Name: Phenomenology 2026 Symposium
Start: 2026-05-11T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-13T14:00:00-04:00
Location: University of Pittsburgh

Phenomenology 2026 Symposium

from Monday, May 11, 2026 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, May 13, 2026 (2:00 PM)

Monday, May 11, 2026

8:00 AM Registration and Breakfast: Registration and Breakfast
Registration and Breakfast
8:00 AM - 8:40 AM
8:40 AM Plenary: Monday Early
Monday Early
8:40 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

8:40 AM Welcome - Andrew Zentner (University of Pittsburgh)

8:45 AM Progress and Prospects in Dark Matter Direct Detection - Hugh Lippincott (UCSB)

9:20 AM Dark Matter Indirect Searches and Astroparticle Physics - Nicholas Rodd

9:55 AM CMB Power Spectrum and New Physics from ACT-DR6 - Colin Hill (Columbia University)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Plenary: Monday Late
Monday Late
11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Probing the Dark Energy - Jonathan Blazek

11:35 AM Particle physics at Cosmic Frontier - Yuhsin Tsai (University of Notre Dame)

12:10 PM Primordial Black Holes and Particle Physics - Gordan Krnjaic (Fermilab)
12:45 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
1:00 PM Forum on early career development
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Forum on early career development - Gil Paz
2:15 PM Cosmology: Neutrino, BBN, DM
Neutrino, BBN, DM
2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:15 PM New prediction for the primordial deuterium abundance with Gaussian processes - Timothy Launders (Boston University)

2:30 PM To $\nu$ or Not to $\nu$: That is the Interaction - Subhajit Ghosh (The University of Texas at Austin)

2:45 PM Superradiant interactions of cosmic relics and how to look for them - Marios Galanis (Stanford University)

3:00 PM A win-win Coupling, Alleviating the Hubble Tension in the Neutrino Early Dark Energy Interacting Models - Dylan McCauley (Carnegie Mellon University)

3:15 PM The cosmological evolution of coupled neutrino-ultralight dark matter - Antoni Bertolez-Martinez (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

3:30 PM Efficiency of primordial black hole evaporation into dark matter - Brian Zhang

3:45 PM Primordial Neutron Stars - Duncan Rocha (University of Chicago)
Dark Matter: DM at Colliders
DM at Colliders
2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:15 PM Searches for BSM physics using challenging and long-lived signatures with the ATLAS detector - Michael Revering (University of Cambridge (GB))

2:30 PM Leptonically rich confining dark sectors from dark hadronization: recasting an ATLAS four-lepton analysis - Junyi Cheng (Harvard University)

2:45 PM Recent highlights of dark matter searches from CMS - Murtaza Safdari (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

3:00 PM CMS Run-2 search for a boosted dark Higgs boson decaying into a bottom quark-antiquark pair - Erdem Yigit Ertorer (Carnegie-Mellon University (US))

3:15 PM Probing Freeze-In Dark Matter via a Spin-2 Portal at the LHC with Vector Boson Fusion and Machine Learning - Junzhe Liu

3:30 PM Boosting Dark Matter with the LHC Beam: A New Forward Signature - Andrew Evans (University of California Irvine)

3:45 PM Search for Sub-GeV Axion-Like Particles at EBES Pilot Run - Tomoya Iizawa (University of Tokyo (JP))
Electroweak: Higgs, top
Higgs, top
2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:15 PM ATLAS results on top quark mass and properties - Frederic Derue (LPNHE-Paris CNRS/IN2P3)

2:30 PM ATLAS results on associated top quark production (Top+X) - Lining Mao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN))

2:45 PM Higgs properties (mass, width, CP) and EFT measurements from ATLAS - Alex Zeng Wang (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))

3:00 PM Higgs boson production and decay rate measurements with the ATLAS experiment - Mira Varma (Yale University (US))

3:15 PM HH, HHH searches, Higgs potential at the LHC - Romano Orlandini (Universita e INFN Roma Tre (IT))

