Talks Schedule

2026

Monday, Aug 10, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Lucy Erin O'brien (Stanford) Plasticity of adult organ size under functional demand
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Masatoshi Imada (Sophia Univ.) AI/NQS Aided ab initio Studies on Strongly Correlated Electrons ― Cases of Cuprate Superconductors and Quantum Spin Liquids in Molecular Solids
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Naomi Nakayama (OIST) Material instruction of morphogenesis and morphing

2026

Monday, Aug 10, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Lucy Erin O'brien (Stanford) Plasticity of adult organ size under functional demand
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Masatoshi Imada (Sophia Univ.) AI/NQS Aided ab initio Studies on Strongly Correlated Electrons ― Cases of Cuprate Superconductors and Quantum Spin Liquids in Molecular Solids
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Naomi Nakayama (OIST) Material instruction of morphogenesis and morphing

2026

Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Daniel Kierzkowski (U. de Montréal) Building Plant Organs: Gradients, Conflicts, and Forms
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Qimin Yan (Northeastern) Symmetry-aware and property-constrained generative design of quantum materials
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Henrik Weyer (KITP) Mechanical patterning in cardiac organoids
    • Jessica Feldman (Stanford) Mechanisms of epithelial symmetry breaking
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Miguel Morales Silva (Flatiron Institute) Insights into the physics of 2D correlated electrons from Neural Quantum States
    • Binghai Yan (Penn State) Altermagnetism: an AI-assisted Quantum Materials Study

2026

Wednesday, Aug 12, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • L. Mahadevan (Harvard) Simple aspects of morphogenetic singularities (and regularities)
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Filippo Gaggioli (MIT) Expressive and Accurate Self-Attention Wavefunctions for Many-Electron Problems in the Continuum
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Jake Cornwall Scoones (Francis Crick Inst.) Coarse-graining cis-regulatory elements to rationalise and redesign developmental patterns
    • Katerina Ragkousi (Amherst) The primary epithelium of the sea anemone embryo

2026

Thursday, Aug 13, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Rita Mateus (MPI-CBG) Controlling Organ Growth Across Scales
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter

    • Ehud Altman (UC Berkeley) Using generative models to observe measurement induced entanglement and learnability transitions
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Frank Jülicher (MPI-PKS) Electro-hydraulics of tissues
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 02:00PM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Lucy Erin O'brien (Stanford), Rita Mateus (MPI-CBG) Regeneration discussion

2026

Friday, Aug 14, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Massimo Vergassola (UCSD) The first two hours of a fly's life
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Annis Richardson (Edinburgh U.) What's interesting about grasses?

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Saturday, Aug 15, 2026

No talks scheduled.

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Sunday, Aug 16, 2026

No talks scheduled.

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Monday, Aug 17, 2026

No talks scheduled.

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Tuesday, Aug 18, 2026

No talks scheduled.

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Wednesday, Aug 19, 2026

No talks scheduled.

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Thursday, Aug 20, 2026

No talks scheduled.

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Friday, Aug 21, 2026

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Saturday, Aug 22, 2026

No talks scheduled.

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Sunday, Aug 23, 2026

No talks scheduled.