21st Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs

Name: 21st Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs
Start: 2026-11-08T18:00:00+08:00
End: 2026-11-13T15:00:00+08:00
Location: University of Western Australia

8–13 Nov 2026

University of Western Australia

Australia/Perth timezone

Contact

21stpatras@uwa.edu.au

Speaker List

Shunsuke Adachi (Kyoto University)
- Speaker at Current Status of the DOSUE-RR Dish Antenna Search for Wave-like Dark Matter
Danho Ahn (INFN-Padova)
- Speaker at Status and Prospects of QUAX-PD/LNL
Ananthu Krishnan Anilkumar (University of Sydney)
- Speaker at Axion minicluster and minicluster streams within the galaxy.
Dionysios Antypas (University of Crete)
- Speaker at Constraining axionlike dark matter with a radio-frequency atomic magnetometer
Koki Aoyanagi (Kyoto University)
- Speaker at A Novel Qubit Sensor Fabrication Technique Toward High Frequency Direct Excitation Dark Photon Searches
Daniel Avraham
- Speaker at CYGNUS-Oz: Directional Gas TPCs for Next-Generation Rare-Event Searches
Marcin Badziak
- Speaker at Cosmological tests of thermal axions
Elisabetta Barberio (University of Melbourne)
- Speaker at SABRE South at SUPL Status and Physics Prospects
Nicole Bell (The University of Melbourne)
- Speaker at Capture and Thermalisation of Dark Matter in Stars
Alexander Bohmer (Vienna University of Technology (AT))
- Speaker at The COSINUS Experiment: From Commissioning Towards First Dark Matter Data
Irene Bolognino (The University of Adelaide)
- Speaker at Development of the optical calibration system for the SABRE South active veto
Jeremy Bourhill
- Speaker at The Twisted "Anyon" Cavity: Using Electromagnetic Helicity to Search for Ultralight Dark Matter
Suerfu Burkhant (The University of Melbourne)
- Speaker at The Search for Low-mass Dark Matter in the Kamioka Cryo Laboratory
Vera Butz (University of Heidelberg)
- Speaker at Improved Axion Flux from Axion-Electron Interactions in the Sun
William Campbell (The University of Queensland)
- Speaker at Super conducting circuits for future dark matter searches
Madeleine Carhart (University of Washington)
- Speaker at Characterization of Dielectrics for the DPHaSE Disordered Haloscope
Raphael Cervantes
- Speaker at SQMS results for widely-tunable SRF DPDM haloscope and progress towards Itinerant Photon Counters
Yuan-Hann Chang (Academia Sinica (TW))
- Speaker at Search for Axion Dark Matter with the TASEH experiment
Jonathan Charlesworth (UWA)
- Speaker at Effective-Current Formulation Of Axion-Induced Electric and Magnetic Dipole Moments
Muping Chen
- Speaker at Muping Chen
Aaron Chou
- Speaker at Targeting the QCD axion with novel cavities and qubit-based electronics
Sheon Chua (The Australian National University)
- Speaker at Differential Torsion sensor for direct observation of ultralight vector dark matter
Jules COLAS
- Speaker at Probing light dark matter with cryogenic detectors and the TESSERACT experiment at LSM : progress and status.
Robert Crew (The University of Western Australia)
- Speaker at The Twisted "Anyon" Cavity Readout: Measurement System for Ultralight Dark Matter Detection
Giacomo D'Amico
- Speaker at Constraints on Axion-Like Particles from Ten Years of Blazar Observations with MAGIC and LST-1
- Speaker at Revising Indirect Dark Matter Constraints with Updated Astrophysical J-Factor Priors
Sara Diglio (SUBATECH/CNRS/In2p3)
- Speaker at Latest Results and Prospects from the XENONnT Experiment
Leanne Duffy (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- Speaker at Dark Matter Search with Optical Quantum Sensors
Shunki Endo (University of Tsukuba)
- Speaker at DOSUE-RR Experiment: The Direct Search for Dark Photon Dark Matter with the Broadband Millimeter-Wave Receiver FINER at $m_{\text{DP}}= 0.89–1.35$ meV
Patrick Fitzpatrick (Instituto de Física UNAM)
- Speaker at Dark Matter and Majorana Neutrinos in a Realization of the Higgs Metastability Bound
Graeme Flower (Universtiy of Western Australia)
- Speaker at Travelling wave parametric amplifiers for axion halscope experiments
Theresa Fruth (University of Sydney)
- Speaker at XLZD - the next-generation dark matter and rare event observatory
Hajime Fukuda (University of Tokyo)
- Speaker at Quantum Error Correction-like Noise Mitigation for Wave-like Dark Matter Searches with Quantum Sensors
Yeray Garcia Del Castillo
- Speaker at Enhanced Axion Fluctuations in the Pre-Inflationary Scenario
Daniel Gavilan-Martin
