Breakout Sessions Day 1

Cosmology

Location Linde Hall 310

Moderators: Dida Markovic / Johannes Ulf Lange

Start	Speaker	Abstract  Number	Title
10:45 AM	Daniel Green (UCSD)	24	Transformative Cosmology with a CMB Probe
11:00 AM	W.L. Kimmy Wu (Caltech)	26	CMB lensing and cosmology: current status and future outlook
11:15 AM	Alan Kogut (NASA GSFC)	19	CMB Spectral Distortions -- The New Frontier
11:30 AM	Emmanuel Schaan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)	20	A Next-Generation Full-Sky CMB Survey for Probing Fundamental Physics and Structure Formation with Secondary CMB Anisotropies
11:45 AM	Yun Wang (Caltech/IPAC)	23	CHROMOS Cosmology: Transforming Our Understanding of the Universe
12:00 PM			Discussion
12:15 PM			Lunch
1:45 PM	Jack O. Burns (University of Colorado Boulder)	21	A Vision for Low Radio Frequency Astrophysics and Cosmology from the Far Side of the Moon: The Cosmic Dark Ages
2:00 PM	Nicholas Kern (University of Michigan)	25	Cosmology in the Cosmic Dark Ages
2:15 PM	Philip von Doetinchem (University of Hawaii at Manoa)	27	Low-energy Antinuclei Measurements
2:30 PM	Zorawar Wadiasingh (University of Maryland College Park / GSFC)	28	A future γ-ray Pulsar Timing Array and Other Revolutionary Science with Neutron Stars
2:45 PM	Tsuguo Aramaki (Northeastern University)	30	The GRAMS Project: MeV Gamma-ray Observations and Antinuclei-based Background-Free Dark Matter Searches with a LArTPC
3:00 PM			Discussion
3:15 PM			Afternoon Break
4:00 PM	John Callas (JPL)	22	Fundamental Physics and Precision Measurements in Space
4:15 PM	Ralph Kraft (SAO)	65	Wide-Field Soft X-ray Imaging Spectroscopy
4:30 PM	Naceur Gaaloul (Leibniz University of Hannover)	85	AEDGE: Atomic Experiment for Dark Matter and Gravity Exploration in Space
4:45 PM			Discussion

Compact Objects & Energetic Phenomena

Location Moore Lecture Hall B270

Moderators: Michela Negro / Ryan Hickox

Start	Speaker	Abstract  Number	Title
10:45 AM	Vivian U (Caltech/IPAC)	44	Bridging the Gaps in Black Hole Demographics for the 2030s and Beyond
11:00 AM	Michael Koss (Eureka Scientific)	47	A Chandra Successor in the 2030s
11:15 AM	Erin K. S. Hicks (University of Alaska Anchorage)	9	From Accretion to Feedback: AGN Science Priorities for Future NASA Missions
11:30 AM	Tiffany Lewis (Michigan Technological University)	16	Blazar Jets - Connecting Gamma-ray Polarization to Galactic Evolution
11:45 AM	Joseph Lazio (University of Michigan)	2	Imaging Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
12:00 PM			Discussion
12:15 PM			Lunch
1:45 PM	Javier Garcia (NASA GSFC)	3	The Growth and Spin of Supermassive Black Holes with a Broad-Band X-ray Observatory
2:00 PM	Daniel Stern (JPL)	4	Compact Objects and Energetic Phenomena with a Broad-Band X-ray Observatory
2:15 PM	Chien-Ting Chen (NASA MSFC/USRA)	18	Resolving the Cosmic X-ray Background for Cosmic Accretion History with a Broad-band X-ray Observatory
2:30 PM	Walter Peter Maksym (NASA MSFC)	74	An X-ray Extremely wide-field Spectroscopic Surveyor (XESS, or “chess”)
2:45 PM	Krista Lynne Smith (Texas A&M University)	11	The X-ray Timing Science Analysis Group: Extreme and Fundamental TDAMM Science with DEUS-X
3:00 PM			Discussion
3:15 PM			Afternoon Break
4:00 PM	TBD	147	CHRONOS: Chronometric High-precision Relativistic Observatory of Networked Optical-clocks in Space
4:15 PM	Daniele Vetrugno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)	117	Beyond LISA: A Space-Based Gravitational-Wave Program for the micro-Hz to deci-Hz Frontier
4:30 PM	John F. Krizmanic (NASA GSFC)	80	The Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) Observatory
4:45 PM			Discussion

