KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Day of Mar 09, 2026
Day of Mar 09, 2026
2026
Monday, Mar 09, 2026
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Townhall SEG: introduction & pitch of open questions
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter
- Alba Soto Ontoso (University of Granada) Welcome and Introduction to the program
- Wei Li (Rice) Experimental overview of heavy-ion collisions
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Mar 09 - Mar 15, 2026
Week of Mar 09 - Mar 15, 2026
2026
Monday, Mar 09, 2026
-
Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Townhall SEG: introduction & pitch of open questions
-
Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter
- Alba Soto Ontoso (University of Granada) Welcome and Introduction to the program
- Wei Li (Rice) Experimental overview of heavy-ion collisions
2026
Tuesday, Mar 10, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Jhardel Dasent (UCSD) TBC
- Krishnaroop Chaudhuri (CU Boulder) TBC
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter
- Kyle Lee (ANL) Generalized detector correlators
- Jack Holguin (U. Manchester) Applying the light-ray OPE to heavy-ion physics
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Broida 3302
12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
- Mark Srednicki (UCSB) Classic Quantum Chaos
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
03:30PM Physics Colloquium
- Cenke Xu (UCSB) Symmetry origin of quantum-classical transition, hydrodynamics, decodability
2026
Wednesday, Mar 11, 2026
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Rylan Hodgson (CU Boulder) TBC
- Rich Kilburn (Scripps Inst. of Oceanography) TBC
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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
2026
Thursday, Mar 12, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Ruby Fu (Caltech) TBC
- Ted Brzinski (Haverford College) TBC
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter
- Yacine Mehtar Tani (BNL) Jet quenching meets gluon saturation
- Robert Szafron (BNL) Threshold Factorization and PDF Structure at Next-to-Leading Power
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Simons Amphitheater
02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
- Nikita Nekrasov (Stony Brook University) Geometry of relativistic hydrodynamics
2026
Friday, Mar 13, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter
- Gabriel Cuomo (SISSA) Conformal collider physics at finite density and finite temperature
- Yang Ting Chien (Georgia State) Boosted jet quenching
2026
Saturday, Mar 14, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Mar 15, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Mar 16 - Mar 22, 2026
Week of Mar 16 - Mar 22, 2026
2026
Monday, Mar 16, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Tuesday, Mar 17, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Wednesday, Mar 18, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Thursday, Mar 19, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Friday, Mar 20, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Saturday, Mar 21, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Mar 22, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Month of March, 2026
Month of March, 2026
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