PPC 2026
from
Monday, 31 August 2026 (08:30)
to
Friday, 4 September 2026 (17:00)
Monday, 31 August 2026
09:00
Plenary
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions
09:00
Axion monopole interaction and time-varying dark energy
-
Liantao Wang
09:30
Electroweak Symmetry Restoration at High Energies
-
Tao Han
(
University of Pittsburgh
)
10:00
Collider Spin Tomography with Missing Neutrinos
-
Jia Liu
(
Peking University
)
10:30
coffee break
coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
Plenary
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions
11:00
ATLAS/CMS overview
-
Harish Potti
(
University of Sydney (AU)
)
11:30
Recent results on dark sector searches and rare decays at LHCb
-
Spencer Collaviti
(
EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH)
)
12:00
Recent results from Belle-II
-
Robin Leboucher
(
UBC
)
12:30
lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
Cosmic Microwave Background and the Early Universe
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions
14:00
Reheating from Curvature: Higgs Dynamics after Inflation
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JAVIER RUBIO
(
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
)
14:25
Dark radiation can mimic self-interacting neutrinos in the early universe
-
Anirban Das
(
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
)
14:50
Did our universe collide with another universe? Latest results from the Planck CMB
-
Jahanvi Maheshwari
(
UNSW Sydney
)
15:15
Cosmic String Wakes and How to Find Them
-
Nazeef Nazeeef
(
UNSW
)
Neutrino Physics
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions
14:00
First results of the LEGEND experiment in the quest for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay
-
Raoul Cesarano
(
Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI)
)
14:25
OPOSSUM: Event Topology Discrimination in TeO₂ Cryogenic Calorimeters
-
Andrei Puiu
(
INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
)
14:50
Implications of solar neutrino CEvNS in dark matter experiments
-
Valentina De Romeri
(
IFIC CSIC/UV (Valencia, Spain)
)
15:15
Neutrino–Nucleus Neutral Current Scattering in Next Generation Experiments
-
Jayden Newstead
(
University of Melbourne
)
Particle Physics and Beyond
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions
14:00
Perspectives on the strong CP problem
-
Anthony Williams
(
University of Adelaide
)
14:25
Emergent particle states in electroweak theory and gravity
-
Archil Kobakhidze
14:50
Electromagnetic instantons and asymmetric Hawking radiation of black holes
-
Elden Loomes
(
The University of Sydney
)
15:15
Barrier Tunnelling of a Particle in QFT
-
Aditya Singh Tejas
(
Australian National University
)
15:40
coffee break
coffee break
15:40 - 16:10
16:10
Cosmic Microwave Background and the Early Universe
16:10 - 17:25
Contributions
16:10
Caustic Skeleton of the Local Cosmic Web
-
Amelie Read
(
University of Sydney
)
16:35
Cosmological Emulation based on the Goku Simulations in a 10-Dimensional Parameter Space
-
Yanhui Yang
(
University of California, Riverside
)
17:00
Losing half the galaxies: host-dependent redshift recovery bias in shallow spectroscopic follow-up for SNe Ia cosmology
-
Alan Chan
(
The Australian National University
)
Dark Matter
16:10 - 17:50
Contributions
16:10
Direct and indirect probes of gravity-mediated dark matter in large extra dimensions
-
Igor Samsonov
(
UNSW
)
16:35
21-cm constraints on Dark Matter
-
Dominic Agius
(
IFIC, University of Valencia
)
17:00
Non-Thermal Dark Matter Production from post-Inflationary dynamics
-
Avirup Ghosh
(
University of Melbourne
)
17:25
Status of the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment
-
Theresa Fruth
(
University of Sydney
)
Particle Physics and Beyond
16:10 - 17:25
Contributions
16:10
Nonlinear-Supersymmetric General Relativity(NLSGR) -Unification of Space, time and matter-
-
Kazunari Shima
16:35
Quantum (non)equivalence of dual massive p-form gauge theories
-
Christian Canete
(
University of Sydney
)
17:00
QCD and electroweak phase transitions with hidden scale invariance: implications for primordial black holes, quark-lepton nuggets and gravitational waves
-
Joshua Cesca
Tuesday, 1 September 2026
09:00
Plenary
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions
09:00
Solar neutrino physics with XENONnT
-
Jingqiang Ye
(
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
)
09:30
Searching for muon to electron conversion