Exoplanets & Astrobiology

Location Baxter Lecture Hall

Moderators: Tiffany Kataria / Thomas Beatty

Start	Speaker	Abstract  Number	Title
10:45 AM	Michael R. Meyer (University of Michigan)	81	Charactering Exoplanets with Nulling: Surveying Unseen Systems (CENSUS)
11:00 AM	Kevin Stevenson (Johns Hopkins APL)	31	Characterizing Nearby Non-Transiting Rocky Worlds in the Mid-Infrared
11:15 AM	Tom Greene (Caltech/IPAC)	37	CHROMOS for Transiting Exoplanet Spectroscopy
11:30 AM	Klaus Pontoppidan (JPL)	33	Building on JWST Observations of Exoplanets and Planet-forming Disks with Future Infrared High-resolution Spectroscopy
11:45 AM
12:00 PM			Discussion
12:15 PM			Lunch
1:45 PM	Brenda Matthews (NRC Herzberg)	32	Resolving Architectures of Planetary Systems: the Case for a Sub-arcsecond Far-infrared Interferometer in Space
2:00 PM	Meredith Ann MacGregor (JHU)	34	Connecting Planet Formation from the Solar System to Exoplanet Systems
2:15 PM	Gregg Hallinan (Caltech)	38	The Magnetospheres of Terrestrial Exoplanets from the Lunar Farside
2:30 PM	Jake Turner (Cornell University)	36	The Ongoing Hunt to Detect the Radio Emissions of Exoplanets Using the LOFAR and NenuFAR Low-frequency Telescopes
2:45 PM
3:00 PM			Discussion

Galaxies

Location Noyes 147

Moderators: Claudia Scarlata / Susan Kassin

Start	Speaker	Abstract  Number	Title
10:45 AM	Hans Moritz Günther (MIT)	50	Dust in the Milky Way from the ISM to Star Formation
11:00 AM	John ZuHone (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)	41	Elucidating the Nature of Feedback Mechanisms in Galaxies via Emission-Line Studies of the Warm and Hot Circumgalactic Medium
11:15 AM	Kathryn Plant (NRAO)	42	Probing the Galactic ISM Tomographically at Low Frequencies
11:30 AM	Scott Wolk (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)	52	High Spatial Resolution X-ray Studies of Star Formation, Stellar Evolution, and Planets Studies
11:45 AM	Carlos J. Vargas (University of Arizona)	43	Ardua: Unveiling the Baryon Cycle from Stars to the Cosmic Web
12:00 PM			Discussion
12:15 PM			Lunch
1:45 PM	Joaquin Vieira (Univ. of Illinois / NCSA)	17	The Extragalactic Millimeter Sky with CMB Probe+: A Census of Cosmic Structure and Obscured Star Formation
2:00 PM	Brandon Hensley (JPL)	40	Galactic Astrophysics with a Full-Sky CMB Polarization Survey
2:15 PM	Andreas Faisst (Caltech/IPAC)	49	CHROMOS to Explore the Drivers of Large Scale Structure, Galaxy, and Black Hole Evolution
2:30 PM	Michelle Park (Stanford University)	48	Non-Thermal Physics Drives Compact, Self-Regulated Galaxy Morphologies at Cosmic Dawn
2:45 PM
3:00 PM			Discussion

Galaxies & Cosmic Rays

Location Noyes 147

Moderators: Eric Mayotte / Kohta Murase

Start	Speaker	Abstract  Number	Title
4:00 PM	Priyarshini Ghosh (NASA GSFC)	45	From Iron to the Actinides and Isotopes in-Between: Ushering in the Next Era of Precision Ultra-Heavy Galactic Cosmic Ray Measurements
4:15 PM	Martijn Oei (Caltech)	46	Galactic Cosmic Ray Physics with the Ultra-long Wavelength Lunar Farside Observatory
4:30 PM	Paolo Coppi (Yale University)	53	MeV-GeV Gamma-Ray Observations: Constraining Cosmic Ray-Mediated Feedback and Star Formation Activity
4:45 PM			Discussion

