Job Details

KITP Conferences 2026

Position Number: 6472439
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Position Type: Science - Physics

KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS

Conferences

The people named below proposed and will coordinate conferences hosted by the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in 2026.

Hard Problems in Soft Earth Geophysics
Sujit Datta, Doug Jerolmack, and Vashan Wright
January 6-9, 2026
New Synergies in Multi-Probe Cosmology
Stefano Borgani, Tzu-Ching Chang, Matthew Johnson, and Elizabeth Krause
February 3-6, 2026
Probing our Understanding of Quark-Gluon Matter
Aleksi Kurkela, Yen-Jie Lee, and Björn Schenke
March 30-April 2, 2026
Beyond Gate-Based Quantum Computing: Defining Quantum Advantage in the Pre-Fault Tolerant Era
Murphy Yuezhen Niu, Sagar Vijay, David Weld, and Xiaodi Wu
May 4-7, 2026
Non-equilibrium Dynamics, from Active Matter to Evolutionary Dynamics
Aparna Baskaran, Valentina Ros, Julien Tailleur, and Francesco Zamponi
June 1-4, 2026
Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States
Immanuel Bloch, Titus Neupert, Pedram Roushan, and Ady Stern
August 31-September 3, 2026
Artificial Intelligence at the Quantum Frontier
Eliska Greplova, Hsin-Yuan (Robert) Huang, and Di Luo
September 28-October 1, 2026
Quantum Science and Technology with Ultracold Molecules
Anastasia Borschevsky, Tijs Karman, and Hossein Sadeghpour
November 2-5, 2026

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