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Talks Schedule

2026

Saturday, Apr 18, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Apr 13, 2026

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

    • Flavio Fenton (Georgia Tech) TBA
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Gil Bub (McGill Univ.), Thomas Bury (McGill Univ.) Magic patterns
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Rachel Steinhorst () Critical Slowing Down and Bulk Viscosity in Binary Neutron Star Mergers
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Short talks / discussion session

2026

Tuesday, Apr 14, 2026

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

    • Tim De Coster (MPI-DS) Gating slope as a control parameter for Canard-mediated EADs and bistability in a reduced excitable system
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Jean Bragard (Univ. Navarra) Fluid-Structure modeling of a contracting atrium
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Tuomas Lappi (Univ. of Jyvaskyla) Lyapunov exponent in the glasma
  • Broida 3302 12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Juan Maldacena (IAS) Comments on wormholes with massless scalar fields
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Jan Christoph (UCSF) TBA
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 03:30PM Physics Colloquium

    • Ian Moult (Yale) Energy Operators at the Collider Frontier

2026

Wednesday, Apr 15, 2026

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

    • Emilia Entcheva (George Washington) TBA
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Alessandro Veneziani (Emory) Are Mathematicians Critical in the Clinics of Cardiovascular Diseases?
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Yuuka Kanakubo (RIKEN iTHEMS/LBNL) Initial state modeling in relativistic nuclear collisions
    • Berndt Mueller (Duke) Hydrodynamic EFT with Heavy Quarks
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Short talks / discussion session

2026

Thursday, Apr 16, 2026

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

    • Carolyn Martsberger (Wofford) Alternate Pacing and Chaos in Paced Cardiac Tissue
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Alessio Gizzi (Bio-Medico Univ.) Open Questions on Cardiac Magnetic Activity and Cardiac Ablation
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Peter Jacobs (LBNL) Measuring QGP response to jet excitation
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Henrik Weyer (KITP) Cardiac organoids as active solids
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • David Kaplan (Washington) Regulated chiral gauge theory and the strong CP problem

2026

Friday, Apr 17, 2026

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

    • Tim De Coster (MPI-DS) Closed-loop control systems for cardiac rhythm regulation
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:15AM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • Jan Christoph (UCSF) Bridging the Gap between Imaging and Numerical Modelling of the Heart’s Electromechanics
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Tyler Gorda (Univ. Frankfurt) Phase quenched QCD: A new approach to determine the thermodynamics of deconfined matter to high accuracy
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

    • student and postdoc presentations

2026

Saturday, Apr 18, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Apr 19, 2026

No talks scheduled.

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 () Jean du Plessis
  • Simons Amphitheater 12:15PM Blackboard Lunch

    • Ian Moult (Yale) Explaining the Quark Gluon Plasma
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ

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.) New Talk
  • 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

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Maximilian Attems (Univ. of Amsterdam) New Talk
  • 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

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Yong Zhao (ANL) New Talk
  • 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) New talk

2026

Saturday, Apr 25, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Apr 26, 2026

No talks scheduled.