KITP Conferences and Miniprograms Online

• Harnessing Quantum-optical Techniques in Solid-state Materials
• New Perspectives in Many-body Physics with Quantum Optical Systems
• The Many Faces of Active Mechanics
• Moiré materials: A New Paradigm in Tunable Quantum Matter (Aug 2024)
• Cosmic Dawn Revealed by JWST: The Physics of the First Stars, Galaxies, and Black Holes (Aug 2024)
• Cosmic Signals of Dark Matter Physics: New Synergies (June 2024)
• Theories, Experiments and Numerics on Gapless Quantum Many-body Systems (May 2024)
• Teachers' Conference: Supermassive Black Holes and their Destructive Tidal Forces (Apr 2024)
• Anticipating the Rising Tide of Tidal Disruption Events: Theory and Observations (Apr 2024)
• Spacetime and String Theory (Apr 2024)
• Turbulence in the Universe (Feb 2024)
• Jim Hartle’s Legacy (Feb 2024)
• Exploring Non-equilibrium Long-range Quantum Matter (Nov 2023)
• Interfaces and Mixing in Fluids, Plasmas, and Materials (Oct 2023)
• Frontiers of Quantum Metrology: Fundamental Physics, Unexpected Connections, and Novel Applications (Oct 2023)
• Electron Correlations beyond the Quasiparticle Paradigm: Theory and Experiment (Sep 2023)
• Dynamical Response and Transport in Quantum Magnets (Aug 2023)
• Timescales of Plasticity and Underlying Mechanisms (Jul 2023)
• Structure Design and Emerging Phenomena in Nanoparticle Assemblies: What’s next? (May 2023)
• Topology, Symmetry and Interactions in Crystals: Emerging Concepts and Unifying Themes (Apr 2023)
• Teachers' Conference: What’s in a crystal ? – A quantum universe (Apr 2023)
• Galaxy Formation and Evolution in the Data Science Era
• Physics & Special Holonomy (A Meeting of the Simons Collaboration) (Mar 2023)
• The Co-evolution of the Cosmic Web and Galaxies across Cosmic Time (Feb 2023)
• Gravity from algebra: Modern field theory methods for holography (Jan 2023)
• White Dwarfs from Physics to Astrophysics (Nov 2022)
• Atmospheres, Oceans, Earths -- Unifying perspectives on geophysical and environmental multiphase flows (Oct 2022)
• Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Systems: Advances and Applications (Sep 2022)
• Talking Integrability: Spins, Fields, and Strings (Aug-Sep 2022)
• Quantum and Thermal Electrodynamic Fluctuations in the Presence of Matter: Progress and Challenges (Jul 2022)
• Opportunities and Challenges in Few-Body Physics: Unitarity and Beyond (May 2022)
• Storming the Gravitational Wave Frontier (Apr 2022)
• Interdisciplinary Developments in Neutrino Physics (Mar 2022)
• Teachers Conference: Neutrinos and New Physics (Mar 2022)
• Building Bridges: Towards a Unified Picture of Stellar and Black Hole Binary Accretion and Evolution (Mar 2022)
• Snowmass Theory Frontier Conference (Feb 2022)
• Flux tubes, Quark Confinement and Exotic Hadrons (Jan 2022)
• Transport in Stellar Interiors (Nov 2021)
• Machine Learning for Climate (Nov 2021)
• Non-Equilibrium Universality in Many-Body Physics (Sep 2021)
• Transport and Efficient Energy Conversion in Quantum Systems (Aug-Sep 2021)
• Majorana zero modes: New developments in experiment and theory, and the road ahead (May 2021)
• Novel Experiments for Fundamental Physics (May 21)
• Teachers' Conference: White Dwarfs as Cosmic Laboratories (Mar 21)
• White Dwarfs from Physics to Astrophysics (Mar 21)
• Online Conference: Symmetries in Morphogenesis: from Mechanisms to Principles (Oct 20)
• Online Conference: Frontiers of Quantum Computing and Quantum Dynamics (Oct 20)
• Online Conference: On the Origin, Nature, and Mixing of Multiphase Gas in Astrophysics (Oct 2020)
• Online Conference: UV Meets the IR: Effective Field Theory Bounds from QFT to String Theory (Oct 2020)
• Online Conference: The Frontiers of Event Horizon Scale Accretion (Oct 2020)
• Online Conference: Unconventional Magnetism and Novel Probes in Heterostructures (Oct 2020)
• Reunion Conference: Exostar Redux (Aug 2020)
