This workshop/school is part of the California Amplitudes series, but modified to teach/discuss the uses of AI in theoretical physics, with an emphasis on case studies chosen from scattering amplitudes. While AI + ML has great potential to accelerate progress in our field, we humans still need to understand its potential, limitations, and best practices. The lectures will be organized into three components:

1. the basics of machine learning methods;
2. step-by-step case studies where ML helps or has great potential to help; and
3. best practices and examples for AI-assisted (vibe) coding and agentic workflows.

Afternoon sessions will provide opportunities to ask questions about the morning lectures and brainstorm how ML methods might help address individual participants’ research problems. We plan to have hands-on sample problems for participants to work through.

The basic plan is three days of AI/ML lectures and discussion, with a fourth day possible if there is demand for participant talks, especially talks discussing work where AI/ML was used in amplitudes applications.

The QCD Evolution workshop series, running since 2011, brings together theorists and experimentalists to study the quark and gluon structure of hadrons and nuclei, with a focus on hadron tomography, QCD dynamics, and physics at Jefferson Lab and the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). Topics include parton distributions, generalized and transverse-momentum-dependent distributions, fragmentation functions, spin physics, small-x dynamics, lattice QCD, and effective field theories, as well as applications of AI and machine learning to QCD and hadron physics.

This workshop celebrates the 10th year of the Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics, as well as Dr. Mani L. Bhaumik's 95th birthday. The workshop will include topics on basic issues in quantum field theory, string theory, black holes, gravitational waves, and other topics. Speakers are selected from within the Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics to highlight the work being carried out at the Institute.

The 22nd International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM2026) will be held on the campus of University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in March 22-27, 2026. The SQM conference series will continue to focus on strange and heavy quark probes of the quark-gluon plasma and astrophysical phenomena. SQM2026 will highlight recent experimental and theoretical achievements on broad physics topics related to high temperature and high energy/or baryon density quantum chromodynamics.

OpenAI is collaborating with UCLA’s Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) and the Bhaumik Institute on a full-day convening of leading mathematicians, theoretical physicists, and AI researchers to explore how frontier reasoning models are beginning to accelerate discovery in highly abstract scientific domains. Through a sequence of focused lectures, disciplinary deep dives, and panel discussions, the program will highlight innovative applications of AI in mathematics and physics and offer researchers a front-row view of an emerging era in which AI acts as an accelerant for solving the hardest scientific problems. Mid-event, a fireside conversation between Terence Tao and Mark Chen will reflect on the past year of advancements in reasoning models and explore how AI is reshaping mathematical inquiry.

We are hosting the California Amplitudes meeting on November 8th & November 9th, 2025. For those of you who have not participated in CAmplitudes in the past, it is a very informal annual meeting of people in California that work on scattering amplitudes and related topics.

Hosted by the Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy. Speakers: Cumrun Vafa (Harvard), Amey Gaikwad (UCLA), Ho Tat Lam (Stanford/USC), and John McGreevy (UCSD).

We are thrilled to announce that the 2025 Saturated Glue (SURGE) Collaboration Meeting and Workshop will be hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from June 23 to June 25, 2025.

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is one of the pillars of the Standard Model of particle physics. It describes the strong interaction - one of the four fundamental forces of nature. This force holds quarks and gluons - collectively known as partons - together in hadrons such as the proton, and protons and neutrons together in atomic nuclei. QCD was developed and defined over a brief period from 1972 - 73. One hallmark of QCD is asymptotic freedom, which states that the strong force between quarks and gluons decreases with increasing energy. The asymptotic freedom of strong interactions was discovered in 1973 by David Gross, Frank Wilczek, and David Politzer, who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 2004. The year 2023 is the opportune time to celebrate 50 years of remarkable progress and achievements in the field of QCD and to provide guidance for the community effort for years to come.

QCD Meets Gravity 2022 will be held Dec 12-16 in Zurich.

The Mani L. Bhaumik Institute and the Julian Schwinger Foundation will be hosting a workshop on the latest developments on the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. Julian Schwinger, who spent 20 years at UCLA, was the first to calculate the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron in quantum electrodynamics.

This conference celebrates the 5th year of the Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics, as well as Dr. Mani L. Bhaumik's 90th birthday. (This conference is more than a year late due to the pandemic.) The workshop will include topics on basic issues in quantum field theory, string theory, black holes and gravitational waves and other topics. Speakers include Nima Arkani-Hamed, Barry Barish, Steven Chu, David Gross, Juan Maldacena, Eva Silverstein, Claudio Pellegrini, Lenny Susskind, and three young UCLA professors to represent current and future work at the Bhaumik Institute.

