Conference Schedule

Conference Registration outside the Ballroom:
Sunday 4pm-6pm
Monday 7:15am-8:30am
Tues - Fri: 8am-8:30am

Monday December 8, 2025 - The Ballroom (Chair: Rogier Windhorst)

8:30 – 8:45 AM	Pres. Michael Crow	Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:45 – 9:25 AM	Frank Wilczek	Quantum Aspects of Gravitational Radiation Arizona State University
9:25 – 10:05 AM	Edward Kolb	Gravitational Particle Production, Dark Matter, and BSM Physics University of Chicago
10:05 – 10:35 AM	Coffee Break
10:35 – 11:15 AM	Feryal Ozel	Black Hole Imaging: Successes, Open Questions, and Future Efforts Georgia Institute of Technology School of Physics
11:15 – 11:55 AM	James Bock	The SPHEREx Spectral Survey Satellite California Institute of Technology
11:55 – 12:35 PM	Tanmay Vachaspati	Cosmological magnetic fields from electroweak symmetry breaking Arizona State University
12:35 – 1:50 PM	Lunch	(on your own)

Session Chairs

Early Afternoon
Amber: Florian Kühnel
Bronze: Elena Pian
Terracotta: Haochen Wang
Crimson: Haibo Yu

Late Afternoon
Amber: Feryal Ozel
Bronze: Evan Scannapieco
Terracotta: Haochen Wang
Crimson: Vicky Kalogera

Time PM	Amber Room Gravity & Relativity	Bronze Room Astrophysics & Compact Objects	Terracotta Room Cosmology	Crimson Room Multimessenger & Cosmic Frontiers
Session Chair	Florian Kühnel	Elena Pian	Haochen Wang	Haibo Yu
1:50 PM	Ruth Gregory, King's College London — Ultra Slow Roll with a Black Hole	Audrey Trova, ZARM, University of Bremen — Oscillatory modes of relativistic tori and their implications for QPOs in Low-Mass X-ray Binaries	Alessandro Melchiorri, University of Rome Sapienza — Measuring the reionization optical depth without large-scale CMB polarization	Anarya Ray, Northwestern University — No evidence for the pair instability mass gap near 40 solar masses in GWTC-4: The astrophysical implications of features in the high mass binary black hole population.
2:13 PM	Srinivasan Raghunathan, University of California, Davis — Measurement of the small-scale thermal Sunyaev–Zeldovich power spectrum with the South Pole Telescope.	Axel Arbet-Engels, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Garching — Radiative signatures of electron-ion shocks in blazar jets	Alvaro Pozo, Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) — A smooth filament origin for prolate galaxies "going bananas" in deep JWST images	Darsh Bellie, Northwestern University — When Generations Collide: Physics-Informed Inference of Hierarchical Mergers
2:36 PM	Tzvetelina Dimitrova, Arizona State University — sGRB Orphan Afterglows in the Roman Space Telescope Era	Chinmoy Bhattacharjee, New York Institute of Technology — Toward a General Relativistic Theory of Beltrami-Bernoulli Equilibria in astrophysical plasmas	Ariane Dekker, KICP, University of Chicago — Freeze-in dark matter signatures in small-scale observations	Ephraim Gau, Washington University in St. Louis — XL-Calibur polarization measurements of Cyg X-1 further constrain the origin of its hard-state X-ray emission
3:00–3:30 COFFEE				—
Session Chair	Feryal Ozel	Evan Scannapieco	Haochen Wang	Vicky Kalogera
3:30 PM	Ansh Gupta, King's College London — Jumping Horizons of Dyonic Black Holes in Nonlinear Electrodynamics	Denis Leahy, University of Calgary — New measurements of the system geometry of Hercules X-1 using Astrosat X-ray and UV observations	Brett Bochner, Hofstra University — Simulating the Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves in Cosmological Models Violating Geometric Optics	Nathan Burwig, Arizona State University — Comparing methods for 2dx3d cross correlations in LSS
3:53 PM	Barbora Bezdekova, University of Haifa — Strong lensing signatures around black holes in currently available data and beyond		Catherine Petretti, Harvard University — Investigating the Origin of CMB Large-Scale Features Using LiteBIRD and CMB-S4	Omer Albayrak, Arizona State University — Topological defect production via quantum mediation
4:16 PM	Steve Choi, University of California, Riverside — Expanding Submillimeter Astrophysical Frontiers with the CCAT Observatory	Man Ho Chan, The Education University of Hong Kong — Dark matter decelerating the abnormal frequency evolution of the Quasi-Periodic Oscillation in 1ES 1927+654	Mannase Mbonye, University of Rwanda — Self-Regulating Cosmology (SRC) Signature Features and JWST Observations	Michael Falato, Arizona State University — Scalar Seeds and the Classical Double Copy
4:39 PM		Yu "Carl" Chen — Multi-wavelength study of HESS J1857+026 with VERITAS, Fermi-LAT, and HAWC	Krishna Teja Vedula, Michigan Technological University — A First-Principles Model for Synchrotron Polarization: Application to 3C454.3	Saiyang Zhang, University of Texas, Austin — First Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes Seeded by Heavy Primordial Black Holes
5:02 PM	Teerthal Patel — Robust 3 + 1-D simulations of BDNK causal relativistic viscous hydrodynamics	Rugved Pund, Brookhaven National Lab/Stony Brook University — LuSEE-Night Collaboration	Darby Kramer, Arizona State University — Measuring anisotropic cosmic birefringence with the ACT DR6 CMB data	Martjin Oei, California Institute of Technology — When Black Holes Fire Back: The Widespread Impact of Megaparsec Jets on the Cosmic Web

