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Thursday, Jun 19, 2025

No talks scheduled.

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Monday, Jun 16, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 08:50AM Biological Physics of Biomolecular Condensates: Bridging Theory and Experiment (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Trevor Grand Pre (Princeton) - Session 1
    • Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
    • D. Allan Drummond (U. Chicago) Biology and physics of stress-induced mRNP condensation
    • Allie Obermeyer (Columbia) Metabolic Activity to Animate Coacervate Materials
  • Simons Amphitheater 09:00AM The Physics of Changing Polar Climate

    • Michael Tjernström (Univ. Stockholm, Sweden) Why measurements, when we have reanalysis?
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM The Physics of Changing Polar Climate

    • NN (NN) Weekly introduction

2025

Tuesday, Jun 17, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Biological Physics of Biomolecular Condensates: Bridging Theory and Experiment (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Antonia Statt (UIUC) - Session 3
    • Keren Lasker (Scripps Institute) Structure-function relationship within the PopZ condensate
    • Ben Schuler (Zurich) Probing the dynamics of biomolecular complex coacervates from molecular to mesoscopic scales
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM The Physics of Changing Polar Climate

    • Nicole Feldl (UC Santa Cruz) Modeling #1 - Atmosphere-ice interactions

2025

Wednesday, Jun 18, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Biological Physics of Biomolecular Condensates: Bridging Theory and Experiment (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Dilimulati Aierken (Princeton) - Session 5
    • Tuomas Knowles (Cambridge) Role of condensates in protein aggregation
    • Agnes Toth Petroczy (MPI-CBG) Biomolecular condensates across the Tree of life
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM The Physics of Changing Polar Climate

    • Henri Drake (UC Irvine) Modeling #2 - Hierarchical modeling of ocean-ice interactions

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Thursday, Jun 19, 2025

No talks scheduled.

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Friday, Jun 20, 2025

No talks scheduled.

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Saturday, Jun 21, 2025

No talks scheduled.

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Sunday, Jun 22, 2025

No talks scheduled.

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Monday, Jun 23, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 08:50AM The Future of Earth’s Polar Regions (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Helene Seroussi (Dartmouth) - State of polar systems and variability
    • Mark Bowick (KITP) Welcome
    • Patrick Taylor (NASA Langley) The Great Unfreezing: A brief history of the rapidly changing Arctic
    • Michael Previdi (LDEO) Effective Heat Capacity and Its Role in Arctic Amplification
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Physical Principles Shaping Biomolecular Condensates

    • Meng Shen (California State University, Fullerton) Beyond Mean-Field Theory: Self-Organization in Like-Charged Systems and Emergent Functionality in Mechanical Networks

2025

Tuesday, Jun 24, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM The Future of Earth’s Polar Regions (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Mathieu Morlighem (Dartmouth) - Ice-ocean-atmosphere interactions
    • Qiang Wang (Alfred Wegener Inst.) Changes in Arctic Ocean eddy activity and eddy-sea ice interaction under climate warming
    • Ethan Campbell (Washington) Lagrangian reconstruction of snow evolution on Antarctic sea ice
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Physical Principles Shaping Biomolecular Condensates

    • Danfeng Cai (Johns Hopkins University) Physical principles governing the interactions among membrane-less organelles

2025

Wednesday, Jun 25, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM The Future of Earth’s Polar Regions (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Qinghua Ding (UCSB) - Beyond the Poles and the Present: Teleconnections and Paleoclimate Perspectives
    • Sarah Kang (MPI-M) The Far-Reaching Impacts of Extratropical Climate Perturbations
    • Xiyue Zhang (Nevada) Robust Yet Diverse Southern Ocean Teleconnection from Antarctic
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Physical Principles Shaping Biomolecular Condensates

    • Jeremy Schmit (Kansas State University) Stickers, spacers, and oligomers: Understanding the thermodynamics of multi-component phase separation

2025

Thursday, Jun 26, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM The Future of Earth’s Polar Regions (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Alexander Robel (Georgia Tech) - Improving Predictions with the next generation of models
    • Gavin Schmidt (GSFC) Characterization and impacts of anomalous freshwater from melting ice sheets and shelves
    • Alice Du Vivier (NCAR) Opportunities and challenges with state-of-the-art modeling of sea ice processes
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Physical Principles Shaping Biomolecular Condensates

    • Ned Wingreen (Princeton University) Condensate size control: doing chemistry in adaptable compartments
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Physical Principles Shaping Biomolecular Condensates

    • Sebastian Aland (Freiberg University of Technology) Introduction to the Finite-Element Method for continuum simulation (of phase separation)

2025

Friday, Jun 27, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Physical Principles Shaping Biomolecular Condensates

    • All participants (KITP) Discussion

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Saturday, Jun 28, 2025

No talks scheduled.

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Sunday, Jun 29, 2025

No talks scheduled.