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, 23 July 2025 (08:00) to Friday, 25 July 2025 (14:00)

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

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Lobby
09:00 Opening remarks - Dan and Tristan
Opening remarks
- Dan and Tristan
09:00 - 09:15
Room: 272 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
09:15 Gravitational Waves: Session 1
Session 1
09:15 - 10:30
Room: 272 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Contributions

09:15 Gravitational wave detection with pulsar timing arrays - Bruce Allen (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)

09:45 Where are the supermassive black holes measured by PTAs? - Gabriela Sato-Polito (Institute for Advanced Study)

10:15 Studying Binary Black Holes and the Universe with Gravitational Waves - Michael Kesden (University of Texas at Dallas)
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Lobby
11:30 Num+AI: Session 2
Session 2
11:30 - 13:00
Room: 272 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Contributions

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

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

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

12:45 Rapid numerical evolution of linear cosmological perturbations with non-cold relics - Nanoom Lee (Johns Hopkins University)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Lobby
14:00 Dark Energy / Inflation: Session 3
Session 3
14:00 - 15:45
Room: 272 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Contributions

14:00 Complexogenesis - Sean Carroll (Johns Hopkins University)

14:30 The Big Bang as a Mirror - Latham Boyle (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Edinburgh)

15:00 Efficient Evolution of Spherical Dark-Matter Halos: With or Without New Physics - Kris Sigurdson (University of British Columbia)

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

15:30 Large Scale White Noise Limits on Gravitational Radiation - Albert Stebbins (Fermilab)
15:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:45 - 16:15
Room: Lobby
16:15 LIM+: Session 4
Session 4
16:15 - 18:00
Room: 272 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Contributions

16:15 New Probes of Cosmic Noon with Line Intensity Mapping - Anthony Pullen (New York University)

16:45 Galaxies for cosmology and cosmology for galaxies - Julian Munoz (University of Texas at Austin)

17:15 A New Boundary Condition on Reionization - Ely Kovetz (Ben-Gurion University)

17:30 High-Redshift Astrophysics Using Every Photon - Patrick Breysse (Southern Methodist University)

17:45 Dim and Deserted: What Low Density Structures Tell Us About the Cosmology of the Universe - Lara Arielle Phillips (University of Notre Dame)
18:00 Reception
Reception
18:00 - 20:00
Room: Lobby
Thursday, 24 July 2025
08:30 Dark Matter: Session 1
Session 1
08:30 - 10:30
Room: 272 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Contributions

08:30 The Universe as a Lab for Fundamental Physics - Cora Dvorkin (Harvard University)

09:00 Cosmology of light dark matter - Vera Gluscevic (University of Southern California)

09:30 Cosmology of even lighter dark matter - Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:30 Acoustic phase-shift - a novel probe of neutrino interactions in cosmology - Subhajit Ghosh (The University of Texas at Austin)
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:00
Room: Lobby
14:00 Tensions: Session 3
Session 3
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 272 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Contributions

14:00 The Hubble Tension After JWST - Adam Riess (Johns Hopkins University)

14:30 Early Dark Energy and the Hubble tension - Vivian Poulin (LUPM, CNRS & U. de Montpellier, France)

15:00 Phantom dark energy 22 years later - Dragan Huterer (University of Michigan)

15:30 DESI's neutrino mass constraints from a Bayesian & frequentist's perspective - Laura Herold (Johns Hopkins University)

15:45 An S8 Tension at Redshift 2 - Simeon Bird (University of California, Riverside)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Lobby
16:30 Special / Discussion: Session 4
Session 4
16:30 - 18:00
Room: 272 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Contributions

16:30 Hawking radiation and primordial black holes - Christopher Hirata (Ohio State University)

17:00 Long-range dark fifth-forces - Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski (Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute)

17:15 Discussion - Marc and Robert
18:00 Banquet dinner
Banquet dinner
18:00 - 21:00
Room: Lobby
Friday, 25 July 2025
09:00 Transients: Session 1
Session 1
09:00 - 10:30
Room: 272 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Contributions

09:00 Probing the cosmic dark ages with the Hongmeng project - Xuelei Chen (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Science)

09:30 Clustering fossil and parity violation measurement - Donghui Jeong (The Pennsylvania State University)

09:45 Clustering in Plato’s cave - Alvise Raccanelli (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

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

10:15 Widen the Resonance: Probing a New Regime of Neutrino Self-Interactions with Cosmological Neutrinos - Bei Zhou (Fermilab)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Lobby
11:00 Future: Session 2
Session 2
11:00 - 13:00
Room: 272 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Contributions

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

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

12:00 TBD - Olivier Dore (JPL)

12:30 Quo Vadis CMB spectral distortions? - Jens Chluba (University of Manchester)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Lobby

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