Tuesday December 9, 2025 – The Ballroom (Chair: Paul Davies)

08:30 – 9:10 AM	Vicky Kalogera	Listening to the Universe: Astrophysics in the Gravitational-Wave Era Northwestern University
09:10 – 9:50 AM	Roger Blandford	Ergomagnetospheres, Ejection Disks, and Interpretation of EHT Observations Stanford University
09:50 – 10:20 AM	Coffee Break
10:20 – 11:00 AM	Wendy Freedman	Is the Hubble Tension Signifying New Physics Beyond the Standard Model of Cosmology? University of Chicago
11:00 – 11:40 AM	Tamara Davis	New light on dark energy: the mystery deepens The University of Queensland
11:40 – 12:20 PM	Glennys Farrar	Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays from Binary Neutron Star Mergers New York University
12:20 – 01:30 PM	Lunch	(on your own)

Session Chairs

Early Afternoon
Amber: Kevin Croker
Bronze: Florian Kühnel
Terracotta: Scott Watson
Crimson: Mainak Mukhopadhyay

Late Afternoon
Amber: Kevin Croker
Bronze: Foteini Oikonomou
Terracotta: Katie Freese
Crimson: Shawn Westerdale

Time PM	Amber Cosmology I	Bronze Astrophysics & Compact Objects	Terracotta Cosmology II	Crimson Neutrinos
Session Chair	Kevin Croker	Florian Kühnel	Scott Watson	Mainak Mukhopadhyay
1:30 PM	Christian Hellum Bye, University of California Berkeley — The EIGSEP Experiment for 21 cm Global Signal Detection	Henric Krawczynski, Washington University in St. Louis — The Cygnus X-1 Puzzle: Implications of X-ray Polarization Measurements in the Soft and Hard States on the Properties of the Accretion Flow and the Emission Mechanisms	Christian Brown, Baylor University — Effects of the ekpyrotic mechanism on inflationary phase in loop quantum cosmologies	Abhishek Desai, NPP at NASA GSFC — A NICER view of the multi-messenger processes in AGN
1:53 PM	Josh Dillon, University of California, Berkeley — 21 cm Cosmology with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array Phase I	Ioana Dutan, Institute of Space Science, Romania — Radiation from particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of relativistic plasma jets	Brett Bochner, Hofstra University — Exploring the Time Dependence of the Hubble Tension via Linear Cosmography	Alex Rojewski, Arizona State University — The Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background from Supernova Neutrino Memory
2:16 PM	Steven Murray, Stellenbosch University — First Results from HERA Phase II	Ishaan Varshney, University of Texas at Arlington — Hydrodynamic Simulations of Type 1 X-ray Bursts Winds		Alexander Plavin, Harvard University, Black Hole Initiative — Which jetted AGNs are powerful proton accelerators? "All" is a valid answer!
2:39 PM	Tyler Cox, University of California, Berkeley — Validating the HERA Analysis Pipeline with Simulated Visibilities from fftvis	Barbora Bezdekova, University of Haifa — Optical Caustics in the Kerr Spacetime within the Scope of M87* and Its Characterization	Damien Easson, Arizona State University — Resolving the Singularity: A Complete Inflationary Universe from Spatial Curvature	Igor Shovkovy, Arizona State University — Neutrino emission from magnetized quark stars
3.00 – 3.30 PM Coffee Break	Poster Session Pre-function space	Poster Session Pre-function space	Poster Session Pre-function space	Poster Session Pre-function space
