Name: TACOS 2026
Start: 2026-10-22T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-10-24T20:30:00-05:00
Location: No location set

TACOS 2026

from Thursday, 22 October 2026 (18:00) to Saturday, 24 October 2026 (20:30)

Monday, 19 October 2026
Tuesday, 20 October 2026
Wednesday, 21 October 2026
Thursday, 22 October 2026
18:00 Hagler Institute Nobel Lecture: Hagler Institute Nobel Lecture
Hagler Institute Nobel Lecture
18:00 - 19:00
Contributions

18:00 The Universe From Beginning to End - Brian Schmidt (Australian National University)
Friday, 23 October 2026
09:30 Friday Morning: Friday Morning
Friday Morning
09:30 - 10:40
Contributions

09:30 Welcome & Introduction - Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University)

09:40 TBD -- Steve Finkelstein

10:10 TBD -- Junehyoung Jeon

10:30 Talkitos
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 Friday Morning: Friday Morning 2
Friday Morning 2
11:10 - 12:30
Contributions

11:10 Talkitos

11:20 TBD -- John Chisholm

11:50 TBD -- Alessandra Venditti

12:10 Talkitos

12:20 Group Photo
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Friday Afternoon: Friday Afternoon 1
Friday Afternoon 1
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Talkitos

14:15 Search for Dark Matter in an Extended Nuclear Recoil Energy Window with LUX-ZEPLIN -- Dan Hunt - Dan Hunt (University of Texas at Austin)

14:35 TBD -- Debopam Goswami - Debopam Goswami (Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University)

14:55 TBD -- Jenna Samuel

15:15 Talkitos
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:20
16:20 Friday Afternoon: Friday Afternoon 2
Friday Afternoon 2
16:20 - 17:50
Contributions

16:20 Talkitos

16:30 TBD -- Cristian Vargas

16:50 TBD -- Claudia Ratti - Claudia Ratti

17:20 Probing Strong-Field Physics in X-ray Emission from Magnetized Neutron Stars - Hoa Dinh (Rice University)

17:40 Talkitos
18:00 Dinner
Dinner
18:00 - 20:00
Saturday, 24 October 2026
09:00 Saturday Morning
09:00 - 10:20
Contributions

09:00 TBD -- Nihan Pol

09:30 TBD -- Krista Smith

10:00 TBD -- Bai-Chiang Chiang
10:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:00
11:00 Saturday Morning: Saturday Morning 2
Saturday Morning 2
11:00 - 12:20
Contributions

11:00 TBD -- Masoom Singh - Masoom Singh (Texas A&M University)

11:20 TBD -- Alex FIlipenko

11:50 TBD -- Ben Rose
12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 13:20
13:20 Saturday Afternoon: Saturday Afternoon
Saturday Afternoon
13:20 - 15:10
Contributions

13:20 TBD -- Radhakrishnan Srinivasan

13:40 Solar Constraints on Heavy Neutral Leptons with Tau Neutrino Mixing - Vedran Brdar (Oklahoma State University (US))

14:10 TBD -- Nityasa Mishra - Nityasa Mishra

14:30 TBD -- Anil Thapa - Anil Thapa (Colorado State University)

15:00 Closing - Kevin Huffenberger (TAMU)