Focus on:  Hide Contributions
Login

TACOS 2024 @ UT Austin

→ America/Chicago
Avaya Auditorium (2.302) (Peter O'Donnell, Jr. Building (POB))

Avaya Auditorium (2.302)

Peter O'Donnell, Jr. Building (POB)

201 E. 24th St Austin, TX 78712
Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin), James Dent, Andrew Long (Rice University), Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University), Louis Strigari (Texas A&M)
Description

Theoretical Astroparticle and Cosmology Symposium in Texas

This meeting brings together researchers interested in topics at the intersection of theoretical particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. Participants from various institutions in Texas present and discuss the latest developments in their subfields, with the aim of fostering ideas and collaborations among faculty, postdocs, and graduate students. The host institution rotates from year to year to enable interactions with local experts in neighboring subfields.

Main meeting website: https://sites.google.com/view/texas-tacos/home

Scientific Organizing Committee:

Kimberly Boddy (UT Austin)
James Dent (Sam Houston)
Andrew Long (Rice)
Joel Meyers (SMU)
Louis Strigari (TAMU)

Kimberly Boddy
  • Monday 28 October
    • 09:00 → 21:00
      Monday Session
      • 09:00
        Opening remarks 10m
        Speakers: Prof. Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin), Katherine Freese (University of Texas at Austin)
      • 09:10
        Cosmic Microwave Background foregrounds and other problems that might be opportunities 30m
        Speaker: Kevin Huffenberger (Texas A&M University)
        huffenberger_slides_tacos.pdf
      • 09:40
        The Frontier of Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background 20m
        Speaker: Victor Chan (Southern Methodist University)
        VictorChan_TACOS_CMBlensing.pdf
      • 10:00
        Cosmological case study of a tower of neutrino states 20m
        Speaker: Dr Subhajit Ghosh (The University of Texas at Austin)
        SG_TACOS_2024.pdf
      • 10:20
        Talkitos 10m
      • 10:30
        Coffee Break 40m
      • 11:10
        Latest results from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment 30m
        Speaker: Karl Gebhardt (University of Texas at Austin)
      • 11:40
        The First Billion Years: Formation of the First Stars, Galaxies and Black Holes 30m
        Speaker: Volker Bromm (University of Texas at Austin)
        TACOS24_Bromm.pdf
        TACOS24_Bromm.pptx
      • 12:10
        Talkitos 10m
      • 12:20
        Group Photo 10m
      • 12:30
        Lunch 1h 20m
      • 13:50
        Year 1 Results from DESI 30m
        Speaker: Robert Kehoe (Southern Methodist University (US))
        TACOS24DESIb 2024-10-28 13.56.57.pdf
      • 14:20
        Free Streaming in Modified Cosmic History 20m
        Speaker: Moira Venegas (Rice University)
        Talk_mvenegas.pdf
      • 14:40
        Talkitos 20m
      • 15:00
        Coffee Break 40m
      • 15:40
        Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters: Going Beyond Mass Calibration 30m
        Speaker: Heidi Wu (Southern Methodist University)
        Wu_TACOS 2024-10-28 16.40.37.pdf
      • 16:10
        Cosmological profile likelihood constraints on dark matter scattering with protons 20m
        Speaker: Maria Straight (University of Texas at Austin)
        Straight_TACOS2024.pdf
      • 16:30
        Self-Interacting Dark Matter Substructures: A Tale of Diversity and More 20m
        Speaker: Carton Zeng (Texas A&M University)
        ZENG_tacos.pdf
        ZENG_tacos.pptx
      • 16:50
        Talkitos 10m
      • 17:00
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 17:30
        Metronome timing array (a metronome-microphone demo of a pulsar timing array) 30m
        Speaker: Joe Romano (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)
        TACOS_romano.pdf
      • 18:00
        Gravitational Waves from Chiral Plasma Instability in Standard Cosmology 30m
        Speaker: Andrew Long (Rice University)
        Andrew_Long--TACOS_2024.pdf
      • 18:30
        Talkitos 10m
      • 18:40
        Dinner reception 2h 20m
  • Tuesday 29 October
    • 09:00 → 21:40
      Tuesday Session
      • 09:00
        Some Phenomenological Aspects of Primordial Black Holes 30m
        Speaker: James Dent (Sam Houston State University)
        TACOS-2024-Dent-James.pdf
      • 09:30
        A comprehensive analysis of supernova neutrino-dark matter interactions 20m
        Speaker: Dr Deepak Sathyan (Texas A&M University)
        DM-nu TACOS, Deepak.pdf
      • 09:50
        Thermonuclear runaways and their effects on relativistic jets 30m
        Speaker: Tom Maccarone (Texas Tech University)
        TACOS jet bursts 2024-10-28 21.50.06.pdf
      • 10:20
        Coffee Break 40m
      • 11:00
        Tides in Coalescing Neutron Star Binaries 30m
        Speaker: Nevin Weinberg (University of Texas at Arlington)
        weinberg_tacos24.pdf
      • 11:30
        Free-streaming neutrinos in the CMB power spectra 20m
        Speaker: Gab Montefalcone (University of Texas at Austin)
        montefalcone_tacos2024.pdf
      • 11:50
        Cosmological LIMits from Line-Intensity Mapping 30m
        Speaker: Ely Kovetz (Ben-Gurion University)
        UT TACOS Oct 2024.pdf
      • 12:20
        Closing remarks 10m
Powered by Indico v3.3.7-pre