Session Chair	Kevin Croker	Foteini Oikonomou	Katie Freese	Shawn Westerdale
3:30 PM	Raul Monsalve, UC Berkeley — Efforts to detect the global 21-cm signal from the Canadian High Arctic by the MIST experiment	H.A. Adarsha Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576104, India Can RAT and MAT keep black holes hidden inside stars?	Delondrae Carter, Arizona State University — SKYSURF-10: A Novel Method for Measuring Integrated Galaxy Light	Mainak Mukhopadhyay, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago — Multi-messenger signatures from magnetar remnants of binary neutron star mergers
3:53 PM	Elias Most, Caltech — The Electrodynamic Nature of Spacetime Collisions	Luigi Pacciani, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - IAPS — A Gamma-ray study of Blazars activity timescales	Deyan Mihaylov, Case Western Reserve University — Three-dimensional Signatures of Cosmic Topology	Shiqi Yu, University of Utah — Data-Driven Multi-Messenger Modeling of Low- Luminosity $\gamma$-Ray Bursts
4:16 PM	Sydney Erickson, Stanford/SLAC — Time-Delay Cosmography from Strongly Lensed AGN at LSST-Scale	Nick Loudas, Princeton University — Spectral Formation in X-ray Pulsar Accretion Columns: Bridging Rad-MHD Dynamics and Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer	Erik Aver, Gonzaga University — The LBT Yp Project: A New Value of the Primordial Helium Abundance	Tianyi Ding, University of Nevada, Las Vegas — Mapping the Multi‐Messenger Horizon
4:39 PM	Axel Brandenburg, Nordita — Schwinger effect in axion inflation on a lattice	Ashwani Pandey, University of Utah — VERITAS observations of changing-look blazars	Eugene Oks, Auburn University, USA — Dark Hydrogen Atoms as Baryonic Dark Matter	Lu Lu, University of Wisconsin- Madison — Overview of the Recent Results from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
5:02 PM	Gabriel Lynch, University of California, Davis — Neutrino mass constraints and the CMB-BAO tension	Hoa Dinh Thi, Rice University — Modeling X-ray emission from Central Compact Object RX J0822-4300	Francesco Di Climente, University of Houston — Strange quark matter as dark matter

Wednesday December 10, 2025 – The Ballroom (Chair: Tanmay Vachaspati)

Dinner is served in the Omni ballroom at 6pm for those that paid for the conference dinner

08:30 – 09:10 AM	Adam Riess	What JWST Reveals about the Hubble Tension John Hopkins University
09:10 – 09:50 AM	Cecilia Lunardini	Neutrinos in the multimessenger landscape Arizona State University
09:50 – 10:20 AM	Coffee Break
10:20 – 11:00 AM	Matias Zaldarriaga	The nHz GW Background and the local population of Black Holes Institute of Advanced Study
11:00 – 11:40 AM	Elena Pian	Gamma-ray bursts and their multi-wavelength afterglows: consolidated wisdom and latest news Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
11:40 – 12:20 PM	Katherine Freese	Has JWST Discovered Dark Stars (first stars made almost entirely of hydrogen and helium but powered by dark matter)? University of Texas at Austin
12:20 – 01:30 PM	Lunch	(on your own)

Session Chairs

Early Afternoon
Amber: Igor Shovkovy
Bronze: Axel Brandenberg
Terracotta: Rocky Kolb
Crimson: Lu Lu