Stars and Stellar Populations

Location Moore Lecture Hall B280

Moderators: Jennifer Johnson / Derek Buzasi

Start	Speaker	Abstract  Number	Title
10:45 AM	Paul Felix Goldsmith (JPL)	39	Key science questions in star formation astrophysics addressed by the LunAr Submillimeter Survey Observatory (LASSO)
11:00 AM	Ivey Davis (ASTRON)	54	Space Weather of Other Stars Below 15 MHz with the MegaWave Radio Surveyor
11:15 AM	Abigail T. Crites (Cornell University)	56	Line Intensity Mapping Capabilities of an All-sky mm/sub-mm Polarimetric Space Mission
11:30 AM	Roberta Paladini (Caltech/IPAC)	55	Star Formation: a Long-Standing Riddle that Asked to be Solved
11:45 AM	Margaret Meixner (JPL)	51	Far-infrared Space Astronomy Science Gaps Beyond 2030
12:00 PM			Discussion

Compact Objects & Energetic Phenomena

Location Moore Lecture Hall B280

Moderators: Vivian U / Tanmoy Laskar / Sanch Borthakur

Start	Speaker	Abstract  Number	Title
1:45 PM	Steven Edward Boggs (UCSD)	7	Origin of the Isotopes: The Case for a Next-Generation Nuclear Line Spectrometer
2:00 PM	Eric Burns (Louisiana State University)	8	The Future of Gamma-Ray Burst Science
2:15 PM	Thomas J. Maccarone (Texas Tech University)	1	Millimeter transients and variables
2:30 PM	Varoujan Gorjian (JPL)	14	PanChromia: The EM Machine for TDAMM Science
2:45 PM	Leo Singer (NASA GSFC)	178	Ad Astra Per Lunam: A Flagship TDAMM Observatory on the Lunar Surface
3:00 PM			Discussion
3:15 PM			Afternoon Break
4:00 PM	Laura Brenneman (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)	13	Finding and Characterizing High-Redshift Black Holes with Next-Generation X-ray Missions
4:15 PM	C. Megan Urry (Yale University)	84	Extragalactic Science with SPICE, the Space Interferometer for Cosmic Exploration
4:30 PM	Fabio Pacucci (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)	15	What Lit Up the Universe? Completing the Picture of Cosmic Dawn with a Next-Generation X-ray Flagship
4:45 PM			Discussion

Sub-mm FIR

Location Moore Lecture Hall B270

Moderators: Abby Crites / Johanna Nagy

Start	Speaker	Abstract  Number	Title
1:30 PM	Lee Mundy (University of Maryland)	76	Far-Infrared Interferometer Mission Concept
1:42 PM	Lin Yi (JPL)	59	Far-Infrared Heterodyne Interferometry as a Hosted Science Capability on Orbital Computing Swarms
1:54 PM	Anish Roshi (University of Central Florida)	90	PHOENIX: A Photonics-Enabled Heterodyne Submillimeter/Far-Infrared Interferometer for Planet Formation, Star Formation, and Galaxy Evolution
2:06 PM	Kevin Fogarty (NASA)	107	ICEpic: An integrated photonic architecture for interferometry in space
2:18 PM	Brendan Crill (JPL)	111	Telescope Architectures for a CMB Probe+
2:30 PM	Johannes Hubmayr (NIST)	105	Superconducting Focal Plane Technology for a CMB Probe of Inflation
2:42 PM			Discussion
3:00 PM			Afternoon Break
3:45 PM	Asantha Cooray (UC Irvine)	92	CDIM-ASTRA: A Strategic Wide-Field Spectro-Imaging Mission for Cosmic Dawn and Reionization
3:57 PM	Christopher K. Walker (University of Arizona)	100	SALTUS: Single Aperture Large Telescope for Universe Studies
4:09 PM	Michael Johnson (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)	99	Space-VLBI Frontier Observatory
4:21 PM	Eiichi Egami (University of Arizona)	102	Mid-Infrared Wide-Field Surveyor: Toward the Next Redshift Frontier
4:33 PM	Gary Melnick (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)	83	Beyond Zodi Mid-Infrared Wide-Field Surveyor
4:45 PM	Johannes G. Staguhn (JHU / NASA GSFC)	112	Detector Technologies and Performance Requirements for Future Mid-Infrared Space Missions
4:57 PM			Discussion
5:15 PM			Short break to reconvene into plenary

