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2026

Wednesday, Mar 11, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Rylan Hodgson (CU Boulder) TBC
    • Rich Kilburn (Scripps Inst. of Oceanography) TBC
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Adam Takacs (Heidelberger University) Deriving a parton shower for jet thermalization in QCD plasmas
    • Carlota Andres (CPHT, École Polytechnique) Applying the light-ray OPE to heavy-ion physics: phenomenology