KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
      
  
  	KITP Program of Scientific Activities
  	
  	  
Day of Nov 03, 2025
Day of Nov 03, 2025
2025
Monday, Nov 03, 2025
- 
	Simons Amphitheater
	
	  10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
  
	
	
	
- Doug Lin (UCSC) Prolific production of stellar mass black holes in AGN disks.
 
 - 
	Simons Amphitheater
	
	  01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
  
	
	
	
- James Halverson (Northeastern), Jessica N. Howard (UCSB/KITP), Anindita Maiti (Perimeter Inst.), Roger Melko (U. Waterloo), J. Quetzalcoatl Toledo-Marín (TRIUMF) Welcome and Introductions
 
 
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
      
  
  	KITP Program of Scientific Activities
  	
  	  
Week of Nov 03 - Nov 09, 2025
Week of Nov 03 - Nov 09, 2025
2025
Monday, Nov 03, 2025
- 
	Simons Amphitheater
	
	  10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
  
	
	
	
- Doug Lin (UCSC) Prolific production of stellar mass black holes in AGN disks.
 
 - 
	Simons Amphitheater
	
	  01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
  
	
	
	
- James Halverson (Northeastern), Jessica N. Howard (UCSB/KITP), Anindita Maiti (Perimeter Inst.), Roger Melko (U. Waterloo), J. Quetzalcoatl Toledo-Marín (TRIUMF) Welcome and Introductions
 
 
2025
Tuesday, Nov 04, 2025
- 
	Fred Kavli Auditorium 
	
	  10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
  
	
	
	
- Norbert Langer (University of Bonn) Massive star and binary evolution
 
 - 
	Simons Amphitheater
	
	  10:30AM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
  
	
	
	
- Francois Charton (Meta) Transformers for physics - Translators, generators and world models
 
 - 
	Broida 3302
	
	  12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
  Note: Offsite
- David Simmons Duffin (Caltech) TBA
 
 - 
	Fred Kavli Auditorium 
	
	  03:30PM Physics Colloquium
  
	
	
	
- Sanjukta Krishnagopal (UCSB) From Laplacians to Learning: Bridging Networks, Dynamics, and Chaos
 
 
2025
Wednesday, Nov 05, 2025
- 
	Simons Amphitheater
	
	  10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
  
	
	
	
- Carl Rodriguez (UNC Chapel Hill), Cheyanne Shariat (Caltech) Dynamics and triples
 
 - 
	Simons Amphitheater
	
	  01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
  
	
	
	
- Sascha Diefenbacher (LBNL) Unfolding with Generative and Bridge-Based Models
 
 
2025
Thursday, Nov 06, 2025
- 
	Simons Amphitheater
	
	  10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
  
	
	
	
- Reed Essick (University of Toronto), Tom Maccarone (Texas Tech), Casey Lam (Carnegie Observatories ) Selection functions + population modeling
 
 - 
	Fred Kavli Auditorium 
	
	  10:30AM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
  
	
	
	
- Zohar Ringel (Hebrew Univ.) Deep Learning: Some Perspectives from Physics
 
 - 
	Simons Amphitheater
	
	  02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
  
	
	
	
- Vincent Chen (UCSB) Observers seeing gravitational Hilbert spaces: abstract sources for an abstract path integral
 
 - 
	Fred Kavli Auditorium 
	
	  05:00PM Public Lecture Series 2025-2026
  
	
	
	
- Maya Fishbach (CITA) Listening to Black Holes with LIGO
 
 
2025
Friday, Nov 07, 2025
- 
	Simons Amphitheater
	
	  10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
  
	
	
	
- TBD (TBD) weekly review
 
 - 
	Simons Amphitheater
	
	  01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
  
	
	
	
- Mohamed Hibat Allah (U. Waterloo) Recurrent neural networks for Rydberg atom arrays
 
 
2025
Saturday, Nov 08, 2025
No talks scheduled.
2025
Sunday, Nov 09, 2025
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
      
  
  	KITP Program of Scientific Activities
  	
  	  
Week of Nov 10 - Nov 16, 2025
Week of Nov 10 - Nov 16, 2025
2025
Monday, Nov 10, 2025
- 
	Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
	
	  12:15PM Blackboard Lunch
  
	
	
	
- Yi Zhuang You (UCSD) "Generative Models and Physics"
 
 
2025
Tuesday, Nov 11, 2025
No talks scheduled.
2025
Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025
No talks scheduled.
2025
Thursday, Nov 13, 2025
- 
	Simons Amphitheater
	
	  02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
  
	
	
	
- Yoav Zigdon (Cambridge) TBA
 
 
2025
Friday, Nov 14, 2025
- 
	Broida 3302
	
	  12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
  Note: Offsite
- Pratik Rath (UC Berkeley) TBA
 
 
2025
Saturday, Nov 15, 2025
No talks scheduled.
2025
Sunday, Nov 16, 2025
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
      
  
  	KITP Program of Scientific Activities
  	
  	  
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