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Talks Schedule

2024

Friday, Apr 26, 2024

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Anticipating the Rising Tide of Tidal Disruption Events: Theory and Observations(Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Brian Metzger (Columbia) - Quasi-periodic eruptions

2024

Monday, Apr 22, 2024

  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM Correlated Gapless Quantum Matter

    • All participants () Meet & Greet

2024

Tuesday, Apr 23, 2024

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 08:50AM Anticipating the Rising Tide of Tidal Disruption Events: Theory and Observations(Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Kate Alexander (Univ. of Arizona) - Topic: X-ray and radio observations of TDEs
  • Simons Amphitheater 11:00AM Correlated Gapless Quantum Matter

    • Shouvik Sur (Rice University) Non-Fermi liquids, non Fermi-liquids, and topology: from flat bands to Greens function zeros
    • Chao-Jung Lee (Caltech) Superconductor-insulator transition revisited from composite fermion
  • Zoom 12:30PM High Energy and Gravity Seminar
    Note: Offsite
    • Lorenz Eberhardt (UvA) Lorentzian contours for string amplitudes
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM Correlated Gapless Quantum Matter

    • Aavishkar Patel (Flatiron Institute) (Discussion) Experimental phenomenology and theoretical models of non-Fermi liquids and strange metals

2024

Wednesday, Apr 24, 2024

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Anticipating the Rising Tide of Tidal Disruption Events: Theory and Observations(Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Decker French (UIUC) - TDE theory: disruption process, stream evolution

2024

Thursday, Apr 25, 2024

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Anticipating the Rising Tide of Tidal Disruption Events: Theory and Observations(Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Itai Linial (IAS) - Connecting Theory and Observations/Rates
  • Simons Amphitheater 11:00AM Correlated Gapless Quantum Matter

    • Tessa Cookmeyer (KITP) FL to FL* transition: CeCoIn5 and an exactly solvable model
    • Peter Lunts (Harvard University) Strange metals in a model with disordered interactions via large scale Monte Carlo
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM Correlated Gapless Quantum Matter

    • Umang Mehta (University of Colorado Boulder) (Discussion) Perspectives on Fermi surface bosonization

2024

Friday, Apr 26, 2024

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Anticipating the Rising Tide of Tidal Disruption Events: Theory and Observations(Conference)
    Schedule Available Online
    • Brian Metzger (Columbia) - Quasi-periodic eruptions

2024

Saturday, Apr 27, 2024

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM Teachers' Conference: Supermassive Black Holes and their Destructive Tidal Forces(Conference)

    • Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
    • Kate Alexander (Univ. of Arizona/Steward Observatory) Introduction
    • Eric Coughlin (Syracuse) Physics relevant to black holes
  • Gurley Courtyard 10:25AM Teachers' Conference: Supermassive Black Holes and their Destructive Tidal Forces(Conference)

    • MORNING BREAK
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 10:55AM Teachers' Conference: Supermassive Black Holes and their Destructive Tidal Forces(Conference)

    • Brenna Mockler (Carnegie Observatories) Models of Tidal Disruption Events
  • Gurley Courtyard 12:00PM Teachers' Conference: Supermassive Black Holes and their Destructive Tidal Forces(Conference)

    • LUNCH BREAK
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 01:30PM Teachers' Conference: Supermassive Black Holes and their Destructive Tidal Forces(Conference)

    • Kausik Das (UMES) Unraveling Misconceptions in Physics: From Friction Fundamentals to the role of Quantum Mechanics in Gecko Adhesion
    • Decker French (UIUC) Discovering TDEs with visible light
  • Gurley Courtyard 03:00PM Teachers' Conference: Supermassive Black Holes and their Destructive Tidal Forces(Conference)

    • AFTERNOON BREAK
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 03:30PM Teachers' Conference: Supermassive Black Holes and their Destructive Tidal Forces(Conference)

    • Adelle Goodwin (Curtin Univ.) Black holes as messy eaters: radio observations of jets and outflows launched by accreting black holes
  • Gurley Courtyard 04:30PM Teachers' Conference: Supermassive Black Holes and their Destructive Tidal Forces(Conference)

    • CONFERENCE END, SHUTTLE TO BWSCI, SB Airport, and SB Airbus, Goleta location. Sign up at the registration desk during a break.

2024

Sunday, Apr 28, 2024

No talks scheduled.

2024

Monday, Apr 29, 2024

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 01:30PM Towards a Physical Understanding of Tidal Disruption Events

    • Meet & Greet
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM Correlated Gapless Quantum Matter

    • All participants () Meet and Greet

2024

Tuesday, Apr 30, 2024

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:30AM Towards a Physical Understanding of Tidal Disruption Events

    • Dheeraj Pasham (MIT), Thomas Wevers (STScI), Matt Nicholl (Queen's University Belfast) Optical and X-ray properties of TDEs: challenges and opportunities with upcoming surveys
  • Simons Amphitheater 11:00AM Correlated Gapless Quantum Matter

    • Yuxuan Wang (University of Florida) Bosonization of a Fermi surface in a weak magnetic field
    • Qimiao Si (Rice University) Strange metals for correlated topology and amplified entanglement
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 11:15AM Towards a Physical Understanding of Tidal Disruption Events

    • Megan Masterson (MIT) Highly Variable AGN & Connections to TDEs: The Curious Case of 1ES 1927+654
    • Jane Dai (University of Hong Kong) TBA
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM Correlated Gapless Quantum Matter

    • Xueyang Song (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Proximate phases and Phase transitions of quantum Hall states in Moire systems
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 03:30PM Physics Colloquium

    • Rodolfo Montez Jr. (Harvard & Smithsonian) 25 Years of Science with the Chandra X-ray Observatory

2024

Wednesday, May 01, 2024

  • Simons Amphitheater 09:30AM Towards a Physical Understanding of Tidal Disruption Events

    • Lucio Mayer (University of Zurich) Clumpy galaxies at cosmic noon as a nursery of TDEs and Exascale-ready particle-based hydrodynamical codes
    • Elena Rossi (Leiden University) Gravitational Waves from TDEs
    • Rob Eyles-Ferris (University of Leicester) Lobsters and exotic tidal disruption events

2024

Thursday, May 02, 2024

  • Simons Amphitheater 09:30AM Towards a Physical Understanding of Tidal Disruption Events

    • Brian Metzger (Columbia University) What makes the light in TDEs?
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 11:00AM Correlated Gapless Quantum Matter

    • Ashely Cook (Max Planck Institute) Quantum skyrmion Hall effect
    • Jianhao Zhang (Penn State University) Strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking in mixed quantum states
  • Simons Amphitheater 11:15AM Towards a Physical Understanding of Tidal Disruption Events

    • Xiaoshan Huang (Caltech) TBA
    • Jane Dai (University of Hong Kong) TBA
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM High Energy and Gravity Seminar

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 02:00PM Correlated Gapless Quantum Matter

    • Yin-Chen He (Perimeter Institute) Fuzzy sphere regularization of 3D CFT

2024

Friday, May 03, 2024

No talks scheduled.

2024

Saturday, May 04, 2024

No talks scheduled.

2024

Sunday, May 05, 2024

No talks scheduled.