KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS

2027–2028 Programs

The people named below proposed and will coordinate programs hosted by the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in academic year 2027–2028.

• Microbial Heterogeneity: From Genetic Switches to Collective Behavior in Biofilms
  Ami S. Bhatt, Otto Cordero, Roberto Kolter, and Ned Wingreen
  July 19–August 20, 2027
  
  
• Probing Dark Matter with Innovations in Stellar and Galactic Dynamics
  Sukanya Chakrabarti, Dan Huber, Lina Necib, and Robyn Sanderson
  August 2–September 23, 2027
  
  
• Quantum Materials: New Phenomena, New Probes
  Erez Berg, Charlotte Boettcher, Mark Rudner, Roser Valenti, and Andrea Young
  August 23–October 21, 2027
  
  
• Gravitational Path Integrals and Finite-N Holography
  Alejandra Castro, Chi-Ming Chang, Matthew Heydeman, Luca Iliesiu, Ted Jacobson, and Donald Marolf
  September 27–December 17, 2027
  
  
• Black Holes through the Synergies of Photons, Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays
  Ke Fang, Kohta Murase, Lorenzo Sironi, and Alexandra Veledina
  October 25–December 17, 2027
  
  
• Cloud Physics across Planetary Regimes: From Earth to Exoplanets
  Peter Gao, Thaddeus Komacek, Jonathan Mitchell, Diana Powell, and Ivy Tan
  January 4–February 24, 2028
  
  
• Instabilities in Soft Mechanics: Shaping Fluids and Solids
  Irmgard Bischofberger, Sunny Jung, and Ousmane Kodio
  January 4–February 10, 2028
  
  
• From Quantum Control to Algorithms and Back
  Edwin Barnes, Sophia Economou, Yuan Liu, and Dan Stamper-Kurn
  February 14–March 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 28–May 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 3–May 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 8–June 22, 2028
  
  
• Quantum Sensing for Particle Physics
  Roni Harnik, Shimon Kolkowitz, Noah Kurinsky, and Ken Van Tilburg
  May 22–July 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 26–August 17, 2028

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







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