Late Afternoon
Amber: Matias Zaldarriaga
Bronze: Chris Nagele
Terracotta: Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine
Crimson: Lu Lu

Time PM	Amber Gravity & Relativity	Bronze Black Hole Physics 1	Terracota Cosmology	Crimson Black Hole Physics 1
Session Chair	Igor Shovkovy	Axel Brandenberg	Rocky Kolb	Lu Lu
1:30 PM	Nelson Pinto-Neto, Brazilian Center for Physics Research — Bouncing completion of eternal inflation	Andrzej Niedzwiecki, University of Lodz — Cyg X-1: the origin of X-ray polarization in its soft state and implications for the spin of the black hole	Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, University of New Mexico — Dark matter physics from our local galactic neighborhood	Steven Harris, Iowa State University — Bulk viscosity as a probe of the degrees of freedom in neutron stars
1:53 PM	Paul Anderson, Wake Forest University — Quasinormal Modes, Power Law Tails, and Quantum Effects in Black Hole Spacetimes	Chris Nagele, Johns Hopkins University — Simulation-Based Prediction of Black Hole Spectra: From 10 to 10^8 M_sun	Gyeong-Min Lee, Sejong University — Galaxy dynamics in the MaNGA survey: Exploring sensitivity to background cosmology	Remo Ruffini, ICRANet, ICRA — AGN growth from black hole formed by ``X-Fermion'' dark matter
2:16 PM	Toshiya Namikawa, University of Cambridge, Kavli IPMU — Implications for Cosmic Birefringence from Recent Cosmological Observations	Evan Scannapieco, Arizona State University — Are Current Models Feedback from Active Black Hole too Ejective? - Constraints from XRISM Observations and Cosmological Simulations	Hai-Bo Yu, University of California, Riverside — Self- Interacting Dark Matter and its Observational Signatures	Alan Sunny, INAF-IAPS & University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy — Supernova Remnants as PeVatron Engines: TeV Insights with CTAO and ASTRI Mini-Array
2:39 PM	Marc Romanowski, The College of New Jersey — Graviton Mass Constraint Through Lensed Gravitational Waves	Andrzej Krolak, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences — Analyzing Ringdowns of Binary Black Hole Mergers	Hayley Macpherson, University of Chicago — Cosmological weak lensing in full general relativity	Debatri Chattopadhyay, CIERA, Northwestern University — Evolutionary Links: From Gaia Neutron Star Binaries to Pulsar White Dwarf Endpoints
3.00 – 3.30 PM Coffee Break
Session Chair	Matias Zaldarriaga	Chris Nagele	Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine	Lu Lu
3:30 PM	Qinyuan Zheng, Yale University — A Bayesian Search for Picohertz Gravitational Waves with Millisecond Pulsars	Vikram Manikantan, University of Arizona — Coincident Multimessenger Bursts from Eccentric Supermassive Binary Black Holes	Horst Foidl, Department of Astrophysics at the University of Vienna — Addressing the Hubble tension and a proposal to increase the accuracy of cosmological observables	Dimitrios Psaltis, Georgia Institute of Technology — Learning to See Mergers: Machine-Learning Identification of Black-Hole Host Galaxies from Integrated Spectra
3:53 PM	Robbert Scholtens, University of Groningen — Exploring CMBs in Anisotropic Universes	Mahdi Naseri, University of Arizona — General relativistic simulations of black hole seed formation in the early universe	Indranil Das, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — Twisting inflation to sub-Planckian axion decay constants	Fulya Kiroglu, Northwestern/CIERA — Probing Black Hole Growth Through Spins in Dense Star Clusters
4:16 PM	Carlos Arguelles, La Plata National University, La Plata Astrophysics Institute — Thermodynamics of self-gravitating fermions as a robust theory for DM halos	Marcelo Salgado, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM — Spinning hairy black holes, stationary solutions and stability	Jack Laiho, Syracuse University — Dynamical Dark Energy from Lattice Quantum Gravity	Garv Chauhan, Arizona State University — 511 keV Gamma Ray Echo from Particle Decays in Supernovae
4:39 PM	Kimmy Wu, Caltech — Testing inflation and cosmology with CMB observations: updates from the South Pole Observatory	Remo Ruffini, ICRANet, ICRA — Black Holes all over the Universe	Joe Dubois, Arizona State University — Building the Neutron Star Axion Search Data Pipeline: Channel-Level Accumulation of ARO and SRT Spectra Using PostgreSQL and Python	Kathryn Plant, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology — A new instrument for probing the limits of cosmic ray acceleration in the Milky Way with the Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long Wavelength Array
5:02 PM	Maurice van Putten, Sejong University/INAF-OAS — Unveiling the Central Engine of Core-collapse Supernovae in the Local Universe: Netron Star or Black Hole?	Yihao Zhou, Carnegie Mellon University — From Nano- to Milli-Hz: Predicting PTA and LISA Signals with the ASTRID Simulation	John Botke, National Coalition of Independent Scholars (ncis) — The cosmic dipole's troublesome factor of 2	Khun Sang Phukon, University of Birmingham — Robust detection of compact binaries on eccentric orbits from gravitational wave detectors data

