1. Activities
  2. Talks Schedule

Talks Schedule

2026

Sunday, Apr 26, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Apr 20, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Alain Karma (Northeastern) Dynamics of cardiac repolarization in heterogeneous tissue and its role in triggered activity
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Zhilin Qu (UCLA) TBA
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Jean du Plessis () Modelling Strongly Coupled Heavy Quarks in Heavy Ion Collisions
  • Simons Amphitheater 12:15PM Blackboard Lunch

    • Ian Moult (Yale) Explaining the Quark Gluon Plasma

2026

Tuesday, Apr 21, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Thomas Bury (McGill Univ.) Predicting bifurcations in cardiac dynamics: from chick heart aggregates to the clinic
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Shahriar Iravanian (Emory) The Detection and Significance of High-Order Repolarization Dynamics in Ex-Vivo Human Ventricles
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Alex Buchel (Western Univ.) Causality and instability of the relativistic hydrodynamics from holography
  • Broida 3302 12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Abouzar Kaboudian (AKcelerate Computing) Real-Time Computational Research: Applications to the Topics Discussed at KITP
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 03:30PM Physics Colloquium

    • Francis Halzen (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) ICECUBE: The First Decade of Neutrino Astronomy

2026

Wednesday, Apr 22, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Casey Lee Trimble (Georgia Tech), Evan Rheaume (Georgia Tech) TBA
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Flavio Fenton (Georgia Tech) TBA
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Maximilian Attems (Univ. of Amsterdam) Theoretical Probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Stefan Luther (MPI-DS) TBA

2026

Thursday, Apr 23, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Julia Gorelik (Imperial College) Cardiac nanodomains in heart failure
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Yong Zhao (ANL) Approaching partons on a Euclidean lattice
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Short talks / discussion session
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Clifford Johnson (UCSB) Universal Formulae for Correlators of a Broad Class of Models

2026

Friday, Apr 24, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Bruno Scheihing (KITP) Energy loss of heavy particles and the non-gaussian nature of heavy quark dynamics in QGP

2026

Saturday, Apr 25, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Apr 26, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Apr 27, 2026

  • Small Seminar Room 10:00AM Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks

    • Eric Hudson (UCLA) Introduction to the workshop, goals and formats, meet and greet
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Wouter Waalewijn (Univ. of Amsterdam) New Angles on Energy Correlators
  • Simons Amphitheater 12:15PM Blackboard Lunch

    • Eric Hudson (UCLA) “What is a Nuclear Clock?”
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks

    • Harry Morgan (U. Manchester) Defects and ionic configurations / Discussion
    • Ken Van Tilburg (Stanford) Dark Matter Theory

2026

Tuesday, Apr 28, 2026

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

    • Marianna Safronova (Delaware) Fundamental Physics
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Isobel Kolbe (Wits University) Grappling with the path-length dependence of energy loss in the oxygen era
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks

    • Sebastian Lahs (TU Wien) Fundamental symmetries in SM extensions
    • TBD () Nuclear Physics and Discussion
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 03:30PM Physics Colloquium

    • Eric R. Hudson (UCLA) The Inevitable Quantum Winter

2026

Wednesday, Apr 29, 2026

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

    • Shiqian Ding (Tsinghua Univ.) AMO Table Top Physics
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Ankita Budhraja (Nikhef) On jet substructure with Energy Correlators
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks

    • R. Jason Jones (Arizona) Laser Development
    • David Leibrandt (UCLA) Ion Clocks and Discussions

2026

Thursday, Apr 30, 2026

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

    • Sandro Kraemer (KU Leuven) Thorium Nuclear Clock
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Benjamin Bally (CEA Saclay) TBA
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks

    • Daniel Carney (LBNL) Quantum Measurements
    • Vidvuds Ozolins (Yale) Density Functional Theory and Discussion

2026

Friday, May 01, 2026

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

    • Thorsten Schumm (TU Wien) Crystals for Thorium Clocks
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Xiaojun Yao (Washington) Quantum simulation of non-equilibrium dynamics and applications for heavy ion collisions
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks

    • Koji Yoshimura (Okayama Univ.) Solid State Clocks
    • Shimon Kolkowitz (UCB) Solid State Defects and Discussion

2026

Saturday, May 02, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, May 03, 2026

No talks scheduled.