- Speaker at Black hole scalar sirens in the Milky Way
Tony Gherghetta
- Speaker at New Perspectives on the QCD Axion
Bianca Giaccone
- Speaker at High-Q Cavities and Quantum Sensing Platforms for Fundamental Physics at SQMS
Ethan Han (Swinburne University of Technology)
- Speaker at Superconducting Thin Film Development for RF Cavities in Axion Dark Matter Searches
Elrina Hartman (University of Western Australia)
- Speaker at Frequency Edge Sensing for Cryogenic Bolometry
Michael Hatzon (University of Western Australia)
- Speaker at High-Resolution Axion Search with ORGAN-Q and Thin-Film Coupling for Multi-Resonator Haloscopes
Maaz Hayat (University of Melbourne)
- Speaker at Minimal F-DFSZ Axion Models: Predictive Yukawa Textures and Flavour Constraints
David Herbschleb (QUP, KEK)
- Speaker at Electron-coupled dark matter search with an ultrasensitive superconducting magnetometer
Robert James (The University of Melbourne)
- Speaker at Recent results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment
Junu Jeong (Stockholm University)
- Speaker at ALPHA Plasma Haloscope for Post Inflation Axions
Chikara Kawai (The University of Tokyo)
- Speaker at Development and Initial Characterization of a Transmon-Based Single Microwave Photon Detector for Axion Dark Matter Searches
Masahiro Kawasaki
- Speaker at Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter from Axion-like Fields
Aya Keller (Stanford University)
- Speaker at The DMRadio Program: First Operation of DMRadio-50L and the Path to GUT-Scale Axion Searches
Jongkuk Kim (Chung-Ang University)
- Speaker at Belle II excess and dark matter semi-annihilation
Abaz Kryemadhi (Messiah University)
- Speaker at DALI: First Results and Future Prospects
Noah Kurinsky (SLAC/Stanford)
- Speaker at Searching for Dark Matter at meV Energy Scales: New Techniques and New Challenges
Erik Lentz (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
- Speaker at The Very Entangled Bose Array eXperiment: A Pathfinder to Heisenberg-limited Multi-cavity Axion Haloscopes
Qing Lin (University of Science and Technology of China)
- Speaker at Status of Solar B8 CE𝜈NS and Light Dark Matter Search in PandaX-4T
Xiaolin Ma (KEK/QUP)
- Speaker at Quantum geometric phase for new physics detection
Dora Maiello (Università di Padova, INFN Padova)
- Speaker at A 1 GHz-range dark photon search with a superconducting Nb$_3$Sn tunable haloscope
Leonardo Mariani (Bicocca)
- Speaker at Sub-Kelvin characterization of the BAUSCIA detector
David Marsh
- Speaker at The theory of Axion Relic Pockets
John Martinis (University of California Santa Barbara)
- Speaker at From prehistoric qubits to building a useful quantum computer
Peter McNamara
- Speaker at The SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment
Zain Mehdi
- Speaker at Interferometric detection of vacuum nonlinearities without external fields
Yue Meng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
- Speaker at PandaX-20T Upgrade and Its Physics Potential
Yuya Mino (University of Tokyo)
- Speaker at Wave-like Dark Matter Search with Superconducting Qubits in Quantum Computers
Jackson Mitchell-Bolton (University of Sydney)
- Speaker at New limits on ultralight axion-like dark matter with a pulsar polarisation array
Akira Miyazaki (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
- Speaker at First searches for axion and dark photon dark matter with MADMAX prototypes
- Speaker at Generalization of Glauber's theorem for dark matter axions and graviton detection
- Speaker at Non-mechanically tunable plasma haloscope with superconducting nano-wires
Colin James Moore (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)
- Speaker at Status of the CRESST Experiment
Kosuke Nakamura (Kyoto University)
- Speaker at A Novel High Frequency Gravitational Wave Search Using Superconducting Coplanar Waveguide Resonators
Kan Nakazono (the University of Tokyo)
- Speaker at 3D Nonlinear Cavities Galvanically Integrated with Josephson Junction Devices for Dark Matter Searches
Shunsuke Neda (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, The University of Tokyo)
- Speaker at Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter from Non-Topological Solitons
Ryan Netrval (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)
- Speaker at Prototype Fabry-Perot polarimeter for vacuum magnetic birefringence using high frequency magnetically levitated rotating magnets
Charalampos Nikolis
- Speaker at The phenomenology of axion relic pockets
ippei obata
