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

Physics and Astrophysics of Neutrino-Dense Environments

from Sunday, January 4, 2026 (5:00 PM) to Friday, January 9, 2026 (12:00 PM)

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)

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