Talks Schedule

2026

Monday, Oct 26, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information

    • Simon Cornish (Durham Univ.) 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 - Quantum Science using the Rich Internal Structure of Ultracold Molecules
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients

    • Philipp Moesta (Univ. of Amsterdam), Francois Foucart (UNH), Raffaella Margutti (UC Berkeley), Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame) Welcome to the program

2026

Monday, Oct 26, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information

    • Simon Cornish (Durham Univ.) 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 - Quantum Science using the Rich Internal Structure of Ultracold Molecules
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients

    • Philipp Moesta (Univ. of Amsterdam), Francois Foucart (UNH), Raffaella Margutti (UC Berkeley), Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame) Welcome to the program

2026

Tuesday, Oct 27, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients

    • Jillian Rastinejad (Maryland) Einstein Probe discoveries and follow-up
    • Igor Andreoni (UNC) Argus Array
  • Broida 3302 12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Chitraang Murdia (UCSB) Signals of multi-party entanglement in holography
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information

    • Paul Julienne (Maryland) Forty years of progress with cold molecules
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 03:30PM Physics Colloquium

    • Sebastian Streichan,UCSB_END,CREATE_Sebastian Streichan (UCSB) “Physics of Living Systems: From Embryos to Synthetic Morphogenesis”

2026

Wednesday, Oct 28, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information

    • Jun Ye (CU Boulder) Quantum gas of molecules – play spin games without chemistry drama
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients

    • Itai Sfaradi (UC Berkeley), Jean Somalwar (Caltech) What's new in Radio
    • Ryan Chornock (UC Berkeley) The new era of UVEX

2026

Thursday, Oct 29, 2026

  • Founders' Room 11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients

    • Luc Dessart (IAP-UPMC), Daniel Kasen (UC Berkeley) Modelling kilonovae and supernovae
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information

    • Marianna Safronova (Delaware) Atomic theory in the 21st century: breakthrough advances and neural networks
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Nathan Benjamin (USC) From Z to a

2026

Friday, Oct 30, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information

    • Steven Hoekstra (Univ. of Groningen) Testing fundamental symmetries using barium-containing diatomic and polyatomic molecules

2026

Saturday, Oct 31, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Nov 01, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Nov 02, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 08:50AM Quantum Science and Technology with Ultracold Molecules (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Tijs Karman (RU Nijmegen) -
    • Mark Bowick (KITP) Welcome
    • Waseem Bakr (Princeton) Strongly correlated systems of polar molecules: from quantum magnets to droplets
    • David DeMille (Johns Hopkins) New Talk

2026

Tuesday, Nov 03, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Quantum Science and Technology with Ultracold Molecules (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Guido Pupillo (Unistra) -
    • Eric Hudson (UCLA) New Talk
    • Reuben Wang (ITAMP) Highly elastic molecular interactions: diatomics and polyatomics

2026

Wednesday, Nov 04, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Quantum Science and Technology with Ultracold Molecules (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Michal Tomza (Univ. of Warsaw) -
    • Simon Cornish (Durham Univ.) Interfacing individual ultracold polar molecules and Rydberg atoms in optical tweezers
    • Tim Langen (TU Wien) Laser cooling of complex molecules

2026

Thursday, Nov 05, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Quantum Science and Technology with Ultracold Molecules (Conference) Schedule Available Online
    • Thomas Pohl (TU Wien) -
    • Timur Tscherbul (Nevada) Quantum information dynamics in cold chemical reactions: Out-of-time-ordered correlators and Pauli propagation
    • Kaden Hazzard (Rice) Shielded molecules in optical lattices: Hubbard physics and SU(N) symmetry

2026

Friday, Nov 06, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information

    • Andrei Derevianko (Nevada) Beyond the Standard Model, one nuclear tick at a time

2026

Saturday, Nov 07, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Nov 08, 2026

No talks scheduled.