1. Activities
  2. Talks Schedule

Talks Schedule

2026

Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Will Steinhardt (UCSC) TBC
    • Paul Tautenhahn (UCSB) TBC
  • Broida 3302 12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Henry Leung (UCSB) Dressed Supersymmetric Black Holes and R-Charge Concentration
  • Simons Amphitheater 12:45PM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys

    • Satya Gontcho A Gontcho (Univ. Virginia) The Forest at the Edge of the Visible Universe
    • Alice Pisani (CNRS) Cosmology with cosmic voids: results, promises and challenges
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 03:30PM Physics Colloquium

    • Hugh Lippincott (UCSB) Dark matter and neutrino detection from 4850 feet underground

2026

Monday, Feb 23, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Vashan Wright (UCSD), Douglas Jerolmack (Univ. of Penn), Nathalie Vriend (CU Boulder) Townhall SEG: introduction & pitch of open questions
  • Simons Amphitheater 11:00AM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys

    • Jessica Muir (Cincinnati) Introduction to photometric galaxy surveys
    • David Schlegel (LBNL) Introduction to spectroscopic galaxy surveys
  • Simons Amphitheater 12:15PM Blackboard Lunch

    • Karen Daniels (NC State) Rigidity (or not) on the Earth's surface and beyond

2026

Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Will Steinhardt (UCSC) TBC
    • Paul Tautenhahn (UCSB) TBC
  • Broida 3302 12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Henry Leung (UCSB) Dressed Supersymmetric Black Holes and R-Charge Concentration
  • Simons Amphitheater 12:45PM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys

    • Satya Gontcho A Gontcho (Univ. Virginia) The Forest at the Edge of the Visible Universe
    • Alice Pisani (CNRS) Cosmology with cosmic voids: results, promises and challenges
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 03:30PM Physics Colloquium

    • Hugh Lippincott (UCSB) Dark matter and neutrino detection from 4850 feet underground

2026

Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Brandon Hayes (CU Boulder) TBC
    • Nathan Keim (Penn State) TBC
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys

    • Allison Noble (Arizona State) The Rise and Fall of Galaxies: Open Questions in Star Formation and Quenching
    • Raman Sundrum (UMD) What is cosmological collider physics?
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM Particle Theory Initiative 2023-28

    • Austin Joyce (U. Chicago) TBD
    • Mikhail Ivanov (CTP) Robust evidence for the normal hierarchy of neutrino masses from CMB and galaxy clustering data
    • Zackaria Chacko (Maryland) Cosmological Signals of Neutrino Decay

2026

Thursday, Feb 26, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • George Bergantz (Washington) TBC
    • Alban Sauret (Maryland) TBC
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 01:00PM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys

    • Rachel Somerville (CCA, Flatiron Inst.) Discussion on galaxy surveys
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • David Berenstein (UCSB) Wave functions in Lorentzian AdS and the flat space limit

2026

Friday, Feb 27, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys

    • Alex Krolewski (U. Waterloo) The unWISE catalog: 150 million galaxies for cross-correlation cosmology
    • Daniel Green (UCSD), William Coulton (KICC), Alexander Van Engelen (Arizona State), Zackaria Chacko (UMD), Austin Joyce (U Chicago KICP) Particle physics x cosmology panel discussion

2026

Saturday, Feb 28, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Mar 01, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Mar 02, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Nathalie Vriend (CU Boulder), Vashan Wright (UCSD), Douglas Jerolmack (Univ. of Penn) Townhall SEG: introduction & pitch of open questions

2026

Tuesday, Mar 03, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Orencio Duran Vinent (Texas A&M) New Talk
    • Nick Ouellette (Stanford) New Talk

2026

Wednesday, Mar 04, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Hunter King (Rutgers) TBC
    • Corey O'hern (Yale) TBC

2026

Thursday, Mar 05, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Ruby Gans (CU Boulder) TBC
    • Benjamin Mc Millan (Cambridge) TBC

2026

Friday, Mar 06, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Saturday, Mar 07, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Mar 08, 2026

No talks scheduled.