Talks Schedule

2026

Thursday, May 21, 2026

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

    • Abraham Flamholz (Rockefeller Univ.) Statistical approaches to the soil carbon dynamics
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Sarah Loos (MPI-DS) Information thermodynamics and hidden degrees of freedom as a thermodynamic resource
    • Henrik Weyer (KITP) Active-solid theory for muscle-fiber organization in cardiac organoids
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    Zoom talk

    • Simon Caron Huot (McGill Univ.) Thermal two-point functions and the black hole (not) interior

2026

Monday, May 18, 2026

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

    • Coordinators () Get-together of participants and informal introduction
  • Simons Amphitheater 12:15PM Blackboard Lunch

    • Alberto Rosso (CNRS) Thermal Avalanches: Growing Dynamical Lengthscales in Glassy Landscapes

2026

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

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

    • Daniel Fisher (Stanford) Why is there so much microbial diversity?
  • Broida 3302 12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Gela Patashuri (Ohio State University) Dimensional Reduction in Parisi-Sourlas Supersymmetry
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Ananyo Maitra (CY Cergy Paris Univ.) Active ordering in disordered environments
    • Jean Baptiste Fournier (MSC) Active particles interacting with their trails

2026

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

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

    • Alfred Spormann (Stanford) Some Principles of Microbial Metabolism
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Giuseppe Gonnella (Univ. di Bari) Collective properties of active systems: from ABP to polar and nematic fluids
    • Federico Ghimenti (Stanford) Endogenous fluctuations and dispersal stabilize microbial diversity
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Sergei Maslov (Univ. of Illinois) Crossfeeding Dynamics in Energy-Limited and Auxotrophic Microbial Communities

2026

Thursday, May 21, 2026

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

    • Abraham Flamholz (Rockefeller Univ.) Statistical approaches to the soil carbon dynamics
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Sarah Loos (MPI-DS) Information thermodynamics and hidden degrees of freedom as a thermodynamic resource
    • Henrik Weyer (KITP) Active-solid theory for muscle-fiber organization in cardiac organoids
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    Zoom talk

    • Simon Caron Huot (McGill Univ.) Thermal two-point functions and the black hole (not) interior

2026

Friday, May 22, 2026

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

    • Julia Schwartzman (USC) Ecological tradeoffs and the advantages of group formation for marine bacteria
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Demian Levis (Univ. of Barcelona) Out-of-equilibrium dynamics of non-reciprocal spin models
    • Michael Hagan (Brandeis Univ.) Combining Data-Driven and Physics-based Approaches to Predict, Understand, and Control Active Matter Dynamics

2026

Saturday, May 23, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, May 24, 2026

No talks scheduled.

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

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) TBA
  • 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) TBA

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
  • Small Seminar Room 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) TBA
  • 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.