Physics of the Cosmos Second Early Career Workshop
NASA's Physics of the Cosmos Program, in collaboration with the Physics of the Cosmos Program Analysis Group Executive Committee, is pleased to announce the Second Early Career Workshop. Participants will benefit from engaging interactive sessions covering essential topics including grant opportunities, navigating data archives, and effective strategies for career advancement.
Location
Virtual
Dates
23-25 September 2025
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM ET
Community
Physics of the Cosmos
TYpe
Workshop
Physics of the Cosmos
Inspiring the Next Generation of Astrophysicists
The workshop will be held on September 23 – 25, 2025, from 1:00PM to 4:00PM Eastern Time and will be fully virtual.
This workshop aims to provide early career scientists with valuable insights into the groundbreaking research conducted within the Physics of the Cosmos Program, demonstrate essential tools and resources available to them, and address their questions and concerns.
Registration about Inspiring the Next Generation of Astrophysicists
This second workshop will discuss three topics—Science, Missions, and Career Development— and will also showcase the importance of collaborations.
This workshop is tailored for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career scientists looking to enhance their professional trajectory in astrophysics.
Workshop Schedule
Day 1 PhysCOS Science
Workshop Connection: Join the Workshop
| Time | Topic | Speaker | Institution | Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 PM | Welcome | Sean Domagal-Coleman | NASA / HQ | |
| 1:05 PM | PhysCOS Science Overview | Francesca Civano | NASA / GSFC | [PDF] |
| 1:20 PM | PhysPAG Overview | David Pooley | Trinity University | [PDF] |
| 1:35 PM | New Tools from the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) | Tess Jaffe | NASA / GSFC | [PDF] |
| 1:55 PM | Break | |||
| 2:05 PM | Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) Tools Demo | Thomas Dutkiewicz | STScI | [PDF] |
| 2:25 PM | GUI-Based Demo of SPHEREx and Euclid at IRSA | Luisa Rebull | IPAC | [PDF] |
| 2:45 PM | Break | |||
| 2:55 PM | Early Career Scientists Presentations on Science Projects | Chair: Bernard Kelly | NASA / GSFC | |
| Mapping the Cosmic Evolution of Fermi Blazars | Garima Rajguru | Clemson | [PDF] | |
| Utilizing Maximum Variability to Discern TDE Emission from AGN Flares | Samaresh Mondal | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | [PDF] | |
| Characterizing and Mitigating Noise on Roman Space Telescope Detectors for Precise Weak Gravitational Lensing | Katherine Laliotis | OSU | [PDF] | |
| XRISM Spectroscopy of the Galactic Center Molecular Cloud G0.11-0.11 | Stephen DiKerby | MSU | [PDF] | |
| Characterizing Accretion Flow in Z Sources with IXPE | Fabio La Monaca | INAF-IAPS | [PDF] | |
| 4:00 PM | End |
Day 2 Missions and Technologies
Workshop Connection: Join the Workshop
| Time | Topic | Speaker | Institution | Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 PM | Partnerships / Collaborations Between Agencies | Thomas Hams | NASA / HQ | [PDF] |
| 1:15 PM | Euclid Space Telescope Overview | Valeria Petterino | ESA | [PDF] |
| 1:33 PM | XMM-Newton X-ray Telescope | Felix Fuerst | ESA | [PDF] |
| 1:51 PM | Break | |||
| 2:00 PM | Roman Space Telescope | Julie McEnery | NASA / GSFC | |
| 2:18 PM | JWST | Knicole Colon | NASA / GSFC | [PDF] |
| 2:36 PM | X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) | Lia Corrales | University of Michigan | [PDF] |
| 2:54 PM | Break | |||
| 3:00 PM | Early Career Scientist Tech Talks | Chair: Bernard Kelly | NASA / GSFC | [PDF] |
| 3:05 PM | The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) | Anaya Valluvan | UCSD | [PDF] |
| 3:23 PM | Hunting High Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos with Balloon and Satellite Experiments | Austin Cummings | PSU | [PDF] |
| 3:41 PM | CubeSats: BurstCube | Israel Martinez Castellanos | NASA / GSFC | [PDF] |
| 4:00 PM | End |
Day 3 Careers
Workshop Connection: Join the Workshop
| Time | Topic | Speaker | Institution | Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 PM | Introduction to the Panel Format | Christos Panagiotou | MIT | |
| 1:10 PM | "Career Development Opportunities" Panel | Moderator: Rebecca Hounsell | UMBC / GSFC | |
| Jackson Howard | EURAXESS North America | [PDF] | ||
| Ashley Villar | Harvard | [PDF] | ||
| Martin Still | National Science Foundation | [PDF] | ||
| Nino Cucchiara | NASA / HQ | [PDF] | ||
| 2:00 PM | Break | |||
| 2:10 PM | "Careers in International Missions" Panel | Moderator: J. Perkins | NASA | |
| Betta Cavazzuti | ASI | |||
| Begona Villa Costas | NASA / GSFC | [PDF] | ||
| Takanori Sakamoto | Aoyama University | [PDF] | ||
| 3:00 PM | Break | |||
| 3:10 PM | "Careers at Universities" Panel | Moderator: J. Lange | AU | |
| 3:10 PM | Claudio Ricci | UNIGE | [PDF] | |
| Allison Kirkpatrick | KU | |||
| Veronica Bindi | University of Hawaii | [PDF] | ||
| Sylvain Guiriec | GWU | |||
| 4:00 PM | Closing Remarks |
Workshop Posters
| Title | Submitted By | Poster |
|---|---|---|
| Black Holes as Energy-Absorbing Reactors: A Framework for Element Formation | Pathma A. Liyanage | [PDF] |
| Investigating Formation and Evolution of ETGs using MaNGA Data | Tathagata Pal | [PDF] |
| X-ray Emission Signatures from Stellar Death Leading to Black Hole Formation | Alaa Salah Afifi | [PDF] |
| Semantic Weight of the Yang–Mills Gap and Heterocyclic Divergence in Precursor Lensing: Life Tracks from Gravitational Wave Explorations | Roberto Guenzani | [PDF] |
| Developing a Simulation Pipeline for CII and CO Line Intensity Mapping Experiments | Faizah K. Siddique | [PDF] |
| Accretion and Flux Eruption Events in GRMHD Simulations | Eleni Antonopoulou | [PDF] |
| A New Explanation for the Shape of Universe; Is It Spherical, Flat or Semi-Spherical ?! | Gh. Saleh | [PDF] |
| A Broadband Spectro-Temporal View of NS LMXBs – A Hunt for Soft QPOs | Malu Sudha | [PDF] |
| Fullshape Analysis for Modified Gravity Models | Gerardo Morales Navarrete | [PDF] |
| Astrophysical Systematics in Third-Order Weak Lensing Statistics | Avijit Bera | [PDF] |
| Piritakua (Lightning in Purépecha language) Who/Where/When/Why/What? | Antonio Galvan | [PDF] |
| Houston, weve got a problem: Coming soon, quantum vulnerabilities are no longer theoretical | Spencer Toulouse | [PDF] |
Workshop Scientific Organizing Committee
| Francesca Civano |
| Christos Panagiotou |
| Rebekah Hounsell |
| Sylvain Guiriec |
| Johannes Ulf Lange |
| Brian Humensky |
| Bernard Kelly |
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