Center for Decoding the Universe Winter Forum

Event Details:

Thursday, February 12, 2026
12:00pm - 6:00pm PST

Location

Simonyi Conference Center, CoDa, 389 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
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This event is open to:

Faculty/Staff
Postdocs
Students
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Please note: Attendance is limited to Stanford affiliates.

The Center for Decoding the Universe brings together researchers across scientific disciplines to answer the biggest questions about our Universe by leveraging complex data with the most advanced computational methods. 

Agenda

TimeSessionSpeaker(s)
12:00 - 1:00 PMLunch & Discussion 
1:00 - 1:15 PMCenter for Decoding the Universe Updates and Key ProjectsRisa Wechsler, Susan Clark, Ben Nachman
1:15 - 2:50 PMSession 1: Forward Modeling the Universe 
1:15 - 1:40 PMSymmetry Breaking in Transformers for Efficient and Interpretable TrainingEva Silverstein
1:40 - 2:05 PMRubin data preparation for multi-modal analysisAdam Bolton
2:05 - 2:15 PMGraphGP: Scalable Gaussian Processes with Vecchia’s ApproximationBenjamin Dodge
2:15 - 2:25 PMAnomaly Detection in the Presence of Known SignalsDennis Noll
2:25 - 2:50 PMDiscussion 
2:50 - 3:20 PMBreak 
3:20 - 5:00 PMSession 2: Agentically Discovering the Universe 
3:20 - 3:45 PMInfrastructure for agentic workflowsTom Abel
3:45 - 4:10 PMProgress in agentic workflowsJo CiucÇŽ & Marcelo Alvarez
4:10 - 4:20 PMTerminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI Agents on Complex, Real-World Scientific Workflows in Terminal EnvironmentsSteven Dillmann
4:20 - 4:30 PMLearning IRC-Safe Jet Clustering with Geometric Algebra TransformersGregor Krzmanc
4:30 - 5:00 PMDiscussion 
5:00 - 6:00 PMReception 

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