Talks Schedule

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

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

    More information & RSVP

    • 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.

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.