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Delilah received her Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University in 2021 and B.S.s in Physics and in Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2015.  Before returning to Harvard, Delilah was a postdoctoral fellow of the Princeton Gravity Initiative and the Princeton Future Faculty in the Physical Sciences. Delilah’s research focuses on constraining properties of black holes, especially black hole spin, through analytic and semi-analytic methods which leverage features of black hole spacetime geometries and the radiation sourced near black holes.

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Laurent Loinard is the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University and a member of the Black Hole Initiative (BHI). He is also a professor of astrophysics at the National University of Mexico (UNAM). He is an expert in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), with a particular focus on VLBI astrometry. He has received a number of awards and accolades, which include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2010), the von Humboldt  Foundation Bessel Prize (2011) and the TWAS Prize 2022. As a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration which obtained the first image of the supermassive blackhole at the center of M87, he shared the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the 2020 Einstein Medal and the 2021 Group Award of the UK’s Royal Astronomical Society. 

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Romain Ruzziconi completed his PhD at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 2020 and began his first postdoc at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). In 2023, he joined the University of Oxford as a Titchmarsh Research Fellow at the Mathematical Institute and Walker Early Career Fellow at Balliol College. He is now a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow affiliated with the Black Hole Initiative and the Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature in the Department of Physics at Harvard University.

Romain works broadly at the interface of holography, quantum gravity, scattering amplitudes, and twistor theory. Recently, he has focused on formulating holography for spacetimes with a vanishing cosmological constant, which serve as models for real-world phenomena such as gravitational waves and black holes. He is particularly interested in connecting this framework with AdS/CFT, exploring the rich celestial symmetry structures that arise in this context, and their interpretation in terms of Carrollian physics.

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