Massachusetts Institute of Technology — MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, a Leinweber Institute

MIT · October 21–23, 2026

Leinweber Institutes
Postdoctoral Fellows
Meeting

Three days of talks and conversation
across theoretical physics.

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPappalardo Room · 4-34921 talks · 3 days

Meeting schedule

October 21–23, 2026
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October 2026 · Day 01

Wednesday

  1. Welcome remarks by Larry Leinweber

  2. Dawid BrzeminskiIAS

    How Earth Shapes Dark Matter: Searching for New Forces with MICROSCOPE

  3. Ani PrabhuUC Berkeley

    Searching for New Physics in the Stars

  4. Break

    Coffee and pastries

  5. Mudit RaiMichigan

    Phasing out Dark Matter Isocurvature with Thermal Misalignment

  6. Yugo OnishiStanford

    Tunneling effects in macroscopic solids

  7. Lunch

  8. Pok Man TamPrinceton

    Quantum Shape of Matter

  9. Brandon RayhaunIAS

    What physics can emerge at a transition between two phases of matter?

  10. Break

  11. Siwei ZhongChicago

    Extended Probes for Many-Body Physics: Defects and Their Effective Field Theories

  12. Maciej KolanowskiMIT

    The Cold, the Singular, and the Extremal: Black Holes Beyond General Relativity
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October 2026 · Day 02

Thursday

  1. Jan BoruchStanford

    Lessons about quantum gravity from gravitational sums over geometries

  2. Vineeth Krishna TalasilaMichigan

    Multi-component Black Holes: New Phases of Quantum Gravity

  3. Beatrix MuehlmannIAS

    Liouville theory: from exact CFT data to quantum cosmology

  4. Break

    Coffee and pastries

  5. Roger Morales I EspasaMichigan

    String Theory from Maximal Supersymmetry

  6. Nick GeiserMichigan

    Bootstrap Bounds on Masses and Spins

  7. Rajeev ErramilliMichigan

    3D CFT Cartography with the Conformal Bootstrap

  8. Jaime Redondo YustePrinceton

    Black Hole Spectroscopy

  9. Lunch

  10. Tour of MIT Museum

  11. Colloquium with Alice Shapley

  12. Reception

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October 2026 · Day 03

Friday

  1. Uendert AndradeMichigan

    From Galaxy Maps to Cosmic Acceleration

  2. Hernán Enrique Noriega BarrosMichigan

    Are current neutrino mass constraints reliable? Insights from full shape

  3. Ming-Feng HoMichigan

    The Lyman-alpha Forest: Reading the Universe and Galaxies in Shadows

  4. Break

    Coffee and pastries

  5. Elba Alonso-MonsalvePrinceton

    The Hilbert space of gauge systems and the quantization of de Sitter-JT

  6. Andreas BlommaertIAS

    Towards a hologram of the universe

  7. Maxime GadiouxPrinceton

    Numerical characteristic gluing and the formation of extremal black holes

  8. Lunch & Farewell