X-ray & UV

Location Broad 100

Moderators: Brian Grefenstette / Steven Allen

Start	Speaker	Abstract  Number	Title
1:30 PM	Hans Moritz Günther (MIT)	132	X-ray Grating Spectroscopy as a Mission Enhancement
1:42 PM	Michael Hoenk (JPL)	113	Delta-doped Sensors for X-ray to Ultraviolet Imaging and Spectroscopy
1:54 PM	Brandon Chalifoux (University of Arizona)	87	A Diffraction-Limited Milli-arcsecond X-ray Imager
2:06 PM	Drew Miles (Caltech)	115/118	Developments in X-ray Reflection Gratings/Developments in Blazed UV Diffraction Gratings
2:18 PM	Sven Herrmann (Stanford University)	121	Fast, Low Noise SiSeRO Detectors for NUV-VIS-NIR and X-ray Applications
2:30 PM	Haeun Chung (University of Arizona)	89	Ardua: UV Instrument Technology and Design Trades for Wide-Field, Ultra-Low-Surface-Brightness Circumgalactic Medium Mapping
2:42 PM			Discussion
3:00 PM			Afternoon Break
3:45 PM	Kim Weaver (NASA GSFC)	60	The Accretion Explorer Interferometer
3:57 PM	John ZuHone (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)	123	From Simulations to Observations: the Necessity of End-to-End Simulations for Linking Science Objectives to Mission Requirements
4:09 PM	Simon Richard Bandler (Univ. of Maryland and  NASA GSFC)	78	De-risking the Next X-ray Flagship: A Dedicated Technology Development and Proto-Flight Strategy
4:21 PM	Kristin Madsen (NASA GSFC)	104	Next Generation X-ray Optics
4:33 PM	Peter Cheimets (Smithsonian Institution)	114	Novel Scaleable High Resolution X-ray Mirror System
4:45 PM	Zaven Arzoumanian (NASA GSFC)	172	The Dynamic Extreme Universe in X-rays (DEUS-X) TDAMM Machine
4:57 PM			Discussion
5:15 PM			Short break to reconvene into plenary

Radio

Location Linde Hall 310

Moderators: Judd Bowman / Gioia Rau

Start	Speaker	Abstract  Number	Title
1:30 PM	Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay (JPL)	57	Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) on the Farside of the Moon
1:42 PM	Jake Turner (Cornell University)	155	The Lunar Farside Technosignature and Transient Telescope (LFT3) Mission
1:54 PM	Marin Anderson (JPL)	97	An Ultra-Long-Wavelength Observatory on the Lunar Farside
2:06 PM	Jack Burns (University of Colorado Boulder)	162	The FarView Low Frequency Radio Array on the Moon’s Far Side
2:18 PM	Joseph Lazio (University of Michigan)	70	The MegaWave Radio Surveyor
2:30 PM	Mary Knapp (MIT Haystack Observatory)	122	Electromagnetic Vector Sensors: Better Antennas for Space-based Low Frequency Radio Interferometry
2:42 PM			Discussion
3:00 PM			Afternoon Break
3:45 PM	Ref Bari (Brown University)	98	T-REX: Time-Resolving Explorer
3:57 PM	Ruby Byrne (Caltech)	119	Capabilities Needed for the Next Generation of 21 cm Cosmology Measurements
4:09 PM	Daniel Jacobs (Arizona State University)	120	Roadmap to Readiness of Space-based Dark Ages 21cm Receivers
4:21 PM	Kathryn Plant (NRAO)	116	The Digital Signal Processing Trade Space for Space-based Radio Telescopes
4:33 PM			Discussion
4:45 PM
4:57 PM
5:15 PM			Short break to reconvene into plenary

Multi-Mission Capabilities

Location Baxter Lecture Hall

Moderators: Meredith MacGregor / Don Figer

Start	Speaker	Abstract  Number	Title
1:30 PM	Garreth Ruane (JPL)	91	Servicing Mission to Bring Second-Generation Coronagraph Instrumentation to the Habitable Worlds Observatory
1:42 PM	Rita Sambruna (NASA)	61	AstroDOME: Standardized, Mass-produceable, Small Astrophysics missions
1:54 PM	Matthew Marcus (NASA GSFC)	63	AstroDOME Engineering
2:06 PM	Weibo Chen (JPL)	110	Low-Temperature Cryocooler Status Review
2:18 PM	Peter Shirron (NASA GSFC)	108	Continuous Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator Systems for Future CMB Missions
2:30 PM	Stuart B. Shaklan (JPL)	135	Starshade: A Broad-Band, High-Throughput Architecture for ExoEarth Discovery and Characterization
2:42 PM			Discussion
3:00 PM			Afternoon Break

