Special RPM: Industry Career Panel
2026-04-28 15:00 - 17:00 UTC
Special Research Progress Meeting
Date: April 28, 2026
Time: 3:00- 5:00 pm [Note special start time]
Location: Building 50 Auditorium [In-Person and HYBRID] [Note special location]

Panelists:
Luigi Capodieci [Synopsis]
Katie Copic [Fieldwork]
Tobias Ostermayr [Nvidia]
Nadav Outmezguine [Microsoft AI]
Khilesh Mistry [Block Inc.]
Title: Industry Career Panel
Summary: The Industry Career Panel will consist of panelists that have backgrounds similar to postdocs and graduate students at LBNL and/ or have extensively worked in departments that often employ people with these backgrounds. This event is especially geared towards postdocs and graduate students preparing to apply for jobs in industry. Attendees are encouraged to bring questions about any aspect of the industry job application process.

https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/95679892182?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 956 7989 2182
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Speaker: Rupert Croft (CMU) - Title: Cosmological simulations, AI and the high redshift Universe
2026-04-30 16:00 - 17:00
Research Progress Meeting
Date: April 30, 2026
Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm
Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 [In-Person and HYBRID]
Speaker: Rupert Croft (CMU)
Title: Cosmological simulations, AI and the high redshift Universe
Abstract: AI assistance can turn complex astrophysical supercomputer simulations into easily accessible tools. I will introduce applications to cosmology, including hybrid AI-physics codes, and a agentic system that can set up and run a billion particle simulation in seconds. As a use case for this type of modelling, I will explore the Lyman-alpha forest of intergalactic absorption in quasars and how it can both be gravitationally lensed, and also used to make large-scale maps of the intergalactic radiation intensity. I will also present cold dark matter simulation predictions for the mysterious “little red dots” seen by the Webb telescope at high redshift.
https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/98854322464?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 988 5432 2464

Passcode: [REDACTED]