3:30 PM Beyond the Standard Model in the Higgs sector at ATLAS - Kevin Sedlaczek (Northern Illinois University (US))

3:45 PM Searches for rare decays of the Higgs boson into light pseudoscalars in the CMS experiment. - Sweta Baradia (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (IN))
Flavor Physics: BSM
BSM
2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:15 PM Flavor physics at the EIC with b-jet tagging - Shaouly Bar-Shalom (Technion, Israel)

2:30 PM Hunting for New Physics with Tau Decays - Sohini Pal (University of Cincinnati, OH, USA)

2:45 PM Light ALPs and Lepton Flavor Violation in Muonic Atoms - Girish Kumar (University of South Carolina)

3:00 PM Matter Unification and Lepton Flavor Violation - Hridoy Debnath

3:15 PM Exploring Right-Handed Neutrinos as Probes of New Physics in Semileptonic $\bar{B}$ Decays - Kumar Pandey (University of Mississippi)

3:30 PM Searches for Exotic Heavy Resonances with the ATLAS detector - Saad Mohiuddin (Oklahoma State University (US))

3:45 PM Quantum Tomography of Neutral Mesons in Flavor Space - Arthur Wu
New Developments in BSM Searches
2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:15 PM Improved supernova bounds on CP-even scalars: cooling and decay constraints - Anirudhan Alanthatta Madathil (University of Utah)

2:30 PM Higher Axions - Arthur Platschorre (Cornell University)

2:45 PM Composite Quarks and Leptons: Flavor Signatures of a Preon Theory - Amartya Sengupta (The University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA)

3:00 PM Large-Width New Physics at Colliders: A Gauge-Invariant Resummation Approach - Yin-Fa Shen (Vanderbilt University (US))

3:15 PM Ubiquitous Corotation of Dark Matter Halos: Implications for Direct Detection - Dylan Folsom (Princeton University)

3:30 PM -

3:45 PM Phenomenological MSSM interpretation of CMS Run 2 searches - Aleesha Kallil Tharayil (Carnegie-Mellon University (US))
New Developments in Theory: Session 1
Session 1
2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:15 PM A Geometric Path to Lorentz Spinors - Zachary Gunther

2:30 PM The Geometric Scattering Algebra of Physical Space - Moab Croft (Illinois State University)

2:45 PM Extensions Beyond 4-Point Amplitudes in Constructive QED - Nicholas Majestic (Illinois State University)

3:00 PM Dispersion relation and unitarization of electroweak amplitudes from continuous spectra and higher-spin towers - Chi Shu (University of Chicago)

3:15 PM Randall-Sundrum Dark Matter Portal Model - Symmetries, Amplitudes and Phenomenology - Joshua Gill

3:30 PM Holographic Chiral Anomalies and Axions Phenomenology - Hanieh Moradipasha (Syracuse university)

3:45 PM -
New Ideas in Baryogenesis, Inflation
2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:15 PM Axiverse Baryogenesis - Pouya Asadi (UCSC)

2:30 PM Gravity’s Gift: Baryons from the Big Bang - Andrew Long (Rice University)

2:45 PM Lingering to Inflation and the Hagedorn Phase Transition - Luis Rufino (Syracuse University)

3:00 PM Non-Gaussianity in Warm Inflation - Sagnik Mondal (Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, U.S.A.)

3:15 PM The Entangled State from a cosmological Euclidean Wormhole - Wei-Chen Lin (Ewha Womans University)

3:30 PM Stochasticity in reheating - Leia Price (MIT)

3:45 PM The Extra-dimensional Origins of the Chemical Potential at the Cosmological Collider - Zhaohui Xu (University of Maryland, College Park)
New Physics at Future Colliders: Higgs, SUSY
Higgs, SUSY
2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:15 PM Searches for electroweak production of supersymmetric particles with the ATLAS detector - Evelyn Jean Thomson (University of Pennsylvania (US))

