TACOS 2025 @ SHSU
from
Monday 13 October 2025 (08:00)
to
Tuesday 14 October 2025 (12:30)
Monday 13 October 2025
08:00
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Room 105
09:00
Introduction
Introduction
09:00 - 09:10
Room: Room 105
09:10
Dark matter and cosmology from JWST
Dark matter and cosmology from JWST
09:10 - 09:40
Room: Room 105
**Speaker:** Julian B. Muñoz (<small>The University of Texas at Austin</small>)
09:40
Halo bias in simulations at high redshifts
Halo bias in simulations at high redshifts
09:40 - 10:00
Room: Room 105
**Speaker:** Kuan Wang (<small>The University of Texas at Austin</small>)
10:00
Galaxy-Halo connection modelling – Producing high-fidelity lightcones for DESI
Galaxy-Halo connection modelling – Producing high-fidelity lightcones for DESI
10:00 - 10:20
Room: Room 105
**Speaker:** Vaisakh Rajeev (<small>Southern Methodist University</small>)
10:20
Talkitos
Talkitos
10:20 - 10:30
Room: Room 105
10:30
Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:10
Room: Room 105
11:10
Talkitos
Talkitos
11:10 - 11:20
Room: Room 105
11:20
Learning clustering in Plato's cave
Learning clustering in Plato's cave
11:20 - 11:50
Room: Room 105
**Speaker:** Alvise Raccanelli (<small>Università degli Studi di Padova</small>)
11:50
TBD
TBD
11:50 - 12:10
Room: Room 105
**Speaker:** Brandon Curd (<small>The University of Texas at San Antonio</small>)
12:10
Talkitos
Talkitos
12:10 - 12:20
Room: Room 105
12:20
Group photo
Group photo
12:20 - 12:30
Room: Room 105
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Room 105
14:00
Talkitos
Talkitos
14:00 - 14:10
Room: Room 105
14:10
Physics & Chemistry of the Baryon Cycle: Linking Massive Galaxies and Their Gas
Physics & Chemistry of the Baryon Cycle: Linking Massive Galaxies and Their Gas
14:10 - 14:40
Room: Room 105
**Speaker:** Fakhri Zahedy (<small>University of North Texas</small>)
14:40
COMAP × LOFAR: Forecasting the Cross-Correlation between CO(2–1) and 21-cm Lines during Reionization
COMAP × LOFAR: Forecasting the Cross-Correlation between CO(2–1) and 21-cm Lines during Reionization
14:40 - 15:00
Room: Room 105
**Speaker:** Jianrong Tan (<small>Southern Methodist University</small>)
15:00
Talkitos
Talkitos
15:00 - 15:10
Room: Room 105
15:10
Coffee
Coffee
15:10 - 15:50
Room: Room 105
15:50
Dark matter physics from our local galactic neighborhood
Dark matter physics from our local galactic neighborhood
15:50 - 16:20
Room: Room 105
<strong>Speaker:</strong> Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (<small>University of New Mexico</small>)
16:20
Searching for ultraheavy dark matter using mechanical sensors
Searching for ultraheavy dark matter using mechanical sensors
16:20 - 16:40
Room: Room 105
**Speaker:** Juehang Qin (<small>Rice University</small>)
16:40
Probing the meV QCD Axion with the SQWARE Quantum Semiconductor Haloscope
Probing the meV QCD Axion with the SQWARE Quantum Semiconductor Haloscope
16:40 - 17:00
Room: Room 105
**Speaker:** Jaanita Mehrani (<small>Rice University</small>)
17:00
Talkitos
Talkitos
17:00 - 17:10
Room: Room 105
17:10
Coffee
Coffee
17:10 - 17:40
Room: Room 105
17:40
Constraints on Hubble Tension Alleviation Through Black Hole Superradiance
Constraints on Hubble Tension Alleviation Through Black Hole Superradiance
17:40 - 18:00
Room: Room 105
**Speaker:** Iain Bisset (<small>Texas A&M University</small>)
18:00
Results from the Cosmic Dawn (CoDa) III Simulation: Inhomogeneous Reionization and Chemical Enrichment with Observational Signatures
Results from the Cosmic Dawn (CoDa) III Simulation: Inhomogeneous Reionization and Chemical Enrichment with Observational Signatures
18:00 - 18:20
Room: Room 105
**Speaker:** Joohyun Lee (<small>The University of Texas at Austin</small>)
18:30
Reception
Reception
18:30 - 22:00
Tuesday 14 October 2025
08:00
Breakfast - coffee, tea, tacos, etc.
Breakfast - coffee, tea, tacos, etc.
08:00 - 09:10
Room: Room 105
09:10
No Nus is Good News
-
Joel Meyers
(
Southern Methodist University
)
No Nus is Good News
Joel Meyers
(
Southern Methodist University
)
09:10 - 09:40
Room: Room 105
09:40
Intrinsic Alignments of Galaxies: A Systematic Effect for Weak Lensing Analysis but A Treasure Trove for Structure Formation
Intrinsic Alignments of Galaxies: A Systematic Effect for Weak Lensing Analysis but A Treasure Trove for Structure Formation
09:40 - 10:00
Room: Room 105
**Speaker:** Avijit Bera (<small>The University of Texas at Dallas</small>)
10:00
On the Orbital History of the Milky Way and M31
On the Orbital History of the Milky Way and M31
10:00 - 10:20
Room: Room 105
**Speaker:** Odelia Hartl (<small>Texas A&M University</small>)
10:20
Coffee
Coffee
10:20 - 11:00
Room: Room 105
11:00
An Alcock-Paczynski test to measure cosmology from reionization bubbles
An Alcock-Paczynski test to measure cosmology from reionization bubbles
11:00 - 11:20
Room: Room 105
**Speaker:** Emilie Thelie (<small>The University of Texas at Austin</small>)
11:20
Shedding Light on the KM3NeT Event: A Dark Matter Effect
Shedding Light on the KM3NeT Event: A Dark Matter Effect
11:20 - 11:40
Room: Room 105
**Speaker:** Aparajitha Karthikeyan (<small>Texas A&M University</small>)
11:40
The Sun through a neutrino lens
The Sun through a neutrino lens
11:40 - 12:10
Room: Room 105
**Speaker:** Kevin Kelly (<small>Texas A&M University</small>)
12:10
Closing remarks
Closing remarks
12:10 - 12:20
Room: Room 105