• Reunion Conference: Correlated Phases in Moire Materials: One Year Later (Aug 2020)
• Online Conference: Bacteriophage Forum (Aug 2020)
• Reunion Conference: The Galaxy-Halo Connection Across Cosmic Time: Recent Updates (Aug 2020)
• Reunion Conference: Scattering Amplitudes and Beyond (Aug 2020)
• Reunion Conference: Return of the Intertwined: New Developments in Correlated Materials (Jul 2020)
• Reunion Conference: Resurgence @ KITP 2020 (Jul 2020)
• Inflationary Reheating Meets Particle Physics Frontier (Feb 2020)
• Teachers' Conference: Spacetime, Holography, and Entanglement (Jan 2020)
• Geometry from the Quantum (Jan 2020)
• Spintronics Meets Topology in Quantum Materials (Nov 2019)
• 3rd EPiQS-TMS alliance workshop on Topological Phenomena in Quantum Materials (Oct 2019)
• Topological Quantum Matter: From Fantasy to Reality (Sep-Oct 2019)
• Connecting Micro and Macro Scales: Acceleration, Reconnection, and Dissipation in Astrophysical Plasmas (Sep 2019)
• Tensions between the Early and the Late Universe (Jul 2019)
• Merging Visions: Exploring Compact-Object Binaries with Gravity and Light (Jun 2019)
• Jim Hartle Fest: A man with no boundaries (Jun 2019)
• Open Digital Infrastructure in Astrophysics (Jun 2019)
• Planet-Star Connections in the Era of TESS and Gaia (May 2019)
• Exploring Open Quantum Systems in Quantum Simulators (Apr-May 2019)
• Physics & Special Holonomy (A Meeting of the Simons Collaboration) (Apr 2019)
• In the Balance: Stasis and Disequilibrium in the Milky Way (Apr 2019)
• Teachers' Conference: Automating Insight: Pushing the Frontier of Quantum Physics with Machine Learning (Feb 2019)
• At the Crossroad of Physics and Machine Learning (Feb 2019)
• Correlations in Moire Flat Bands (Jan 2019)
• Rough Landscapes: From Physics to Algorithms (Jan 2019)
• Polchinski Science Symposium (Dec 2018)
• Order from Chaos (Dec 2018)
• Novel Approaches to Quantum Dynamics (Aug 2018)
• Quantum Thermodynamics (Jun 2018)
• Frontiers in Oceanic, Atmospheric, and Cryospheric Boundary Layers (May 2018)
• Dark matter detection and detectability: paradigm confirmation or shift? (Apr-May 2018)
• New Probes for Physics Beyond the Standard Model (Apr 2018)
• Teachers' Conference: Matter of Memory (Feb 2018)
• Memory Formation: From Condensed Matter to Biological Matter and Beyond (Feb 2018)
• Non-linear mechanics and rheology of dense suspensions: Nanoscale structure to macroscopic behavior (Jan 2018)
• GW170817: The First Double Neutron Star Merger
• Frontiers of Quantum Information Physics (Oct 2017)
• Order, Fluctuations, and Strong Correlations: New Platforms and Developments (Jul-Aug 2017)
• Quantifying and Understanding the Galaxy-Halo Connection (May 2017)
• Scattering Amplitudes: from Gauge Theory to Gravity (Apr 2017)
• KITP Teachers' Conference: How to catch a gravitational wave: Exploring the universe with LIGO (Mar 2017)
• Phenomena, Physics, and Puzzles Of Massive Stars and their Explosive Outcomes (Mar 2017)
• Disks, Dynamos, and Data: Confronting MHD Accretion Theory with Observations (Feb 2017)
• Recurrence, Self-Organization, and the Dynamics Of Turbulence (Jan 2017)
• Kohn Science Symposium (Dec 2016)
• Designer Quantum Systems Out of Equilibrium (Nov 2016)
• Topological Quantum Matter (Oct 2016)
• Symmetry Tests in Nuclei and Atoms (Sep 2016)
• Molecules and dust as fuel to star formation (Jun 2016)
• Stress-testing the Standard Model at the LHC (May 2016)
• Non-equilibrium dynamics of stochastic and quantum integrable systems (Feb 2016)
• Quantum Error Correction and Tensor Networks (Jan 2016)
• Aspects and applications of many-body localization (Nov 2015)
• Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Strongly Interacting Photons (Oct 2015)
• Novel States in Spin-Orbit Coupled Quantum Matter: from Models to Materials (Jul 2015)
• Olfaction (Jul 2015)
