Talks Schedule

2026

Friday, Mar 27, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Mar 23, 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

    • Elias Most (Caltech) Cracks, Whirls, and Sparks: Neutron-Star Mergers Beyond the Equation of State
    • Samuel Abreu (CERN) A new approach to computing loop corrections to the equation of state of neutron stars

2026

Tuesday, Mar 24, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Michael Manga (UCB) TBC
    • Anant Yadav (Maryland) TBC
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Wenqing Fan (U. Houston) Exploring Jet Substructure: From Perturbative QCD to Hadronization and the Quark-Gluon Plasma
    • Hannah Bossi (MIT) Opportunities for LHC Run 3 data with CMS

2026

Wednesday, Mar 25, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Emily Brodsky (UCSC) TBC
    • Colin Meyer (Dartmouth) TBC
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Zhongbo Kang (UCLA) Probing Gluon Saturation: Energy Correlators and the Partonic Structure of the Shockwave Formalism
    • Cyrille Marquet (CPHT, École Polytechnique) A frontier of small-x physics: connecting with pQCD

2026

Thursday, Mar 26, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Concluding Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week and the entire program
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Frontiers of Quark-Gluon Matter

    • Zhiquan Sun (UCB) Heavy Quarks: Precision Tools and Hadronization Probes
    • Mateusz Ploskon (LBNL) On connections of Jet Lund Plane and EECs

2026

Friday, Mar 27, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Saturday, Mar 28, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Mar 29, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Mar 30, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 08:50AM Probing our Understanding of Quark-Gluon matter (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Laura Havener (Yale) -
    • Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
    • Berndt Mueller (Duke) Critical assessment of the status of the field of heavy ion physics
    • Chun Shen (Wayne State) Evidence for hydrodynamics in heavy ion collisions

2026

Tuesday, Mar 31, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Probing our Understanding of Quark-Gluon matter (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Krishna Rajagopal (MIT) -
    • Zhoudunming Tu (BNL) Initial stages in heavy ion collisions and the EIC
    • Gian Michele Innocenti (MIT) Ultraperipheral Collisions

2026

Wednesday, Apr 01, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Probing our Understanding of Quark-Gluon matter (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Jiangyong Jia (Stony Brook) -
    • Gergely Endrodi (Eötvös Univ.) Latest developments in finite T Lattice QCD
    • Govert Nijs (CERN) Extracting the QCD EOS from experiment

2026

Thursday, Apr 02, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Probing our Understanding of Quark-Gluon matter (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Yen Jie Lee (MIT) -
    • Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Vanderbilt) Jet measurements and connections to hadronization
    • Yi Chen (Vanderbilt) Medium response to jet quenching

2026

Friday, Apr 03, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Saturday, Apr 04, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM The Physics of the Heart and Teaching BioPhysics in the Classroom (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Lars Bildsten (KITP) Intro to KITP
    • Flavio Fenton (Georgia Tech) Overview
    • Stefan Luther (Max Planck Inst.) () Biophysics of the Heart: How Experiments Reveal the Physics of Cardiac Arrhythmias

2026

Sunday, Apr 05, 2026

No talks scheduled.