TACOS 2024 @ UT Austin

Name: TACOS 2024 @ UT Austin
Start: 2024-10-28T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-10-29T21:40:00-05:00
Location: Peter O'Donnell, Jr. Building (POB)

28 Oct 2024, 09:00 → 29 Oct 2024, 21:40 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

kboddy@physics.utexas.edu

Monday 28 October ¶
- Mon 28 Oct
- Tue 29 Oct
- Monday Session¶
  - 1
    
    Opening remarks¶
    
    Speakers: Prof. Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin), Katherine Freese (University of Texas at Austin)
  - 2
    
    Cosmic Microwave Background foregrounds and other problems that might be opportunities¶
    
    Speaker: Kevin Huffenberger (Texas A&M University)
    
    huffenberger_slides_tacos.pdf
  - 3
    
    The Frontier of Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background¶
    
    Speaker: Victor Chan (Southern Methodist University)
    
    VictorChan_TACOS_CMBlensing.pdf
  - 4
    
    Cosmological case study of a tower of neutrino states¶
    
    Speaker: Dr Subhajit Ghosh (The University of Texas at Austin)
    
    SG_TACOS_2024.pdf
  - 5
    
    Talkitos¶
  - 10:30
    
    Coffee Break
  - 6
    
    Latest results from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment¶
    
    Speaker: Karl Gebhardt (University of Texas at Austin)
  - 7
    
    The First Billion Years: Formation of the First Stars, Galaxies and Black Holes¶
    
    Speaker: Volker Bromm (University of Texas at Austin)
    
    TACOS24_Bromm.pdf
    
    TACOS24_Bromm.pptx
  - 8
    
    Talkitos¶
  - 12:20
    
    Group Photo
  - 12:30
    
    Lunch
  - 9
    
    Year 1 Results from DESI¶
    
    Speaker: Robert Kehoe (Southern Methodist University (US))
    
    TACOS24DESIb 2024-10-28 13.56.57.pdf
  - 10
    
    Free Streaming in Modified Cosmic History¶
    
    Speaker: Moira Venegas (Rice University)
    
    Talk_mvenegas.pdf
  - 11
    
    Talkitos¶
  - 15:00
    
    Coffee Break
  - 12
    
    Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters: Going Beyond Mass Calibration¶
    
    Speaker: Heidi Wu (Southern Methodist University)
    
    Wu_TACOS 2024-10-28 16.40.37.pdf
  - 13
    
    Cosmological profile likelihood constraints on dark matter scattering with protons¶
    
    Speaker: Maria Straight (University of Texas at Austin)
    
    Straight_TACOS2024.pdf
  - 14
    
    Self-Interacting Dark Matter Substructures: A Tale of Diversity and More¶
    
    Speaker: Carton Zeng (Texas A&M University)
    
    ZENG_tacos.pdf
    
    ZENG_tacos.pptx
  - 15
    
    Talkitos¶
  - 17:00
    
    Coffee Break
  - 16
    
    Metronome timing array (a metronome-microphone demo of a pulsar timing array)¶
    
    Speaker: Joe Romano (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)
    
    TACOS_romano.pdf
  - 17
    
    Gravitational Waves from Chiral Plasma Instability in Standard Cosmology¶
    
    Speaker: Andrew Long (Rice University)
    
    Andrew_Long--TACOS_2024.pdf
  - 18
    
    Talkitos¶
  - 18:40
    
    Dinner reception
Tuesday 29 October ¶
- Mon 28 Oct
- Tue 29 Oct
- Tuesday Session¶
  - 19
    
    Some Phenomenological Aspects of Primordial Black Holes¶
    
    Speaker: James Dent (Sam Houston State University)
    
    TACOS-2024-Dent-James.pdf
  - 20
    
    A comprehensive analysis of supernova neutrino-dark matter interactions¶
    
    Speaker: Dr Deepak Sathyan (Texas A&M University)
    
    DM-nu TACOS, Deepak.pdf
  - 21
    
    Thermonuclear runaways and their effects on relativistic jets¶
    
    Speaker: Tom Maccarone (Texas Tech University)
    
    TACOS jet bursts 2024-10-28 21.50.06.pdf
  - 10:20
    
    Coffee Break
  - 22
    
    Tides in Coalescing Neutron Star Binaries¶
    
    Speaker: Nevin Weinberg (University of Texas at Arlington)
    
    weinberg_tacos24.pdf
  - 23
    
    Free-streaming neutrinos in the CMB power spectra¶
    
    Speaker: Gab Montefalcone (University of Texas at Austin)
    
    montefalcone_tacos2024.pdf
  - 24
    
    Cosmological LIMits from Line-Intensity Mapping¶
    
    Speaker: Ely Kovetz (Ben-Gurion University)
    
    UT TACOS Oct 2024.pdf
  - 12:20
    
    Closing remarks