Name: The Dark Side of the Universe DSU2022
Start: 2022-12-05T08:30:00+11:00
End: 2022-12-09T17:00:00+11:00
Location: No location set

The Dark Side of the Universe DSU2022

from Monday, 5 December 2022 (08:30) to Friday, 9 December 2022 (17:00)

Monday, 5 December 2022

08:30 Registration

08:30 - 09:15
Room: Foyer
09:15 Plenary
09:15 - 10:30
Room: G03
Contributions

09:15 Opening

09:30 News from sub-GeV FI(N)Ps - Joerg Jaeckel (Institut fuer theoretische Physik, Heidelberg University)

10:00 Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter - Florian Kühnel (LMU Munich)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Foyer
11:00 Plenary
11:00 - 12:30
Room: G03
Contributions

11:00 Light sub-GeV dark matter at accelerators - Adam Ritz

11:30 Status and prospects of dark matter direct detection - Theresa Fruth (University of Sydney)

12:00 Dark matter searches in the southern hemisphere - Elisabetta Barberio
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Dark matter
14:00 - 15:40
Room: 230
Contributions

14:00 First results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment - Nishat Parveen (SUNY Albany)

14:20 XENONnT Dark Matter Experiment: Recent Status and Latest Results - Yajing Xing (SUBATECH)

14:40 Direct dark matter searches in XMASS-I - Atsushi Takeda

15:00 DARWIN: a liquid xenon observatory for rare events physics searches - Sara Diglio (SUBATECH/CNRS/In2p3)

15:20 DarkSide-20k and the Direct Dark Matter Search with Liquid Argon - Thomas Nathan Thorpe (University of California Los Angeles (US))
Early Universe
14:00 - 15:40
Room: 149
Contributions

14:00 CP-violating inflation - Venus Keus (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS))

14:20 Type II Seesaw Leptogenesis - Neil Barrie

14:40 Universe with a large lepton asymmetry - Masahiro Kawasaki

15:00 Constraining Phase Transitions in Grand Unified Theories with Gravitational Waves - Matthew Pearce (Monash University)

15:20 Gravitational production during reheating phase: the possibility of purely Gravitational reheating - MD RIAJUL Haque (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)
Ultralight dark matter
14:00 - 15:40
Room: 229
Contributions

14:00 Proposals for searches of scalar field dark matter using cavity resonators and capacitors - Igor Samsonov (UNSW)

14:20 Dark matter detection via atomic interactions - Ashlee Caddell (The University of Queensland)

14:40 New optical clocks based on Cu II, Yb III, Hf II, Hf IV, and W VI ions which may be used to search for dark matter and variation of the fine structure constant - Saleh Allehabi

15:00 Searching for new bosons in atomic spectra - Pavel Fadeev (Helmholtz Institute Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55128 Mainz, Germany)

15:20 Searching for scalar field dark matter with hyperfine transitions in alkali atoms - Andrew Mansour
15:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:10
Room: G59
16:10 Dark matter
16:10 - 17:50
Room: 230
Contributions

16:10 ANAIS-112: testing the DAMA/LIBRA signal beyond 3 sigma - Maria Martinez

16:30 Cryogenic NaI based remoTES calorimeters for direct dark matter detection in COSINUS - Mukund Raghunath Bharadwaj

16:50 Impact of quenching factor models on tests of DAMA - Madeleine Zurowski

17:10 Radio-impurity studies for dark matter detection with the SABRE South experiment - Zuzana Slavkovska (Australian National University)

17:30 R11065 Crystal Photomultiplier Contribution to the SABRE South Experimental Background - William Melbourne (The University of Melbourne)
Early Universe
16:10 - 17:50
Room: 149
Contributions

16:10 Analyzing the Hubble tension through hidden sector dynamics in the early universe - Michael Klasen

16:30 De Sitter space as coherent state of gravitons - Otari Sakhelashvili (The University of Sydney)

16:50 Massive neutrino self-interactions and inflation - Shouvik Roychoudhury

17:10 (The) Wiggles going non-linear - Nathan Cohen

17:30 Signatures of Light Massive Relics on nonlinear structure formation - Ravi Kumar Sharma (Indian Institute of Astrophysics bangalore)
Ultralight dark matter
16:10 - 17:50
Room: 229
Contributions

16:10 Searching for ultralight scalar dark matter with muonium and muonic atoms - Yevgeny Stadnik (The University of Sydney)

16:30 Searches for axion dark matter at IBS-CAPP - SungWoo Youn (Institute for Basic Science)

16:50 Axions in the post-inflationary scenario - Giovanni Pierobon

17:10 Dynamical Friction from Ultralight Dark Matter - You-Rong Frank Wang (The University of Auckland)

17:30 Search for a Variation of the Fine Structure Constant around the Supermassive Black Hole in Our Galactic Centre - Benjamin Roberts
18:00 Reception
Reception
18:00 - 20:00
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
09:00 Plenary
09:00 - 10:30
Room: G03
Contributions

