Talks Schedule

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

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

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Jhardel Dasent (UCSD) TBC
    • Krishnaroop Chaudhuri (CU Boulder) TBC
  • 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
  • Broida 3302 12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Mark Srednicki (UCSB) Classic Quantum Chaos
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 03:30PM Physics Colloquium

    • Cenke Xu (UCSB) Symmetry origin of quantum-classical transition, hydrodynamics, decodability

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

2026

Thursday, Mar 12, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Ruby Fu (Caltech) TBC
    • Ted Brzinski (Haverford College) TBC
  • 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
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Nikita Nekrasov (Stony Brook University) Geometry of relativistic hydrodynamics

2026

Friday, Mar 13, 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 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.

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.