Name: Physics and Astrophysics of Neutrino-Dense Environments
Start: 2026-01-04T17:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-01-09T12:00:00-07:00
Location: Aspen Center for Physics

Monday, December 29, 2025
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Thursday, January 1, 2026
Friday, January 2, 2026
Saturday, January 3, 2026
Sunday, January 4, 2026

5:30 PM Welcome Reception

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Monday, January 5, 2026
9:00 AM Overview Talk
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Radiation GR-MHD: Methods and Some Results - James Stone (Institute for Advanced Study)
10:00 AM Morning Break
Morning Break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Regular Talks
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Contributions

10:30 AM Neutrino Quantum Kinetics: Recent Progress, Current Status, and Future Perspectives - Hiroki Nagakura (National Optical Observatory of Japan)
5:00 PM Regular Talks
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM Neutrino Fast Flavor Oscillations and r-Process Nucleosynthesis - Kelsey Lund (University of California Berkeley)
5:30 PM Evening Break
Evening Break
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
6:00 PM Regular Talks
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Chiral effects and Joule heating in hot and dense matter - Srimoyee Sen (Iowa State University)

6:30 PM Enhancements to Neutrino Opacities in Hot Magnetized Matter - Mia Kumamoto (University of California Berkeley)
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
9:00 AM Overview Talk
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Subgrid modeling of neutrino oscillations - Lucas Johns (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
10:00 AM Morning Break
Morning Break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Regular Talks
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Contributions

10:30 AM Quantum Magic and Computational Complexity in the Neutrino Sector - Ivan Chernyshev (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
5:00 PM Regular Talks
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM Flavor Equilibration of Supernova Neutrinos: Exploring the Dynamics of Slow Modes - Heng-Hao Chen (Academia Sinica)

5:30 PM Neutrino many-body evolution and equilibration - Yukari Yamauchi (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
6:00 PM Discussion

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
9:00 AM Overview Talk
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Observations, Interpretations, and Challenges - Iair Arcavi (Tel Aviv University)
10:00 AM Morning Break
Morning Break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Regular Talks
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Contributions

10:30 AM Frontiers of Neutrino Physics in Cosmology and Astrophysics - George Fuller (University of California San Diego)
5:30 PM Public Lecture

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Thursday, January 8, 2026
9:00 AM Overview Talk
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Quantum Many Body Approches to High Flux Neutrino Environments - Joseph Carlson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
10:00 AM Morning Break
Morning Break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Regular Talks
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Contributions

10:30 AM Current Core-Collapse Supernova Theory (with an Aside on The Potential Effects of Fast Flavor Oscillations on Supernova Hydrodynamics and Neutrino Emissions) - Adam Burrows (Princeton University)
5:00 PM Regular Talks
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM Efforts to incorporate neutrino fast flavor instability in merger simulations - Somdutta Ghosh (University of New Hampshire)
5:30 PM Evening Break
Evening Break
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
6:00 PM Regular Talks
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM r-process Nucleosynthesis and Kilonova Emission from the Collapse of White Dwarfs - Tetyana Pitik (University of California Berkeley)

6:30 PM Machine Learning for Subgrid Neutrino Physics - Sherwood Richers (University of Tennessee Knoxville)
Friday, January 9, 2026
9:00 AM Regular Talks
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Neutrino Transport with Quantum Moments - James Kneller (North Carolina State University)
10:00 AM Morning Break
Morning Break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Regular Talks
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Contributions

10:30 AM Novel methods for solving the (mostly) classical transport equation for neutrinos - Jonah Miller (Los Alamos National Laboratory)