KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Day of Feb 22, 2026
Day of Feb 22, 2026
2026
Sunday, Feb 22, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Feb 16 - Feb 22, 2026
Week of Feb 16 - Feb 22, 2026
2026
Monday, Feb 16, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Tuesday, Feb 17, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Nathalie Vriend (CU Boulder), Douglas Jerolmack (Univ. of Penn), Vashan Wright (UCSD) Townhall SEG: introduction & pitch of open questions
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Broida 3302
12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
- Guanda Lin (UCB / LBNL) Gravitational path integral and partial Cauchy slice holography
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys
- Stefano Borgani (Univ. of Trieste) New participants: introductions
- Stefano Borgani (Univ. of Trieste), Daisuke Nagai (Yale) Overview on Simulations
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
03:30PM Physics Colloquium
- Norman Yao (Harvard) High-pressure quantum sensing
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SOhO Restaurant & Music Club
06:00PM Café KITP
- Fatih Dinç (KITP) Physics of intelligence
2026
Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Kimberly Hill (Minnesota) TBC
- Bernhard Vowinckel (TU Dresden) TBC
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys
- Adrian Bayer (Princeton) Simulations for ML Applications
- J. Bond (Univ. of Toronto) Entropy, Cosmic Photons, & Websky-ing the Universe (Gravitational Shocking Matters)
2026
Thursday, Feb 19, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- TBC
- Eric Breard (Edinburgh Univ.) TBC
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
01:00PM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys
- William Coulton (KICC) Tutorial: Simulation Needs for CMBxLSS
- Susanna Azzoni (Princeton) Exploring the Birth of the Universe with the CMB: From Raw Data to Primordial B-Modes with Multi-Tracer Delensing
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Simons Amphitheater
02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
- Venkatesa Chandrasekaran (Princeton) Subregion algebras in classical and quantum gravity
2026
Friday, Feb 20, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Nathalie Vriend (CU Boulder), Douglas Jerolmack (Univ. of Penn), Vashan Wright (UCSD) Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:30AM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys
- Giulio Fabbian (KICC), Jordan Krywonos (Perimeter Inst.), Daisuke Nagai (Yale) Discussion on Simulations
2026
Saturday, Feb 21, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Feb 22, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Feb 23 - Mar 01, 2026
Week of Feb 23 - Mar 01, 2026
2026
Monday, Feb 23, 2026
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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
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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
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
12:15PM Blackboard Lunch
- Karen Daniels (NC State) "Rigidity (or not) on the Earth's surface and beyond"
2026
Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Will Steinhardt (UCSC) TBC
- Paul Tautenhahn (UCSB) TBC
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Broida 3302
12:30PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
- Henry Leung (UCSB) TBA
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Simons Amphitheater
01:00PM Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys
- Alice Pisani (CNRS) Cosmology with cosmic voids: results, promises and challenges
- Satya Gontcho A Gontcho (Univ. Virginia) The Forest at the Edge of the Visible Universe
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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
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Brandon Hayes (CU Boulder) TBC
- Nathan Keim (Penn State) TBC
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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?
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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
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- George Bergantz (Washington) TBC
- Alban Sauret (Maryland) TBC
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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
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Simons Amphitheater
02:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar
- David Berenstein (UCSB) TBA
2026
Friday, Feb 27, 2026
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Simons Amphitheater
10:00AM Soft Earth Geophysics
- Townhall SEG: summary of break-out groups of this week, and scoping for next week
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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.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
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