2:30 PM Searches for long-lived particles and unconventional signatures with CMS - Gianfranco De Castro (Cornell University (US))

2:45 PM Real singlet scalar benchmarks in the multi-TeV resonance regime - Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas)

3:00 PM Top Quark Pair Production and Decay: The 1-Higgs-Singlet Model and Pseudoscalar Decay - Vishakha Lingadahally

3:15 PM Higgs decays to four leptons to $\mathcal{O}(1/\Lambda^4)$ in SMEFT - Mario Flores-Hernández (University of Notre Dame)

3:30 PM Photon‑Induced Triple Higgs Production in the Higgs Triplet Model at Muon Colliders - Terrance Figy (Wichita State University)

3:45 PM Exotic Higgs Decays at a Muon Collider - Yanhan Wang (Brown University)
4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Astro-particle: BSM, Cosmic Rays
BSM, Cosmic Rays
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Astrophysical Consequences of an Electroweak ηw Pseudo-Scalar - Hooman Davoudiasl

4:45 PM Neutron Star Eclipses as Axion Laboratories - Vedran Brdar (Oklahoma State University (US))

5:00 PM Discovering Isolated Neutron Stars with the Vera Rubin Observatory - Shirley Li (UC Irvine)

5:15 PM Efficient PINN Models of Cosmic Rays - Eric Putney (Rutgers University)

5:30 PM Constraining Galactic Cosmic Ray Models with a Multi-Messenger Analysis of the Diffuse Emission - Alisha Roberts (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

5:45 PM Seeing the Invisible: Mini-CoRTEx and Real-Time 3D Visualization of Cosmic-Ray Muons - Yuvaraj Elangovan (University of Pittsburgh (US))

6:00 PM Naturalness in Soft SUSY Leptogenesis and Gravitino Mass Bound due to PBH - SUHAIL KHAN (Centre for Theoretical Physics,Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India)

6:15 PM Monopole phenomenology from the electroweak anomaly - Jiawei (Vivian) Gao (UCSB)
Cosmology: Bosonic fields
Bosonic fields
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM EFT perspective on fifth-force searches using isotope shift spectroscopy - Gil Paz

4:45 PM Composite Ultralight Scalars, Fifth Forces, and Atomic Clocks - Shourya Mukherjee

5:00 PM Vector Dark Matter Signals from Neutrino - antineutrino Conversion - Ting Cheng (Fermilab)

5:15 PM Constraining Dark First-Order Phase Transitions with CMB and Structure Formation Observations - Daven Wei Ren Ho

5:30 PM Computing bubble wall velocity from entropy - Isaac Wang

5:45 PM Effects of New Forces on Scalar Dark Matter Solitons - Alize Sucsuzer (Tufts University)

6:00 PM Understanding Misaligned Condensates with Yukawa Couplings - Nathan Herring (Hillsdale College)

6:15 PM Emergent modified gravity: Dynamical dark energy model without additional degrees of freedom - Manuel Diaz
Dark Matter: Direct Detection
Direct Detection
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Latest Results of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment - Jack Genovesi (Pennsylvania State University)

4:45 PM AI-Driven Material Discovery in a Pipeline to Develop DM Detectors - Carlos Blanco

5:00 PM Sub-GeV Dark Matter Detection with Dark Rates in Liquid Scintillators - Lillian Santos-Olmsted

5:15 PM Dark matter-electron scattering with RPA dielectric screening - Megan Hott (Stony Brook University)

5:30 PM Strategies for Next-Generation sub-GeV Direct Detection - Benjamin Lillard (Pennsylvania State University)

5:45 PM Dive deeper with SUBMARINE: SUB-Mev dArk matter diRect detectIon using bilayer grapheNE - Anuvab Sarkar

6:00 PM Millicharged Particle Direct Detection Using Optimized Ion Traps - Jonathan Shoemaker (Stanford University)

6:15 PM Cavendish Searches for Millicharged Particles - Zachary Bogorad (Fermilab)
Dark Matter: Theory
Theory
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Dark Matter during First-Order Phase Transitions - Peisi Huang

4:45 PM WIMPs with Enhanced Annihilation from a Feebly Interacting Unstable Partner - Chance Hoskinson (University of Utah)

5:00 PM Accidentally Stable Dark Matter in a Parity Solution to the Strong CP Problem - Matthew Baldwin

5:15 PM Reviving WIMP dark matter with temperature-dependent couplings - Debasish Borah (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)

5:30 PM Freeze-in Dark Matter in Neutron Stars - Samya Roychowdhury (University of Minnesota)

5:45 PM Singlet Doublet Model Outside of Chemical Equilibrium - Alexander Takla (University of Michigan)

6:00 PM Questions on Fuzzy Dark Matter - Sunhaeng Hur (Virginia Tech)

6:15 PM Secluded effects on scalar light dark matter - Lilianna Hariasz (Simon Fraser University)
Electroweak: precision
precision
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM The Whizard Monte Carlo and Top-Quark Physics - Wolfgang Kilian

4:45 PM Determination of the strong coupling constant from the recent CT25 parton distribution functions - Kirtimaan Mohan (Michigan State University)

5:00 PM Interplay of $\alpha_s$, $m_t$ and gluon parametrization in CT PDF extractions - Tanishq Sharma

5:15 PM Investigation of the difference in the angular distributions of Z to μμ events produced in quark-antiquark, guark-Gluon and Gluon-Gluon collisions - Giulia-Maria Bulugean (University of Rochester (US))

5:30 PM Precision Measurement of the Electroweak Mixing Angle in the Region of the Z pole - Arie Bodek (University of Rochester (US))

5:45 PM Fermionic Electroweak Two-Loop Corrections to Drell-Yan and Related Processes - Ernest Wallace (University of Pittsburgh)

6:00 PM Chasing 2HDM via electroweak corrections at e+e- colliders - Yang Ma (UCLouvain)

6:15 PM Hadronic CP Violation in the 2HDM - Daniil Volkov (University of Cinccinati)
Gravitational Waves
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM -

4:45 PM Uncool phase transitions from soft walls - Ameen Ismail

5:00 PM New Sensitivity to High Frequency Gravitational Waves from Radio Telescopes - Ethan Baker (Boston University)

5:15 PM Gravitational Waves from Early-Universe Turbulent sources - Murman Gurgenidze (Carnegie Mellon University)

5:30 PM Does NANOGrav favor massive gravity? - Chris Choi (Carnegie Mellon University)

5:45 PM Gravitational Waves from Long Strings and Loops - Christos Litos (University of Florida)

6:00 PM Testing Massive Gravity Using European Pulsar Timing Array Data - Marcus Bosca (Carnegie Mellon University)

6:15 PM Baryophilic gauge and Gravitational Wave Effect - Abdul Rahaman Shaikh (Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia)
Neutrino Physics: Masses, Exp. Signatures
Masses, Exp. Signatures
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Direct Neutrino Mass Measurement with Project 8 - Ehteshamul Karim (University of Pittsburgh)

4:45 PM Sensitivity to Neutrino Mass and Secondary Physics of the Project 8 Experiment - Chi-Ho Lam (University of Pittsburgh)

5:00 PM Binary Neutron Star Mergers as a Probe of Neutrino Mass - Dibya Sankar Chattopadhyay (Oklahoma State University)

5:15 PM Latest Results from the CUORE experiment - Vivek Sharma (University of Pittsburgh)

5:30 PM How long can neutrons live? - Yulun Li

5:45 PM Phenomenological Chiral Perturbation Theory for Neutrino Event Generators - Misa Toman

6:00 PM Form Factor Uncertainty Analysis for Coherent Neutrino Trident Scattering - Diego Lopez Gutierrez (Washington University in St Louis)

6:15 PM Global Extraction of the Nuclear Electromagnetic Response Functions of C-12 and Comparisons to the Predictions of the SuSAv2 Superscaling Formalism for Electron and Neutrino Scattering - Zihao Lin (University of Rochester)
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

8:00 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:00 AM - 8:40 AM
8:40 AM Plenary: Tuesday Early
Tuesday Early
8:40 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

8:40 AM APS & its Journals - Joshua Sayre

8:45 AM Highlights of the Recent LHC Results - Regina Demina (Rochester University)

9:20 AM HL-LHC and Future Perspectives - Sarah Marie Demers (Yale University (US))

9:55 AM Precision Physics in the LHC Era - Federico Buccioni (University of Zurich) Federico Buccioni (CERN)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Plenary: Tuesday Late
Tuesday Late
11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Flavor Physics in the New Era - Zoltan Ligeti (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

11:35 AM New Directions in Collider Physics - Zhen Liu

12:10 PM Quantum Information Meets Collider Physics - Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (BE))
12:45 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Computing and Machine Learning
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Mini Review: Deep Learning in HEP - Sergei Gleyzer (University of Alabama (US))

2:30 PM Memristive tabular variational autoencoder for compression of analog data in high energy physics - Tae Min Hong (University of Pittsburgh (US))

2:45 PM Many Wrongs Make a Right: Leveraging Biased Simulations Towards Unbiased Parameter Inference - Sean Benevedes (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

3:00 PM Toward Agentic Phenomenology - Tony Menzo (University of Alabama and Fermilab)

3:15 PM Binning Bonanza: Metric Design for Quantum Observables and Efficient Dimensionality Reduction - Mohit Vir Srivastav (Johns Hopkins University (US))

3:30 PM Generative quantum machine learning for the hadronization process - Jinghong Yang

3:45 PM -
Cosmology: CMB, GW
CMB, GW
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Echoes of global cosmic strings - Antonios Kyriazis (University of Florida)

2:15 PM Spectator Composes Gravitational Canon - Yunjia Bao (University of Chicago)

2:30 PM Kinetic Isocurvature Perturbations - Dhong Yeon Cheong (University of Chicago)

2:45 PM Primordial Features and Their Impact on Structure Formation - Itamar Allali (Brown University)

3:00 PM Current and Future Constraints on the Primordial Power Spectrum - Zachary Cheslog (Stony Brook University)

3:15 PM A Step in Flux to Suppress Axion Isocurvature - Zekai Wang (Harvard univeristy)

3:30 PM Cosmological Signals from Finite-Lifetime Domain Wall Networks - Fengwei Yang (University of Notre Dame)

3:45 PM First Search for Kaluza-Klein Gravitons and Radion Using Planck Data - Alexander Cassem (Tufts University)
Dark Matter: Axions
Axions
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Berry Phase in Axion Physics and Its Applications - Shuailiang Ge (KAIST & UChicago)

2:15 PM WIMP Meets ALP: Coherent Freeze-Out of Dark Matter - Bingrong Yu (Cornell University)

2:30 PM Geo-Axion Searches in Neutrino Detectors - Anirudh Chandra Shekar (Texas A&M University)

2:45 PM The Challenges of Detecting Non-Classical Axions - Joseph Takach (UC Berkeley)

3:00 PM Axion Production and Detection Using a Dual NMR-type Experiment - Qiushi Wei (University of Florida)

3:15 PM Cosmic Axion Background Detection Using Resonant Cavity Arrays - Soobeom Chung (University of Florida)

3:30 PM Quantum Semiconductor Heterostructures for meV Axion Dark Matter Detection - Jaanita Mehrani

3:45 PM Learning Loss Functions - Bethany Suter (UC Berkeley)
Electroweak: Spin and QM
Spin and QM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Quantum Observables and Higher-Order effects in Leptonic $h \to VV^*$ Decays - Dorival Gonçalves (Oklahoma State University)

2:15 PM Higher-order corrections to quantum observables in semileptonic Higgs decays - Alberto Navarro (Oklahoma State University)

2:30 PM Study of spin correlations in Higgs boson decays to four leptons at CMS - Nicholas Pinto (Johns Hopkins University (US))

2:45 PM Spin‑Density Matrices as probes of CP violation in Top–Higgs Interactions - Marcel I. Yanez

3:00 PM Decoherence or Recoherence in the Radiative Decay of Z boson - Harman Singh (University of Pittsburgh)

3:15 PM NLO EW Corrections and Spin Observables for $\gamma\gamma \to \tau^+\tau^-$ in Pb-Pb UPCs - Peng-Cheng Lu (Shandong university)

3:30 PM Quantum Tomography of Fermion Pairs in $e^+e^-$ Collisions: Longitudinal Beam Polarization Effects - Youle Su (University of Pittsburgh)

3:45 PM Leggett-Garg Inequality Violation with Muon g-2 Experiments - Morgan Cassidy
Neutrino Physics: BSM
BSM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Neutrino/Beam-Dump Complementarity for New Physics - Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University)

2:15 PM Widen the Resonance: Probing a New Regime of Neutrino Self-Interactions with Cosmic Neutrinos - Bei Zhou (Fermilab)

2:30 PM Charged Lepton Flavor Violation at Neutrino Telescopes - Writasree Maitra (Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis)

2:45 PM Testing RG Evolution of Neutrino Mixing with IceCube Double Bang Events - Samiur R. Mir (Oklahoma State University)

3:00 PM Constraining hyperons and non-standard interactions with anti-electron neutrinos - Toni Makela (University of California, Irvine)

3:15 PM Drell-Yan Production of New Particles at Fixed-Target Experiments: Heavy Neutral Lepton as a Case Study - Francis Burk

3:30 PM The Cosmic Neutrino Background is within Reach of Future Neutrino Telescopes - Xiaolin Qi (Virginia Tech)

3:45 PM Reshaping the neutrino fog - Julian Rovner (University of Cincinnati)
New Developments in Theory: Session 2
Session 2
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Pure Gauge Theories in Two Dimensions - Digvijay Roy Varier (University of California, Berkeley)

2:15 PM Dynamics for theories with higher-order interference (a proposal) - Nabin Bhatta (Virginia Tech)

2:30 PM Light KK Gravitons from Extended Warped Extra Dimensions at DUNE - Ankur Verma (University of South Dakota)

2:45 PM Asymptotic Velocity Domination in quantized polarized Gowdy Cosmologies - Mahdi Sedighi Jafari (University of Pittsburgh)

3:00 PM Entanglement, Yang-Mills, and the Scattering Matrix as an SU(N)-equivariant Kernel - Rahul Muraleedharan (University of Oklahoma)

3:15 PM Strongly Coupled Quantum Forces - Chinhsan Sieng (Cornell University)

3:30 PM Massive 1→3 Splitting Functions Beyond Kinematical Limits - Grant Whitman (Brown University)

3:45 PM Using symmetry breaking to obtain multiple copies of SU(M) related by a discrete, cyclic gauge symmetry - Noah McNeal (Harvard University)
New Physics at Future Colliders: EFT, DM
EFT, DM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Estimation of NLO-in-EFT Errors for Collider SMEFT Searches - William Shepherd

2:15 PM Probing Top Quark - Electron Interactions at Future Colliders - Hongkai Liu (BNL)

2:30 PM Probing light axion-like particles via photon conversions in the CMS tracker - Sena Durgut (Carnegie-Mellon University (US))

2:45 PM Probing Dimension-6 SMEFT Operators in Rare Z and Higgs Decays at the LHC and Beyond - Inci Karaaslan (University of Chicago (US))

3:00 PM The Geometry of SMEFT: From Field-Space Geometry to Collider Signatures - Cristofer Caballeros (University of Florida)

3:15 PM Searches for dark sector signatures with CMS - Gianfranco De Castro (Cornell University (US))

3:30 PM -
4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Astro-particle: Dark Matter
Dark Matter
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Heavy dark matter in rapidly evolving massive stars - Walter Tangarife (Loyola University Chicago)

4:45 PM Enabling Forbidden Dark Matter from a First-Order Phase Transition - Partha Kumar Paul (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad)

5:00 PM Gaia at the Forefront of Dissipative Dark Matter Searches: Exchanges - Jackie Lodman (Harvard University)

5:15 PM Ultra-Strongly Self-Interacting Dark Matter and the Origin of Little Red Dots - M. Grant Roberts (University of California, Santa Cruz)

5:30 PM Probing Ultralight Dark Matter via Caustic Crossings in Giant Arcs - Carlos Ramos Portalatino (University of Florida)

5:45 PM Dark Secrets of Baryons: Illuminating Dark Matter-Baryon Interactions with JWST - Souradeep Das (Ohio State University)

6:00 PM Circumstellar Medium of Supernovae as New Probes for Feebly-interacting Particles - Yu Cheng

6:15 PM Revisiting extremely high energy QED bremsstrahlung in matter: large modifications to the LPM effect - Joshua Bautista (University of Virginia)
Cosmology: Axions
Axions
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Axions on a Hyperbolic Ride - Sai Chaitanya Tadepalli (Dept of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington)

4:45 PM Probing Dark Matter Decays to Axions via Axion-Photon Conversion in Filaments - Matthew Baldwin

5:00 PM QCD Axion Domain Walls from Super-Cooling First Order Phase Transition - Kunfeng Lyu

5:15 PM Dynamical Heating from Dark Compact Objects and Axion Minihalos - Badal Bhalla (University of Oklahoma)

5:30 PM Putting the Brakes on Axion Strings: Friction and Its Impact on the QCD Axion Abundance - Rajrupa Mondal (University of Maryland College Park)

5:45 PM Constraints on Axion Dark Matter Isocurvature from CMB - Praniti Singh (Brown University (US))

6:00 PM Cosmological Aspects of Axion-Monopole Interactions - Hengameh Bagherian (University of Chicago)

6:15 PM Tackling the Axion Isocurvature Problem with Bulk Modulus Kination - Chandrika Chandrashekar (Harvard University)
Dark Matter: Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Machine Learning Does It and Does It Better: Unearthing Primordial Dark-Matter Velocities from the Matter Power Spectrum - Brooks Thomas

4:45 PM X-ray femtolensing probes asteroid-mass black holes - Benjamin Lehmann (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

5:00 PM Structure Formation with Dark Magnetohydrodynamics - Pierce Giffin

5:15 PM Set the Night on FIRE: Building an Empirical Local Dark Matter Velocity Distribution - Xiuyuan Zhang

5:30 PM Jupiter is a Dark Matter Refrigerator: Electron Degeneracy Inhibits Evaporation - Tran Quang Thong Nguyen (Stockholm University)

5:45 PM Screened Forces in a QCD-Like Dark Sector on Galactic Scales - Mathilda Denison (University of Pennsylvania)

6:00 PM First-Order QED Corrections to the Electron Spectrum of Hawking Radiation from Asteroid-Mass Primordial Black Holes: Formalism and Numerical Evaluation of Dissipative Interactions - Bowen Chen (Ohio State University)

6:15 PM Searching for Ultralight Scalar Dark Matter with Clocks in Low Earth Orbit - Dawid Brzeminski
Dark Matter: Indirect Detection
Indirect Detection
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Explanation of Galactic Center GeV Excess via Cosmic Ray-Dark Matter Scattering - Debopam Goswami (Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University)

4:45 PM Stress-Testing the 20 GeV Excess - Eve Schoen (UC Berkeley)

5:00 PM Enhanced Cosmic-Ray Antinuclei Fluxes with Dark Matter Annihilation into SUEPs - Caleb Gemmell (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

5:15 PM X-rays from Inelastic Dark Matter Freeze-in - Riku Mizuta (TRIUMF / University of British Columbia)

5:30 PM Joint Spatial–Spectral Gaussian Process Modeling of the Galactic Center Excess - Sam Huang (Rutgers-New Brunswick)

5:45 PM AXIS Can Access Dark Matter Decays - Nimrod Shapir (The University of Chicago)

6:00 PM Enhancing Cosmic-Ray Antinuclei Fluxes from Dark Matter using Baryon Number - Fabrizio Vassallo (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

6:15 PM BBN constraints on the hadronic annihilation of sub-GeV dark matter - Afif Omar
Electroweak
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Electroweak PDFs for future lepton colliders - Krzysztof Mekala

4:45 PM Single 2HDM Higgs Production at a Muon Collider - Juhun Kwak

5:00 PM Electroweak Restoration: SMEFT and HEFT - Ishmam Mahbub (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)

5:15 PM A Busy Higgs Signal - Peiran Li (University of Minnesota)

5:30 PM Probing light gauge bosons using the muon (g-2) - Kushan Panchal (University of Maryland, College park)

5:45 PM The Smallness of Polarization Interference in Weak Boson Production at the LHC - Richard Ruiz (Institute of Nuclear Physics (IFJ) PAN)

6:00 PM Multiboson Measurements at CMS - Cole Erik Kampa (Northwestern University (US))

6:15 PM -
Flavor Physics: Recent Developments
Recent Developments
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Parity solution to the strong CP problem in Pati-Salam models - Kaladi Babu

4:45 PM MaRTIn and four-loop operator mixing - Joachim Brod (University of Cincinnati)

5:00 PM Portals to newSU(3) exotics-:he lepton-gluon and lepton-quark portals - Linda Carpenter

5:15 PM Searches for vector-like fermions and leptoquarks with the ATLAS detector - Tomoya Iizawa (University of Tokyo (JP))

5:30 PM One Sum To Rule Them All - Margarita Gavrilova (Caltech)

5:45 PM Production of B_c states in the Pythia parton shower. - Jake Pfaller (University of Cincinnati (US))

6:00 PM Protecting baryon number violating operators - Diana Sokhashvili

6:15 PM Exotic Hidden-Heavy Hadrons and Where to Find Them - Fareed Alasiri
New Physics at Future Colliders: ML
ML
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM SURFing to the Fundamental Limit of Jet Tagging - Ian Pang

4:45 PM Searches for New Resonances with CMS - Jeongeun Lee (Seoul National University (KR))

5:00 PM Testing the Robustness of Via Machinae Stellar Stream Candidates - Rafael Porto (Rutgers University)

5:15 PM Transforming Flavour Tagging with the ATLAS Detector: ML/AI tools and calibration techniques - Storm Lin (Stony Brook University (US))

5:30 PM A Bi-adjoint Model from the W-Gluon Portal - Katherine Schwind (The Ohio State University)

5:45 PM Opening the GeV Window at the LHC - Carlos Henrique de Lima (TRIUMF)

6:00 PM Heavy Vector Triplets at the Muon Collider - Francesca Acanfora (Umass Amherst)

6:15 PM Disentangling Multiple Light-Flavor Jets at Colliders - Gregorio de la Fuente Simarro (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
7:00 PM Banquet
Banquet
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

8:00 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
8:45 AM Plenary: Wednesday Early
Wednesday Early
8:45 AM - 10:35 AM
Contributions

8:45 AM Highlights of Neutrino Physics - Mark Ross-Lonergan

9:20 AM Neutrino Physics Phenomenology - Matheus Hostert (University of Iowa)

9:55 AM AI & ML for Particle Physics - Konstantin Matchev (University of Alabama (US))

10:30 AM APS DPF - Monica Leys (University of Pittsburgh)
10:35 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:35 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Plenary: Wednesday Late
Wednesday Late
11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Strong CP Problem and the Physics with Axions - Prateek Agrawal (University of Oxford)

11:35 AM New Developments in Particle Theory - Matthew Reece

12:10 PM Pathways to Discoveries in Particle Physics - Marcela Carena