Name: 1st BiCoQ Conference: from gravity to particles
Start: 2026-06-15T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-19T13:00:00+02:00
Location: Dipartimento di Fisica G. Occhialini, Università Degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

1st BiCoQ Conference: from gravity to particles

from Monday, 15 June 2026 (13:00) to Friday, 19 June 2026 (13:00)

Monday, 15 June 2026

13:00 Registration and Welcome
Registration and Welcome
13:00 - 14:00
Room: U3-01

14:00 Plenary Session: Astro Dark Matter - Speaker: S. Vegetti (Max Planck Insitute for Astrophysics, Germany)
Astro Dark Matter - Speaker: S. Vegetti (Max Planck Insitute for Astrophysics, Germany)
14:00 - 15:00
Room: U3-01

15:00 Plenary Session: Astro CMB - S. Simon (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA)
Astro CMB - S. Simon (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA)
15:00 - 16:00
Room: U3-01

16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Galleria della Scienza
16:30 Topical Session 1 - Astro
16:30 - 18:00
Room: U3-01
Contributions

16:30 The AIDA-TNG project: new insights on alternative dark matter in simulations of galaxy formation - Giulia Despali (University of Bologna)

16:50 MOND: An alternative to particle dark matter - Federico Lelli (INAF - Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory)

17:10 Mapping the Cosmic Web in Lyα emission - Davide Tornotti

17:30 Hidden properties and dynamical evolution of a giant disc galaxy at z~3 - Giada Quadri (University of Milano-Bicocca)
18:00 Welcome reception
Welcome reception
18:00 - 19:00
Room: Galleria della Scienza
Tuesday, 16 June 2026

09:00 Plenary Session: Dark Matter Theory - Speaker: N. Fornengo (Torino University & INFN, Italy)
Dark Matter Theory - Speaker: N. Fornengo (Torino University & INFN, Italy)
09:00 - 10:00
Room: U3-01

10:00 Plenary Session: Astro Dark Matter - Speaker: A. Newman (Carnegie Science, USA)
Astro Dark Matter - Speaker: A. Newman (Carnegie Science, USA)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: U3-01

11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Galleria della Scienza
11:30 Topical Session 1 - Astro
11:30 - 12:30
Room: U3-01
Contributions

11:30 Calibration of Small-Aperture Telescopes for Cosmic Microwave Background with the POLOCALC drone-based artificial source - Gabriele Coppi

11:50 Polarization Angle Calibration of CMB Telescopes: Strategies and Implications for Cosmological Probes of Dark Matter and Dark Energy - Noemi Mezzanzanica

12:10 COSMIC BIREFRINGENCE: SEARCHING FOR PARITY VIOLATION WITH CMB POLARIZATION - Idil Ezgi Karaaslan (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Topical Session 2 - DM
11:30 - 12:30
Room: U3-03
Contributions

11:30 The XENONnT Dark Matter experiment: results and prospects - VIRGINIA MAZZA (INFN Bologna)

11:50 Light dark matter searches with the NA64 experiment at CERN - Andrea Celentano (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))

12:10 Excitations of Spacetime in a Quantized Field - Hou Yau (San Francisco State University)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Galleria della Scienza
14:00 Topical Session 1 - Astro
14:00 - 16:00
Room: U3-01
Contributions

14:00 A new era for galaxy clusters: testing gravity and the dark sector using mass profile reconstructions - Lorenzo Pizzuti (Dipartimento di Fisica G. Occhialini, Università Milano Bicocca)

14:20 The interplay between self-interacting dark matter and baryons: the case of cosmological simulations - Giovanni Ferron (Università di Milano Bicocca)

14:40 The Missing Mass Problem in Galaxy Clusters: A MOND Perspective - Valeria Broccolato (Università degli Studi di Torino)

15:00 Halo structure and lensing signatures of a polytropic dark matter fluid - Marriam Naeem

15:20 Numerical polology: next-generation model-building for precision cosmology - Will Barker (Central European Institute for Cosmology and Fundamental Physics, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

