Physics of the Cosmos and Joint Program Analysis Group activities will be scheduled from 9am to 6pm Eastern on Sunday, 12 January 2025.

Sunday, 12 January 2025

Physics of the Cosmos & Physics of the Cosmos Program Analysis Group Sessions

Room: Maryland Ballroom B

Time	Topic	Speakers	Presentation
9:00am – 9:15am	Introduction and Updates	PhysCOS and PhysPAG EC	[PDF] [PDF]
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	Ira Thorpe (NASA GSFC)	[PDF]
	AXIS and Synergies with LISA	Adi Foord (UMBC)
10:40am – 10:55am	Morning Break
10:55am – 11:10am	Technology Highlights (SAT/ISFM/APRA/RTF)	Opher Ganel (NASA GSFC)	[PDF]
11:10am – 11:40am	Cosmic Structure SIG
	Roman High-Latitude Imaging Survey Cosmology Project Infrastructure Team	Ami Choi (NASA GSFC)	[PDF]
	Towards Realistic Halo-Scale Constraints on the Nature of Dark Matter and Gravity	Benedikt Diemer (UMD)	[PDF]
11:40am – 12:10pm	Habitable Worlds Observatory
	Exploring the Quiescent Black Hole Population in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies with the Habitable Worlds Observatory	Fabio Pacucci (Harvard)	[PDF]
	The Formation and Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes: Science Cases with the Habitable Worlds Observatory	Jenna Cann (UMBC)	[PDF]
12:10pm – 1:15pm	Lunch Break
1:15pm – 1:45pm	First PhysCOS Early Career Workshop Summary	Workshop SOC	[PDF]
	Grating development and the Rockets for Extended-source X-ray Spectroscopy	Drew Miles (Caltech)	[PDF]
1:45pm – 2:35pm	X Ray SIG
	The SuperHERO Hard-X-Ray, High-Resolution, Balloon Telescope	Nick Thomas (NASA MSFC)	[PDF]
	NewAthena: Revealing the Hot and Energetic Universe	Kristen Madsen (NASA GSFC)	[PDF]
	Open Discussion	X-ray Science Interest Group
2:35pm – 2:45pm	Afternoon Break
2:45pm – 3:00pm	The Fornax Initiative	Tess Jaffe (NASA GSFC)	[PDF]
3:00pm – 3:15pm	ACROSS: Enabling Time Domain and Multi-Messenger Astrophysics	Dan Kocevski (NASA MSFC)	[PDF]
3:15pm – 3:30pm	Final Report of the TDAMM Space Communications Science Analysis Group	Judy Racusin (NASA GSFC)	[PDF]
3:30pm – 4:00pm	Afternoon Break

Joint PAG Session

Room: Potomac 3 – 4

Time	Topic	Speakers	Presentation
4:00pm – 4:30pm ET	Time-Domain and Multi-Messenger (TDAMM) Science Interest Group
	Findings of the 3rd TDAMM Workshop	Eric Burns (LSU)	[PDF]
	Update on the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI)	John Tomsick (UC Berkley)	[PDF]
	The Ultraviolet Explorer (UVEX)	Brian Grefenstette (Caltech)	[PDF]
4:30pm – 6:00pm ET	Joint PAG Session at the AAS, Q&A Panel Discussion	Mark Clampin, NASA APD Director, PAG Executive Committee Chairs

Wednesday, 15 January 2025

Future Innovations in Gamma Ray Science SAG Splinter: Future of Gamma Rays

Over the past year, the Future Innovations in Gamma-rays Science Analysis Group (FIG SAG) has been collecting community inputs on key science drivers and necessary capabilities for the future of gamma-ray astrophysics. In the AAS splinter session, we will review the early draft of the study report and solicit feedback for developing a strategic gamma-ray roadmap for the coming decades.

Room: Annapolis 1 – 2

Time	Topic	Speaker	Presentation
1:00pm	Future Innovations in Gamma Rays Science Analysis Group	Michelle Hui, Tiffany Lewis, Zorawar Wadiasingh, Chris Fryer, Paolo Coppi, Milena Crnogorčević, Marcos Santander	[PDF]

NASA Press Releases at January 2025 AAS

• NASA Celebrates Edwin Hubble’s Discovery of a New Universe

• NASA’s Webb Reveals Intricate Layers of Interstellar Dust, Gas

• Newfound Galaxy Class May Indicate Early Black Hole Growth, Webb Finds

• Astronomers Catch Unprecedented Features at Brink of Active Black Hole

• Hubble Reveals Surprising Spiral Shape of Galaxy Hosting Young Jet

• How Many Black Holes Are Hiding? NASA Study Homes in on Answer

• NASA’s Hubble Tracks Down a ‘Blue Lurker’ Among Stars

• Webb Watches Carbon-Rich Dust Shells Form, Expand in Star System