Meeting schedule
October 21–23, 202621
October 2026 · Day 01
Wednesday
Opening remarks by Larry Leinweber and James Wells
Dawid BrzeminskiUniversity of Michigan
How Earth Shapes Dark Matter: Searching for New Forces with MICROSCOPEAni PrabhuUC Berkeley
Searching for New Physics in the StarsBreak
Coffee and pastries
Mudit RaiMichigan
Phasing out Dark Matter Isocurvature with Thermal MisalignmentYugo OnishiStanford
Tunneling effects in macroscopic solidsLunch
Maciej Kolanowski MIT
The Cold, the Singular, and the Extremal: Black Holes Beyond General RelativityNick Geiser Michigan
Bootstrap Bounds on Masses and SpinsBreak
Pok Man Tam LITP at University of Chicago
Quantum Shape of MatterPizza Party in the Pappalardo Room
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October 2026 · Day 02
Thursday
Jan BoruchStanford
Lessons about quantum gravity from gravitational sums over geometriesVineeth Krishna TalasilaMichigan
Multi-component Black Holes: New Phases of Quantum GravityBeatrix MuehlmannIAS
Liouville theory: from exact CFT data to quantum cosmologyBreak
Coffee and pastries
Roger Morales I EspasaMichigan
String Theory from Maximal SupersymmetryRajeev ErramilliMichigan
3D CFT Cartography with the Conformal BootstrapJaime Redondo YustePrinceton
Black Hole Spectroscopy-
Lunch
Tour of MIT Museum
Colloquium with Alice Shapley
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October 2026 · Day 03
Friday
Uendert AndradeMichigan
From Galaxy Maps to Cosmic AccelerationHernán Enrique Noriega BarrosMichigan
Are current neutrino mass constraints reliable? Insights from full shapeMing-Feng HoMichigan
The Lyman-alpha Forest: Reading the Universe and Galaxies in ShadowsBreak
Coffee and pastries
Elba Alonso-MonsalvePrinceton
The Hilbert space of gauge systems and the quantization of de Sitter-JTAndreas BlommaertIAS
Towards a hologram of the universeMaxime GadiouxPrinceton
Numerical characteristic gluing and the formation of extremal black holesLunch & Farewell