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Talks Schedule

2026

Sunday, May 10, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, May 04, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 08:50AM Beyond Gate-Based Quantum Computing: Defining Quantum Advantage in the Pre-Fault Tolerant Era (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Murphy Yuezhen Niu (UCSB) -
    • Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
    • Michel Devoret (UCSB) Title TBA
    • Kater Murch (Washington Univ., StL) Beyond Unitary Gates: Exploiting Measurement and Dissipation for Quantum Advantage
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks

    • Leo Radzihovsky (CU Boulder) Introductions, goals and formats, meet and greet
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Pavel Kovtun (Victoria Univ.) Relativity and dissipation: From hydrodynamics to effective field theory
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks

    • Andrei Derevianko (Nevada) Nuclear Clock Theory
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks

    • Emil Pellett (CU Boulder) CaF2 simulations
    • Tan Hoang Bao Tran (LANL) Nuclear-electronic coupling and DFT Discussions

2026

Tuesday, May 05, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Beyond Gate-Based Quantum Computing: Defining Quantum Advantage in the Pre-Fault Tolerant Era (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Sarang Gopalakrishnan (Princeton) -
    • Mikhail Lukin (Harvard) Exploring quantum dynamics with analog, digital and fault tolerant quantum systems
    • Alexei Bylinskii (Quera Computing) Science With Programmable Neutral Atom Quantum Computers
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Javier Subils (Utrecht Univ.) Bubble nucleation in strongly coupled matter
  • Broida 3302 12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
    Note: Offsite
    • Victor Rodriguez (UCSB) c=1 strings as a matrix integral
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks

    • Gilad Perez (Weizmann Inst.) Beyond SM Physics
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks

    • Kathryn Zurek (LBNL) Fundamental Questions
    • Jason Arakawa (Delaware) Dark Matter Search and Discussion
  • Broida 1640 03:30PM Physics Colloquium
    Note: Offsite
    • Bonnie Fleming (Univ. of Chicago) Imaging Neutrinos with Liquid Argon: From the SBN Program to DUNE

2026

Wednesday, May 06, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Beyond Gate-Based Quantum Computing: Defining Quantum Advantage in the Pre-Fault Tolerant Era (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Aaron Trowbridge (Harmoniqs) -
    • Trond Andersen (Google Research) Directly probing quasiparticles on a hybrid analog-digital quantum simulator
    • Antonio Mezzacapo (NVIDIA) Accelerated Quantum Supercomputing
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Aleksi Vuorinen (Univ. Helsinki) From loops to stars and back: how pQCD can be used to unravel the physics of neutron-star cores
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks

    • Jun Ye (CU Boulder) AMO Table Top Physics
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:15PM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Zi Wei Lin (ECU) Chapman-Enskog calculation of shear viscosity in terms of all 2 ↔ 2 parton cross sections
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks

    • Jack Harris (Yale) Solid noble gases for hosting Th ions and building optical cavities at 148 nm
    • Steven Girvin (Yale) Condensed Matter and Clocks and Discussion
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 04:00PM Beyond Gate-Based Quantum Computing: Defining Quantum Advantage in the Pre-Fault Tolerant Era (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • POSTER SESSION

2026

Thursday, May 07, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Beyond Gate-Based Quantum Computing: Defining Quantum Advantage in the Pre-Fault Tolerant Era (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Vivek Dhande (UCSB) -
    • No Talk
    • Monika Schleier Smith (Stanford) Decoded quantum sensing with cavity-coupled and dipolar spins
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Discussion
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks

    • David De Mille (Johns Hopkins) AMO-fundamental Symmetries
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks

    • Ken Van Tilburg (Stanford) Dark Matter Theory
    • Abhishek Banerjee (Maryland) Dark Matter Theory and Discussion

2026

Friday, May 08, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks

    • Lars Von Der Wense (Univ. of Mainz) Thorium Nuclear Clock
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks

    • Xing Wu (MSU) Chemical synthesis and optical-cycling detection of 229,227ThO for tests of T-symmetry violation
    • Jaideep Singh (MSU) FRIB Resources for the Nuclear Clock Community and Irresponsibly Speculative Nuclear Clock Candidates Such As Protactinium-229
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks

    • Steven Girvin (Yale), Eric Hudson (UCLA), Leo Radzihovsky (CU Boulder), Marianna Safronova (Delaware), Thorsten Schumm (TU Wien), Jun Ye (CU Boulder) Closing Remarks and Further Discussion

2026

Saturday, May 09, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, May 10, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, May 11, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Coordinators () Get-together of Participants and Informal Introduction
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM KITP Special Seminar

    • Margarita Davydova (Caltech) A Finite Temperature Quantum Memory in Three Dimensions

2026

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Patrick Charbonneau (Duke) Active exploration of caging and criticality in the random Lorentz gas
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 03:30PM Physics Colloquium

    • Alice Shapley (UCLA) Transformative Insights into the Cosmic Baryon Cycle from JWST

2026

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Trevor Grand Pre (Washington Univ., StL), Luca Cocconi (Cambridge) TBD

2026

Thursday, May 14, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Nora Martin (CRG), Francesco Zamponi (Univ. of Rome) Fitness landscapes and evolution
  • Zoom 04:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Philipp Hoehn (Okinawa Institute) TBA

2026

Friday, May 15, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Grzegorz Szamel (Colorado State) TBD

2026

Saturday, May 16, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, May 17, 2026

No talks scheduled.