Job Details

2027-28 KITP Programs

Position Number: 9781179
Location: Santa Barbara, United States
Position Type: Science - Physics

KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS

20272028 Programs

The people named below proposed and will coordinate programs hosted by the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in academic year 20272028.

Microbial Heterogeneity: From Genetic Switches to Collective Behavior in Biofilms
Ami S. Bhatt, Otto Cordero, Roberto Kolter, and Ned Wingreen
July 19August 20, 2027
Probing Dark Matter with Innovations in Stellar and Galactic Dynamics
Sukanya Chakrabarti, Dan Huber, Lina Necib, and Robyn Sanderson
August 2September 23, 2027
Quantum Materials: New Phenomena, New Probes
Erez Berg, Charlotte Boettcher, Mark Rudner, Roser Valenti, and Andrea Young
August 23October 21, 2027
Gravitational Path Integrals and Finite-N Holography
Alejandra Castro, Chi-Ming Chang, Matthew Heydeman, Luca Iliesiu, Ted Jacobson, and Donald Marolf
September 27December 17, 2027
Black Holes through the Synergies of Photons, Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays
Ke Fang, Kohta Murase, Lorenzo Sironi, and Alexandra Veledina
October 25December 17, 2027
Cloud Physics across Planetary Regimes: From Earth to Exoplanets
Peter Gao, Thaddeus Komacek, Jonathan Mitchell, Diana Powell, and Ivy Tan
January 4February 24, 2028
Instabilities in Soft Mechanics: Shaping Fluids and Solids
Irmgard Bischofberger, Sunny Jung, and Ousmane Kodio
January 4February 10, 2028
From Quantum Control to Algorithms and Back
Edwin Barnes, Sophia Economou, Yuan Liu, and Dan Stamper-Kurn
February 14March 30, 2028
High-Energy Physics into an Era of Fault-Tolerant and Error-Corrected Quantum Computing
Mari Carmen Banuls, Enrique Rico Ortega, Enrico Rinaldi, and Martin Savage
February 28May 4, 2028
Seeing through Defects: New Lenses on Strongly Coupled Systems
Gabriel Cuomo, Meng Cheng, Zheng-Cheng Gu, Ling-Yan Hung, and Yifan Wang
April 3May 18, 2028
Merging Strong-Field and Perturbative Gravity for the Precision Gravitational-Wave Era
Beatrice Bonga, Radu Roiban, Leo C. Stein, and Barry Wardell
May 8June 22, 2028
Quantum Sensing for Particle Physics
Roni Harnik, Shimon Kolkowitz, Noah Kurinsky, and Ken Van Tilburg
May 22July 13, 2028
Emergent Gauge Fields in Quantum Matter From Spectroscopic Probes to Quantum Magnets to Quantum Simulations
Yin-Chen He, Johannes Knolle, SungBin Lee, and Roderich Moessner
June 26August 17, 2028

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Professor Lars Bildsten, Director
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara