21st Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs

Session

Plenary Talk

9 Nov 2026, 09:30

University of Western Australia

127. Status and Future of the Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX)

Andrew Yi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

09/11/2026, 09:30

Plenary Presentation

QCD axions are the resulting bosons from the Peccei-Quinn mechanism which solves the strong CP problem, and are also a convincing candidate for wavelike dark matter. Located at the University of Washington, the Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) is an axion haloscope currently probing axions at Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnitskii (DFSZ) sensitivities from 1.02 to 1.39 GHz (4.22 - 5.75 µeV)....

133. Hunting New Physics in the Dark Universe

Elena Pinetti (Flatiron Institute/Simons Foundation)

10/11/2026, 10:30

Plenary Presentation

Dark matter provides compelling evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model, motivating a broad landscape of candidates ranging from weakly interacting massive particles to ultralight axions. Astrophysical observations offer a complementary avenue to laboratory experiments for testing dark matter models across a broad range of masses and interaction strengths.

In this talk, I will...

137. From prehistoric qubits to building a useful quantum computer

Prof. John Martinis (University of California Santa Barbara)

12/11/2026, 10:40

Plenary Presentation

In the span of four decades, quantum computation has evolved from an intellectual curiosity to a potentially realizable technology. I will describe my thesis work on macroscopic quantum tunneling and energy-level quantization that led to the Nobel Prize, as well as several other important experiments that advanced superconducting qubits.

Nevertheless, the path toward a full-stack scalable...

130. Searching for Dark Matter at meV Energy Scales: New Techniques and New Challenges

Dr Noah Kurinsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory - Stanford University)

13/11/2026, 09:25

Plenary Presentation

Over the past few decades, searches for ‘classical’ WIMPS at masses in the 10 GeV - 1 TeV regime have matured and ruled out a broad set of supersymmetric models. Along with mature concepts for reaching the neutrino floor in this mass range, significant progress has been made in understanding how we closed the mass gap between the younger set of axion experiments and the conventional...