Name: PPC 2026
Start: 2026-08-31T08:30:00+10:00
End: 2026-09-04T17:00:00+10:00
Location: No location set

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 - 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)