Since 1963, the Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics has been one of the most important international conferences in astronomy and physics. Traditionally, it moves around the globe and takes place in different cities every two years.
The 33rd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics will take place in the vibrant city of Tempe, AZ from December 8 – 12, 2025. The event will be hosted at The Omni Hotel very near Arizona State University which offers state-of-the-art facilities to ensure a productive and enjoyable meeting.
We are thrilled to announce that John Mather, Jim Peebles, Adam Riess, George Smoot (TBC), and Frank Wilczek have already agreed to participate and attend the symposium.
Beyond the symposium, Tempe in December offers a perfect blend of outdoor adventures and festive activities, making it an ideal winter getaway. The mild temperatures invite visitors to explore the scenic beauty of Tempe Town Lake, hike the iconic Hayden Butte, or stroll through the Desert Botanical Garden. You can also experience the Tempe Fantasy of Lights Boat Parade, a dazzling display of holiday lights along the lake. The city hosts various seasonal events, including holiday markets, outdoor concerts, and ice skating rinks, offering attendees a chance to enjoy the warm desert climate while celebrating the holiday season.
The symposium will cover all major topics on high-energy and particle astrophysics, cosmology and relativity. It will include morning plenary sessions and afternoon parallel sessions which will function as mini-symposia in each sub-field. The plenary sessions will consist of ~45 min review talks. The afternoon sessions will feature oral talks (about 15-30 min) and poster contributions.
We look forward to welcoming hundreds of international astronomers and physicists to Arizona in December 2025!
The 16th International Workshop on the Dark Side of the Universe/2nd Gordon Godfrey Workshop on Astroparticle Physics will take place on 5–9 Dec 2022 at The University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia, hosted by the Sydney Consortium for Particle Physics and Cosmology. It will bring together a wide range of theorists and experimentalists to discuss current ideas on models of the dark sector of the Universe and to relate them to ongoing and future experiments.
The meeting will feature invited plenary talks covering topics of recent interest, as well as a number of parallel sessions to provide an opportunity for junior scientists to present their work.
The workshop will be preceded by the 3rd Sydney Spring School, aimed at graduate students and young postdocs, to be held on 30 Nov – 2 Dec, 2022 at the University of Sydney.
Light Dark World 2020 is the fifth meeting of the Light Dark World International Forum. It will be held on December 14-18, 2020, via zoom and is hosted by Sydney-CPPC, the consortium of the particle physics and cosmology groups at the Universities of New South Wales and Sydney. The zoom link will be provided to registered participants closer to the workshop.
Light Dark World 2020 will bring together global experts from experiment and theory to discuss recent advances and develop new opportunities to study new light particles beyond the Standard Model, including light gauge boson, light scalar, light dark matter, axion, axion-like particle, and light sterile neutrinos.
Previous Meetings of the Light Dark World Series are
- Light Dark World 2019, Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, Austria
- Light Dark World 2018, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
- Light Dark World 2017, Pittsburgh, USA
- Light Dark World 2016, IBS Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe, Daejeon, Korea
Confirmed speakers:
- Djuna Croon (TRIUMF)
- Malcolm Fairbairn (King’s College London)
- Jonathan Feng (UC Irvine)
- Stefania Gori (UC Santa Cruz)
- Rebecca Leane (SLAC)
- Hyun-Min Lee (Chung-Ang U)
- David Morrissey (TRIUMF)
- Josef Pradler (Vienna, OAW)
- Yannis Semertzidis (KAIST)
- Yevgeny Stadnik (IPMU)
- Michael Tobar (U Western Australia)
- Jingqiang Ye (Columbia U)
- Tien-Tien Yu (U Oregon)
- Yu-Feng Zhou (ITP)
