KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Day of Sep 18, 2026
Day of Sep 18, 2026
2026
Friday, Sep 18, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators
- Nisarga Paul (Caltech) From higher-dimensional Fermiology to higher Hall crystals in moiré materials
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Sep 14 - Sep 20, 2026
Week of Sep 14 - Sep 20, 2026
2026
Monday, Sep 14, 2026
-
Simons Amphitheater
12:15PM Blackboard Lunch
- Eliska Greplova (KIND) More Is Different (With Machine-Learned Calculators)
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators
- Kai Sun (Michigan) From Landau Levels to Topological Flat Bands: Can Flat Bands Outperform Landau Levels as Hosts for Fractional States?
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Simons Amphitheater
10:15AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Federico Becca (Univ. of Trieste) Laughlin and Wigner crystals in the bosonic Hofstadter model with dipolar interactions: can a simple restricted-Boltzmann machine capture them?
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators
- Glenn Wagner (ETH Zurich) Three-dimensional foliated fractional quantum Hall phases
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
06:00PM Artificial Intelligence and the Age of Emergence
The KITP Public Lecture Series
Roger Melko (U. Waterloo)
-
Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Abhinav Deshpande (IBM Research-Almaden) Pauli peaked circuits
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators
- Maria Daghofer (Univ. of Stuttgart) TBD
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Zoom
08:15AM Microbial Heterogeneity: From Genetic Switches to Collective Behavior in Biofilms
- Virtual Open House
-
Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Ian Spielman (JQI) Nondestructive characterization of laser-cooled atoms using machine learning
-
Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators
- Yuval Gefen (Weizmann Inst.) Effective Linear Response of Far-from-equilibrium Anyons
-
Simons Amphitheater
03:30PM AI for Quantum Matter
- Baris Ozguler (UC Berkeley) What Do Quantum Error-Correction Records Reveal?
-
Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators
- Nisarga Paul (Caltech) From higher-dimensional Fermiology to higher Hall crystals in moiré materials
-
Simons Amphitheater
10:15AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Roger Melko (U. Waterloo) Neural Scaling Laws and Quantum Models
-
Simons Amphitheater
12:15PM Blackboard Lunch
- Cenke Xu (UCSB) "What happens when a particle breaks apart?"
-
Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators
- Ramanjit Sohal (U. Chicago) Symmetry-twisted multi-entropies: Order parameters for 2D SPT phases
-
Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Yi Zhuang You (UCSD) Bring Your Own Agent: Agentic Research Discussion
-
Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators
- Ruochen Ma (KITP) Statistical mechanics of Non-Abelian Learnability Transitions
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Simons Amphitheater
04:00PM Physics Colloquium
- Margarita Davydova (Caltech) The unreasonable effectiveness of fractals for quantum matter
-
Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Junyu Liu (Pittsburgh) Understanding LLMs Through Ideas from Theoretical Physics
-
Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators
- Yves Hon Kwan (UT Dallas) TBD
-
Trailer 937 conference room
01:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
Note: Offsite
- Xiao-Liang Qi (Stanford University) Blast freezing a black hole
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
08:30AM 2026 Undergraduate Research Symposium
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM: View Full Schedule
Dynamic 10-minute talks by 62 Undergraduate Researchers from 42 Research Groups Event organized by Brishti Chakraborty, Derek Lee, and Professor Mark Srednicki
-
Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Seyed Alireza Seif Tabrizi (IBM) Learning and mitigation of logical errors
-
Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators
- Thomas Scaffidi (UCI) Topological Superconductivity from Repulsion in a Single Dirac Cone: From Kohn–Luttinger to DMRG, with Applications to Valley-Polarized 2D Materials
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Trailer 937 conference room
02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
Note: Offsite
- Emil Martinec (University of Chicago) The black hole S-matrix in gauge/gravity duality
-
Simons Amphitheater
03:30PM AI for Quantum Matter
- Gabriel Kotliar (Rutgers) Searching for and finding new strongly correlated electron materials with trained neural tangent kernels and electronic structure methods: a case study
-
Fred Kavli Auditorium
08:30AM 2026 Undergraduate Research Symposium
8:30 AM - 3:45 PM: View Full Schedule
Dynamic 10-minute talks by 62 Undergraduate Researchers from 42 Research Groups Event organized by Brishti Chakraborty, Derek Lee, and Professor Mark Srednicki
-
Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators
- Da Chuan Lu (Harvard) Self-dual S_3 gauge theory in (2+1)d: lattice model and anyon proliferation transitions
2026
Tuesday, Sep 15, 2026
2026
Wednesday, Sep 16, 2026
2026
Thursday, Sep 17, 2026
2026
Friday, Sep 18, 2026
2026
Saturday, Sep 19, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Sep 20, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Sep 21 - Sep 27, 2026
Week of Sep 21 - Sep 27, 2026
2026
Monday, Sep 21, 2026
2026
Tuesday, Sep 22, 2026
2026
Wednesday, Sep 23, 2026
2026
Thursday, Sep 24, 2026
2026
Friday, Sep 25, 2026
2026
Saturday, Sep 26, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Sep 27, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Month of September, 2026
Month of September, 2026
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