• Closing the entanglement gap: Quantum information, quantum matter, and quantum fields (Jun 2015)
• KITP Teachers' Conference: Worlds Suited for Biology: The Search for Life in the Universe (Feb 2015)
• Physics of Exoplanets: From Earth-sized to Mini-Neptunes (Feb 2015)
• The Milky Way and its Stars: Stellar Astrophysics, Galactic Archaeology, and Stellar Populations (Feb 2015)
• Neutrinos: Recent Developments and Future Challenges (Nov 2014)
• Complexity in mechanics: Intermittency and collective phenomena in disordered solids (Oct 2014)
• Strong Correlations and Unconventional Superconductivity: Towards a Conceptual Framework (Sep 2014)
• Fire Down Below: The Impact of Feedback on Star and Galaxy Formation (Apr 2014)
• Eddy - Mean-Flow Interactions in Fluids (Mar 2014)
• From the Renormalization Group to Quantum Gravity: Celebrating the science of Joe Polchinski (Feb 2014)
• KITP Teachers' Conference: The Physics of Flocking: From Cells to Crowds (Feb 2014)
• Active Processes in Living and Nonliving Matter (Feb 2014)
• Quantum Fields beyond Perturbation Theory (Jan 2014)
• Particle-Laden Flows in Nature (Dec 2013)
• Concepts in Spintronics (Sep-Oct 2013)
• Black Holes: Complementarity, Fuzz, or Fire? (Aug 2013)
• Massive Black Holes: Birth, Growth and Impact (Aug 2013)
• Students' Summer Science Program at the KITP (July 2013)
• LHC - The First Part of the Journey (Jul 2013)
• Walter Kohn's 90th Birthday Symposium (Jun 2013)
• Snowmass on the Pacific (May 2013)
• Identifying and Characterizing Dark Matter via Multiple Probes (May 2013)
• Observations and Theoretical Challenges in Primordial Cosmology (Apr 2013)
• New Science with Ultracold Molecules (Mar 2013)
• KITP Teachers' Conference: A New Quantum Era (Mar 2013)
• New Directions in the Quantum Control Landscape (Feb-Mar 2013)
• Cooperation and Major Evolutionary Transitions (Feb 2013)
• Higgs Identification (Dec 2012)
• Majorana Fermion Zero Modes in Solid-State Systems: Experiment and Theory (Dec 2012)
• Quantitative Immunology: Experiments Meet Modeling (Nov-Dec 2012)
• Exotic Phases of Frustrated Magnets (Oct 2012)
• Dynamics and Thermodynamics in Isolated Quantum Systems (Aug 2012)
• Rattle and Shine: Gravitational Wave and Electromagnetic Studies of Compact Binary Mergers (Jul-Aug 2012)
• Knotted Fields (Jun-Jul 2012)
• Modeling Soft Matter: Linking Multiple Length and Time Scales (Jun 2012)
• Black Holes and Information (May 2012)
• First Light and Faintest Dwarfs: Extreme Probes of the Cold Dark Matter Paradigm (Feb 2012)
• KITP Teachers' Conference: Graphene (Jan 2012)
• Fundamental Aspects of Graphene and Other Carbon Allotropes (Jan 2012)
• The Impact of Asteroseismology across Stellar Astrophysics (Oct 2011)
• Dynamics of Development (Aug-Sep 2011)
• Network Architecture of Brain Structures and Functions (Jul-Aug 2011)
• Soft Matter Physics Approaches to Biology (May 2011)
• Freedman Symposium (Apr 2011)
• Monsters, Inc.: Astrophysics and Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters (Mar 2011)
• KITP Teachers' Conference: Physics and Biology: Evolution of Life and Evolution of Science (Feb 2011)
• Iron-Based Superconductors(Jan 2011)
• Frontiers of Ultracold Atoms and Molecules (Oct 2010)
• Out-of-Equilibrium Quantum Systems (Aug 2010)
• Langlands-Type Dualities in Quantum Field Theory(Aug 2010)
• X-ray Science in the 21st Century (Aug 2010)
• Emerging Concepts in Glass Physics (Jun 2010)
• Exoplanet Science Measurements from Solar System Probes: KISS Workshop (May 2010)
• String Vacuum Project Spring Meeting (May 2010)
• Exoplanets Rising: Astronomy and Planetary Science at the Crossroads (Mar-Apr 2010)
• Teachers' Conference: Planets Beyond th e Solar System: The New Astronomical Revolution (Mar 2010)
• Materials by Design: Understanding and Controlling the Electronic Properties of Novel Correlated Electron Systems (February 2010)
