KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Day of Dec 12, 2025
Day of Dec 12, 2025
2025
Friday, Dec 12, 2025
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
- Eliot Quataert (Princeton ) Black hole accretion
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
- Mathis Gerdes (Univ. of Amsterdam) Generation with Unified Diffusion — RG inspired Diffusion Models
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
- Richard Scalettar (UC Davis) Quantum Simulation in Condensed Matter Physics: Connections to Lattice Gauge Theory and what we want from Artificial Intelligence
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Dec 08 - Dec 14, 2025
Week of Dec 08 - Dec 14, 2025
2025
Monday, Dec 08, 2025
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
- Jim Fuller (Caltech ) Mass transfer dynamics and simulations
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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”
- Marina Marinkovic (ETH Zürich) What is difficult in simulating Lattice Gauge Theories and how ML methods can help?
2025
Tuesday, Dec 09, 2025
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
- Jay Strader (MSU), Newlin Weatherford (Carnegie ) Compact object fun in globular clusters
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
- Gregor Kasieczka (Univ. Hamburg) Agents, Surrogates, and Foundation Models: Rethinking Particle Physics with GenAI
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Broida 3302
12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
Note: Offsite
- Donald Marolf (UCSB) TBA
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Simons Amphitheater
02:00PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
- Savannah Thais (Hunter College) Good AI for Physics Needs AI Ethics and Good AI Ethics Needs Physics
- James Osborn (Argonne) Some Use Cases for AI/ML in Lattice Field Theory Simulations
2025
Wednesday, Dec 10, 2025
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
- Daichi Tsuna (Harvard CfA) Transients associated with black hole formation
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
- Savannah Thais (Hunter College) Discussion
2025
Thursday, Dec 11, 2025
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
- Ylva Gotberg (ISTA), Natsuko Yamaguchi (Caltech) Even more mass transfer!
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:30AM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
- Koji Hashimoto (Kyoto Univ.) Holography, QCD and neural networks
- William Detmold (MIT) Machine learning for lattice field theory: progress and opportunities
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
01:45PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
- Ying Jer Kao (NTU) Hybrid architecture for Quantum Machine Learning: Synergies between Tensor Networks and Variational Quantum Circuits
- Peter Boyle (BNL) Field Transformation Hybrid Monte Carlo (+ Agentic workflow baby steps)
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Simons Amphitheater
02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
- Henry Lin (Stanford) TBA
2025
Friday, Dec 12, 2025
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
- Eliot Quataert (Princeton ) Black hole accretion
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
- Mathis Gerdes (Univ. of Amsterdam) Generation with Unified Diffusion — RG inspired Diffusion Models
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
- Richard Scalettar (UC Davis) Quantum Simulation in Condensed Matter Physics: Connections to Lattice Gauge Theory and what we want from Artificial Intelligence
2025
Saturday, Dec 13, 2025
No talks scheduled.
2025
Sunday, Dec 14, 2025
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Dec 15 - Dec 21, 2025
Week of Dec 15 - Dec 21, 2025
2025
Monday, Dec 15, 2025
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
- Jeff Andrews (UF) Posydon, common envelope evolution, ++
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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
- Anna Golubeva (Zyphra) What matters at scale
2025
Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
- Ataru Tanikawa (Fukui Prefectural University), Anil Seth (University of Utah) Compact objects in globular clusters
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
- Sebastian Wetzel (U. Waterloo) Retrieving physical concepts learned by artificial neural networks
- Sung Hak Lim (IBS Korea) Understanding Galactic Dark Matter with Generative Models
2025
Wednesday, Dec 17, 2025
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
- Poshak Gandhi (University of Southampton) JWST observations of X-ray binaries
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:30AM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
- Cengiz Pehlevan (Harvard) Scaling Neural Networks: Laws, Limits, and Implications
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
- Aishik Ghosh (Georgia Tech) Unlocking statistical inference in high-dimensions with reliable uncertainty quantification for particle physics
2025
Thursday, Dec 18, 2025
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
- Sukanya Chakrabarti (UA Huntsville) Black holes in the outer Galactic disk
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:00AM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
- Yi Zhuang You (UCSD) How Focused are LLMs?
- James Halverson (Northeastern), Jessica N. Howard (UCSB/KITP), Anindita Maiti (Perimeter Inst.), Roger Melko (U. Waterloo), J. Quetzalcoatl Toledo-Marín (TRIUMF) Closing remarks
2025
Friday, Dec 19, 2025
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
- Kareem El-Badry (Caltech), Teja Nerella (UC Santa Barbara), Jessica Lu (UC Berkeley) Program summary + discussion
2025
Saturday, Dec 20, 2025
No talks scheduled.
2025
Sunday, Dec 21, 2025
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
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