KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Day of Nov 02, 2025
Day of Nov 02, 2025
2025
Sunday, Nov 02, 2025
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Oct 27 - Nov 02, 2025
Week of Oct 27 - Nov 02, 2025
2025
Monday, Oct 27, 2025
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
08:50AM Frontiers of Programmable Quantum Dynamics: Advances and Applications (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Emily Davis (NYU) -
- Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
- Eun Ah Kim (Cornell) Learning quantum states from measurements
- Justin Wilson (LSU) Interplay of entanglement and control in quantum dynamics
2025
Tuesday, Oct 28, 2025
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
09:00AM Frontiers of Programmable Quantum Dynamics: Advances and Applications (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Wen Wei Ho (National Univ. of Singapore) - Talks are 30 min + 15 min discussion
- Sagar Vijay (UCSB) The statistical mechanics of random circuits and approximate state designs
- Crystal Noel (Duke) Programmable trapped ion quantum systems engineering
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
- Tomer Shenar (Tel Aviv University) stellar-mass black holes overview
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Broida 1640
03:30PM Physics Colloquium
Note: Offsite
- Tejaswi Venumadhav Nerella (UCSB) Physics and Astrophysics using Gravitational Waves
2025
Wednesday, Oct 29, 2025
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
09:00AM Frontiers of Programmable Quantum Dynamics: Advances and Applications (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Joaquin Rodriguez Nieva (Texas A&M) -
- Nick Hunter Jones (Texas) Sharp transitions in quantum circuit complexity
- Guido Pagano (Rice) Trapped-Ion quantum simulation of chemical dynamics beyond Born-Oppenheimer
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
- Mathieu Renzo (University of Arizona), Soetkin Janssens (University of Tokyo) binary evolution talk
2025
Thursday, Oct 30, 2025
-
Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
09:00AM Frontiers of Programmable Quantum Dynamics: Advances and Applications (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Matteo Ippoliti (Texas) -
- Adam Kaufman (JILA) Non-equilibrium dynamics in neutral-atom systems: applications to quantum metrology and new approaches
- Pedram Roushan (Google) Visualizing quantum dynamics with superconducting qubits
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
- Maya Fishbach (University of Toronto ), Barak Zackay (Weizmann Institute) gravitational waves talk
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Simons Amphitheater
02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
- Alexey Milekhin (Caltech) Observable and computable entanglement in time
2025
Friday, Oct 31, 2025
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
- TBD (TBD) weekly review
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Zoom
01:00PM NSBP Insight Seminar
https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qGJ9pCwkR4qWJZWqgfrZ4A#/
- Alexandria Udenkwo (Washington University in St. Louis) How to quantize a circuit
2025
Saturday, Nov 01, 2025
No talks scheduled.
2025
Sunday, Nov 02, 2025
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Nov 03 - Nov 09, 2025
Week of Nov 03 - Nov 09, 2025
2025
Monday, Nov 03, 2025
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
- Doug Lin (UCSC) Prolific production of stellar mass black holes in AGN disks.
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
- James Halverson (Northeastern), Jessica N. Howard (UCSB/KITP), Anindita Maiti (Perimeter Inst.), Roger Melko (U. Waterloo), J. Quetzalcoatl Toledo-Marín (TRIUMF) Welcome and Introductions
2025
Tuesday, Nov 04, 2025
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
- Norbert Langer (University of Bonn) Massive star and binary evolution
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
- Francois Charton (Meta) Transformers for physics - Translators, generators and world models
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Broida 3302
12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
Note: Offsite
- David Simmons Duffin (Caltech) TBA
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
03:30PM Physics Colloquium
- Sanjukta Krishnagopal (UCSB) From Laplacians to Learning: Bridging Networks, Dynamics, and Chaos
2025
Wednesday, Nov 05, 2025
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
- Carl Rodriguez (UNC Chapel Hill), Cheyanne Shariat (Caltech) Dynamics and triples
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
- Sascha Diefenbacher (LBNL) Unfolding with Generative and Bridge-Based Models
2025
Thursday, Nov 06, 2025
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
- Reed Essick (University of Toronto), Tom Maccarone (Texas Tech), Casey Lam (Carnegie Observatories ) Selection functions + population modeling
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:30AM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
- Zohar Ringel (Hebrew Univ.) Deep Learning: Some Perspectives from Physics
-
Simons Amphitheater
02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
- Vincent Chen (UCSB) TBA
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
05:00PM Public Lecture Series 2025-2026
- Maya Fishbach (CITA) Listening to Black Holes with LIGO
2025
Friday, Nov 07, 2025
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
- TBD (TBD) weekly review
-
Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
- Mohamed Hibat Allah (U. Waterloo) Recurrent neural networks for Rydberg atom arrays
2025
Saturday, Nov 08, 2025
No talks scheduled.
2025
Sunday, Nov 09, 2025
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Month of November, 2025
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