-
Kaori Fuyuto
(
KEK
)
10:00
Recent highlights from LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA
-
Eric Thrane
(
Monash University
)
10:30
coffee break
coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
Plenary
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions
11:00
High-Frequency Gravitational Waves from Phase Transitions in Nascent Neutron Stars
-
Jorinde van de Vis
(
CERN
)
11:30
Baryon number freeze-out in the Standard Model, precisely
-
Philipp Schicho
(
University of Geneva
)
12:00
Precision Nuclear Theory for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis from an EFT Built out of Amplitudes
-
Tim M.P. Tait
(
University of California, Irvine
)
12:30
lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
Dark Matter
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions
14:00
Heavy dark matter in rapidly evolving massive stars
-
Giorgio Busoni
(
Adelaide University
)
14:25
Randall-Sundrum Models and Multibrane Extension
-
Joshua Gill
14:50
Warm Ingredient In a Cold Soup
-
Amrita Mukherjee
(
PhD Student at UNSW
)
15:15
Overview of the DarkSide-20k Dark Matter Experiment
-
Marek Walczak
(
Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
)
Gravity and Gravitational Waves
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions
14:00
Pulsar Timing Arrays as Probe of Massive Gravity
-
Tina Kahniashvili
(
Carnegie Mellon University (USA) & Ilia State University (Georgia)
)
14:25
Perturbative Analysis of Teleparallel Gauss--Bonnet Gravity
-
Bivudutta Mishra
(
BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
)
14:50
Neutron-Star Cooling in Linear $f(R,T)$ Gravity
-
CHARUL RATHOD
15:15
Crowdsourcing Gravitational Waves from Superradiance: Black Holes as Extreme Axion Laboratories
-
Orion Ning
(
University of California, Berkeley
)
Neutrino Physics
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions
14:00
The Dark Connections of Neutrinos
-
Shreyashi Chakdar
14:25
Emergent Large Lepton Mixing from Neutrino Refraction in Dark Matter
-
Manibrata Sen
14:50
RES-NOVA a Supernovae Neutrino Observatory
-
Andrei Puiu
(
INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
)
15:15
Prospects for relic neutrino detection using nuclear spin experiments
-
Yeray Garcia Del Castillo
15:40
coffee break
coffee break
15:40 - 16:10
16:10
Cosmic Microwave Background and the Early Universe
16:10 - 17:25
Contributions
16:10
Bayesian Optimisation for Bayesian Evidence (BOBE)
-
Nathan Cohen
16:35
Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves from Latest CMB Data
-
Alexandra Nemtinova
17:00
Discovering Axion-like particles using CMB as a backlight
-
Harsh Mehta
(
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
)
Dark Matter
16:10 - 17:25
Contributions
16:10
Latest results from XENONnT on dark matter search and solar neutrinos
-
Bernard Andrieu
(
LPNHE, IN2P3/CNRS & Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
)
16:35
Atomic ionisation from general scattering and absorption
-
Narise Williams
(
The University of Physics
)
17:00
Heavy Dark Baryons: Self-Interactions and the Dark Matter–Baryon Coincidence
-
Giovani Dalla Valle Garcia
(
University of Melbourne
)
Particle Physics and Beyond
16:10 - 17:25
Contributions
16:10
Probing Higgs triplet models via the 125 GeV Higgs boson decays with radiative corrections
-
Mariko KIKUCHI
(
Saga University
)
16:35
Aspects of a Five-Dimensional U(1)_{Lmu-Ltau} Model at Future Muon-Based Colliders
-
Dibyendu Chakraborty
(
Shiv Nadar IoE Deemed to be University
)
17:00
Complex $\tau$ Electric Dipole Moment from GeV-Scale New Physics
-
Zhonglv Huang
(
TDLI
)
Wednesday, 2 September 2026
09:00
Plenary
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions
09:00
Neutrinos: oscillations and beyond
-
Srubabati Goswami
(
Physical Research Laboraotory
)
09:30
Neutrino experiments
-
Wei Wang
(
Sun Yat-sen University
)
10:00
HyperKamiokande
-
Takuya Tashiro
(
ICRR, The University of Tokyo
)
10:30
coffee break
coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
Plenary
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions
11:00
New Opportunities and Measurements in Neutrino Physics
-
Matthew Dolan
(
University of Melbourne
)
11:30
Astrophysical Neutrinos Uncover the Nature of the Sources and Decode New Physics
-
Anna Suliga
12:00
The KM3NeT neutrino detectors: status, results and future perspectives
-
Francesco Filippini
(
INFN
)
Thursday, 3 September 2026
09:00
Plenary