• Direct, Indirect and Collider Signals of Dark Matter (December 2009)
• From Basic Concepts to Real Materials (Nov 2009)
• Nonlinear Processes in Astrophysical Plasmas: Particle Acceleration, Magnetic Field Amplification, and Radiation Signatures (Sep-Oct 2009)
• Stellar Death and Supernovae (Aug 2009)
• Quantum Criticality and the AdS/CFT Correspondence (Jun-Jul 2009)
• Critical Issues Related to Higher Temperature Superconductors (Jun 2009)
• KITP Conference: Concepts and Methods in Quantum Control: Theory and Experiment (May 2009)
• KITP Teachers' Conference: Light Meets Matter: Atoms and Lasers (May 2009)
• Mini-conference: Dualities in Physics and Mathematics (Mar 2009)
• New Directions in Low Dimensional Electron Systems (Feb 2009)
• Stanleyfest: Celebration of Stanley Mandelstam's 80th birthday (Feb 2009)
• Formation and Evolution of Globular Clusters (Jan 2009)
• Quantum Spin Hall Effect and Topological Insulators (December 2008)
• Back to the Galaxy II (September-October 2008)
• Gauge Theory and Langlands Duality (July-August 2008)
• Magnetic Field Generation in Experiments, Geophysics and Astrophysics (July 2008)
• Anticipating Physics at the LHC Collider (May 2008)
• KITP Teachers' Conference: Particle Physics in the Age of the Large Hadron Collider (May 2008)
• Pyrogeography & Climate Change (May 2008)
• Frontiers of Climate Science (May 2008)
• Workshop: Physics and Biology of Morphogenesis (March 2008)
• Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Particle Physics and Cosmology (February 2008)
• Interplay between Numerical Relativity and Data Analysis (January 2008)
• Miniprogram: Sr_2RuO_4 and Chiral p-wave Superconductivity (December 2007)
• Motterials: Spin, Orbital, and Lattice Physics Near the Mott Transition (September 2007)
• Star Formation, Then and Now (August 2007)
• Theoretical Physicists at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (July 2007)
• Strongly Correlated Phases in Condensed Matter and Degenerate Atomic Systems (April 2007)
• Conference: Paths to Exploding Stars: Accretion and Eruption (March 2007)
• Teachers' Conference: Forging the Elements and Probing the Universe with Stars (March 2007)
• Electronic Properties of Graphene (January 2007)
• Quantum Nature of Spacetime Singularities (January 2007)
• Conference: Applications of Gravitational Lensing: Unique Insights into Galaxy Formation and Evolution (October 2006)
• Conference: String Phenomenology (Aug-Sep 2006)
• Conference: 3rd LHC Olympic Workshop (August 2006)
• Conference on Attosecond Science: Status and Prospects (August 2006)
• CIDER Summer Program: The Nature And Dynamics of the Earth's Transition Zone (July-August 2006)
• Cardiac Dynamics (July 2006)
• KITP Workshop: Interdisciplinarity and Discipline in Education (June 2006)
• Conference on Topological Phases and Quantum Computation (May 2006)
• Teachers' Conference on Nanoscience and Quantum Computing (March 2006)
• Conference on Spintronics (March 2006)
• Transient Universe 2006: Popular, Not so Popular & Knowable Unknowns (March 2006)
• The Supersolid State of Matter -- Rapid Response Workshop (February 2006)
• Conference on Supernova and Gamma-Ray Burst Remnants (February 2006)
• Conference on Friction, Fracture and Earthquake Physics (August 2005)
• Miniprogram: Complexity in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (July 2005)
• Conference on Granular Physics (June 2005)
• Conference on Physics of Astrophysical Outflows and Accretion Disks (May 2005)
• Astrophysics of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays, Photons, and Neutrinos (May 2005)
• The Paradoxes of Massive Black Holes: A Case Study in the Milky Way (Apr 2005)
• Conference on Modern Challenges for Lattice Field Theory (Mar 2005)
• Science, Theatre, Audience, Reader: Theoretical Physics in Drama and Narrative (Mar 2005)
• Microprogram on Networks in Growth, Death and Aging (Jan-Feb 2005)
