KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Day of Mar 06, 2026
Day of Mar 06, 2026
2026
Friday, Mar 06, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Vashan Wright (UCSD), Nathalie Vriend (CU Boulder), Douglas Jerolmack (Univ. of Penn) Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Mar 02 - Mar 08, 2026
Week of Mar 02 - Mar 08, 2026
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
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Simons Amphitheater
11:00AM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys
- Elisabeth Krause (Arizona) Galaxy Surveys: Modelling and Systematics Challenges
- Alexander Van Engelen (Arizona State) CMB Surveys: Modelling and Systematics Challenges
2026
Tuesday, Mar 03, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Orencio Duran Vinent (Texas A&M) New Talk
- Nick Ouellette (Stanford) New Talk
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys
- Srinivasan Raghunathan (UC Davis) SZ Science and the Foreground Challenges
- Fiona Mc Carthy (Cambridge) Foreground mitigation in the CMB
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
03:30PM Physics Colloquium
- Elisabeth Krause (Arizona) More Accurate Together: Opportunities in Multi-Survey Cosmology
2026
Wednesday, Mar 04, 2026
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Hunter King (Rutgers) TBC
- Corey O'hern (Yale) TBC
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys
- Aditi Krishak (USC) Searching for Primordial Non-Gaussianity in the CMB
- Iñigo Zubeldia (DAMTP) TBD
2026
Thursday, Mar 05, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Ruby Gans (CU Boulder) TBC
- Benjamin Mc Millan (Cambridge) TBC
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
01:00PM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys
- Discussion on Analysis Challenges
- Elena Pierpaoli (USC), Junwu Huang (Perimeter Inst.), Matthew Johnson (York U.) Program wrap-up
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Simons Amphitheater
02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
- Krishan Saraswat (UCSB) Spectral Form Factor of Gapped Random Matrix Systems
2026
Friday, Mar 06, 2026
-
Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Vashan Wright (UCSD), Nathalie Vriend (CU Boulder), Douglas Jerolmack (Univ. of Penn) Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
2026
Saturday, Mar 07, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Mar 08, 2026
No talks scheduled.
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) TBA
- 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) TBA
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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
- Carlota Andres (CPHT, École Polytechnique) TBA
- Adam Takacs (Heidelberger University) Deriving a parton shower for jet thermalization in QCD plasmas
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) TBA
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
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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
Month of March, 2026
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