15:40 Dark Energy Stars: Structural Properties and Stability in Rastall Gravity Framework - DEBADRI BHATTACHARJEE (COOCH BEHAR PANCHANAN BARMA UNIVERSITY)
Topical Session 2 - DM
14:00 - 16:00
Room: U3-03
Contributions

14:00 Status of the PADME X17 Search - Chiara Arcangeletti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:20 Direct Dark Matter search with the CRESST experiment - Eleonora Rebecca Cipelli (Max Planck Society (DE))

14:40 DAREDEVIL - Andrea Melchiorre (LNGS-INFN)

15:00 DELight: Direct Search Experiment for Light Dark Matter with Superfluid Helium-4 - Anna Bertolini (Heidelberg University (DE))

15:20 Multiplexed read out for low threshold detectors in astroparticle physics - Nahuel Ferreiro Iachellini

15:40 Vacuum energy density and strong gravity with running gravitational constant - Culetu
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Galleria della Scienza
16:30 Topical Session 1 - Astro
16:30 - 17:55
Room: U3-01
Contributions

16:30 New robust constraints on Dark Photon Dark Matter from the intergalactic medium - Andrea Trost

16:50 The morphology of fluorescent emission from the intergalactic medium as a probe of dark matter properties - Titouan Lazeyras (University of Milano-Bicocca)

17:10 Testing gravity theories with gravitational redshift in galaxy clusters - Enrico Maraboli (Università degli Studi di Milano)

17:30 High-resolution RHD simulations at cosmological scales with the GPU-accelerated QUOKKA code - Michele Fulghieri
Topical Session 2 - DM
16:30 - 17:30
Room: U3-03
Contributions

16:30 Investigating the keV Energy Frontier with CUORE: Axion and Rare-Event Searches - Rebecca Kowalski

16:50 Axion searches with a RES-NOVA prototype cryogenic detector - Laura Trombetta (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

17:10 Novel BSM framework could leave unique signature on the SGWB (Stochastic Graviational Wave Background) - Usha Raut (Milwaukee School of Engineering)
Wednesday, 17 June 2026

09:00 Plenary Session: Gravitational Waves Exp. 1 - Speaker: S. Fairhurst (University of Cardiff, UK)
Gravitational Waves Exp. 1 - Speaker: S. Fairhurst (University of Cardiff, UK)
09:00 - 10:00
Room: U3-01

10:00 Plenary Session: High Frequency Gravitational Waves Exp - Speaker: N. Aggarwal (UC Davis, USA)
High Frequency Gravitational Waves Exp - Speaker: N. Aggarwal (UC Davis, USA)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: U3-01

11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Galleria della Scienza
11:30 Topical Session 3 - HFGW
11:30 - 12:30
Room: U3-05
Contributions

11:30 Tabletop Efforts Toward kHz Gravitational Wave Detection at QUAX - Danho Ahn (INFN-Padova)

11:50 The MAGO cavity and prospects for high-frequency GW searches - Giovannoi Marconato

12:10 Megahertz gravitational waves from neutron star mergers - Mikel Sanchez Garitaonandia (University College Dublin)
Topical Session 4 - GW
11:30 - 12:30
Contributions

11:30 Pinpointing PTA Single Sources: Sequential SBI for Sky Localization - Ludovica Carbone (University of Milano-Bicocca)

11:50 Investigating the role of inter-source correlations in LISA data analysis - Rachele Rosso (University of Trento - University of Pisa)

12:10 Gravitational wave astronomy without waveform approximants - Matteo Boschini (University of Milano-Bicocca)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Galleria della Scienza
14:00 Topical Session 3 - HFGW
14:00 - 16:00
Room: U3-05
Contributions

14:00 Coherent network of haloscopes for dark matter and HFGWs: GravNet - Alessio Rettaroli (INFN - LNF)

14:20 MAGE: a multimode acoustic detector for high-frequency gravitational waves and an Australian node for GravNet - Michael Tobar (The University of Western Australia)

14:40 A Magnetized Dielectric Haloscope for Axion Searches and High-Frequency Gravitational Waves - Alia Zino