- Speaker at Probing Majoron Dark Matter with Gravitational Wave Detectors
sonali parashar
- Speaker at Magnetically Transduced Gravitational wave Inertial detector (MAGI) for the Search for High Frequency Gravitational Waves and Axions
Emma Paterson (University of Western Australia - QDM Labs)
- Speaker at Inverse Design of Electromagnetic Cavities for Axion Searches
Elena Pinetti (Flatiron Institute/Simons Foundation)
- Speaker at Hunting New Physics in the Dark Universe
Lucas Puetter (ITP Heidelberg)
- Speaker at Testing Antimatter Couplings with Spectroscopy and Other Methods
Cedric Quint (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)
- Speaker at ALP Bremsstrahlung in Proton Beam Dumps: Constraints on Electron-Proton Coupling Products
Aaron Quiskamp` (UWA)
- Speaker at ORGAN: Current Status and Future Directions of Australia's Axion Haloscope Experiment
- Speaker at The Multi-mode Acoustic Gravitational-wave Experiment (MAGE)
Alessio Rettaroli (INFN - LNF)
- Speaker at The FLASH and QUAX-LNF Haloscopes in the GravNet Network
qazal rokn (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)
- Speaker at Axion Polarimetric Experiment (APE)
Ophir Ruimi
- Speaker at Hunting for Axions and Hidden Photons in the Wilderness: The Search for Non-Interacting Particles Experimental Hunt (SNIPE Hunt)
Sephora Ruppert (Stanford University)
- Speaker at ADMX-VERA: Innovating Cavity Geometry for Large-Volume, High-Frequency Axion Searches
Gray Rybka
- Speaker at Axion 5th force searches with haloscope style detectors
Paolo Salomone (The University of Chicago)
- Speaker at Direct Dark Matter Detection with the DarkSide-20k Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber at LNGS
Igor Samsonov (UNSW)
- Speaker at Direct and indirect probes of gravity-mediated dark matter in large extra dimensions scenario
Jesse Schelfhout (University of Oxford)
- Speaker at AICE in the hole: atom interferometry in an LHC access shaft as an ultralight dark matter facility
Tobias Schiffer (University of Bonn (DE))
- Speaker at Lohengrin —a proposed experiment in the search for dark bremsstrahlung and a portal to the dark sector
- Speaker at Solar Axion Searches with IAXO and BabyIAXO
Kristof Schmieden (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))
- Speaker at SUPAX at Bonn: A 10 mK, 12 T Multi-Cavity Haloscope for Axion Dark Matter Searches between 2 and 7 GHz
Raj Aryan Singh (Swinburne University of Technology)
- Speaker at ORGAN-Low : Pathfinder Search for Sub-μeV Axion Dark Matter with the Re-entrant Haloscope Design
Andrew Sonnenschein (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
- Speaker at Status of the BREAD axion search experiments
OTHER SPEAKER
- Speaker at New physics searches at the NA62 experiment
Aaron Dean Spector (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
- Speaker at Laser Interferometric Tests of Fundamental Physics at DESY
Alexander Sushkov (Johns Hopkins University)
- Speaker at The quantum-limited CASPEr search for axion-like dark matter
Hiroki Takeuchi
- Speaker at DOSUE-RR: New Results of a Dark Photon Dark Matter Search with a Millimeter-Wave Receiver in the 80–160 μeV/c² Mass Range
Arthur Talarmin (CNRS - Institut Néel)
- Speaker at Liquid He tuning of dark matter axion haloscopes
Yi Tao (Sun Yat-sen University)
- Speaker at WIMP Dark Matter Search with the Full-Exposure Data of PandaX-4T
Paige Taylor (Swinburne University of Technology)
- Speaker at A DC-Tuned Rectangular Cavity for the ORGAN 2a Axion Dark Matter Search
KARIN WATANABE (The University of Tokyo)
- Speaker at Search for Hidden Photon Dark Matter Using Direct Excitation of Superconducting Qubits
Anthony Williams (University of Adelaide)
- Speaker at Where can Dark Matter be hiding?
Andrew Yi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
- Speaker at Status and Future of the Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX)
Sung Woo YOUN
- Speaker at Microwave Cavity Searches for Axion Dark Matter at IBS-DMAG
Bingrong Yu (Cornell University)
- Speaker at WIMP Meets ALP: Coherent Freeze-Out of Dark Matter
Dan Zhang (University of Washington)
- Speaker at Effects of Cosmic-Ray Muons on µeV-to-meV Scale Axion Dark Matter Searches
Cindy Zhao (Quantum Technologies and Dark Matter Labs, Department of Physics, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.)
- Speaker at Impurity-Induced Ferroelectric Behaviour in KTaO₃: Implications for Cryogenic Microwave Resonators in Wave-Like Dark Matter Searches