Talks Schedule

2026

Friday, Jan 09, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Hard Problems in Soft Earth Geophysics (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Karen Daniels (NC State) -
    • Alban Sauret (Maryland) How to make a mudslide?: Open questions
    • Tejas S Murthy (IISc) Sticky sand - looking at cohesive granular materials at multiple length scales

2026

Monday, Jan 05, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Tuesday, Jan 06, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 08:50AM Hard Problems in Soft Earth Geophysics (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Douglas Jerolmack (Univ. of Penn) - Fracture in soft earth materials
    • Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
    • David Weitz (Harvard) Lab-scale models for hydro-fracture
    • Jill Marshall (Portland State) Are some break-ups harder than others? Pondering the state of 'crackiness', wind,-forest structure, and soft-earth mechanics over time

2026

Wednesday, Jan 07, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Hard Problems in Soft Earth Geophysics (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Nathalie Vriend (CU Boulder) - Icy, confined, and rare
    • Ching Yao Lai (Stanford) Dense granular rheology from fluctuations
    • Justin Burton (Emory) A dynamical model for the rheology of polycrystalline glacial ice

2026

Thursday, Jan 08, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Hard Problems in Soft Earth Geophysics (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Shravan Pradeep (Univ. of Penn) - Creep, yield and failure
    • Ezequiel Ferrero (CAB-CNEA) Soils as yield-stress materials? Athermal creep facilitated by cyclic perturbations
    • Cacey Bester (Swarthmore) Sand’s Approach to Yield: How Granular Materials Creep and Fail
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Maciej Kolanowski (UCSB) Ultralocal measure is not canonical

2026

Friday, Jan 09, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Hard Problems in Soft Earth Geophysics (Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Karen Daniels (NC State) -
    • Alban Sauret (Maryland) How to make a mudslide?: Open questions
    • Tejas S Murthy (IISc) Sticky sand - looking at cohesive granular materials at multiple length scales

2026

Saturday, Jan 10, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Jan 11, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Jan 12, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Everyone (Everyone) Townhall SEG: introduction & pitch of open questions
  • Simons Amphitheater 11:00AM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys

    • Stefano Borgani (U Trieste), Elena Pierpaoli (USC) Welcome, and participants' introduction

2026

Tuesday, Jan 13, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Doug Jerolmack (University of Pennsylvania) TBC
    • Cristián Escauriaza (PUC Chile) TBC
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:00PM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys

    • Guochao Sun (Northwestern ) Unveiling the High-redshift Universe with Multiple Probes Using LIMFAST
    • Daan Meerburg (Univ. of Groningen) TBD

2026

Wednesday, Jan 14, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Nathalie Vriend (University of Colorado Boulder) TBC
    • Duncan Hewitt (University of Cambridge) TBC
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys

    • Anthony Challinor (Cambridge), Bleke Sherwin (Cambridge) Overview talks: on state of the art cosmology, and what x-correlations can add to it

2026

Thursday, Jan 15, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Vashan Wright (UCSD) TBC
    • Nancy Ingabire Abayo (Lafayette College) TBC
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 01:00PM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys

    • Adrian Liu (McGill Univ.) Tutorial: radio interferometry basics for cosmologists
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Joshua Lin (ANL) TBA

2026

Friday, Jan 16, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • TBC (TBC) Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys

    • Neal Dalal (Perimeter), Neelima Sehgal (Stoney Brook), Tom Abel (Stanford) Lead discussion session

2026

Saturday, Jan 17, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Jan 18, 2026

No talks scheduled.