Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center
National Harbor, Maryland
12 – 16 January 2025
Sunday, 12 January 2025
Maryland Ballroom B
9:00am – 4:00pm ET
| Time | Topic | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00am – 9:15am | Introduction and Updates [PDF] [PDF] | PhysCOS and PhysPAG EC |
| 9:15am – 10:05am | Gamma Ray SIG [PDF] | |
| Dilution Refrigerator Transition Edge Sensor (DR-TESS) | Ephraim Gau (WUSTL) | |
| Gamma-Ray Antimatter Survey (GRAMS) | Jonathan Leyva (Northeastern) | |
| The Compton Pair Telescope (ComPair) | Zachary Metzler (UUMD) | |
| Antarctic Demonstrator for the Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope (ADAPT) | Blake Bal (WUSTL) | |
| AstroPix Sounding Rocket Technology Demonstrator Payload (A-STEP) | Dan Violette (NASA GSFC) | |
| 10:05am – 10:40am | Gravitational Wave SIG | |
| Updates on LISA and LISA Preparatory Science [PDF] | Ira Thorpe (NASA GSFC) | |
| AXIS and Synergies with LISA [PDF] | Adi Foord (UMBC) | |
| 10:40am – 10:55am | Morning Break | |
| 10:55am – 11:10am | Technology Highlights (SAT/ISFM/APRA/RTF) [PDF] | Opher Ganel (NASA GSFC) |
| 11:10am – 11:40am | Cosmic Structure SIG | |
| Roman High-Latitude Imaging Survey Cosmology Project Infrastructure Team [PDF] | Ami Choi (NASA GSFC) | |
| Towards Realistic Halo-Scale Constraints on the Nature of Dark Matter and Gravity [PDF] | Benedikt Diemer (UMD) | |
| 11:40am – 12:10pm | Habitable Worlds Observatory | |
| Exploring the Quiescent Black Hole Population in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies with the Habitable Worlds Observatory [PDF] | Fabio Pacucci (Harvard) | |
| The Formation and Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes: Science Cases with the Habitable Worlds Observatory [PDF] | Jenna Cann (UMBC) | |
| 12:10pm – 1:15pm | Lunch Break | |
| 1:15pm – 1:45pm | ||
| First PhysCOS Early Career Workshop Summary [PDF] | Workshop SOC | |
| Grating development and the Rockets for Extended-source X-ray Spectroscopy [PDF] | Drew Miles (Caltech) | |
| 1:45pm – 2:35pm | XRSIG | |
| The SuperHERO Hard-X-Ray, High-Resolution, Balloon Telescope (15 min) [PDF] | Nick Thomas (NASA MSFC) | |
| NewAthena: Revealing the Hot and Energetic Universe (20 min) [PDF] | Kristen Madsen (NASA GSFC) | |
| Open Discussion (15 min) | X-ray Science Interest Group | |
| 2:35pm – 2:45pm | Afternoon Break | |
| 2:45pm – 3:00pm | The Fornax Initiative [PDF] | Tess Jaffe (NASA GSFC) |
| 3:00pm – 3:15pm | ACROSS: Enabling Time Domain and Multimessenger Astrophysics [PDF] | Dan Kocevski (NASA MSFC) |
| 3:15pm – 3:30pm | Final Report of the TDAMM Space Communications Science Analysis Group [PDF] | Judy Racusin (NASA GSFC) |
| 3:30pm – 4:00pm | Afternoon Break | |