Thursday December 11, 2025 – The Ballroom (Chair: Judd Bowman)

08:30 – 09:10 AM	Maura McLaughlin	The Future of Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Astronomy West Virginia University
09:10 – 09:50 AM	Maria Victoria del Valle	Stars as high-energy sources IAG-University of São Paulo
09:50 – 10:20 AM	Coffee Break
10:20 – 11:00 AM	Florian Kühnel	Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Max Planck Institute for Physics
11:00 – 11:40 AM	Gwenael Giacinti	New insights into the most extreme particle accelerators in our Galaxy: Where are the PeVatrons? Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
11:40 – 12:20 PM	Siyang (Sean) Li	[G. Smoot Memorial]
12:20 – 01:30 PM	Lunch	(on your own)

Session Chairs

Early Afternoon
Amber: Marcelo Salgado
Bronze: Maura McLaughin
Terracotta: Alessandro Melchiorri
Crimson: Simon Foreman

Late Afternoon
Amber: Toshiya Namikawa
Bronze: Henric Krawczynski
Terracotta: Xiaohui Fan
Crimson: Gwenael Giacinti

Time PM	Amber Gravity & Relativity	Bronze Astrophysics & Compact Objects	Terracotta Cosmology	Crimson Fast Radio Bursts
Session Chair	Marcelo Salgado	Maura McLaughin	Alessandro Melchiorri	Simon Foreman
1:30 PM	Richard Petarius, Michigan Technological University — Cumulative Time Dilation and the Quest to Test the Equivalence Principle with Distant GRBs	Ningyuan Xu, University of Arizona — MHD Instability of a Discontinuous Profile: The Destruction of Flux Tube within Magnetically Arrested Disks	Lorenzo Formaggio, University of Houston — Cosmic Trajectories calculation with state of the art lattice QCD equation of state	Pawan Kumar, UT Austin — The Physics of FRBs and their use as probe of cosmology
1:53 PM	Matt Baumgart, Arizona State University - How to Falsify String Theory at a Collider	Oscar Wistemar, KTH Royal Institute of Technology — Investigating the GRB prompt emission from the relativistic jet with a photospheric model	Mariusz P. Dabrowski, University of Szczecin — Generalized Nonextensive Entropy Holographic Dark Energy Cosmological Models	Ravi Vikram, Caltech — Fast radio bursts: frontier cosmological probes
2:16 PM	Wei-Xiang Feng, Tsinghua University — Dark Bondi Accretion Aided by Baryons and the Origin of JWST Little Red Dots	Qinan Wang, MIT — Feeling Blue: Creating SALT3 Model in UV Wavelengths and implications for future cosmological surveys	Maurice van Putten, Sejong University/INAF-OAS — Phantom crossing of dark energy at cosmic noon in Big Bang Cosmologies	Shion Andrew, MIT, CHIME/FRB — VLBI localizations of Fast Radio Bursts with CHIME/FRB Outriggers
2:39 PM	Chiara Coviello, King's College London — On extremal black holes	Talia O'Shea, University of Wisconsin- Madison — Shooting for the stars: Jet-mode feedback and AGN jet deceleration from stellar massloading	Ming-Feng Ho, University of Michigan — Cosmological Constraints from the Small-scale Lyman-α Forest with PRIYA at k = 1 - 8 h/Mpc	Mawson Sammons, McGill University — A New Era of Fast Radio Burst Science with the Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio Transient Detector
