SMU TACOS Workshop

from Monday 10 October 2022 (08:00) to Tuesday 11 October 2022 (18:00)
SMU Dallas Texas USA (Fondren Science Room 123)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
10 Oct 2022
11 Oct 2022
AM
08:00
Session 1 (until 20:30)
08:00 --- Breakfast ---
08:30 Welcome - Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University)  
08:40 Testing Deviations from General Relativity at Cosmological Scales: a new tension between Planck and LSS/Lensing data - Mustapha Ishak (The University of Texas at Dallas)  
09:10 A different perspective on Primordial Black Holes - Nicola Bellomo (Institute of Cosmos Sciences - University of Barcelona)  
09:30 Isolating CMB Secondaries with Deep Learning - Eric Guzman (Southern Methodist University)  
09:50 Fireslides 1 - Eric Guzman (Southern Methodist University)  
10:20 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Rapid-Turn Multi-field Inflation - Sonia Paban (University of Texas)  
11:30 Absorption Effects in Coherent Crystal Photoconversion of Solar Axions - Adrian Thompson (Texas A&M University)  
11:50 Constraining dark matter-helium scattering with the CMB - Stacie Moltner (University of Texas)  
12:10 --- Group Photo ---
12:20 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Probing the Universe with electromagnetic and gravitational wave signatures - Lindsay King (UT Dallas)  
14:00 Beyond Fisher Forecasting for Cosmology - Joseph Ryan (Southern Methodist University)  
14:20 Cosmogenic Boosted Dark Matter in Neutrino Experiments - Dr Doojin Kim (Texas A & M University (US))  
14:40 Revealing the origin of binary black holes with spin precession - Michael Kesden (UT Dallas)  
15:10 Fireslides 2 - Eric Guzman (Southern Methodist University)  
15:40 --- Coffee Break ---
16:20 Cosmological Tensions in the JWST Era - Mike Boylan-Kolchin (The University of Texas at Austin)  
16:50 WIMP dark matter limits beyond the thermal relic bound - Louis Strigari (Texas A&M)  
17:10 Dark matter halo collapse with velocity-dependent SIDM - Prof. Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)  
17:30 New Results from The Cosmic Dawn (CoDa) Project: Simulating Reionization and Galaxy Formation - Paul Shapiro (The University of Texas at Austin)  
18:00 --- Break / Walk to Dinner ---
18:30 --- Dinner ---
08:00
Session 2 (until 18:00)
08:00 --- Breakfast ---
08:40 Stepped Partially Acoustic Dark Matter - Can Kilic (University of Texas at Austin)  
09:10 Gravitational Waves from First-Order Phase Transitions - observability and scaling relations - James Dent  
09:30 A Universe from Gravity - Andrew Long (Rice University)  
09:50 Signatures of Primordial Black Holes: Correlating gravitational wave and gamma-ray measurements - Bhaskar Dutta (Texas A&M University)  
10:20 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Neutrino Self-Interactions from the Lab to the Cosmos - Kevin James Kelly (CERN)  
11:30 CMB birefringence from axion defect networks - Mudit Jain  
11:50 A Spin on Wave Dark Matter - Mustafa Amin (Rice University)  
12:20 Closing Remarks - James Dent Louis Strigari (Texas A&M) Andrew Long (Rice University) Prof. Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin) Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University)  
12:30 --- Lunch - Off campus ---
PM