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