3.00 – 3.30 PM Coffee Break
Session Chair	Toshiya Namikawa	Henric Krawczynski	Xiaohui Fan	Gwenael Giacinti
3:30 PM	Sang-Eon Bak, Arizona State University — Modular Hamiltonian fluctuations in de Sitter space	Rakshak Adhikari, Troy University — Force Free Electrodynamics via Foliations	Nathan Burwig, Arizona State University — Open Case for a Closed Primordial Universe	Liam Connor, Harvard University — A coherent all-sky monitor for Fast Radio Bursts
3:53 PM	Scott Watson, Syracuse University — Waiting for Inflation: A New Initial State for the Universe	Richard Talman, Cornell University — “Cosmic Rays”: another aspect of “The Solar Wind”	Nicholas DePorzio, Boston University — Testing Axion and Other Non-Thermal Dark Matter Relics with the CMB and LSS	Haochen Wang, MIT — Fast Radio Bursts as Probes of Large- Scale Structure
4:16 PM	Yogesh Mehta, Cornell University — The Modeling Landscape of Extragalactic CO in CMB Surveys	Sanchayeeta Borthakur, Arizona State University — Role of energetic feedback in enabling Lyman continuum escape	Phillip Levin, Arizona State University — Regular black holes as dark matter	Isabel Medlock, Yale University — Probing Baryonic Feedback and Cosmological Tension with Fast Radio Bursts
4:39 PM	Samuel Haupfear, Arizona State University — Untangling Selberg from the Wilson spool: 1-loop determinants and trace formulae in (A)dS_3	Yiting Wang, University of Wisconsin- Madison — Odd Radio Circles Modeled by Shock–Bubble Interactions	Max Pezzelle, Brown University - Graviweak Unification and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking	Stella Ocker, Caltech & Carnegie Observatories — Probing Cosmic Plasmas at Sub- AU Scales with Fast Radio Bursts
5:02 PM	Marcell Howard University of Pittsburgh — Gravitational Production of Self-Interacting Dark Matter	Shawn Westerdale, University of California, Riverside — Prospects for supernova neutrino measurements in liquid argon detectors		Gregg Hallinan, Caltech - The Deep Synoptic Array

Friday December 12, 2025 – The Ballroom (Chair: Brenda Frye)

08:30 – 09:10 AM	John Mather	Disruptive Technology for New Astronomy: Reading the Crystal Ball NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
09:10 – 09:50 AM	Foteini Oikonomou	Multimessenger astronomy with high-energy neutrinos and ultra-high energy cosmic rays Norwegian University of Science and Technology
09:50 – 10:20 AM	Coffee Break
10:20 – 11:00 AM	Xiaohui Fan	Supermassive Black Hole Growth in the Early Universe and the "Little Red Dots" University of Arizona
11:00 – 11:40 AM	Simon Foreman	Mapping the Universe with 21cm Intensity Mapping Arizona State University
11:40 – 12:20 PM	Rogier Windhorst	What the James Webb Space Telescope has Discovered by Seeing through the Eyes of Einstein Arizona State University
12:20 – 01:30 PM	Lunch	(on your own)

Session Chair

Early Afternoon
Amber: Maulik Parikh
Bronze: TBA
Terracotta: Rogier Windhorst
Crimson: Ruth Gregory

Late Afternoon
Amber: Alex Van Engelen
Bronze: Closed
Terracotta: Massimo Pascale
Crimson: Mawson Sammons

