Talks Schedule

Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
• Doug Lin (UCSC) Prolific production of stellar mass black holes in AGN disks.
Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
• James Halverson (Northeastern), Jessica N. Howard (UCSB/KITP), Anindita Maiti (Perimeter Inst.), Roger Melko (U. Waterloo), J. Quetzalcoatl Toledo-Marín (TRIUMF) Welcome and Introductions

Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
• Norbert Langer (University of Bonn) Massive star and binary evolution
Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
• Francois Charton (Meta) Transformers for physics - Translators, generators and world models
Broida 3302 12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
Note: Offsite
• David Simmons Duffin (Caltech) Seeing through the confinement screen: DGLAP/BFKL mixing and light-ray matching in QCD
Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
• Zohar Ringel (Hebrew Univ.) A field theory approach to implicit bias and generalization in deep neural networks.
Fred Kavli Auditorium 03:30PM Physics Colloquium
• Sanjukta Krishnagopal (UCSB) From Laplacians to Learning: Bridging Networks, Dynamics, and Chaos

Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
• Carl Rodriguez (UNC Chapel Hill), Cheyanne Shariat (Caltech) Dynamics and triples
Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
• Sascha Diefenbacher (LBNL) Unfolding with Generative and Bridge-Based Models
Small Seminar Room 03:30PM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
• Lucy Mc Neill (Kyoto Univ.) Black hole birth spins

Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
• Reed Essick (University of Toronto), Tom Maccarone (Texas Tech), Casey Lam (Carnegie Observatories ) Selection functions + population modeling
Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
• Zohar Ringel (Hebrew Univ.) Deep Learning: Some Perspectives from Physics
Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
• Vincent Chen (UCSB) Observers seeing gravitational Hilbert spaces: abstract sources for an abstract path integral
Fred Kavli Auditorium 05:00PM Public Lecture Series 2025-2026
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• Maya Fishbach (CITA) Listening to Black Holes with LIGO

Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
• Carl Rodriguez (UNC Chapel Hill) black holes in clusters
Simons Amphitheater 12:15PM Blackboard Lunch
• Yi Zhuang You (UCSD) "Generative Models and Physics"
Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
• Jessica N. Howard (UCSB/KITP), Anindita Maiti (Perimeter Inst.), Javier Quetzalcoatl Toledo-Marín (TRIUMF), Lance Dixon (SLAC) Welcome and Introductions + "Machine Learning for Scattering Amplitudes"

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Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
• Koushik Sen (University of Arizona), Tom Maccarone (Texas Tech University ) High energy observations of black holes
Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
• Eva Silverstein (Stanford) Two physics-inspired architectures: Symmetry breaking in transformer training and Wilson lines as activation functions

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) TBA