KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Day of Jan 09, 2026
Day of Jan 09, 2026
2026
Friday, Jan 09, 2026
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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
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Jan 05 - Jan 11, 2026
Week of Jan 05 - Jan 11, 2026
2026
Monday, Jan 05, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Tuesday, Jan 06, 2026
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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
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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
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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
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Simons Amphitheater
02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
- Maciej Kolanowski (UCSB) Ultralocal measure is not canonical
2026
Friday, Jan 09, 2026
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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.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Jan 12 - Jan 18, 2026
Week of Jan 12 - Jan 18, 2026
2026
Monday, Jan 12, 2026
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Everyone (Everyone) 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
- Stefano Borgani (U Trieste), Elena Pierpaoli (USC) Welcome, and participants' introduction
2026
Tuesday, Jan 13, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Doug Jerolmack (University of Pennsylvania) TBC
- Cristián Escauriaza (PUC Chile) TBC
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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
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Nathalie Vriend (University of Colorado Boulder) TBC
- Duncan Hewitt (University of Cambridge) TBC
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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
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Vashan Wright (UCSD) TBC
- Nancy Ingabire Abayo (Lafayette College) 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
- Adrian Liu (McGill Univ.) Tutorial: radio interferometry basics for cosmologists
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Simons Amphitheater
02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
- Joshua Lin (ANL) TBA
2026
Friday, Jan 16, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- TBC (TBC) Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
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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.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Month of January, 2026
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