1. Activities
  2. Talks Schedule

Talks Schedule

2026

Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Will Steinhardt (UCSC) TBC
    • Paul Tautenhahn (UCSB) TBC
  • Broida 3302 12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Henry Leung (UCSB) Dressed Supersymmetric Black Holes and R-Charge Concentration
  • Simons Amphitheater 12:45PM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys

    • Satya Gontcho A Gontcho (Univ. Virginia) The Forest at the Edge of the Visible Universe
    • Alice Pisani (CNRS) Cosmology with cosmic voids: results, promises and challenges
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 03:30PM Physics Colloquium

    • Hugh Lippincott (UCSB) Dark matter and neutrino detection from 4850 feet underground

2026

Monday, Feb 23, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Vashan Wright (UCSD), Douglas Jerolmack (Univ. of Penn), Nathalie Vriend (CU Boulder) Townhall SEG: introduction & pitch of open questions
  • Simons Amphitheater 11:00AM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys

    • Jessica Muir (Cincinnati) Introduction to photometric galaxy surveys
    • David Schlegel (LBNL) Introduction to spectroscopic galaxy surveys
  • Simons Amphitheater 12:15PM Blackboard Lunch

    • Karen Daniels (NC State) Rigidity (or not) on the Earth's surface and beyond

2026

Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Will Steinhardt (UCSC) TBC
    • Paul Tautenhahn (UCSB) TBC
  • Broida 3302 12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Henry Leung (UCSB) Dressed Supersymmetric Black Holes and R-Charge Concentration
  • Simons Amphitheater 12:45PM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys

    • Satya Gontcho A Gontcho (Univ. Virginia) The Forest at the Edge of the Visible Universe
    • Alice Pisani (CNRS) Cosmology with cosmic voids: results, promises and challenges
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 03:30PM Physics Colloquium

    • Hugh Lippincott (UCSB) Dark matter and neutrino detection from 4850 feet underground

2026

Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Brandon Hayes (CU Boulder) TBC
    • Nathan Keim (Penn State) TBC
  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys

    • Allison Noble (Arizona State) The Rise and Fall of Galaxies: Open Questions in Star Formation and Quenching
    • Raman Sundrum (UMD) What is cosmological collider physics?
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM Particle Theory Initiative 2023-28

    • Austin Joyce (U. Chicago) TBD
    • Mikhail Ivanov (CTP) Robust evidence for the normal hierarchy of neutrino masses from CMB and galaxy clustering data
    • Zackaria Chacko (Maryland) Cosmological Signals of Neutrino Decay

2026

Thursday, Feb 26, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • George Bergantz (Washington) TBC
    • Alban Sauret (Maryland) TBC
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 01:00PM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys

    • Rachel Somerville (CCA, Flatiron Inst.) Discussion on galaxy surveys
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • David Berenstein (UCSB) Wave functions in Lorentzian AdS and the flat space limit

2026

Friday, Feb 27, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics

    • Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys

    • Alex Krolewski (U. Waterloo) The unWISE catalog: 150 million galaxies for cross-correlation cosmology
    • Daniel Green (UCSD), William Coulton (KICC), Alexander Van Engelen (Arizona State), Zackaria Chacko (UMD), Austin Joyce (U Chicago KICP) Particle physics x cosmology panel discussion

2026

Saturday, Feb 28, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Mar 01, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Mar 02, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Tuesday, Mar 03, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Wednesday, Mar 04, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Thursday, Mar 05, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Friday, Mar 06, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Saturday, Mar 07, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Mar 08, 2026

No talks scheduled.