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Talks Schedule

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) Active phase separation and nucleation theory
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Benjamin Callahan (NC State) Transductomics: Observing the varied DNA carried by virus-like particles in real microbial communities
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Jonah Kudler Flam (IAS) Wormholes and Averaging Over N

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

    • Seppe Kuehn (U. Chicago) Metabolic coarse graining of microbiomes

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) Toward measuring what matters in microbial genomes
  • Broida 1640 03:30PM Physics Colloquium
    Note: Offsite
    • Dr. Hartmut Neven (Google Quantum AI) Quantum Computing for Otherwise Unsolvable Problems: Systems and Applications Update

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.) Assembly, coexistence, and functional change over time in pitcher plant microbial communities.

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) Active phase separation and nucleation theory
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Benjamin Callahan (NC State) Transductomics: Observing the varied DNA carried by virus-like particles in real microbial communities
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Jonah Kudler Flam (IAS) Wormholes and Averaging Over N

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) Coarse graining the soil environment

2026

Saturday, Jun 06, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Jun 07, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Jun 08, 2026

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

    • Orkun Soyer (Univ. of Warwick) Self-Regulation of Cell Metabolism via Cofactor Dynamics
  • Simons Amphitheater 12:15PM Blackboard Lunch

    • Sergei Maslov (Univ. of Illinois) When Evo Met Eco in Microbial Communities
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • All participants () Participant Informal Introduction
    • Todd Gingrich (Northwestern) About tensor networks

2026

Tuesday, Jun 09, 2026

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

    • Wenying Shou (UCL) Resource diversity and supply dynamics shape community stability.
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Oskar Hallatschek (UC Berkeley) Epidemiology and rare jackpot events
    • Jessica Metzger (MIT) TBA
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 05:00PM Public Lecture Series 2025-2026

    • Mehran Kardar (MIT) The Force of Nothing: Attraction, Repulsion, and Motion in the Quantum Void

2026

Wednesday, Jun 10, 2026

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

    • Terence Hwa (UCSD) Two short stories: 1) What constraints the ecological niches of the fastest-growing bacterium in the ocean? 2) Resource allocation in starving bacteria
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Pierre Le Doussal (ENS Paris) TBA
    • Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan (U. Chicago) Active generative diffusion
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Gabriele Micali (IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital) TBD

2026

Thursday, Jun 11, 2026

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

    • Ophelia Venturelli (Duke) TBD
  • Small Seminar Room 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Estelle Pitard (Univ. Montpellier) Survival under demographic or environmental noise
    • Laura Braverman (Harvard) Ratchet on a cone
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Hanako Helton (UCSB) TBA

2026

Friday, Jun 12, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM 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

Saturday, Jun 13, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Jun 14, 2026

No talks scheduled.