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KITP Program: New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics
(May 11 - Jul 16, 2026)
Coordinators: Aparna Baskaran, Valentina Ros, Grégory Schehr, Julien Tailleur, and Francesco Zamponi
Scientific Advisors: John Barton, Anne-Florence Bitbol, Yariv Kafri, Daphne Klotsa, and Suri Vaikuntanathan

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Time Speaker Title
5/11, 10:30am Coordinators Get-together of Participants and Informal Introduction
5/12, 10:30am Patrick Charbonneau
Duke
Active exploration of caging and criticality in the random Lorentz gas[Video][CC]
5/13, 10:30am Trevor Grand Pre
Washington Univ., StL
Coarse-Graining via Lumping: Exact Calculations and Fundamental Limitations[Video][CC]
5/13, 11:00am Luca Cocconi
Cambridge
Out-of-equilibrium affordances from stochastic and information thermodynamics[Video][CC]
5/14, 10:30am Nora Martin
CRG
Fitness landscapes and evolution[Video][CC]
5/14, 11:00am Francesco Zamponi
Univ. of Rome
Fitness landscapes and evolution[Video][CC]
5/15, 10:30am Grzegorz Szamel
Colorado State
Two short stories: glassy dynamics beyond mode-coupling theory and single active particle information engine[Video][CC]
5/18, 12:15pm Alberto Rosso
CNRS
Thermal Avalanches: Growing Dynamical Lengthscales in Glassy Landscapes [Video]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
5/19, 1:30pm Ananyo Maitra
CY Cergy Paris Univ.
Active ordering in disordered environments[Video]
5/19, 2:00pm Jean Baptiste Fournier
MSC
Active particles interacting with their trails[Video]
5/20, 1:30pm Giuseppe Gonnella
Univ. di Bari
Collective behavior of active systems: from ABP to polar and nematic fluids[Video]
5/20, 2:00pm Federico Ghimenti
Stanford
Endogenous fluctuations and dispersal stabilize microbial diversity[Video]
5/21, 1:30pm Sarah Loos
MPI-DS
Information thermodynamics and hidden degrees of freedom as a thermodynamic resource[Video][CC]
5/21, 2:00pm Henrik Weyer
KITP
Active-solid theory for muscle-fiber organization in cardiac organoids[Embargoed]
5/22, 1:30pm Demian Levis
Univ. of Barcelona
Out-of-equilibrium dynamics of non-reciprocal spin models[Video][CC]
5/22, 2:15pm Michael Hagan
Brandeis Univ.
Computational and data-driven methods to understanding and controlling active matter[Video][CC]
5/26, 1:30pm All participants Participants informal introduction
5/26, 1:45pm Valentina Ros
LPTMS
Many fixed points and out-of-equilibrium dynamics in high-D: a few examples[Video][CC]
5/27, 1:30pm Jaron Kent Dobias
ICTP-SAIFR
More optimization in random landscapes[Video][CC]
5/28, 1:30pm Mark Bowick
KITP
Topological Rigidity in 3D Chiral Nematics[Video][CC]
5/28, 2:00pm Heiko Rieger
Saarland Univ.