09:00 Neutron Star Heating: WIMP DM vs others - Natsumi Nagata

09:30 Dark matter and dark sectors in stars - Aaron Vincent (Queen's University)

10:00 The light of a Billion Stars: Dark matter and the stellar halo - Geraint Lewis
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Foyer
11:00 Plenary
11:00 - 12:30
Room: G03
Contributions

11:00 Lower than freeze-in portal couplings can still generate DM and be measured via Gravitational Waves - Alexander Vikman (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))

11:30 Dark energy, black holes and effective field theory - Shinji Mukohyama

12:00 Lensing reconstruction of AliCPT-1 - Bin Hu (Beijing Normal University)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Dark matter
14:00 - 15:40
Room: 230
Contributions

14:00 CYGNUS-Oz development of directional dark matter detection capabilities using a gaseous time projection chamber for the Cygnus experiment - Ferdos Dastgiri

14:20 Precise predictions and new insights for the Migdal effect - Peter Cox (The University of Melbourne)

14:40 Light dark matter: Theory and Chemistry - Tom Melia (Kavli IPMU)

15:00 Scintillating Bubble Chambers for GeV-Scale Dark Matter Searches - Russell Neilson (Drexel University)

15:20 GLIMPSE: Graphene-based Light Invisible Matter Particle SEarch - Jong-Chul Park
Early Universe
14:00 - 15:40
Room: 149
Contributions

14:00 Constraining primordial tensor features with the anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background - Ameek Malhotra

14:20 Non-Gaussianity in CMB lensing - Yuqi Kang

14:40 Enhancing Bispectrum Estimators for Photometric Galaxy Redshift Survey with Velocities - Julius Wons (UNSW)

15:00 GPry: Fast Bayesian inference using Gaussian Processes - Jonas El Gammal (University of Stavanger)

15:20 Connecting the dark Universe and artificial intelligence - Andreas Nygaard (Aarhus University)
Neutrino physics
14:00 - 15:40
Room: 229
Contributions

14:00 Detecting Dark Matter Annihilation to Neutrinos - Nicole Bell

14:20 Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation with IceCube and P-ONE - Stephan Meighen-Berger (The University of Melbourne)

14:40 Leptogenesis in gauged U(1)_{Lμ-Lτ} model - Shintaro Eijima

15:00 Riding the (Type-I) Seesaw: Neutrinos and New Physics - Adam Lackner

15:20 Seesaw Models and Higgs Physics - Tobias Felkl (University of New South Wales)
15:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:10
Room: G59
16:10 BSM physics
16:10 - 17:50
Room: 229
Contributions

16:10 Correlated signals of first-order phase transitions in dark sectors - Danny Marfatia

16:30 Improved stellar limits on a light CP-even scalar - Shyam Balaji (LPTHE)

16:50 Complementarity of Direct Detection experiments and Collider searches - Sven Heinemeyer (CSIC (Madrid, ES))

17:10 Electroweak corrections to Dark Matter Direct Detection - Rui Santos (ISEL and CFTC-UL)

17:30 Classification of CP-violating operators in SMEFT - Risshin Okabe (Kavli IPMU)
Dark matter
16:10 - 17:50
Room: 230
Contributions

16:10 Impact of precision calculations in Simplified t channel Dark Matter models - Dipan Sengupta

16:30 Improved theoretical predictions of the dark matter relic abundance - Luca Paolo Wiggering (University of Münster)

16:50 Global Fits of vector-mediated simplified models for Dark Matter - Christopher Chang

17:10 Radiative Neutrino Mass with GeV Scale Majorana Dark Matter in Scotogenic Model - Avnish .

17:30 Composite dark matter from non-abelian gauge theories with real representations - Joachim Pomper (University of Graz)
Early Universe
16:10 - 17:50
Room: 149
Contributions

16:10 Constraining astrophysics and cosmology via the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect using SPT and DES data - Eduardo Schiappucci

16:30 High-resolution SZ observations for cluster cosmology with NIKA2 - Corentin Hanser (CNRS)

16:50 Probing dark matter microphysics with gravitational waves and 21cm emission - Markus Rasmussen Mosbech

17:10 Constraints on decaying dark matter from lensing and magnification of cosmic voids - Earl Lester (University of Tasmania)

17:30 Discovering a new well: Decaying dark matter with profile likelihoods - Emil Brinch Holm
Wednesday, 7 December 2022
09:00 Plenary
09:00 - 10:30
Room: G03
Contributions

09:00 Seeking the mechanism of neutrino mass generation: a brief review - Raymond Volkas (The University of Melbourne)

09:30 Charting the leptogenesis landscape - Julia Harz

10:00 Neutrino oscillation experiments - Sunny Seo
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Foyer
11:00 Plenary
11:00 - 12:30
Room: G03
Contributions

11:00 Physics potential of CEvNS in the Standard Model and beyond - Valentina De Romeri

11:30 Supernova neutrinos: probing physics within and beyond the Standard Model - Meng-Ru Wu (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica)

