Physics of the Heart and Teaching BioPhysics in the Classroom (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Lars Bildsten (KITP) Intro to KITP
- Flavio Fenton (Georgia Tech) Overview
- Stefan Luther (Max Planck Inst.) () Biophysics of the Heart: How Experiments Reveal the Physics of Cardiac Arrhythmias
2026
Sunday, Apr 05, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Apr 06 - Apr 12, 2026
Week of Apr 06 - Apr 12, 2026
2026
Monday, Apr 06, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Tuesday, Apr 07, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Wednesday, Apr 08, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Thursday, Apr 09, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Friday, Apr 10, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Saturday, Apr 11, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Apr 12, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Month of March, 2026
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