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KITP Programs 2025-2026
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Position Number: 5560537
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Position Type: Science - Physics

KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS

2025–2026 Programs

The people named below proposed and will coordinate programs hosted by the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in academic year 2025–2026.

Neurophysics of Active Sensing
David Kleinfeld, Matthieu Louis, Pavan Ramdya, Tatyana Sharpee, and Julie H. Simpson
July 14–August 15, 2025
Relativistic Plasma Physics: From the Lab to the Cosmos
Alexander Philippov, Anatoly Spitkovsky, Dmitri A. Uzdensky, and Louise Willingale
July 22–September 25, 2025
Noise-Robust Phases of Quantum Matter
Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Michael Gullans, Aleksander Kubica, and Shruti Puri
August 19–October 23, 2025
Learning the Fine Structure of Quantum Dynamics in Programmable Quantum
Matter Wen Wei Ho, Matteo Ippoliti, Joaquin Rodriguez Nieva, and Romain Vasseur
September 29–October 30, 2025
Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
Kareem El-Badry, Jessica Lu, Selma de Mink, and Tejaswi Venumadhav
October 27–December 19, 2025
Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
James Halverson, Jessica N. Howard, Anindita Maiti, Roger Melko, and J. Quetzalcoatl Toledo-Marin
November 3–December 19, 2025
Soft Earth Geophysics
Sujit Datta, Doug Jerolmack, Nathalie Vriend, and Vashan Wright
January 5–March 26, 2026
Exploring Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large-Scale Structure Surveys
Stefano Borgani, Tzu-Ching Chang, Matthew Johnson, and Elena Pierpaoli
January 12–March 5, 2026
Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter
Jasmine Brewer, Aleksi Kurkela, Ian Moult, Wilke van der Schee, Bjrn Schenke, and Alba Soto Ontoso
March 9–May 7, 2026
Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: From Ion Channels to Whole Organ
Hiroshi Ashikaga, Emilia Entcheva, Flavio H. Fenton, Daisuke Sato, and Yohannes Shiferaw
March 30–April 23, 2026
New Trends in Non-Equilibrium Dynamics
Aparna Baskaran, Valentina Ros, Grégory Schehr, Julien Tailleur, and Francesco Zamponi
May 11–July 16, 2026
Coarse-Graining Microbial Ecology: From Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments
Daniel Amor, Martina Dal Bello, Akshit Goyal, and Jacopo Grilli
May 18–June 18, 2026
Biological Learning without a Brain
Karen Alim, Naama Brenner, Arvind Murugan, and Jennifer Schwarz
June 22–July 16, 2026

Apply at www.kitp.ucsb.edu

KITP strives to create a collegial and professional environment where all voices and perspectives can be heard. Participants will conduct themselves in a manner that is welcoming, inclusive, and free from disrespect, intimidation, bullying, discrimination, personal attacks, harassment, and retaliation.

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