Monday, Jun 1, 2026 |
| 8:50am |
Lars Bildsten (KITP) |
Welcome[Video] |
| 9:00am |
Jeff Gore (MIT) |
Emergent dynamics of multispecies communities[Video][CC] |
| 9:45am |
Sriram Ramaswamy (IISc) |
Spin waves and vortices in nonreciprocal planar lattice models[Video][CC] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Giulia Garcia Lorenzana (NITMB) |
Non-reciprocal spin-glass transition and aging[Video][CC] |
| 11:30am |
Demian Levis (U Barcelona) |
Self-Propelled grains as an experimental model of Non-Equilibrium Matter[Video][CC] |
| 12:00pm |
Conference participants |
Poster presentation[Video][CC] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
Kranthi Mandadapu (UCB / LBNL) |
On Nerve Impulses[Video][CC] |
| 2:45pm |
Gautam Reddy (Princeton) |
Dynamic landscapes and self-organized robustness[Video][CC] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Ahmad Omar (UCB) |
The Mechanics of Active Interfaces, Bubbles, and Membranes[Slides][Video] |
| 4:45pm |
Deborah Gordon (Stanford) |
The Ecology of Collective Behavior[Embargoed] |
| 5:30pm |
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Tuesday, Jun 2, 2026 |
| 9:00am |
Andrey Sokolov (ANL) |
Acoustically Energized Active Liquid Crystal[Embargoed] |
| 9:45am |
Satyanarayan Majumdar (CNRS) |
Dynamically Emergent Correlations[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Guilaume Duclos (Brandeis U) |
Self-induced symmetry breaking at active/passive interfaces[Video][CC] |
| 11:30am |
Amer Al Hiyasat (MIT) |
Spatiotemporal Noise Stabilizes Unbounded Diversity in Strongly-Competitive Communities[Video][CC] |
| 12:00pm |
Gabriel Birzu (Florida) |
The effects of cooperative growth on chemotactic expansions[Video][CC] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
Yariv Kafri (Technion) |
Flocking: Why Continuous Symmetries Break More Readily Than Discrete Ones[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 2:45pm |
Etienne Fodor (Luxembourg) |
Topology of Pulsating Active Matter[Video][CC] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Arup Chakraborty (MIT) |
How the immune system learns[Embargoed] |
| 4:45pm |
Ada Altieri (MSC) |
Probing the complexity of large microbial communities through the lens of disordered systems[Embargoed] |
| 5:30pm |
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| 6:00pm |
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| 7:30pm |
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Wednesday, Jun 3, 2026 |
| 9:00am |
Daniel Fisher (Stanford) |
Ecological and Evolutionary Chaos[Embargoed] |
| 9:45am |
Ned Wingreen (Princeton) |
B cell affinity maturation - it's all about the nose[Video][CC] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Mattia Serra (UCSD) |
Positional information and information flows in dynamic tissues[Embargoed] |
| 11:30am |
Heiko Rieger (Saarland U) |
Flocking and species survival with random nonreciprocal interactions[Video][CC] |
| 12:00pm |
Luca Cocconi (Cambridge) |
Nonequilibrium energetics of sensing and actuation by a smart active particle[Video][CC] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan (U. Chicago) |
Linear algebra with peptides and small molecules[Video][CC] |
| 2:45pm |
Alexandra Tayar (Weizmann Inst.) |
Self-Driven Cytoskeleton Active Matter: long range dynamics through viscoelastic properties[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Sujit Datta (Caltech) |
Life in a tight spot (and how to get out of one)[Video][CC] |
| 4:45pm |
Sunghan Ro (Harvard) |
Scale-Free Interactions Mediated by Active and Driven Brownian Media[Video][CC] |
| 5:30pm |
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| 7:30pm |
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Thursday, Jun 4, 2026 |
| 9:00am |
Guy Bunin (Technion) |
Reaction-diffusion systems that evolve and adapt[Video][CC] |
| 9:45am |
Cesare Nardini (CEA Saclay) |
Active Phase Separation and nucleation theory[Embargoed] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Federico Ghimenti (Stanford) |
Real-space ecological chaos without niches stabilizes unbounded diversity[Video][CC] |
| 11:30am |
Shiqi Liu (UCSD) |
Odd Dynamics and Learning in Robotic Active Matter[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 12:00pm |
Henrik Weyer (KITP) |
Mechanical patterning in active elastic tissues with stress feedback[Video][CC] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
Giulia Pisegna (MPI-DS) |
Origin and fate of non-reciprocity for mixtures in suspension[Video][CC] |
| 2:45pm |
Kirill Korolev (BU) |
Phenomenological models of microbial colony growth[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Tridib Sadhu (TIFR) |
Active macroscopic fluctuation theory[Video][CC] |
| 4:45pm |
Michael Hagan (Brandeis U) |
How Biomolecular Condensates Enhance Self-Assembly and Encapsulation[Video][CC] |
| 5:30pm |
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