Talks Schedule

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

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) TBA

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

  • Simons Amphitheater 12:15PM Blackboard Lunch

    • Eric Hudson (UCLA) “What is a Nuclear Clock?”

2026

Tuesday, Apr 28, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Wednesday, Apr 29, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Thursday, Apr 30, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Friday, May 01, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Saturday, May 02, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, May 03, 2026

No talks scheduled.