Non-reciprocal flocking[Video][CC]
5/29, 1:30pm Peter Morse
Seton Hall
The search for the true inherent state of a hard sphere liquid[Video][CC]
6/01-6/04 Conference: Non-equilibrium Dynamics, from Active Matter to Evolutionary Dynamics
6/08, 1:30pm All participants Participant Informal Introduction
6/08, 2:15pm Todd Gingrich
Northwestern
About tensor networks[Video][CC]
6/09, 1:30pm Oskar Hallatschek
UC Berkeley
Learning flows and fluctuations from dynamics of neutral markers[Video][CC]
6/09, 2:15pm Jessica Metzger
MIT
Hidden symmetries that constrain, reshape, and destroy active flows[Video][CC]
6/10, 1:30pm Pierre Le Doussal
ENS Paris
Mean field theory for heterogeneous random growth with redistribution[Video][CC]
6/10, 2:15pm Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan
U. Chicago
Can chemical reactions learn grammar? In context learning by/in chemical reactions[Video][CC]
6/11, 1:30pm Estelle Pitard
Univ. Montpellier
Survival under demographic or environmental noise[Video][CC]
6/11, 2:15pm Laura Braverman
Harvard
Active matter on a cone[Video][CC]
6/11, 3:30pm Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan
U. Chicago
Predicting responses to perturbations in gene regulatory networks[Embargoed]
6/15, 1:30pm Sriram Ganeshan
CCNY
Non-holonomic constraints[Video][CC]
6/15, 2:15pm Julien Tailleur
MIT
The Active Young Dupre Equation[Video][CC]
6/16, 1:30pm Sara Dal Cengio
MIT
When evolution realizes large deviations of fitness[Video]
6/16, 2:15pm Lila Sarfati
Univ. Paris Cité
From bulk to interface dynamics, in and out of equilibrium[Video]
6/17, 1:30pm Yariv Kafri
Technion
How active field theories couple to external potentials[Video][CC]
6/17, 2:15pm Satyanarayan Majumdar
CNRS
Universal survival probability of an active run-and-tumble particle[Video][CC]
6/18, 1:30pm Mehran Kardar
MIT
Chromatin as a heterogeneous active polymer
6/22, 1:30pm Jordan Horowitz
Michigan
A geometry for nonequilibrium response[Video][CC]
6/22, 2:15pm Aditya Mahadevan
NITMB/UChicago
Scenarios for evolution in models of diverse ecosystems[Video][CC]
6/23, 1:30pm Robert Jack
Cambridge
Active and non-reciprocal matter built from particles on lattices[Video][CC]
6/23, 2:15pm Stefano Sarao Mannelli
Chalmers
A Learning Dynamics Problem[Video][CC]
6/24, 1:30pm Sunghan Ro
Harvard
Scalar active matter in disorder[Video][CC]
6/25, 1:30pm Gregory Schehr
Sorbonne Univ.
Large Deviations in Switching Diffusion: from Free Cumulants to Dynamical Transitions
6/25, 2:15pm Sanjib Sabhapandit
RRI
Universal winding laws in chiral active motion
6/29, 1:30pm Giuseppe Mussardo
SISSA
Integrability and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Quantum and Classical Field Theory[Video][CC]
6/30, 1:30pm Mathis Gueneau
LPTHE
Spatiotemporal Characterization of Active Dynamics in Channels: Theory and Experiments[Video][CC]
7/01, 1:30pm Peter Foster
USC
Physical Bioenergetics of Oocytes[Embargoed]
7/02, 1:30pm John Barton
Pittsburgh
Learning from and forecasting evolutionary dynamics[Video][CC]
7/02, 2:15pm Henry Alston
ENS Paris
Optimal sensing with phase separation[Video][CC]
7/06, 1:30pm Pierre Illien
Sorbonne Univ.
Non-Gaussian density fluctuations in the Dean-Kawasaki equation
7/07, 1:30pm Giuseppe Del Vecchio Del Vecchio
Univ. Paris-Sud
Sluggish diffusion and search strategies[Video][CC]
7/07, 2:15pm Sriram Ganeshan
CCNY
Chiral cellular automaton and their hydrodynamics[Video]
7/08, 1:30pm Leo Touzo
University of Chicago
Wave Turbulence in Odd Viscous Fluids and Odd Elastic Solids[Video][CC]
7/09, 1:30pm Corey O'Hern
Yale
Cell shape emerges from motion[Video][CC]
7/09, 2:15pm Marco Biroli
Univ. Paris-Saclay
Discovering and decoding latent mean-field structure with variational autoencoders[Video]
7/13, 1:30pm Baruch Meerson
Hebrew Univ.
Invasion fronts of random walkers with cooperative reproduction[Video][CC]
7/14, 1:30pm Bertrand Lacroix A Chez Toine
King's College London
Parametric correlations in non-Hermitian disordered dynamics[Video]
7/15, 1:30pm Madan Rao
NCBS
Active Control of Organelle Size and Number[Video]
7/15, 2:15pm Federica Ferretti
NITMB
Towards a statistical characterization of antibody immunodominance[Video]
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