TACOS 2025 @ SHSU
Room 105
Evans Complex
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)
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Breakfast - coffee, tea, tacos, etc. Room 105
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Introduction Room 105
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Dark matter and cosmology from JWST Room 105
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1901 University Avenue Huntsville, TX 77340Speaker: Julian B. Muñoz (The University of Texas at Austin)
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Halo bias in simulations at high redshifts Room 105
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1901 University Avenue Huntsville, TX 77340Speaker: Kuan Wang (The University of Texas at Austin)
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Galaxy-Halo connection modelling – Producing high-fidelity lightcones for DESI Room 105
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1901 University Avenue Huntsville, TX 77340Speaker: Vaisakh Rajeev (Southern Methodist University)
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Coffee Room 105
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Talkitos Room 105
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Learning clustering in Plato's cave Room 105
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1901 University Avenue Huntsville, TX 77340Speaker: Alvise Raccanelli (Università degli Studi di Padova)
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TBD Room 105
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1901 University Avenue Huntsville, TX 77340Speaker: Brandon Curd (The University of Texas at San Antonio)
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Group photo Room 105
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Lunch Room 105
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Talkitos Room 105
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Physics & Chemistry of the Baryon Cycle: Linking Massive Galaxies and Their Gas Room 105
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1901 University Avenue Huntsville, TX 77340Speaker: Fakhri Zahedy (University of North Texas)
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COMAP × LOFAR: Forecasting the Cross-Correlation between CO(2–1) and 21-cm Lines during Reionization Room 105
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1901 University Avenue Huntsville, TX 77340Speaker: Jianrong Tan (Southern Methodist University)
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Talkitos Room 105
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Coffee Room 105
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Dark matter physics from our local galactic neighborhood Room 105
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1901 University Avenue Huntsville, TX 77340Speaker: Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (University of New Mexico)
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Searching for ultraheavy dark matter using mechanical sensors Room 105
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1901 University Avenue Huntsville, TX 77340Speaker: Juehang Qin (Rice University)
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Probing the meV QCD Axion with the SQWARE Quantum Semiconductor Haloscope Room 105
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1901 University Avenue Huntsville, TX 77340Speaker: Jaanita Mehrani (Rice University)
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Talkitos Room 105
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Coffee Room 105
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Constraints on Hubble Tension Alleviation Through Black Hole Superradiance Room 105
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1901 University Avenue Huntsville, TX 77340Speaker: Iain Bisset (Texas A&M University)
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Results from the Cosmic Dawn (CoDa) III Simulation: Inhomogeneous Reionization and Chemical Enrichment with Observational Signatures Room 105
Room 105
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1901 University Avenue Huntsville, TX 77340Speaker: Joohyun Lee (The University of Texas at Austin)
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18:30
Reception Dominey Observatory
Dominey Observatory
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No Nus is Good News Room 105
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Intrinsic Alignments of Galaxies: A Systematic Effect for Weak Lensing Analysis but A Treasure Trove for Structure Formation Room 105
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1901 University Avenue Huntsville, TX 77340Speaker: Avijit Bera (The University of Texas at Dallas)
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On the Orbital History of the Milky Way and M31 Room 105
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1901 University Avenue Huntsville, TX 77340Speaker: Odelia Hartl (Texas A&M University)
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10:20
Coffee Room 105
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An Alcock-Paczynski test to measure cosmology from reionization bubbles Room 105
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1901 University Avenue Huntsville, TX 77340Speaker: Emilie Thelie (The University of Texas at Austin)
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Shedding Light on the KM3NeT Event: A Dark Matter Effect Room 105
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1901 University Avenue Huntsville, TX 77340Speaker: Aparajitha Karthikeyan (Texas A&M University)
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The Sun through a neutrino lens Room 105
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1901 University Avenue Huntsville, TX 77340Speaker: Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University)
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Closing remarks Room 105
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08:00