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Program News and Announcements

17 March 2025

PhysCOS Special Interest Sessions at APS 2025

Dear Physics of the Cosmos (PhysCOS) community members-

If you’re attending the American Physical Society’s Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, CA, please note the following activities may be of special interest to the PhysCOS community (all times Pacific):

10:45a-12:33p

  • [DGRAV] APR-B03 “Searches for Dark Matter”
  • [DAP] APR-B08 “Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astro-physics”
  • [DAP] APR-B19 “Ultra High-Energy Cosmic Rays”
  • [DGRAV] APR-B20 “Pulsar Timing Array and LISA”
  • [DAP] APR-B22 “Pulsars and Neutron Star Properties”

1:30p-3:18p

  • [DGRAV] APR-C01 “AI in Gravitational Wave Science”
  • [DAP] APR-C22 “Multimessenger Searches”

3:45p-5:33p

  • [DAP] APR-D08 “Decoding Heavy Elements in the Heavens and on Earth”
  • [DGRAV] APR-D20 “Cosmology and Dark Matter with Gravitational Waves”
  • [DAP] APR-D22 “Astrophysical Simulations from Supernovae to the Cosmos”

5:35p-6:35p

  • APR-E01 “Public Lecture: The Mystery of Dark Matter in the Universe”

For more information on PhysCOS throughout the meeting, check out our meeting webpage.

Finally, please stop by our table outside the Platinum Ballroom inside the Marriott Hotel to chat with us and find out about current and planned PhysCOS activities.

Wishing you the best,

Dr Francesca Civano & Dr Brian Humensky
PhysCOS Chief Scientists, NASA GSFC
Dr Bernard Kelly
PhysCOS Support Scientist, NASA GSFC

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