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
    • 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)
      • 3
        The Frontier of Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background
        Speaker: Victor Chan (Southern Methodist University)
      • 4
        Cosmological case study of a tower of neutrino states
        Speaker: Dr Subhajit Ghosh (The University of Texas at Austin)
      • 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)
      • 8
        Talkitos
      • 12:20
        Group Photo
      • 12:30
        Lunch
      • 9
        Year 1 Results from DESI
        Speaker: Robert Kehoe (Southern Methodist University (US))
      • 10
        Free Streaming in Modified Cosmic History
        Speaker: Moira Venegas (Rice University)
      • 11
        Talkitos
      • 15:00
        Coffee Break
      • 12
        Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters: Going Beyond Mass Calibration
        Speaker: Heidi Wu (Southern Methodist University)
      • 13
        Cosmological profile likelihood constraints on dark matter scattering with protons
        Speaker: Maria Straight (University of Texas at Austin)
      • 14
        Self-Interacting Dark Matter Substructures: A Tale of Diversity and More
        Speaker: Carton Zeng (Texas A&M University)
      • 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)
      • 17
        Gravitational Waves from Chiral Plasma Instability in Standard Cosmology
        Speaker: Andrew Long (Rice University)
      • 18
        Talkitos
      • 18:40
        Dinner reception
  • Tuesday 29 October
    • Tuesday Session
      • 19
        Some Phenomenological Aspects of Primordial Black Holes
        Speaker: James Dent (Sam Houston State University)
      • 20
        A comprehensive analysis of supernova neutrino-dark matter interactions
        Speaker: Dr Deepak Sathyan (Texas A&M University)
      • 21
        Thermonuclear runaways and their effects on relativistic jets
        Speaker: Tom Maccarone (Texas Tech University)
      • 10:20
        Coffee Break
      • 22
        Tides in Coalescing Neutron Star Binaries
        Speaker: Nevin Weinberg (University of Texas at Arlington)
      • 23
        Free-streaming neutrinos in the CMB power spectra
        Speaker: Gab Montefalcone (University of Texas at Austin)
      • 24
        Cosmological LIMits from Line-Intensity Mapping
        Speaker: Ely Kovetz (Ben-Gurion University)
      • 12:20
        Closing remarks