SMU TACOS Workshop

10 Oct 2022, 08:00 → 11 Oct 2022, 18:00 America/Chicago

Fondren Science Room 123 (SMU Dallas Texas USA)

Andrew Long (Rice University), Fred Olness (Southern Methodist University (US)), James Dent, Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University), Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin), Louis Strigari (Texas A&M)

Theoretical Astroparticle and Cosmology Symposium in Texas

 

Building research ties across 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.

 

Meeting Website:

https://sites.google.com/view/texas-tacos/upcoming-meeting

 

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Scientific Organizing Committee:

Kimberly Boddy (UT Austin)
James Dent (Sam Houston)
Andrew Long (Rice)
Joel Meyers (SMU)
Louis Strigari (TAMU)

Monday 10 October

Session 1

08:00 Breakfast

1 Welcome

Speaker: Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University)

TACOS_Welcome

2 Testing Deviations from General Relativity at Cosmological Scales: a new tension between Planck and LSS/Lensing data

Speaker: Mustapha Ishak (The University of Texas at Dallas)

Cosmo_TACOS_SMU_Conference_2022_Mustapha_Ishak V2.pdf

3 A different perspective on Primordial Black Holes

Speaker: Nicola Bellomo (Institute of Cosmos Sciences - University of Barcelona)

Tacos_2022.pdf

4 Isolating CMB Secondaries with Deep Learning

Speaker: Eric Guzman (Southern Methodist University)

TACOSTalk_EricGuzman.pdf

5 Fireslides 1

Speaker: Eric Guzman (Southern Methodist University)

Fire Slides

10:20 Coffee Break

6 Rapid-Turn Multi-field Inflation

Speaker: Sonia Paban (University of Texas)

TACOS-Oct 10 -final.pdf

7 Absorption Effects in Coherent Crystal Photoconversion of Solar Axions

Speaker: Adrian Thompson (Texas A&M University)

tacos_alps_thompson_20221010.pdf

8 Constraining dark matter-helium scattering with the CMB

Speaker: Stacie Moltner (University of Texas)

12:10 Group Photo

12:20 Lunch

9 Probing the Universe with electromagnetic and gravitational wave signatures

Speaker: Lindsay King (UT Dallas)

10 Beyond Fisher Forecasting for Cosmology

Speaker: Joseph Ryan (Southern Methodist University)

Beyond_Fisher_Forecasting_for_Cosmology_TACOS_2022_Joseph_Ryan.pdf

11 Cosmogenic Boosted Dark Matter in Neutrino Experiments

Speaker: Dr Doojin Kim (Texas A & M University (US))

Presentation_TACOS2022_DoojinKim.pptx

12 Revealing the origin of binary black holes with spin precession

Speaker: Michael Kesden (UT Dallas)

KesdenTACOS.pptx

13 Fireslides 2

Speaker: Eric Guzman (Southern Methodist University)

Fire Slides

15:40 Coffee Break

14 Cosmological Tensions in the JWST Era

Speaker: Mike Boylan-Kolchin (The University of Texas at Austin)

boylan-kolchin_TACOS.pdf

15 WIMP dark matter limits beyond the thermal relic bound

Speaker: Louis Strigari (Texas A&M)

tacos_2022.pdf

16 Dark matter halo collapse with velocity-dependent SIDM

Speaker: Prof. Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)

kboddy-TACOS.pdf

17 New Results from The Cosmic Dawn (CoDa) Project: Simulating Reionization and Galaxy Formation

Speaker: Paul Shapiro (The University of Texas at Austin)

18:00 Break / Walk to Dinner

18:30 Dinner

Tuesday 11 October

Session 2

08:00 Breakfast

18 Stepped Partially Acoustic Dark Matter

Speaker: Can Kilic (University of Texas at Austin)

Kilic Spartacous TACOS.pdf

19 Gravitational Waves from First-Order Phase Transitions - observability and scaling relations

Speaker: James Dent

20 A Universe from Gravity

Speaker: Andrew Long (Rice University)

Andrew_Long--TACOS_2022.pdf

21 Signatures of Primordial Black Holes: Correlating gravitational wave and gamma-ray measurements

Speaker: Bhaskar Dutta (Texas A&M University)

Texas_Tacos_dutta.pdf

10:20 Coffee Break

22 Neutrino Self-Interactions from the Lab to the Cosmos

Speaker: Kevin James Kelly (CERN)

KJK_TACOS.pdf

23 CMB birefringence from axion defect networks

Speaker: Mudit Jain

Prez.TACOS.Mudit.pdf

24 A Spin on Wave Dark Matter

Speaker: Mustafa Amin (Rice University)

25 Closing Remarks

Speakers: Andrew Long (Rice University), James Dent, Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University), Prof. Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin), Louis Strigari (Texas A&M)

Closing Remarks

12:30 Lunch - Off campus