Cosmic Cartography with Roman: Advances in Galaxy Structures, Distributions, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy
July 14th – July 18th, 2025
Abstract Submission Deadline Is Approaching: March 28, 2025!
We are pleased to announce that abstract submission is now open for contributed talks and posters at this year’s annual Roman Science Conference, “Cosmic Cartography with Roman,” to be held July 14th-18th, 2025, at STScI in Baltimore. The conference will explore the fundamental questions Roman will address by mapping the Universe. Abstracts will be accepted until March 28, 2025.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, planned to launch in late 2026, will be capable of surveying the sky 1000 times faster than the Hubble Space Telescope with similar sensitivity and resolution. A combination of near-infrared imaging and spectroscopic surveys, designed by Roman’s community-defined Core Community Surveys and General Astrophysics Survey programs, will generate unique datasets and large-area maps of the sky that will catalyze scientific discovery across all of astrophysics. Roman’s accurate mapping of stars, galaxies, and galaxy clusters will offer the unique ability to map our entire Universe, both the seen and the unseen.
This conference aims to focus on the intersection of dark energy and dark matter with galaxy formation and evolution. It will explore the novel research that is possible only with large cosmic surveys and simulations and discuss how the community will be able to optimize scientific output with Roman in the future. Topics of discussion will include, but are not limited to, the expected impacts from Roman observations of galaxy clustering (including BAO/RSD), weak lensing, galaxy clusters, supernova cosmology, stellar streams, and dwarf galaxies. The conference will strive to foster synergies between contemporaneous experiments to Roman, such as Euclid, Rubin, DESI, Simons Observatory, and SPT. The schedule will feature invited talks, contributed talks, posters, discussion panels, and fun social activities.
Attendance: The conference will be a hybrid event (in-person and virtual). To maximize engagement, in-person attendance is encouraged for all participants, especially speakers.
Important dates
Feb 03, 2025 Abstract Submission Opens
March 28, 2025 Abstract Submission Closes
Apr 14, 2025 Registration Opens
Jun 09, 2025 Registration Deadline
Jul 14-18, 2025 Cosmic Cartography with Roman at STScI
Confirmed Invited Speakers
Alexandra Amon (Princeton University), Dillon Brout (Boston University), Tzu-Ching Chang (JPL), Martín Crocce (Institute of Space Sciences, ICE, CSIC), Jo Dunkley (Princeton University), Agnès Ferté (SLAC), Peter Ferguson (University of Washington), Andrew Hearin (Argonne National Lab), Henk Hoekstra (Leiden University), Michelle Ntamptaka (STScI), Hee-Jong Seo (Ohio University), Tomomi Sunayama (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics).
SOC
Ami Choi (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Co-Chair), Javier Sanchez (STScI; Co-Chair), Alexandra Amon (Princeton University), Ori Fox (STScI), Konrad Kuijken (Leiden University), Patricia Larsen (Argonne National Laboratory), Lado Samushia (Kansas State University), Yun Wang (Caltech/IPAC), Yuanyuan Zhang (NOIRLab).
LOC
Leslie Beauchamp (STScI), Annalisa Calamida (STScI), Samantha Hoffmann (STScI), Max Mutchler (STScI), Cristina Oliveira (STScI), Melissa Shahbandeh (STScI), Shemiah Smith (STScI).
Please visit our webpage for all the details, including upcoming deadlines.
We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore,
Ami Choi and Javier Sanchez, on behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee