KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Day of Dec 15, 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
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Jeff Andrews (UF)
Posydon, common envelope evolution, ++
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
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James Halverson (Northeastern),
Jessica N. Howard (UCSB/KITP),
Anindita Maiti (Perimeter Inst.),
Roger Melko (U. Waterloo),
J. Quetzalcoatl Toledo-Marín (TRIUMF)
Welcome and Introductions
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Anna Golubeva (Zyphra)
What matters at scale
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
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
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Jeff Andrews (UF)
Posydon, common envelope evolution, ++
-
Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
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James Halverson (Northeastern),
Jessica N. Howard (UCSB/KITP),
Anindita Maiti (Perimeter Inst.),
Roger Melko (U. Waterloo),
J. Quetzalcoatl Toledo-Marín (TRIUMF)
Welcome and Introductions
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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
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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
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Sebastian Wetzel (U. Waterloo)
Retrieving physical concepts learned by artificial neural networks
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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
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Poshak Gandhi (University of Southampton)
JWST constraints on the environments of accreting stellar-mass black holes
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:30AM Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics
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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
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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
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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
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Yi Zhuang You (UCSD)
How Focused are LLMs?
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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
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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
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Dec 22 - Dec 28, 2025
2025
Monday, Dec 22, 2025
No talks scheduled.
2025
Tuesday, Dec 23, 2025
No talks scheduled.
2025
Wednesday, Dec 24, 2025
No talks scheduled.
2025
Thursday, Dec 25, 2025
No talks scheduled.
2025
Friday, Dec 26, 2025
No talks scheduled.
2025
Saturday, Dec 27, 2025
No talks scheduled.
2025
Sunday, Dec 28, 2025
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Month of December, 2025