• Conference on Quantum Phase Transitions (Jan 2005)
• Conference on QCD and String Theory (Nov 2004)
• Conference on Galaxy-Intergalactic Medium Interactions (October 2004)
• The Future of Physics: A celebration of 25 Years of the KITP (October 2004)
• Conference on Exotic Order and Criticality in Quantum Matter (June 2004)
• Quantum Gases (May 2004)
• LoopFest III: Radiative Corrections for the Linear Collider (April 2004)
• Conference on Planet Formation: Terrestrial and Extra Solar (March 2004)
• Collider Physics (January 2004)
• Superstring Cosmology (October 2003)
• Pattern Formation in Physics and Biology (August 2003)
• Miniprogram for Theorists at Undergraduate Institutions (July 2003)
• Miniprogram on Geometry, Topology, and Strings (July 2003)
• Gravitational Interaction of Compact Objects (May 2003)
• Workshop: Robustness Analysis Tools with Applications (March 2003)
• Conference: Neutrinos: Data, Cosmos, and Planck Scale (March 2003)
• Workshop: The Physics of Ultracompact Stellar Binaries (February 2003)
• Conference: Globular Clusters: Formation, Evolution and the Role of Compact Objects (January 2003)
• Conference on: Realistic Theories of Correlated Electron Materials(November 2002)
• Teachers' Conference: The State of the Universe (October 2002)
• TASC02: Theoretical Astrophysics in Southern Calif Meeting (October 2002)
• Conference On: The New Cosmology Confronts Observation (August 2002)
• Miniprogram on Quantum Optics (July 2002)
• QCD and Gauge Theory Dynamics in the RHIC Era (April 2002)
• Conference on Black Holes: Theory Confronts Reality, Three Years Later (February 2002)
• Observational Challenges for the Next Decade of Solar Magnetohydrodynamics (January 2002)
• Miniprogram on Brane World (January 2002)
• Conference on Quantum Information (December 2001)
• Nanoscience Conference (August 2001)
• Dynamics of Neural Networks: Pedagogical Program (July-August 2001)
• The Duality Workshop: A Math/Physics Collaboration (June-July 2001)
• Conference on Avatars of M-Theory (June 2001)
• Teachers Educational Forum on String Theory: Is it the Theory of Everything? (Teachers' Conference) (May 2001)
• DavidFest (February 2001)
• Physics at High Pressures (January 2001)
• Conference on Spin, Magnetism and Cooling of Young Neutron Stars (October 2000)
• Teachers Educational Forum on High Temperature Superconductivity: What Is It? (Teachers' Conference) (August 2000)
• Conference on High Temperature Superconductivity (August 2000)
• Miniprogram on Gravitational Radiation from R-Modes in Neutron Stars (August 2000)
• Conference on Astrophysical Turbulence (May 2000)
• Conference on Galaxy Formation and Evolution (March 2000)
• Conference on Physics of Hydrodynamic Turbulence (February 2000)
• Miniprogram on Colliding Black Holes (January 2000)
• Conference on New Dimensions in Field Theory and String Theory (November 1999)
• Conference on Quantum Magnetism (August 1999)
• Geometry and Physics Miniprogram (July-August 1999)
• Conference on Strong Gravitational Fields (June 1999)
• Conference on Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (April 1999)
• Conference on Gamma Ray Bursts and their Afterglows (March 1999)
• HartleFest: The Jim Hartle Symposium (February 1999)
• Teachers Educational Forum on Black Holes: Fact and Fiction (February 1999)
• Conference on Black Holes: Theory Confronts Reality (February 1999)
• Miniprogram on Nonequilibrium Quantum Fields (January 1999)
• Electrostatic Effects in Complex Fluids and Biophysics (October 1998)
• Disorder and Interactions in Quantum Hall (August 1998)
• Strings `98 (June 1998)
• Conference on Bose Einstein Condensation (March 1998)
• Geometry And Duality Miniprogram (January 1998)
• Conference on Solar Neutrinos (December 1997)
• Conference on Jamming and Rheology (October 1997)
• Supernova Conference (August 1997)
• Strings `96 Proceedings (July 1996)