All times refer to Central Daylight Time (CDT)
Bird’s-eye-view of the program.
Conference Reception: will take place at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center on Monday, June 30, from 18 to 20h. The reception is free for all registered participants.
Conference Dinner: will take place at Silvercreek on Wednesday, July 2, from 18 to 20h. The dinner is only for those who registered for it while registering for the conference. Dinner starts at 18h, but you’re welcome to arrive starting from 17h.
Click on the tabs below corresponding to each day of the meeting for a detailed schedule.
Monday June 30, 2025 8:45 – 17:00 h CDT
Joint session: Cosmic Explorer + PAX at Beckman Institute Auditorium, Room 1025
| Time (CDT) | Room Number | Session / Talks | Speakers / Panelists |
| 8:45 – 9:00 | 1025 | Welcome | |
| 09:00 – 9:45 | 1025 | CBC populations Waveform modeling | Floor Broekgaarden Rossella Gamba |
| 9:45 – 10:30 | 1025 | Cosmic Explorer status | Matthew Evans |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | 1005 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | 1025 | Einstein Telescope status LISA status | Ettore Majorana Kelly Holley-Bockelmann |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | 1025 | Science Traceability Matrix (STM) Status Panel discussion on STM | Nils Andersson Nils Andersson (chair), Bangalore Sathyaprakash, Alex Nitz, and Vaishak Prasad |
| 12:30 – 14:30 | Lunch break |
Parallel Session: PAX Meeting at Beckman Institute Auditorium, Room 1025
| Time (CDT) | Room Number | Session | Panelists |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | 1025 | Panel discussion on CBC | Carl-Johan Haster (chair), Floor Broekgaarden, and Haowen Zhong |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | 1005 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | 1025 | Panel discussion on waveform models | Marta Colleoni (chair), Shrobana Ghosh, Lucy Thomas, and Rossella Gamba |
Parallel Session: Cosmic Explorer Symposium at Beckman Institute, Room 1005
| Time (CDT) | Room Number | Session | Panelists |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | 1005 | Round-table discussion on STM (instrumental side) | Lisa Barsotti |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | 1005 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | 1005 | Round-table discussion on CE instrument: open question and future-proofing CE facilities | Jene Driggers and Joshua Smith |
Wine reception from 18:00 to 20:00 h CDT
Tuesday July 1, 2025 9:00 – 17:00 h CDT
Joint session: Cosmic Explorer + PAX at Beckman Institute Auditorium, Room 1025
| Time (CDT) | Room Number | Session / Talks | Speakers / Panelists |
| 09:00 – 9:45 | 1025 | 2G+XG science Dense matter | Lucy M. Thomas Alexander Haber |
| 9:45 – 10:30 | 1025 | Panel discussion on 2G+XG detector network | David Ottaway (chair), Stefan W. Ballmer, Alexander Haber, Bangalore Sathyaprakash, Lucy M. Thomas, and Ling Sun |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | 1005 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | 1025 | Data policies (Fairhurst | Reitze | Holly-Bockelmann | Punturo) | Stephen Fairhurst, David Reitze, Kelly Holly-Bockelmann, and Michele Punturo |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | 1025 | Panel discussion on data policies | Benjamin Owen (chair), Alexander Nitz, Kelly Holly-Bockelmann, Jenne Driggers, and Anuradha Gupta |
| 12:30 – 14:30 | Lunch break |
Parallel Session: PAX Meeting at Beckman Institute Auditorium, Room 1025
| Time (CDT) | Room Number | Session | Panelists |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | 1025 | Panel discussion on dense matter equation of state | Jocelyn Read (chair), Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler, Alexander Haver, and Jamie Bamber |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | 1005 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | 1025 | Tests of general relativity | Anuradha Gupta (chair), Adrian K. W. Chung, Juan Calderon Bustillo, and Chloe Richards |
Parallel Session: Cosmic Explorer Symposium at Beckman Institute, Room 1005
| Time (CDT) | Room Number | Session | Panelists |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | 1005 | Connecting CE with hot topics in science and technology | Lee McCuller |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | 1005 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | 1005 | Modeling challenges and AI opportunities in the XG detector era [Mukund | Neubauer] | Nikhil Mukund and Mark Neubauer |
Wednesday July 2, 2025 9:00 – 17:00 h CDT
Joint session: Cosmic Explorer + PAX at Beckman Institute Auditorium, Room 1025
| Time (CDT) | Room Number | Session / Talks | Speakers / Panelists |
| 09:00 – 9:45 | 1025 | Dark matter Cosmology | Divya Singh Hsin-Yu Chen |
| 9:45 – 10:30 | 1025 | Searches and parameter estimation Early warning and alerts | Koustav Chandra Deep Chatterjee |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | 1005 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | 1025 | Panel discussion on data analysis in the 100,000+ events per year era | Aaron Zimmerman (chair), Koustav Chandra, Deep Chatterjee, Francesco Iacovelli, and Ling Sun |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | 1025 | Designing the CE Collaborative Community Panel discussion building the next generation of CE users | Rae J. Han Joey S. Key (chair), Jameson Rollins, Helvi Witek, and David Shoemaker |
| 12:30 – 14:30 | Lunch break Parallel Outreach Public Lecture |
Parallel Session: PAX Meeting at Beckman Institute Auditorium, Room 1025
| Time (CDT) | Room Number | Session | Panelists |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | 1025 | Panel discussion on cosmology | Hsin-Yu Chen (chair), Alex Hanselman, Leah Jenks, and Sumit Kumar |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | 1005 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | 1025 | Panel discussion on dark matter | Ling Sun (chair), Divya Singh, Tanner Trickle, and David A. Nichols |
Parallel Session: Cosmic Explorer Symposium at Beckman Institute, Room 1005
| Time (CDT) | Room Number | Session | Panelists |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | 1005 | Real-time control | Stefan W. Ballmer (chair), Alexander Nitz, and Jameson Rollins |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | 1005 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | 1005 | Working groups technical discussions |
Conference dinner from 18:00 to 20:00 h CDT
Thursday July 3, 2025 9:00 – 16:00 h CDT
Joint session: Cosmic Explorer + PAX at Beckman Institute Auditorium, Room 1025
| Time (CDT) | Room Number | Session / Talks | Speakers / Panelists |
| 09:00 – 9:45 | 1025 | Site evaluation IFO design | Joshua Smith Stefan Ballmer |
| 9:45 – 10:30 | 1025 | Multimessenger astronomy | Samuele Ronchini and Aaron Tohuvavohu |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | 1005 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | 1025 | Panel discussion on multimessenger astronomy and multiband GW science | Leo Tsukada (chair), Samuele Ronchini, Aaron Tohuvavohu, Amanda C. Baylor, and Kelly Holley-Bockelmann |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | 1025 | Open Mic (CE Parallel Sessions Summary) | |
| 12:30 – 14:30 | Lunch break |
Parallel Session: PAX Meeting at Beckman Institute Auditorium, Room 1025
| Time (CDT) | Room Number | Session | Panelists |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | 1025 | Open discussion | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | 1005 | Departure |
Parallel Session: Cosmic Explorer Symposium at Beckman Institute, Room 1005
| Time (CDT) | Room Number | Session | Panelists |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | 1005 | Open discussion | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | 1005 | Departure |