Talks Schedule

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Sunday, Nov 30, 2025

No talks scheduled.

2025

Monday, Nov 24, 2025

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys

    • Martyna Chruslinska (MPA) BHs from low metallicity
  • Simons Amphitheater 12:15PM Blackboard Lunch

    • Ilya Mandel (Monash Univ.) A roadmap to stellar-mass black holes
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics

    • Jessica N. Howard (UCSB/KITP), Anindita Maiti (Perimeter Inst.), J. Quetzalcoatl Toledo-Marín (TRIUMF), Anna Dawid (Leiden Univ.) “Welcome and Introductions” + “Curious loss landscapes of neural networks”

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Tuesday, Nov 25, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys

    • Linhao Ma (KITP), Jakub Klencki (MPA) Origin of BH spins in binaries
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics

    • Matija Medvidovic (ETH Zurich), Yitian Sun (McGill Univ.) “Adiabatic transport of neural network quantum states” + “Inference, generative models, and the Galactic Center Excess”

2025

Wednesday, Nov 26, 2025

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys

    • Claire Ye (CITA), Sara Rastello (ICC.UB) Dynamics in open clusters

2025

Thursday, Nov 27, 2025

No talks scheduled.

2025

Friday, Nov 28, 2025

No talks scheduled.

2025

Saturday, Nov 29, 2025

No talks scheduled.

2025

Sunday, Nov 30, 2025

No talks scheduled.

2025

Monday, Dec 01, 2025

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys

    • Katie Breivik (Carnegie Mellon University) Musings on binaries
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics

    • Jessica N. Howard (UCSB/KITP), Anindita Maiti (Perimeter Inst.), Roger Melko (U. Waterloo), J. Quetzalcoatl Toledo-Marín (TRIUMF) Welcome and Introductions

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Tuesday, Dec 02, 2025

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys

    • Przemek Mróz (University of Warsaw), Jessica Lu (UC Berkeley) Prospects from microlensing
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics

    • Liang Fu (MIT), Daniel Hackett (Fermilab) "Discovering new quantum phases with fermionic neural network" + "TBA"

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Wednesday, Dec 03, 2025

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys

    • Selma de Mink (MPA), Debatri Chattopadhyay (Northwestern) Lessons from neutron stars
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics

    • Eliska Greplova (KIND), Maria Schuld (Xanadu), Yi Zhuang You (UCSD) Discussion

2025

Thursday, Dec 04, 2025

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys

    • Philipp Podsiadlowski (NA), Chris Fryer (LANL) From progenitors to remnants
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics

    • Ayodele Ore (Universitaet Heidelberg), Estelle Inack (Perimeter Inst.) “Fitting neural models of hadronization” + “Variational Neural Annealing: Optimization in Physics, Biology, and Finance”
  • Zoom 01:00PM NSBP Insight Seminar

    https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q3dl1i2rQQOAj55KLUkk8w

    • James Daniel Whitfield (Dartmouth College) Probability‑First Quantum: Foundations, Fermions, and Understanding Quantum Technology

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Friday, Dec 05, 2025

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys

    • Kyle Rocha (UCSD), Dandan Wei (ISTA), Rhys Seeburger (LJMU) Mass transfer and outcomes
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics

    • Gregor Kasieczka (Univ. Hamburg) Agents, Surrogates, and Foundation Models: Rethinking Particle Physics with GenAI

2025

Saturday, Dec 06, 2025

No talks scheduled.

2025

Sunday, Dec 07, 2025

No talks scheduled.