Plenary Speakers/Talks

Our Speakers


Roger Blandford
Ergomagnetospheres, Ejection Disks, and Interpretation of EHT Observations
Stanford University

James Bock
The SPHEREx Spectral Survey Satellite
California Institute of Technology

Tamara Davis
New light on dark energy: the mystery deepens
The University of Queensland

Xiaohui Fan
Supermassive Black Hole Growth in the Early Universe and the "Little Red Dots”
University of Arizona

Glennys R. Farrar
Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays from Binary Neutron Star Mergers
New York University

Simon Foreman
Mapping the Universe with 21cm Intensity Mapping
Arizona State University

Katie 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

Wendy Freedman
Is the Hubble Tension Signifying New Physics Beyond the Standard Model of Cosmology?
University of Chicago 

Gwenael Giacinti
Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Vicky Kalogera
Listening to the Universe: Astrophysics in the Gravitational-Wave Era
Northwestern University

Rocky Kolb
Gravitational Particle Production, Dark Matter, and BSM Physics
University of Chicago 

Florian Kühnel
Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter
Max Planck Institute for Physics

Siyang (Sean) Li
George Smoot Memorial Talk
University of California, Berkeley

Cecilia Lunardini
Neutrinos in the multimessenger landscape
Arizona State University

John Mather
Disruptive Technology for New Astronomy: Reading the Crystal Ball
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Maura McLaughlin
The Future of Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
West Virginia University

Foteini Oikonomou
Multimessenger astronomy with high-energy neutrinos and ultra-high energy cosmic rays
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Feryal Ozel
Black Hole Imaging: Successes, Open Questions, and Future Efforts
Georgia Institute of Technology School of Physics

Elena Pian
Gamma-ray bursts and their multi-wavelength afterglows: consolidated wisdom and latest news
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica

Adam Riess
What JWST Reveals about the Hubble Tension
John Hopkins University

Tanmay Vachaspati
Cosmological magnetic fields from electroweak symmetry breaking
Arizona State University

Maria Victoria del Valle
Stars as high-energy sources
IAG-University of São Paulo

Frank Wilczek
Quantum Aspects of Gravitational Radiation
Arizona State University

Roger Windhorst
What the James Webb Space Telescope has Discovered by Seeing through the Eyes of Einstein
Arizona State University

Matias Zaldarriaga
The nHz GW Background and the local population of Black Holes
Institute of Advanced Study