Computational Astrophysics

Presentations

• Towards High-Resolution Cosmological Simulations of Ultralight Dark Matter

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 10:30 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:42 AM

  Publication: We are planning a paper on our solver and a science paper (both are in preparation).

  Presenters

  • George Iskander

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • George Iskander

    • University of Chicago

  • Salman Habib

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Benjamin Gutierrez-Garcia

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • JD Emberson

    • Argonne National Laboratory

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• Probabilistic Inference of Galaxy Parameters and Emission Lines via VAE–Normalizing Flows

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 10:42 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:54 AM

  Presenters

  • Adiba Amira Siddiqa

    • Bryn Mawr College

  Authors

  • Adiba Amira Siddiqa

    • Bryn Mawr College

  • Sayed Shafaat Mahmud

    • Colgate University

  • Juan Rafael Martínez-Galarza

    • Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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• Using the Milky Way-est simulations to model the detectability of Milky Way Satellites Galaxies at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 10:54 AM – March 17, 2026, 11:06 AM

  Presenters

  • Aditya Ghosh

    • University of North Florida

  Authors

  • Aditya Ghosh

    • University of North Florida

  • Illumi Chavez

    • University of North Florida

  • Christopher Kelso

    • University of North Florida

  • Alex Drlica-Wagner

    • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)

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• GRMHD simulations of black hole accretion in AsterX

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 11:06 AM – March 17, 2026, 11:18 AM

  Presenters

  • Michail Chabanov

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Michail Chabanov

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

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• Magnetorotational Turbulence and Dynamo in Accretion Disks: a Unified Mean-Field Theory

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 17, 2026, 11:18 AM – March 17, 2026, 11:30 AM

  Publication: 1. Mondal T., Bhat P., Ebrahimi F., Blackman E. G., "Understanding large-scale dynamos in unstratified rotating shear flows," - in review (2025); arXiv:2505.03660.
  2. Mondal T., Bhat P., "Unified treatment of mean-field dynamo and angular-momentum transport in magnetorotational instability-driven turbulence," - Phys. Rev. E 108, 065201 (2023); arXiv:2307.01281.

  Presenters

  • Tushar Mondal

    • International Centre for Theoretical Science, (TIFR)

  Authors

  • Tushar Mondal

    • International Centre for Theoretical Science, (TIFR)

  • Pallavi Bhat

    • ICTS - TIFR

  • Fatima Ebrahimi

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Eric Blackman

    • University of Rochester

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• Modeling Supermassive Stellar Progenitors of Direct Collapse Black Hole Formation

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 11:30 AM – March 17, 2026, 11:42 AM

  Presenters

  • Sarah Gossan

    • Hofstra University

  Authors

  • Sarah Gossan

    • Hofstra University

  • Marina Loizou

    • Hofstra University

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• Neutrino Telescope Event Classification on Quantum Computers

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 11:42 AM – March 17, 2026, 11:54 AM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.16530v1

  Presenters

  • Pavel Zhelnin

    • Harvard University

  Authors

  • Pavel Zhelnin

    • Harvard University

  • Carlos Argüelles-Delgado

    • Harvard University

  • Mikel Sanz

    • University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU

  • Pablo Rodriguez-Grasa

    • University of the Basque

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• General relativistic simulations of black hole seed formation in the early universe

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 11:54 AM – March 17, 2026, 12:06 PM

  Publication: Work in progress

  Presenters

  • Mahdi Naseri

    • University of Arizona

  Authors

  • Mahdi Naseri

    • University of Arizona

  • Vasileios Paschalidis

    • University of Arizona

  • Thomas Baumgarte

    • Bowdoin College

  • Stuart Shapiro

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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