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KITP Teachers' Conference:
The Physics of the Heart and Teaching BioPhysics in the Classroom

Apr 4, 2026
Coordinator: Flavio Fenton

Overview | talks | Schedule | Research Conference

Time Speaker Title
9:00a Lars Bildsten
KITP
Introduction to KITP[Video]
9:10a Flavio Fenton
Georgia Tech
Overview[Video]
9:30a Stefan Luther
Max Planck Inst.
From Principles to Patients: Cardiac Imaging and Control[Slides][Video]
10:30a

Morning Break

11:00a Yohannes Shiferaw
CSU Northridge
Modeling cardiac arrhythmias: from single molecule to whole heart[Video]
12:00p

Lunch Break

1:30p Abouzar Kaboudian
AKcelerate Computing
The Heart in the Classroom: Hands-On Computer Simulations of Cardiac Arrhythmias[Video]
2:30p Flavio Fenton
Georgia Tech
Hands-On Experiments: Examples you can do in your classroom to teach excitable media and wave propagation[Video]
3:30p

Conference End - SHUTTLE TO BWSCI/Airport/Goleta Airbus terminal/Goleta Amtrak