Time PM	Amber Gravity & Relativity	Bronze Astrophysics & Compact Objects	Terracotta JWST High-z Transients (12+3 min)	Crimson Multimessenger & Cosmic Frontiers
Session Chair	Maulik Parikh	TBA	Rogier Windhorst	Ruth Gregory
1:30 PM NOTE: Staggard timing on Friday	Maulik Parikh, Arizona State University - The Quantumness of Classical Gravity	Sean Li, Columbia University — Spinning into the Gap: Direct-Horizon Collapse as the Origin of GW231123 from End-to-End GRMHD Simulations	Brenda Frye, University of Arizona — Supernova H0pe: Discovery of the First Multiply-imaged Standard Candle to Constrain Cosmology	Luca Comisso, Columbia University — Relativistic Turbulence Powering the Universe's Most Energetic Particles
1:45 PM			Massimo Pascale, University of California, Los Angeles — SN H0pe: The First Measurement of H0 from a Multiply Imaged Type Ia Supernova
1:53 PM	Alvin Leluc, Southern Methodist University — Time- Dependent Deflection Reconstruction: A New Technique to Search for Gravitational Waves with the Cosmic Microwave Background	Skylar Grayson, Arizona State University — Constraining Models of AGN Feedback Using X-ray and tSZ Observations of the Circumgalactic Medium		Luke Krath, GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam — Tell-tale electromagnetic signatures of massive black hole binaries
2:00 PM			Hayley Williams, Arizona State University — Highly magnified massive stars in a galaxy at z = 0.94
2:15 PM		Kevin Croker, Arizona State University — Positive Neutrino Masses with DESI DR2 via Matter Conversion to Dark Energy I	Sangjun Cha, Yonsei University — Probing Dark Matter and Cluster Mergers with JWST Strong and Weak Lensing
2:16 PM	Yuuki Omori, University of Chicago / KICP — SPT-3G D1: A New CMB Lensing Measurement From 2019-2020 Data			Michael Kesden, University of Texas at Dallas — Detecting precession and nutation in gravitational wave inspirals
2:30 PM			Liang Dai, University of California, Berkeley — Testing dark matter models with highly magnified stars
2:39 PM	Shabbir Shaikh, Arizona State University — Simulation Framework for Power Spectrum Analysis in HI Intensity Mapping with CHIME	Kevin Croker, Arizona State University — Positive Neutrino Masses with DESI DR2 via Matter Conversion to Dark Energy II		Michael Unger, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology — Advances in Galactic Magnetic Field Modeling and UHECR Deflections
2:45 PM			Christa Decoursey, University of Arizona — Core-Collapse Supernova Rates out to z~4.8 with JWST
3.00 – 3.30 PM Coffee Break
Session Chair	Alex Van Engelen	Closed	Massimo Pascale	Mawson Sammons
3:30 PM	Erik Wessel, University of Arizona — Development of a 5+1 gray radiation transport code for dynamical spacetimes	Session Closed	David Coulter, Space Telescope Science Institute — SN Eos: Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Lensed Supernova 1 Gyr After the Big Bang	Nicholas White, George Washington University — XTRA: Xplorer for Time-domain Relativistic Astrophysics
3:45 PM		Session Closed	Pritom Mozumdar (University of California, Los Angeles)— TDCOSMO 2025: Cosmological constraints from strong lensing time delays
3:53 PM	Shriram Jois, University of California, Berkeley — ALPHA – A Plasma Haloscope for the Post-Inflation Axion	Session Closed		Nikita Kosogorov, California Institute of Technology — OVRO-LWA radio counterpart search for GW event S250206dm
4:00 PM		Session Closed	Daniel Gilman, University of Chicago — Inferences on dark matter from JWST lensed quasar survey
4:15 PM			Devon Williams, University of California, Los Angeles— Improved H0 measurements for three time-delay quads with JWST NIRCam
4:16 PM	Tore Deniz Boybeyi, University of Minnesota — Towards Detecting Tensor Non-Gaussianity in Interferometer Data	Session Closed		Paul Simeon, KIPAC — A Hierarchical Shock Framework for the Galactic–Extragalactic Cosmic Ray Transition
4:30 PM		Session Closed	Jenevieve Pearson, University of Arizona — Multiwavelength Clues to the Origin of Dust in SN 2017eaw
4:39 PM		Session Closed		Ranadeep Ghosh Dastidar, Purdue University — A Novel Relationship Between GRB Duration and Photospheric Radius
4:45 PM		Session Closed	Hadrien Paugnat, University of California, Los Angeles — Macromodel-free dark matter constraints from extended arcs
5:02 PM		Session Closed