KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Day of Jan 21, 2026
Day of Jan 21, 2026
2026
Wednesday, Jan 21, 2026
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Morgane Houssais (Clark Univ.) Scaling up soil creep from the lab!.. Big questions and being okay with being wrong
- Justin Burton (Emory) The space between the grains, and why air matters
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys
- Gilbert Holder (Univ. of Illinois) X+SZ overview II
- Stephen Martis (MSKCC) The eROSITA View of Galaxy Clusters: From Detection to Science Exploitation
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Jan 19 - Jan 25, 2026
Week of Jan 19 - Jan 25, 2026
2026
Monday, Jan 19, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Tuesday, Jan 20, 2026
-
Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- TBC (TBC) Townhall SEG: introduction & pitch of open questions
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Broida 3302
12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
- Luca Illiesiu (UC Berkeley) On the Hilbert Space of Quantum Gravity from the Gravitational Path Integral
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys
- Nicholas Battaglia (Cornell) X+SZ overview I
- Simona Mei (Universite' Paris Cite') The first structures in the Universe: knots in the cosmic web in the first epochs of cluster formation
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Zoom
01:00PM NSBP Insight Seminar
https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_veFi518jRkOzPpeXMfbEFQ
- Wendell T. Hill, III (UMD) Rousing the quantum vacuum: ephemeral-pair dynamics on sub-attosecond timescales
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
03:30PM Physics Colloquium
- Joey D'Anna (KITP) Finding the Right Questions: Three Decades as a Physicist on the Financial Frontier
2026
Wednesday, Jan 21, 2026
-
Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Morgane Houssais (Clark Univ.) Scaling up soil creep from the lab!.. Big questions and being okay with being wrong
- Justin Burton (Emory) The space between the grains, and why air matters
-
Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys
- Gilbert Holder (Univ. of Illinois) X+SZ overview II
- Stephen Martis (MSKCC) The eROSITA View of Galaxy Clusters: From Detection to Science Exploitation
2026
Thursday, Jan 22, 2026
-
Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Nancy Ingabire Abayo (Lafayette College) TBC
- Kerstin Nordstrom (Mt. Holyoke) Exit strategy: how grains pass through constrictions
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
01:00PM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys
- Matteo Costanzi (Univ. of Trieste ) Tutorial: modeling selection effects in optical cluster observables
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Simons Amphitheater
02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
- Matthew Dodelson (CERN) Bouncing off a stringy singularity
2026
Friday, Jan 23, 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
- Small Seminar Room 10:00AM
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:30AM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys
- Jim Bartlett (Universite' Paris Cita'), Stefano Borgani (Univ. of Trieste), Martin White (UC Berkeley) Lead discussion session
2026
Saturday, Jan 24, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Jan 25, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Jan 26 - Feb 01, 2026
Week of Jan 26 - Feb 01, 2026
2026
Monday, Jan 26, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Tuesday, Jan 27, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Wednesday, Jan 28, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Thursday, Jan 29, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Friday, Jan 30, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Saturday, Jan 31, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Feb 01, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Month of January, 2026
Month of January, 2026
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