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Talks Schedule

2026

Saturday, Apr 04, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM The Physics of the Heart and Teaching BioPhysics in the Classroom (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Lars Bildsten (KITP) Intro to KITP
    • Flavio Fenton (Georgia Tech) Overview
    • Stefan Luther (Max Planck Inst.) () Biophysics of the Heart: How Experiments Reveal the Physics of Cardiac Arrhythmias

2026

Monday, Mar 30, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 08:50AM Probing our Understanding of Quark-Gluon matter (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Laura Havener (Yale) -
    • Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
    • Berndt Mueller (Duke) Critical assessment of the status of the field of heavy ion physics
    • Chun Shen (Wayne State) Evidence for hydrodynamics in heavy ion collisions
  • Simons Amphitheater 09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Yohannes Shiferaw (CSU Northridge) Nonlinear calcium and sodium dynamics underlie arrhythmia initiation at the Purkinje-ventricular junction
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

2026

Tuesday, Mar 31, 2026

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

    • Yixuan Wu (UC Davis) Unveiling Sex-specific Mechanisms of Atrial Ca2+ Dysregulation and Ca2+-driven Arrhythmia via Multiscale Modeling
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Probing our Understanding of Quark-Gluon matter (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Krishna Rajagopal (MIT) -
    • Zhoudunming Tu (BNL) Initial stages in heavy ion collisions and the EIC
    • Austin Baty (UIC) Collectivity in the smallest systems
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

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

  • Broida 1640 03:30PM Physics Colloquium
    Note: Offsite
    • Nina Miolane (UCSB) Symmetry in Brains and Machines: A Physics Perspective

2026

Wednesday, Apr 01, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Probing our Understanding of Quark-Gluon matter (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Jiangyong Jia (Stony Brook) -
    • Gergely Endrodi (Eötvös Univ.) Latest developments in finite T Lattice QCD
    • Govert Nijs (CERN) Extracting the QCD EOS from experiment
  • Simons Amphitheater 09:00AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Emiliano Medei (UFRJ) Resident macrophages mediate arrhythmia through IL-1b
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Amin Forouzandehmehr (UC Davis) Systems-Level Transcriptomics Reveals Pathway-Selective Translational Alignment Across Murine Models of Cardiometabolic HFpEF
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

2026

Thursday, Apr 02, 2026

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

    • Enrique Lacalle (Barcelona Tech) Are calcium waves always arrhythmogenic? Insights from the nanoscale biophysics of RyR2 regulation and Calsequestrin-RyR2 coupling : Part I
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Probing our Understanding of Quark-Gluon matter (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Yen Jie Lee (MIT) -
    • Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Vanderbilt) Jet measurements and connections to hadronization
    • Yi Chen (Vanderbilt) Medium response to jet quenching
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Enrique Lacalle (Barcelona Tech) Are calcium waves always arrhythmogenic? Insights from the nanoscale biophysics of RyR2 regulation and Calsequestrin-RyR2 coupling : Part II
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Michal Heller (Ghent Univ.) TBA

2026

Friday, Apr 03, 2026

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

    • Emilia Entcheva (George Washington) From gene expression to function: high-throughput technologies for manipulating & characterizing human iPSC-cardiomyocytes
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Xiaoyu Liu (Rice) Collective phenomena in jets - a new window into the ultimate quark-gluon droplet
    • TBA
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Enrique Lacalle (Barcelona Tech) Are calcium waves always arrhythmogenic? Insights from the nanoscale biophysics of RyR2 regulation and Calsequestrin-RyR2 coupling : Part II

2026

Saturday, Apr 04, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM The Physics of the Heart and Teaching BioPhysics in the Classroom (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Lars Bildsten (KITP) Intro to KITP
    • Flavio Fenton (Georgia Tech) Overview
    • Stefan Luther (Max Planck Inst.) () Biophysics of the Heart: How Experiments Reveal the Physics of Cardiac Arrhythmias

2026

Sunday, Apr 05, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Apr 06, 2026

  • 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) TBA
    • Lijuan Ruan (BNL) TBA
  • Simons Amphitheater 12:15PM Blackboard Lunch

    • Flavio Fenton (Georgia Tech) “How your heart works: A Physics Perspective”

2026

Tuesday, Apr 07, 2026

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

    • Jose Calderon Infante (Caltech) TBA
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 03:30PM Physics Colloquium

    • Krishna Rajagopal (MIT) Hot and Cold Quark Soup Under Pressure

2026

Wednesday, Apr 08, 2026

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

    • Emiliano Diez (CONICET) TBA
  • 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
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Bianka Mecaj (LANL) TBA
    • John Terry (LANL) TBA

2026

Thursday, Apr 09, 2026

  • 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
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Blas Echebarria (Barcelona Tech) TBA
  • 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
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Michal Heller (Ghent Univ.) TBA

2026

Friday, Apr 10, 2026

  • 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
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Abouzar Kaboudian (FDA) TBA
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Michal Heller (Ghent Univ.) TBA
    • Govert Nijs (CERN) TBA

2026

Saturday, Apr 11, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Apr 12, 2026

No talks scheduled.