12:00 Neutrino astronomy - Jenni Adams (University of Canterbury)
Thursday, 8 December 2022
09:00 Plenary
09:00 - 10:30
Room: G03
Contributions

09:00 5D perspectives on the QCD axion - Tony Gherghetta (University of Minnesota (US))

09:30 Production of (dark) matter in the early stage of the Universe - Yann MAMBRINI

10:00 Role of dark Higgs boson in DM physics and Higgs inflation - Pyungwon Ko (KIAS)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Foyer
11:00 Plenary
11:00 - 12:30
Room: G03
Contributions

11:00 Multi-field inflation - Jinn-Ouk Gong

11:30 Early universe cosmology with the stochastic gravitational wave background - Sachiko Kuroyanagi (IFT UAM-CSIC)

12:00 Cosmic ray boosted dark matter - Yu-Feng Zhou
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 BSM physics
14:00 - 15:40
Room: 229
Contributions

14:00 Quantum gravity, the strong CP problem and the companion axion solution - Archil Kobakhidze

14:20 Dark radiation constraints on hidden gauge-axion system - Osamu Seto

14:40 Fake GUT - Keiichi WATANABE

15:00 Renormalization group effects in non-universal DFSZ axion models - Shohei Okawa (ICCUB, Universitat de Barcelona)

15:20 Exploring the cosmological dark matter coincidence using infrared fixed points - Alex Ritter (The University of Melbourne)
Dark matter
14:00 - 15:20
Room: 230
Contributions

14:00 Observational evidence of dark matter within the quark nugget model - Igor Samsonov (UNSW)

14:20 The effects of source morphology on machine learnings ability to identify dark matter substructure in strong gravitational lenses. - Tyler Hughes (Swinburne University of Technology)

14:40 Merging clusters as a test-bed for self-interacting dark matter - Ellen Sirks

15:00 Thermal WIMPs and the Scale of New Physics - Ankit Beniwal (King’s College London)
Gravity - Dark Energy
14:00 - 15:40
Room: 149
Contributions

14:00 Fixing cosmological constant on the event horizon - Merab Gogberashvili (Javakhishvili State University)

14:20 Probing interacting Dark Energy models and scattering of baryons with Dark Matter in the light of 21cm signal - upala mukherjee (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)

14:40 Hunting Dark Energy on astrophysical scales - Leonardo Giani

15:00 Holography for extended theories of gravity - Masoud Ghezelbash

15:20 Matter Bounce Scenario in Extended Symmetric Teleparallel Gravity - Amarkumar Agrawal (BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, India.)
15:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:10
Room: G59
16:10 BSM physics
16:10 - 17:30
Room: 229
Contributions

16:10 LEvitated MAgnets for QUantum MEtrology - Pavel Fadeev (Helmholtz Institute Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55128 Mainz, Germany)

16:30 Recent Belle II results related to lepton-flavor universality and violation - Marco Milesi (The University of Melbourne)

16:50 Recent dark-sector results at Belle II - Chia-Ling Hsu (University of Sydney)

17:10 A Proposed Australian Facility for Particle and Nuclear Physics at the MeV-scale - Lindsey Bignell (Department of Nuclear Physics and Accelerator Applications, The Australian National University)
Dark matter
16:10 - 17:30
Room: 230
Contributions

16:10 Observational signatures of compact dark stars - Alejandro Ibarra

16:30 Capture of DM in Compact Stars - Giorgio Busoni (The Australian National University)

16:50 Neutron Star Heating and the (g-2)_muon Discrepancy - Maura Elizabeth Ramirez Quezada (University of Tokyo)

17:10 Dark Matter in Compact Objects - Michael Virgato
Particle astrophysics
16:10 - 17:30
Room: 149
Contributions

16:10 Extending pulsar timing sensitivity below the nanohertz range - William DeRocco

16:30 Assessing the Impact of Hydrogen Absorption on the Characteristics of the Galactic Center Excess - Chris Gordon (University of Canterbury)

16:50 Axion electrodynamics in dense neutron star matter - Filippo Anzuini (Monash University)

17:10 Advancing Globular Cluster Constraints on the Axion-Photon Coupling - Fred Hiskens (The University of Melbourne)
19:00 Conference dinner
Conference dinner
19:00 - 23:00
Room: Opera Room
Friday, 9 December 2022
09:00 Plenary
09:00 - 10:30
Room: G03
Contributions

09:00 Detection of the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy in Gamma-Rays - Roland Crocker

09:30 High-energy astrophysics with gamma-ray telescopes - Gavin Rowell

10:00 Improving Theoretical Predictions for Gamma-Ray Signals from Heavy WIMPs - Tracy Slatyer
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Foyer
11:00 Plenary
11:00 - 12:30
Room: G03
Contributions

11:00 The Universe as a Lab for New Physics Across Cosmic Times - Cora Dvorkin

11:30 Dark matter with GAMBIT - Csaba Balazs

12:00 Has the CMSSM survived Planck, the LHC, Direct and Indirect Detection experiments? - Keith A. Olive (University of Minnesota (US))

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