This is the 7th in a series of meetings for researchers interested in the remarkable correspondence between Yang-Mills theory and gravity, known as the double-copy construction. Due to the continuing pandemic the meeting will be on line, following a similar format as used last year. The meeting brings together experts in both gauge and gravity theories including supersymmetric extensions and focuses on bringing the methodologies developed for gauge theories to handle problems in gravity.

A main objective of QCD Evolution Workshop is to provide a forum to discuss the recent scientific accomplishments in areas such as Transverse Momentum Distributions (TMDs), Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs), and small-x physics, together with advances in perturbative and non-perturbative techniques within Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), such as lattice QCD and effective field theory techniques.

We are hosting the virtual California Amplitudes meeting on March 24/25 2021. For those of you who have not participated in CAmplitudes in the past, it is a very informal annual meeting of people in California that work on scattering amplitudes and related topics.

A main objective of QCD Evolution Workshop is to provide a forum to discuss the recent scientific accomplishments in areas such as Transverse Momentum Distributions (TMDs), Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs), and small-x physics, together with advances in perturbative and non-perturbative techniques within Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), such as lattice QCD and effective field theory techniques.

This is the fifth in a series of meetings for researchers interested in the remarkable correspondence between Yang-Mills theory and gravity, known as the double-copy construction. An early manifestation of this is the KLT relations.

This three-day workshop will celebrate the career of Distinguished Professor Sudip Chakravarty, UCLA Physics & Astronomy.

This workshop, to be held at the UCLA IDRE Portal in the Math Sciences Building, will bring together senior researchers, postdoctoral fellows and talented graduate students to discuss the exciting recent developments and future directions in high energy and nuclear science. The purpose of the 2019 Santa Fe Jets and Heavy Flavor workshop is to summarize the accomplishments and provide guidance for the community effort in the areas of hadronic jets, jet substructure, quarkonia and open heavy flavor, with emphasis on perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (pQCD) and Soft Collinear Effective Theory (SCET).

2018 is Julian Schwinger's Centennial. To help celebrate Julian Schwinger's legacy, the Mani L. Bhaumik Institute and the Julian Schwinger Foundation will be holding a workshop on the latest developments on the anomalous magnetic moment of leptons, especially the muon. A long-standing 3 sigma discrepancy between theory and experiment points towards new physics beyond the Standard Model. Is it real?

This workshop, hosted by the Bhaumik Institute of Theoretical Physics and the UCLA Center for Biological Physics, explores the emerging connections between physics and neuroscience as part of the UCLA Julian Schwinger Centennial Celebration. Topics include:

• Information theory and neural encoding of sensory data
• The application of the theory of nonlinear dynamical systems to neural networks
• The statistical physics of nonlinear actors on quenched random networks

The properties of NV centers in diamonds have been extensively explored over the past 20 years. Single-site experiments with extraordinary precision and resolution have been demonstrated, raising expectations for revolutionary metrology/spectroscopy applications. However, all potential applications require a highly reproducible and precise placement of NV centers in pure synthetic diamond crystals.

This is the third in a series of meetings for researchers interested in the remarkable correspondence between Yang-Mills theory and gravity, known as the double-copy construction. An early manifestation of this is the KLT relations.

There have been exciting recent progress in the field of QCD, including: new understanding of factorization, resummation and power corrections that give insight into effective field theories; a new ability to compute NNLO and beyond perturbative corrections that allow precision jet phenomenology at the LHC and other future colliders; better organizing principles for computing multi-loop corrections; the development of new parton showers with higher-order matching; and, many other new advances. This workshop will bring together a small group of experts to allow for targeted discussions that identify possible future advances that merge these new ideas.

The fundamental laws of QCD are elegantly concise; however, understanding the structural complexity of nucleons in terms of quarks and gluons governed by those laws is one of the most important challenges facing subatomic physics today, and is of fundamental importance in science. There have been tremendous advancements and breakthroughs following the vast investigations in the last few decades. Current and future projects at world facilities, such as RHIC at Brookhaven National Lab and CEBAF at Jefferson Lab, and the planed electron-ion collider (EIC) in the US, will undoubtedly provide new opportunities to further deepen our understanding of the fundamental questions associated with QCD structure of nucleons. In particular, the EIC will provide unprecedented precision in exploring the nucleon structure and address many of the outstanding questions. In line with these experimental advances and future plans, we envision that the theory developments must follow.

The Workshop on Chirality, Vorticity and Magnetic Field in Heavy Ion Collisions will be held at UCLA from March 27 through March 30, 2017. The workshop will cover recent theoretical developments and experimental measurements related to these topics.

This is the second in a series of meetings for researchers interested in the remarkable correspondence between Yang-Mills theory and gravity, known as the double-copy construction. An early manifestation of this is the KLT relations.

This is the second in a series for meetings for researchers in California interested in scattering amplitudes. The first was held at UC Davis.