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions
09:00
Discovering Dark Matter at CTAO
-
Nicholas Rodd
09:30
Minimal flavor violation and dark matter
-
Shohei Okawa
(
APCTP
)
10:00
Dark Matter with Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chambers
-
Fei Gao
10:30
coffee break
coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
Plenary
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions
11:00
TBA
-
Simona Murgia
(
University of California, Irvine
)
11:30
Overview of Cosmic Microwave Background experiments
-
Christian Reichardt
(
University of Melbourne
)
12:00
Cosmology with large-scale spectroscopic surveys
-
Cullan Howlett
12:30
lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
Dark Matter
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions
14:00
Probing Axion Couplings with Solar X-ray Observations
-
Marco Taoso
(
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Torino, Italy
)
14:25
Self-Interaction Bounds on Ultralight Dark Matter Couplings to Matter
-
Mohammad Aghaie
(
University of Osaka
)
14:50
Searching for ultralight dark matter with atomic clocks and cavities
-
Ashlee Caddell
(
The University of Queensland
)
15:15
Space-Borne Atomic Clocks for Gravitational Detection of Local Dark Matter Overdensities
-
Shuyi Lyu
(
University of Sydney
)
Neutrino Physics
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions
14:00
Measuring the CP-Violating Phase with Atmospheric Neutrinos
-
Nicole Bell
(
The University of Melbourne
)
14:25
Potential of JUNO and primary cosmic ray
-
Zhimin Wang
(
Institute of high energy physics, CAS
)
14:50
The relevance of precise effective field theory calculation for the new generation of neutrino experiments.
-
James Vandeleur
(
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
)
15:15
The usual suspect: has a heavy dark matter particle decayed to KM3-230213A?
-
Sara Rebecca Gozzini
Particle Physics and Beyond
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions
14:00
Unitarity Cuts, t-channel Divergences and the KLN Theorem for Unstable Particles
-
Marko Beocanin
(
University of New South Wales
)
14:25
Infrared Divergences in Axion Freeze-in Production
-
Lachlan Tobin
(
UNSW
)
14:50
Enhanced Sensitivity to Low-Mass Z′ Bosons in Light Atoms via Parity Nonconservation
-
Garry Vong
(
UNSW
)
15:15
Minimal Majoron Dark Matter
-
Haruto Kitagawa
(
UTokyo
)
15:40
coffee break
coffee break
15:40 - 16:10
16:10
Gravity and Gravitational Waves
16:10 - 17:25
Contributions
16:10
Decoding Gravitational Waves: Why Model Matters
-
Liliana Velasco-Sevilla
(
Yonsei University
)
16:35
Simulating gravitational wave from sound waves of cosmological first-order phase transitions in an expanding Universe
-
Xiao Wang
(
Monash University
)
17:00
Phase transitions and gravitational waves from minimal KSZV extension
-
Kristjan Muursepp
Particle Astrophysics
16:10 - 17:25
Contributions
16:10
Hard X-rays from Axion to Photon Converted Flux Employing Density Dependent Critical Temperature
-
Madhukar Mishra
(
Department of Physics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan, India
)
16:35
New neutrino-background from black hole superradiance
-
Anna John
(
IISER Berhampur
)
17:00
Exotic energy injection in the 21-cm power spectrum
-
Daniela Montes Doria
(
Australian National University
)
Particle Physics and Beyond
16:10 - 17:25
Contributions
16:10
A new measurement of the $K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^{+}\nu\bar{\nu}$ branching ratio at the NA62 experiment
-
Radoslav Marchevski
(
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
)
16:35
Angular Observables and $|V_{cb}|$ Extraction in $B \to D^{(*)}\ell X_{\rm inv}$ Decays with Massive Dark Fermions
-
Lipika Kolay
(
IIT Gandhinagar
)
17:00
Baryon number violating nucleon decay in effective field theories
-
Weihang Zhang
Friday, 4 September 2026
09:30
Plenary
09:30 - 10:30
Contributions
09:30
Darkest Before Dawn: Between Inflation and Thermalisation
-
Richard Easther
10:00
Discovering the String Axiverse
-
FRANCESCA,VALERY CHADHA-DAY
10:30
coffee break
coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
Plenary
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions
11:00
Probing ultralight dark matter’s particle physics parameters with the small scale structures
-
Elisa Gouvea Mauricio Ferreira
11:30
Revisiting Minimal Dark Matter Models
-
Koichi Hamaguchi
12:00
Bridge to the Future
-
Elizabeth Simmons
(
University of California, San Diego
)