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- Anthony Williams (University of Adelaide)
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- Valentina De Romeri (IFIC CSIC/UV (Valencia, Spain))
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- Nicole Bell (The University of Melbourne)
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- Zhimin Wang
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- Jayden Newstead (University of Melbourne)
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- JAVIER RUBIO (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
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- Marco Taoso (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Torino, Italy)
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- Shreyashi Chakdar
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Liantao Wang31/08/2026, 09:00Plenary
Using the monodromy-type coupling between the axion monopole, we construct a natural model for dark matter-dark energy interaction. I will overview the challenge in realizing such a scenario in general, and describe why our setup overcomes those difficulties. I will also present the main observational implications for this model.
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Prof. Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh)31/08/2026, 09:30Plenary
With the milestone discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC, precision measurements of the electroweak physics at high energies hold the key to understand the Standard Model (SM) and to uncover new physics beyond the SM. After a brief overview of the properties of the longitudinal gauge bosons and the Higgs boson, we revisit the Goldstone boson equivalence theorem and define the “electroweak...
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Jia Liu (Peking University)31/08/2026, 10:00Plenary
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Harish Potti (University of Sydney (AU))31/08/2026, 11:00Plenary
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Spencer Collaviti (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))31/08/2026, 11:30Plenary
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Robin Leboucher (UBC)31/08/2026, 12:00Plenary
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Jingqiang Ye (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)01/09/2026, 09:00Plenary
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Kaori Fuyuto (KEK)01/09/2026, 09:30Plenary
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Eric Thrane (Monash University)01/09/2026, 10:00Plenary
At present, the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA (LVK) Collaborations have announced the discovery of 218 gravitational-wave events. The forthcoming release of fifth gravitational-wave transient catalog GWTC-5 will increase the number of detections significantly. In this talk I summarise some of the most exciting developments associated with LVK detections with a focus on fundamental physics and...
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Jorinde van de Vis (CERN)01/09/2026, 11:00Plenary
Tentative evidence suggests that the cores of massive neutron stars consist of deconfined quark matter. In this talk, I argue that the formation of such a quark matter core during a galactic supernova could be accompanied by the emission of gravitational waves in the MHz band, and I discuss the computation of the signal. Gravitational wave signals from phase transitions in supernovae...
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Philipp Schicho (University of Geneva)01/09/2026, 11:30Plenary
The observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe provides a fundamental probe of high-scale physics and the thermal history of the electroweak plasma. Within the Standard Model, sphaleron processes partially convert a primordial $B-L$ asymmetry into baryon number, and the corresponding sphaleron conversion factor is a key ingredient in quantitative predictions of baryogenesis scenarios.
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Tim M.P. Tait (University of California, Irvine)01/09/2026, 12:00Plenary
I’ll discuss an Effective Field Theory (EFT) approach to the deuterium burning nuclear processes that are responsible for the primordial deuterium produced during Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. The EFT approach accurately describes low energy physics below the size of the nuclei, and makes manifest structural features and relationships between observables. It allows for estimates of theoretical...
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Srubabati Goswami (Physical Research Laboraotory)02/09/2026, 09:00Plenary
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Prof. Wei Wang (Sun Yat-sen University)02/09/2026, 09:30Plenary
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Takuya Tashiro (ICRR, The University of Tokyo)02/09/2026, 10:00Plenary
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Prof. Matthew Dolan (University of Melbourne)02/09/2026, 11:00Plenary
A new generation of neutrino detectors (JUNO, HyperK, DUNE) are in the process of coming online. This will enable measurements that were previously not considered possible. In this talk I review recent work on how these experiments will be able to probe the existence of New Physics (such as dark matter) in the neutrino sector, measure the CP-violating phase of the PMNS matrix with atmospheric...
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Dr Anna Suliga02/09/2026, 11:30Plenary
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Francesco Filippini (INFN)02/09/2026, 12:00Plenary
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Nicholas Rodd03/09/2026, 09:00Plenary
In this talk, I'll make the case for why CTAO could be the instrument to discover dark matter. In particular, I'll show that the instrument has sensitivity to the thermal higgsino and a number of additional WIMP models.
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Shohei Okawa (APCTP)03/09/2026, 09:30Plenary
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Fei Gao03/09/2026, 10:00Plenary
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Simona Murgia (University of California, Irvine)03/09/2026, 11:00Plenary
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Dr Christian Reichardt (University of Melbourne)03/09/2026, 11:30Plenary
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation is the oldest light we can see. Since it bears the imprint of the universe just after the Big Bang (at a mere 0.003% of the universe’s age today), observations of the CMB are a crucial tool in our quest to understand how the Universe began and the physical laws governing it. In this talk, I will give an overview of current and upcoming CMB...
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Cullan Howlett03/09/2026, 12:00Plenary
Over the last fifteen years, surveys of the positions and motions of other galaxies have grown exponentially, transforming our maps of the cosmos. These data reveal the history of expansion and the growth of structure in our Universe, both driven by fundamental particles and fields and their interactions.
In this talk, I will review how spectroscopic galaxy surveys access this information,...
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Prof. Richard Easther04/09/2026, 09:30Plenary
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FRANCESCA,VALERY CHADHA-DAY04/09/2026, 10:00Plenary
String theory models generically predict a large number of axion-like particles (ALPs), known as the string axiverse. I will discuss the distinctive astrophysical and experimental signatures of the string axiverse, and how the phenomenology of such many ALP systems differs from that of a single ALP or axion.
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Elisa Gouvea Mauricio Ferreira04/09/2026, 11:00Plenary
In this talk I highlight the strong constraining power of small scale astrophysical observations. The small scales not only give us a window in the still not precisely measured small scale behaviour of dark matter, but it can also tell us about the particle physics properties of this component. We focus on the ultra-light dark matter models, more specifically in the fuzzy dark matter (FDM)...
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Koichi Hamaguchi04/09/2026, 11:30Plenary
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Elizabeth Simmons (University of California, San Diego)04/09/2026, 12:00Plenary