1. Activities
  2. Talks Schedule

Talks Schedule

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
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 02:00PM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Krishna Rajagopal (MIT) Searching for the QCD Critical Point at RHIC

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
  • Broida 3302 12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Javier Subils (Utrecht Univ.) Cosmic censorship in a (dual) collider
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks

    • Sebastian Lahs (TU Wien) Fundamental symmetries in SM extensions
  • 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) Probing jet substructure with Energy Correlators
  • Simons Amphitheater 12:15PM Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks

    • Marianna Safronova (Delaware) Lunch Talk
  • 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) Low-energy nuclear structure meets high-energy nuclear collisions
  • 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
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 02:00PM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Krishna Rajagopal (MIT) Searching for the QCD Critical Point at RHIC

2026

Saturday, May 02, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, May 03, 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
  • 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

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 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

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) -
    • Monika Schleier Smith (Stanford) Decoded quantum sensing with cavity-coupled and dipolar spins
  • 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) Table Top Fundamental Symmetries
    • Jaideep Singh (MSU) Fundamental Physics and Discussion
  • 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.