New Directions in Theoretical Physics 5: Programme, Registration and Accommodation
from
Tuesday 6 January 2026 (08:30)
to
Friday 9 January 2026 (17:00)
Monday 5 January 2026
Tuesday 6 January 2026
08:30
Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:20
Room: LT 4
09:20
Welcome - Steve Tobias
Welcome - Steve Tobias
09:20 - 09:30
Room: LT 4
09:30
Roger Blandford (Stanford) - New Directions in Extreme Electrodynamics of Compact Sources
Roger Blandford (Stanford) - New Directions in Extreme Electrodynamics of Compact Sources
09:30 - 10:10
Room: LT 4
10:15
Katy Clough (Queen Mary, University of London) - Gravity in the strong field regime
Katy Clough (Queen Mary, University of London) - Gravity in the strong field regime
10:15 - 10:55
Room: LT 4
11:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: LT 4
11:30
Adam Pound (Southampton) - Nonlinear effects in black hole perturbation theory: inspiral, merger, and ringdown of black hole binaries
Adam Pound (Southampton) - Nonlinear effects in black hole perturbation theory: inspiral, merger, and ringdown of black hole binaries
11:30 - 12:10
Room: LT 4
12:15
Raju Venugopalan (Brookhaven) - Quark-Gluon Plasma: Recreating matter from the very early universe on earth.
Raju Venugopalan (Brookhaven) - Quark-Gluon Plasma: Recreating matter from the very early universe on earth.
12:15 - 12:55
Room: LT 4
13:00
Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: LT 4
14:00
Stephen Belcher (Met Office) - Simulating weather and climate: the quiet revolution is becoming fast and furious!
Stephen Belcher (Met Office) - Simulating weather and climate: the quiet revolution is becoming fast and furious!
14:00 - 14:40
Room: LT 4
14:45
Lois Baker (University of Edinburgh) - Topography, Turbulence, and Internal Waves: The Small-Scale Physics Driving the Global Ocean Circulation.
Lois Baker (University of Edinburgh) - Topography, Turbulence, and Internal Waves: The Small-Scale Physics Driving the Global Ocean Circulation.
14:45 - 15:25
Room: LT 4
15:30
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: LT 4
16:00
Florence Marcotte (Nice) - Blind identification of hidden (dynamo) equilibria
Florence Marcotte (Nice) - Blind identification of hidden (dynamo) equilibria
16:00 - 16:40
Room: LT 4
16:45
Laura Currie (Durham) - Turbulent convection in stars and planets: challenges and progress
Laura Currie (Durham) - Turbulent convection in stars and planets: challenges and progress
16:45 - 17:25
Room: LT 4
17:45
Drinks Reception
Drinks Reception
17:45 - 18:30
Room: G.03
18:30
Public Lecture - Steve Cowley (PPPL)
Public Lecture - Steve Cowley (PPPL)
18:30 - 20:30
Room: G.03
Wednesday 7 January 2026
09:30
Tim Palmer (Oxford) - From Climate Change to Foundations of Quantum Physics: Six Important Properties of the Amazing Lorenz Attractor.
Tim Palmer (Oxford) - From Climate Change to Foundations of Quantum Physics: Six Important Properties of the Amazing Lorenz Attractor.
09:30 - 10:10
Room: LT 4
10:15
Brad Marston (Brown) Waves of Topological Origin in the Fluid Earth System and Beyond
Brad Marston (Brown) Waves of Topological Origin in the Fluid Earth System and Beyond
10:15 - 10:55
Room: LT 4
11:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: LT 4
11:30
Anna Frishman (Technion) - Waves drive the rise and fall of 2D flows in rotating turbulence.
Anna Frishman (Technion) - Waves drive the rise and fall of 2D flows in rotating turbulence.
