KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Day of Apr 06, 2026
Day of Apr 06, 2026
2026
Monday, Apr 06, 2026
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
- Alain Karma (Northeastern) Calcium-mediated triggered activity: bridging cellular and tissue scales
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
- Daisuke Sato (UC Davis) The Heart Stirs Before It Breaks: Dynamical Origin of QT Interval Variability
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter
- Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Vanderbilt) What have we learned from N-point Energy Correlators in heavy ion jets?
- Lijuan Ruan (BNL) QCD under extreme conditions – present and future STAR’s perspective
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Simons Amphitheater
12:15PM Blackboard Lunch
- Flavio Fenton (Georgia Tech) “How your heart works: A Physics Perspective”
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Apr 06 - Apr 12, 2026
Week of Apr 06 - Apr 12, 2026
2026
Monday, Apr 06, 2026
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
- Alain Karma (Northeastern) Calcium-mediated triggered activity: bridging cellular and tissue scales
-
Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
- Daisuke Sato (UC Davis) The Heart Stirs Before It Breaks: Dynamical Origin of QT Interval Variability
-
Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter
- Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Vanderbilt) What have we learned from N-point Energy Correlators in heavy ion jets?
- Lijuan Ruan (BNL) QCD under extreme conditions – present and future STAR’s perspective
-
Simons Amphitheater
12:15PM Blackboard Lunch
- Flavio Fenton (Georgia Tech) “How your heart works: A Physics Perspective”
2026
Tuesday, Apr 07, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
- Niels Otani (RIT) The effect of ephaptic coupling on the development of spatially discordant alternans and spiral wave turbulence
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Simons Amphitheater
10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
- Rengasayee Veeraraghavan (Ohio State) The dynamic influence of nanostructure on cardiac physiology
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter
- Jean Francois Paquet (Vanderbilt) Relativistic viscous hydrodynamics in heavy-ion collisions
- Chun Shen (Wayne State) Bayesian inference in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
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Broida 3302
12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
- Jose Calderon Infante (Caltech) No Shift, Sherlock: No Shift Symmetries in AdS/CFT
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
- Jose Puglisi (CNSU) Feed-Forward Modelling: How to reconstruct the Force-Frequency Relationship
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
03:30PM Physics Colloquium
- Krishna Rajagopal (MIT) Hot and Cold Quark Soup Under Pressure
2026
Wednesday, Apr 08, 2026
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
- Emiliano Diez (CONICET) TBA
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
- Seth Weinberg (Ohio State) Modeling frameworks to investigate ion channel homeostasis and intercellular coupling
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter
- Bianka Mecaj (LANL) In-medium Scale Evolution of energy correlators
- John Terry (LANL) Tomography in cold nuclear matter
2026
Thursday, Apr 09, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
- Jeffrey Saucerman (Univ. Virginia) Network dynamics of cardiac development
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Simons Amphitheater
10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
- Blas Echebarria (Barcelona Tech) TBA
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter
- Murat Kologlu (QMUL) TBA
- Varun Vaidya (U. South Dakota) Dynamical tidal response of compact stars: An EFT approach
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Simons Amphitheater
02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
- Michal Heller (Ghent Univ.) Temporal Entanglement and Holography
2026
Friday, Apr 10, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
- Yasser Aboelkassem (UM Flint) Stochastic Multiscale Modeling of Cardiac Sarcomere Function Using Langevin Dynamics
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Simons Amphitheater
10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ
- Abouzar Kaboudian (FDA) TBA
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter
- Michal Heller (Ghent Univ.) Towards cold atom realizations of ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions thermalization phenomena
- Govert Nijs (CERN) The unexpected uses of a bowling pin: Exploiting Ne-20 isotopes for precision characterizations of collectivity in small systems
2026
Saturday, Apr 11, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Apr 12, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Apr 13 - Apr 19, 2026
Week of Apr 13 - Apr 19, 2026
2026
Monday, Apr 13, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Tuesday, Apr 14, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Wednesday, Apr 15, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Thursday, Apr 16, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Friday, Apr 17, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Saturday, Apr 18, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Apr 19, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Month of April, 2026
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