Telluride, Colorado: Tuesday July 7th to Saturday July 11th 2026
Organisers: Karl Heinz Hoffmann, Markus Pflaum, Christian Schön, David Wales
The workshop will start on Tuesday morning and run for five days, including Saturday.
Contributions are invited on all aspects of energy landscape research, covering exploration methodology from global optimisation, thermodynamic sampling, and rare events. One particular aim is to explore the connections between the topological and geometric properties of molecular landscapes, condensed matter, and the solution spaces for machine learning, self-consistent fields, and quantum computing.
Full details here https://meetings.telluridescience.org/meetings/workshop-details?wid=1289
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for next year’s Telluride Science workshop!
Please click on the workshop page link to register for our workshop, Energy Landscapes: Structure, Dynamics and Exploration.
https://energy-landscapes-structure-dynamics-and-exploration.raiselysite.com
After you register, you will receive a confirmation email with a link to request lodging through Telluride Science (Mountainside Inn, Bear Creek Lodge, or Manitou Inn - most affordable lodging options) along with information and discount codes to obtain lodging on one's own through additional lodging partners.
Please contact theory-sec@ch.cam.ac.uk with any enquiries.
Draft schedule:
Talks are all 30 minutes + 15 minutes discussion
Tuesday July 7th
8.50 – 9.00 Welcome to Telluride Energy Landscapes 2026
9.00 – 9.45 John Straub, "Probing the Energy Landscapes of Water in Amyloid Fibril Nanochannels"
9.45 – 10.30 Erik Thiede, "Recovering Landscapes and Motion by Integrating Electron Microscopy and Molecular Modeling"
10.30-11.00 coffee break
11.00 - 11:45 Michael K.-H Kiessling, "Mathematical results and conjectures about energy-minimising n-body clusters"
11.45 - 12:30 Patryk Wesołowski, "The AML-Associated A338V Mutation Rewires GPR183 Signaling Through C-Terminal Ensemble Redistribution"
Afternoon: suggested hike up Bear Creek
Wednesday July 8th
9.00 – 9.45 Tamiki Komatsuzaki, "Timescale Hierarchies in Large-Scale First-Order Kinetics: How to Coarse-Grain Complex Networks"
9.45 – 10.30 Diksha Dewan, "Sampling Energy Landscapes: From Biomolecules to Broken Ergodicity"
10.30-11.00 coffee break
11.00 - 11.45 Vladimir Mandelshtam, "Coarse- grained free energy surface with nearly exact thermodynamic consistency"
11.45 – 12.30 Sean Gasiorowski, "Goal-Aware Fine-Tuning of Foundation Models for Minimum Energy Pathway Discovery"
Afternoon: self-organisation. Cornet Creek hike suggested.
Wednesday evening: picnic in a tent behind the Intermediate School
Thursday July 9th
9.00 – 9.45 Helmut Grubmueller, "Multi-timescale structural dynamics of the disordered N-terminal of p53, governed by a hierarchical free energy landscape"
9.45 – 10.30 Agustin Lorusso Notaro Francesco, "Numerical Techniques for Ill-conditioned First Passage Time Calculations"
10.30 - 11.00 coffee break
11.00 - 11.45 Paula Teeuwen, "Exploring Energy Landscapes of Conformational Flexibility and Guest Dissociation in Metal-Organic Cages"
11.45 – 12.30 Gregory Berkolaiko, "Topology of the Ritz energy landscape"
Afternoon: self-organisation. Bridal Veil hike suggested.
Friday July 10th
9.00 – 9.45 Dave Leitner, "Vibrational energy landscapes and energy flow in proteins"
9.45 – 10.30 Jin Wang, "Landscape and flux as the driving forces for the nonequilibrium system dynamics"
10.30 - 11.00 coffee break
11.00 - 11.45 Choy Boy, "Exploring energy landscapes in quantum computing"
11.45 - 12.30 Karl Heinz Hoffmann, TBA
Afternoon: self-organisation. Jud Wiebe Trail suggested.
Saturday July 11th
9.00 – 9.45 Christian Schön, "Thoughts about optimising thermodynamic processes on complex energy landscapes"
9.45 – 10.30 Soonwoo Park, "Predicting and Understanding Observable Properties of Molecules, Surfaces, and Solids from the Energy Landscape"
10.30 - 11.00 coffee break
11.00 - 11.45 Markus Pflaum, "Topological invariants of energy landscapes"
11.45 - 12.30 Scott Woodley, TBA
Participants:
Bjarne Andresen, University of Copenhagen
Gregory Berkolaiko, Texas A&M University "Topology of the Ritz energy landscape"
Choy Boy, University of Cambridge "Exploring energy landscapes in quantum computing"
Diksha Dewan, University of Cambridge "Sampling Energy Landscapes: From Biomolecules to Broken Ergodicity"
Sean Gasiorowski, Stanford University "Goal-Aware Fine-Tuning of Foundation Models for Minimum Energy Pathway Discovery"
Helmut Grubmueller, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Goettingen "Multi-timescale structural dynamics of the disordered N-terminal of p53, governed by a hierarchical free energy landscape"
Karl Heinz Hoffmann, Technical University Chemnitz
Michael K.-H Kiessling, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey "Mathematical results and conjectures about energy-minimising n-body clusters"
Tamiki Komatsuzaki, Hokkaido University "Timescale Hierarchies in Large-Scale First-Order Kinetics: How to Coarse-Grain Complex Networks"
Dave Leitner, University of Nevada "Vibrational energy landscapes and energy flow in proteins"
Agustin Lorusso Notaro Francesco, University of Cambridge "Numerical Techniques for Ill-conditioned First Passage Time Calculations"
Vladimir Mandelshtam, University of California, Irvine "Coarse- grained free energy surface with nearly exact thermodynamic consistency"
Soonwoo Park, University of Cambridge "Predicting and Understanding Observable Properties of Molecules, Surfaces, and Solids from the Energy Landscape"
Markus Pflaum, University of Colorado, Boulder "Topological invariants of energy landscapes"
Christian Schön, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart "Thoughts about optimising thermodynamic processes on complex energy landscapes"
John Straub, Boston University "Probing the Energy Landscapes of Water in Amyloid Fibril Nanochannels"
Paula Teeuwen, University of Cambridge "Exploring Energy Landscapes of Conformational Flexibility and Guest Dissociation in Metal-Organic Cages"
Erik Thiede, Cornell University "Recovering Landscapes and Motion by Integrating Electron Microscopy and Molecular Modeling"
David J. Wales, University of Cambridge
Jin Wang, Stony Brook University "Landscape and flux as the driving forces for the nonequilibrium system dynamics"
Patryk Wesołowski, University of Cambridge "The AML-Associated A338V Mutation Rewires GPR183 Signaling Through C-Terminal Ensemble Redistribution"
Scott Woodley, University College London
