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Center for Decoding the Universe Winter Forum

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Thursday, February 12, 2026 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM PST/PDT
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Simonyi Conference Center, CoDa, 389 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
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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 Ciucǎ & 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