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KITP Postdoc Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld is awarded for outstanding dissertation in nuclear physics by the American Physical Society.
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The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara expects to appoint Postdoctoral Scholars in theoretical physics, beginning September 1, 2026. For more information, and to apply, please visit https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/apply/fellowships/postdoctoral-scholars-theoretical-physics.

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Talks Schedule

2025

Thursday, Nov 13, 2025

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys

    • Sahar Shahaf (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy), Dominick Rowan (UC Berkeley) Searching for black holes in optical surveys
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics

    • Wojciech Fedorko (TRIUMF), Eliska Greplova (KIND) "CaloQVAE: Adding a Dash of Quantum Sauce to Generative Calorimeter Simulation" + "Quantum Computing in the Age of AI"
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Yoav Zigdon (Cambridge) Ensemble Averages of Fuzzballs
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 02:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics

    • Thomas Spriggs (KIND) Equivariant Neural Wavefunctions for Lattice Gauge Theory