11:30 - 12:10
Room: LT 4
12:15
Jacob Page (Edinburgh) - Computational discovery of the nonlinear dynamics of turbulence
Jacob Page (Edinburgh) - Computational discovery of the nonlinear dynamics of turbulence
12:15 - 12:55
Room: LT 4
13:00
Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: LT 4
14:00
Steve Cowley (PPPL) - Multi-scale Plasma Turbulence — the key to fusion power
Steve Cowley (PPPL) - Multi-scale Plasma Turbulence — the key to fusion power
14:00 - 14:40
Room: LT 4
14:45
Alex Schekochihin (Oxford) - Violent Relaxation and Gentle Dissipation: the Turbulent Life of “Collisionless” Systems
Alex Schekochihin (Oxford) - Violent Relaxation and Gentle Dissipation: the Turbulent Life of “Collisionless” Systems
14:45 - 15:25
Room: LT 4
15:30
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: LT 4
16:00
Andrea Liu (Penn) - Tunable Matter
Andrea Liu (Penn) - Tunable Matter
16:00 - 16:40
Room: LT 4
16:45
Andela Saric (IST) - Shape-shifting soft matter across the tree of life.
Andela Saric (IST) - Shape-shifting soft matter across the tree of life.
16:45 - 17:25
Room: LT 4
17:30
Poster session
Poster session
17:30 - 19:00
Room: LT 4
19:30
Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:30 - 22:00
Thursday 8 January 2026
09:30
Beverley McKeon (Stanford) - Taming Turbulence
Beverley McKeon (Stanford) - Taming Turbulence
09:30 - 10:10
Room: LT 4
10:15
Taraneh Sayadi (Sorbonne) - Predictive data-driven models: A Shift in Perspective
Taraneh Sayadi (Sorbonne) - Predictive data-driven models: A Shift in Perspective
10:15 - 10:55
Room: LT 4
11:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: LT 4
11:30
Aida El Khadra (Illinois) - Lattice QCD comes of age
Aida El Khadra (Illinois) - Lattice QCD comes of age
11:30 - 12:10
Room: LT 4
12:15
Clifford Cheung (Cal Tech) - From Supercolliders to Black Holes.
Clifford Cheung (Cal Tech) - From Supercolliders to Black Holes.
12:15 - 12:55
Room: LT 4
13:00
Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: LT 4
14:00
Luis Fernando Alday (Oxford) - Scattering Strings on flat and curved space-times
Luis Fernando Alday (Oxford) - Scattering Strings on flat and curved space-times
14:00 - 14:40
Room: LT 4
14:45
Chris Heunen (Edinburgh) - How to use a quantum computer.
Chris Heunen (Edinburgh) - How to use a quantum computer.
14:45 - 15:25
Room: LT 4
15:30
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: LT 4
16:00
Guillaume Salbreux (Geneva) - From active nematic surfaces to biological morphogenesis
Guillaume Salbreux (Geneva) - From active nematic surfaces to biological morphogenesis
16:00 - 16:40
Room: LT 4
16:45
Martin Howard (JIC) - Dissecting analogue and digital modes of gene regulation
Martin Howard (JIC) - Dissecting analogue and digital modes of gene regulation
16:45 - 17:25
Room: LT 4
17:30
Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion
17:30 - 18:30
Room: LT 4
Friday 9 January 2026
09:30
Subir Sachdev (Harvard) - Critical quantum liquids and the cuprate high temperature superconductors
Subir Sachdev (Harvard) - Critical quantum liquids and the cuprate high temperature superconductors
09:30 - 10:10
Room: LT 4
10:15
Netta Engelhardt (MIT) - Lessons from the Black Hole Interior
Netta Engelhardt (MIT) - Lessons from the Black Hole Interior
10:15 - 10:55
Room: LT 4
11:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: LT 4
11:30
Guadalupe Canas Herrera - From Theory to Telescope: Galaxy Surveys to Unveil the Dark Universe
Guadalupe Canas Herrera - From Theory to Telescope: Galaxy Surveys to Unveil the Dark Universe
11:30 - 12:10
Room: LT 4
12:15
Laura Keating (Edinburgh) - Illuminating the Universe with the First Galaxies
Laura Keating (Edinburgh) - Illuminating the Universe with the First Galaxies
12:15 - 12:55
Room: LT 4