Multiple Aperture Concepts

Location Baxter Lecture Hall

Moderators: Eric Burns / Malgosia Sobolewska

Start	Speaker	Abstract  Number	Title
3:45 PM	Curtis McCully (Las Cumbres Observatory)	86	CIELO: LCO in Space
3:57 PM	Ahmad Sohani (LSU)	94	LUSTER-net: LUnar-based Survey for Time-domain Exploration and Research network
4:09 PM	Varoujan Gorjian (JPL)	14	PanChromia: The EM Machine for TDAMM Science
4:21 PM	Daniel Apai (University of Arizona)	103	Nautilus Space Observatory: Flagship Science with a Scalable, Modular, Rapidly Deployable Architecture
4:33 PM	Kenneth Carpenter (NASA GSFC)	142	The Artemis-enabled Stellar Imager (AeSI)
4:45 PM	Dan Kocevski (NASA)	179	The Hydra Constellation: A Proliferated Space Architecture for Time-Domain and Multi-Messenger Astrophysics
4:57 PM			Discussion
5:15 PM			Short break to reconvene into plenary

UV Optical IR

Location Moore Lecture Hall B280

Moderators: Erika Hamden / Kevin France

Start	Speaker	Abstract  Number	Title
1:30 PM	Ahmed Soliman (JPL)	69	Hybrid space-ground Observatory for Earth-Like Exoplanets (HOEE)
1:42 PM	Gregory D. Wirth (BAE Systems)	79	CHROMOS (Cosmic Higher Resolution Origins Multi-Object Spectroscopy): Mission Implementation
1:54 PM	Edward Balaban (NASA ARC)	96	Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE): Transformative Science with Ultra-Large, Single-Aperture Space Observatories
2:06 PM	Kevin Hardegree‑Ullman (Caltech/IPAC)	165	Near-Infrared Transit Explorer (NITE)
2:18 PM	Avi Mandell (NASA)	75	The MIRECLE Concept: Revealing the Properties of Non-Transiting Temperate Rocky Planets Orbiting the Nearest M-Stars
2:30 PM	Eduardo Bendek (NASA ARC)	95	ASPECT: Astrometry Space Probe for Exoplanet Characterization and True Masses
2:42 PM			Discussion
3:00 PM			Afternoon Break

Gamma Ray

Location Chen 130

Moderators: Steve Boggs / Sylvain Guiriec

Start	Speaker	Abstract  Number	Title
1:30 PM	Elizabeth Hays (NASA GSFC)	88	Future Large Gamma-ray Mission Concepts
1:42 PM	Tom Shutt (Stanford University)	106	GammaTPC: a Transformative 0.1 MeV - 10 GeV Gamma Ray Instrument Concept
1:54 PM	Regina Caputo (NASA GSFC)	66	Next-Generation Wide-field Gamma-Ray Observatories
2:06 PM	Richard Miller (JHU/APL)	73	Time-domain All-Sky Nuclear Gamma-ray Observatory (TANGO)
2:18 PM	Nicholas Cannady (NASA GSFC)	77	LCRO: A Modular Cosmic-Ray and Gamma-Ray Observatory on the Lunar Surface
2:30 PM	Andreas Zoglauer (Space Sciences Lab / UC Berkeley)	152	Closing the MeV Gap with ARCTIS and Hybrid Germanium Pixel Detectors
2:42 PM			Discussion
3:00 PM			Afternoon Break

Gravitational Waves & Fundamental Physics

Location Chen 130

Moderators: Tingting Liu / Simon Barke

Start	Speaker	Abstract  Number	Title
3:45 PM	Thomas Eubanks (Space Initiatves Inc)	93	Fundamental Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology with the Interplanetary Laser Trilateration Network (ILTN)
3:57 PM	David Leibrandt (UCLA)	64	Asteroids for μHz Gravitational Wave Detection
4:09 PM	Jacob Slutsky (NASA GSFC)	141	The Decihertz Interferometer Space Antenna
4:21 PM	Dhruva Ganapathy (UC Berkeley)	124	Gravitational-Wave Astronomy with a Space-based Optical Clock Network
4:33 PM	Volker Quetschke (Univ. of Texas Rio Grande Valley)	71	LILA Observatory: A Lunar-Surface Mid-Band Gravitational-Wave Observatory
4:45 PM	Slava Turyshev (JPL)	67	TETRA: A Tetrahedral Heliocentric Field-Equations Observatory
4:57 PM			Discussion
5:15 PM			Short break to reconvene into plenary