KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Day of Nov 13, 2026
2026
Friday, Nov 13, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
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Brian Kendrick (LANL)
Non-Adiabatic Quantum Dynamics and Complex Formation in Ultracold Chemical Reactions
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Zoom
11:00AM NSBP Insight Seminar
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
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Shivani Shah (NC State)
Metal-poor stars
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Danat Issa (MIT)
Collapsar dynamics and nucleosynthesis
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Nov 09 - Nov 15, 2026
2026
Monday, Nov 09, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
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Ignacio Aucar (CONICET)
Genuine Molecular QED Effects Revealed by the Relativistic Connection between NMR Shielding and Nuclear Spin-Rotation
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
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Francois Foucart (UNH),
Raffaella Margutti (UC Berkeley),
Philipp Moesta (Univ. of Amsterdam),
Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame)
Meet&greet/Show&tell
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Simons Amphitheater
12:15PM Blackboard Lunch
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Irene Tamborra (N. Bohr Institute)
The Microphysics of Transients
2026
Tuesday, Nov 10, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
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Tetyana Pitik (UCB / LBNL)
Accretion-induced collapse
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Ryan Foley (UCSC)
Overview: Roman + other transient facilities
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Broida 3302
12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
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Shadi Ali Ahmad (NYU)
Glimpses of the (quantum) black hole interior
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
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Luis Santos (Uni. Hannover)
Dipolar lattice gases
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
03:30PM Physics Colloquium
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Ryan Foley (UCSC)
It is Time for a Compact Object Paradigm Shift
2026
Wednesday, Nov 11, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Thursday, Nov 12, 2026
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
10:30AM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
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Jesus Perez Rios (Stony Brook)
AI applications in AMO physics
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Simons Amphitheater
11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
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Erica Hammerstein (UC Berkeley)
Tidal disruption events
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Huei Sears (Rutgers)
type Ia supernovae
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
01:00PM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
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Christiane Koch (Freie Univ. Berlin)
What chiral molecules can teach us about quantum control
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Simons Amphitheater
02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
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Marco Costa (KITP)
Long-range spin-1 forces beyond the Proca limit
2026
Friday, Nov 13, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
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Brian Kendrick (LANL)
Non-Adiabatic Quantum Dynamics and Complex Formation in Ultracold Chemical Reactions
-
Zoom
11:00AM NSBP Insight Seminar
-
Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
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Shivani Shah (NC State)
Metal-poor stars
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Danat Issa (MIT)
Collapsar dynamics and nucleosynthesis
2026
Saturday, Nov 14, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Nov 15, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Nov 16 - Nov 22, 2026
2026
Monday, Nov 16, 2026
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
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Raffaella Margutti (UC Berkeley),
Philipp Moesta (Univ. of Amsterdam),
Francois Foucart (UNH),
Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame)
Meet&greet/Show&tell
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Simons Amphitheater
12:15PM Blackboard Lunch
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Kaden Hazzard (Rice)
Very Cold Molecules: Chemistry, Quantum Matter, and the Laws of Nature
2026
Tuesday, Nov 17, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
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Shreya Anand (Stanford)
Overview: Rubin observatory
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Tiffany Lewis (Michigan Tech)
Gamma-ray observations and COSI
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
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Sebastian Will (Columbia)
Ultracold Dipolar Molecules: A New Quantum Liquid
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
03:30PM Physics Colloquium
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Erez Berg (UCSB)
“Reimagining Condensed-Matter Physics in Two-Dimensional Materials”
2026
Wednesday, Nov 18, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
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Svetlana Kotochigova (Temple)
Relativistic study of radioactive molecules in searches for parity-violating effects
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
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Samuel Boos (KITP)
type Ia supernovae
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Xiaoshan Huang (Caltech)
Overview: TDE simulations
2026
Thursday, Nov 19, 2026
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Founders' Room
11:00AM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
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Fabio Magistrelli (Uni. Jena)
Integrated hydro+nuclear network simulations
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Mengke Li (UC Berkeley)
Nuclear networks/r-process
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
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Chris Greene (Purdue)
Three-body recombination and Efimov physics of microwave-screened polar molecules
2026
Friday, Nov 20, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information
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Matthew Eiles (MPI-PKS)
Ultralong-range Rydberg molecules: what are they good for?
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Enigmatic Explosions: Observations, Modelling, and Microphysics of Extreme Transients
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Francois Foucart (UNH),
Raffaella Margutti (UC Berkeley),
Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame),
Philipp Moesta (Univ. of Amsterdam)
Open discussion
2026
Saturday, Nov 21, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Nov 22, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Month of November, 2026