Past Conferences
2025
May 21 – 22, 2025
Gutman Conference Center
Cambridge, MA
Speakers
Alex Lupsasca, Vanderbilt University
Alice Bucknell, Artist
Andrea Puhm, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Chris Smeenk, Western University
Chung-Pei Ma, UC Berkeley
Daniel Jafferis, Harvard University
Dennis Lehmkuhl, Universität Bonn
Hannah Marcus, Harvard University
Hsin-Yu Chen, University of Texas at Austin
Juan Maldacena, IAS *
Matias Zaldarriaga, IAS
Matthew Dodelson, Harvard University
Nick Huggett, University of Illinois at Chicago
Raffaella Margutti, UC Berkeley
Robert Myers, Perimeter Institute
Roberto Emparan, Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona
Sasha Philippov, University of Maryland
Sylvia Biscoveanu, CIERA, Northwestern University
*Keynote Speaker
2024
May 29 – 31, 2025
Gutman Conference Center
Cambridge, MA
Speakers
Adam Levine, MIT
Alex Maloney, McGill University
Ana-Maria Raclariu, University of Amsterdam
Ben Freivogel, University of Amsterdam
Chiara Mingarelli, Yale University
Dennis Overybye, New York Times
Emily Leipold, UCBerkeley
Hong Liu, MIT
Jamee Elder, Tufts University
John C. Mather, JWST | Goddard Space Flight Center
Julian Sonner, University of Geneva
Kimberly Arcand, Harvard University
Manus Visser, DAMTP | University of Cambridge
Mina Himwich, Princeton University
Niels Martens, Utrecht University
Phil Hopkins, California Institute of Technology
Rafaella Margutti,
Robert Wald, University of Chicago *
Sara Issaoun, Harvard University
Stefan Hollands, Leipzig University
Surya Raghavendran, Yale University
Thomas Ryckman, Stanford University
Tiziana di Matteo, Carnegie Mellon University
Yambe Tam, Artist
*Keynote Speaker
2023
May 17 – 19, 2023
Sheraton Commander Hotel
Cambridge, MA
Speakers
Alejandra Castro, University of Cambridge
Andrea Cristofoli, University of Edinburgh
Andrea Puhm, Ecole Polytechnique
Andrew MacFayden, NYU
Ann C. Thresher, Stanford University
Caitlin Witt, Northwestern University
Chris Akers, MIT
Daniel Harlow, MIT
Elena Giorgi, Columbia University
Eleni Kontou, King’s College London
Erin Kara, MIT
Jan Sbierski, University of Edinburgh
Jeremy Butterfield, University of Cambridge
Jessica Lu, UC Berkeley
Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Vanderbilt University
Laura Cadonati, Georgia Tech
Lorenzo Sironi, Columbia University
Lynn Gamwell, School of Visual Arts
Michael Johnson, Harvard University
Natalie Paquette, University of Washington
Roland Bittleston, Perimeter Institute
Smadar Naoz, UCLA
Suvi Gezari, University of Maryland
Vijay Balasubramanian, University of Pennsylvania
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