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Monday, Dec 15, 2025

  • 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, ++
  • 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

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Monday, Dec 15, 2025

  • 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, ++
  • 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

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Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025

  • 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
  • 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

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Wednesday, Dec 17, 2025

  • 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 constraints on the environments of accreting stellar-mass black holes
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:30AM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics

    • Cengiz Pehlevan (Harvard) Scaling Neural Networks: Laws, Limits, and Implications
  • 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

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Thursday, Dec 18, 2025

  • 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
  • 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

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Friday, Dec 19, 2025

  • 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

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Saturday, Dec 20, 2025

No talks scheduled.

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Sunday, Dec 21, 2025

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Monday, Dec 22, 2025

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Tuesday, Dec 23, 2025

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Wednesday, Dec 24, 2025

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Thursday, Dec 25, 2025

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Friday, Dec 26, 2025

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Saturday, Dec 27, 2025

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Sunday, Dec 28, 2025

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