Name: Cosmology Summer Fest 2025
Start: 2025-07-23T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-07-25T14:00:00-04:00
Location: Johns Hopkins University

Cosmology Summer Fest 2025

from Wednesday, July 23, 2025 (8:00 AM) to Friday, July 25, 2025 (2:00 PM)

Monday, July 21, 2025
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

8:30 AM Registration
Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Lobby
9:00 AM Opening remarks - Dan and Tristan
Opening remarks
- Dan and Tristan
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: 272 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
9:15 AM Gravitational Waves: Session 1
Session 1
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 272 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Contributions

9:15 AM Gravitational wave detection with pulsar timing arrays - Bruce Allen (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)

9:45 AM Where are the supermassive black holes measured by PTAs? - Gabriela Sato-Polito (Institute for Advanced Study)

10:15 AM Studying Binary Black Holes and the Universe with Gravitational Waves - Michael Kesden (University of Texas at Dallas)
11:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Lobby
11:30 AM Num+AI: Session 2
Session 2
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: 272 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Contributions

11:30 AM G & C and the Rest of the CMB - Suzanne Staggs (Princeton University)

12:00 PM Surfing the Big Data Wave - Hiranya Peiris (University of Cambridge)

12:30 PM Beyond the power spectrum: Physicists vs. AI - Bhuvnesh Jain (University of Pennsylvania)

12:45 PM Rapid numerical evolution of linear cosmological perturbations with non-cold relics - Nanoom Lee (Johns Hopkins University)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Lobby
2:00 PM Dark Energy / Inflation: Session 3
Session 3
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: 272 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Contributions

2:00 PM Complexogenesis - Sean Carroll (Johns Hopkins University)

2:30 PM The Big Bang as a Mirror - Latham Boyle (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Edinburgh)

3:00 PM Efficient Evolution of Spherical Dark-Matter Halos: With or Without New Physics - Kris Sigurdson (University of British Columbia)

3:15 PM Beyond the Limits of Quintessence - Eric Linder (UC Berkeley)

3:30 PM Large Scale White Noise Limits on Gravitational Radiation - Albert Stebbins (Fermilab)
3:45 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Lobby
4:15 PM LIM+: Session 4
Session 4
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 272 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Contributions

4:15 PM New Probes of Cosmic Noon with Line Intensity Mapping - Anthony Pullen (New York University)

4:45 PM Galaxies for cosmology and cosmology for galaxies - Julian Munoz (University of Texas at Austin)

5:15 PM A New Boundary Condition on Reionization - Ely Kovetz (Ben-Gurion University)

5:30 PM High-Redshift Astrophysics Using Every Photon - Patrick Breysse (Southern Methodist University)

5:45 PM Dim and Deserted: What Low Density Structures Tell Us About the Cosmology of the Universe - Lara Arielle Phillips (University of Notre Dame)
6:00 PM Reception
Reception
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Lobby
Thursday, July 24, 2025
8:30 AM Dark Matter: Session 1
Session 1
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 272 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Contributions

8:30 AM The Universe as a Lab for Fundamental Physics - Cora Dvorkin (Harvard University)

9:00 AM Cosmology of light dark matter - Vera Gluscevic (University of Southern California)

9:30 AM Cosmology of even lighter dark matter - Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)

10:00 AM Exact treatment of weak dark matter-baryon scattering for linear-cosmology observables - Yacine Ali-Haimoud (New York University)

10:15 AM Small-scale probes of the expansion history - Adrienne Erickcek (UNC Chapel Hill)
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Lobby
11:00 AM CMB: Session 2
Session 2
11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: 272 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Contributions

11:00 AM From Lagrangian to Likelihood: Dark Matter Physics with Big Telescopes and Computers - Annika Peter (Ohio State University)

11:30 AM A new laboratory search for axions - Lyman Page (Princeton University)

12:00 PM Fundamental science with the secondary CMB - Matthew Johnson (York University/Perimeter Institute)

12:15 PM Fundamental Physics with kSZ Tomography - Avery Tishue (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

12:30 PM Acoustic phase-shift - a novel probe of neutrino interactions in cosmology - Subhajit Ghosh (The University of Texas at Austin)
12:45 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Lobby
2:00 PM Tensions: Session 3
Session 3
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 272 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Contributions

2:00 PM The Hubble Tension After JWST - Adam Riess (Johns Hopkins University)

2:30 PM Early Dark Energy and the Hubble tension - Vivian Poulin (LUPM, CNRS & U. de Montpellier, France)

3:00 PM Phantom dark energy 22 years later - Dragan Huterer (University of Michigan)

3:30 PM DESI's neutrino mass constraints from a Bayesian & frequentist's perspective - Laura Herold (Johns Hopkins University)

3:45 PM An S8 Tension at Redshift 2 - Simeon Bird (University of California, Riverside)
4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Lobby
4:30 PM Special / Discussion: Session 4
Session 4
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 272 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Contributions

4:30 PM Hawking radiation and primordial black holes - Christopher Hirata (Ohio State University)

5:00 PM Long-range dark fifth-forces - Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski (Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute)

5:15 PM Discussion - Marc and Robert
6:00 PM Banquet dinner
Banquet dinner
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: Lobby
Friday, July 25, 2025
9:00 AM Transients: Session 1
Session 1
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 272 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Contributions

9:00 AM Probing the cosmic dark ages with the Hongmeng project - Xuelei Chen (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Science)

9:30 AM Clustering fossil and parity violation measurement - Donghui Jeong (The Pennsylvania State University)

9:45 AM Clustering in Plato’s cave - Alvise Raccanelli (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

10:00 AM Not-Quite Primordial Black Holes - Wenzer Qin (New York University)

10:15 AM Widen the Resonance: Probing a New Regime of Neutrino Self-Interactions with Cosmological Neutrinos - Bei Zhou (Fermilab)
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Lobby
11:00 AM Future: Session 2
Session 2
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: 272 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Contributions

11:00 AM Dark Matter: the odds have changed - Joe Silk (JHU/IAP)

11:30 AM New Cosmology Probes with Radio Polarimetry of Galaxies - Liang Dai (University of California, Berkeley)

12:00 PM TBD - Olivier Dore (JPL)

12:30 PM Quo Vadis CMB spectral distortions? - Jens Chluba (University of Manchester)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Lobby

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