15:00 Status and perspectives of the QUAX-LNL 10 GHz axion haloscope - Raffaele Di Vora (INFN)

15:20 An array of acoustic resonators for the detection of high-frequency gravitational waves - Leonardo Mariani (Bicocca)

15:40 Gravitational waves from high-power twisted beams of light - Killian Martineau (LPSC - CNRS)
Topical Session 4 - GW
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Gravitational waves lensing, a new opportunity for investigating gravity and dark matter ? - Martin Pijnenburg

14:20 Eccentricity in binary black hole event from the third gravitational wave transient catalog - Matilde Garcia (Universitá degli Studi Milano Bicocca)

14:40 Measuring binary black hole time-delay distribution with GWxLSS - Nicola Bellomo (University of Padova)

15:00 Tracing formation channels with spin–orbit misalignment in black-hole binaries - Sofia Dossena

15:20 Tackling labelling-related uncertainties in the mass and spin distributions of compact objects in binary systems observed via Gravitational Waves - Giulia Cuomo (University of Milano - Bicocca)

15:40 samsara: A Continuous-Time Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampler for Trans-Dimensional Bayesian Analysis - Gabriele Astorino (University of Pisa)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Galleria della Scienza
16:30 Topical Session 3 - HFGW
16:30 - 17:30
Room: U3-05
Contributions

16:30 Ultra-stable optical cavities for the fundamental physics tests - Mateusz Narożnik (Institute of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)

16:50 Gravitational Wave Measurement and wavelike axion searches with a Novel Mössbauer Spectrometer - Huaqiao Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))

17:10 BULLKID-DM: direct detection of light WIMP dark matter with a monolithic arrays of cryogenic detectors - Camilla Bonomo (Sapienza University of Rome and INFN - Roma 1)
Topical Session 4 - GW
16:30 - 17:30
Contributions

16:30 Probing Supermassive Black Hole Mergers with Pulsar Timing Arrays - Hippolyte Quelquejay (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

16:50 Modeling the nHz gravitational wave background with t-process - Beatrice Eleonora Moreschi (University of Milano-Bicocca)

17:10 Spin-2 Boson Stars - Andrea Gobbo (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)
Thursday, 18 June 2026

09:00 Plenary Session: Gravitational Waves Theory - Speaker: U. Sperhake (University of Cambridge, UK)
Gravitational Waves Theory - Speaker: U. Sperhake (University of Cambridge, UK)
09:00 - 10:00
Room: U3-01

10:00 Poster Session

10:00 - 11:00
Room: Galleria della Scienza

11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Galleria della Scienza

11:30 Plenary Session: Gravitational Waves Exp. 2 - Speaker: N. Luetzgendorf (ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, NL)
Gravitational Waves Exp. 2 - Speaker: N. Luetzgendorf (ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, NL)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: U3-01

12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Galleria della Scienza

14:00 Poster Session

14:00 - 16:00
Room: Galleria della Scienza
Topical Session 4 - GW
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Probing astrophysical environment of stellar mass black holes through the LISA stochastic signal - Rohit Subbarayan Chandramouli (SISSA)

14:20 Photometric identification and spectroscopic confirmation of massive black hole binaries - Lorenzo Bertassi (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

14:40 Massive Black Holes formation and evolution in cosmological environments - Daniele Spinoso (Dipartimento di Fisica "G. Occhialini", Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo 1, 20126, Milano (IT))

15:00 Towards a comprehensive description of black hole binary inspiral from Newtonian to relativistic scales - Alessandro Lupi (Como Lake Centre for Astrophysics, University of Insubria)

15:20 Eccentricity distribution of extreme mass ratio inspirals - Davide Mancieri (University of Trento / University of Milano-Bicocca)

15:40 Warped accretion discs and black-hole spins in gravitational-wave astronomy - Lisa Merlo (University of Milano-Bicocca)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Galleria della Scienza

16:30 Poster Session

16:30 - 17:30
Room: Galleria della Scienza
Friday, 19 June 2026

09:00 Free Day
Free Day
09:00 - 13:00
Room: U3-01