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, 11 May 2026 (08:00) to Wednesday, 13 May 2026 (14:00)

Monday, 11 May 2026

08:00 Registration and Breakfast: Registration and Breakfast
Registration and Breakfast
08:00 - 08:40
08:40 Plenary: Monday Early
Monday Early
08:40 - 10:30
Contributions

08:40 Welcome - Andrew Zentner (University of Pittsburgh)

08:45 Progress and Prospects in Dark Matter Direct Detection - Hugh Lippincott (UCSB)

09:20 Dark Matter Indirect Searches and Astroparticle Physics - Nicholas Rodd

09:55 CMB Power Spectrum and New Physics from ACT-DR6 - Colin Hill (Columbia University)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary: Monday Late
Monday Late
11:00 - 12:45
Contributions

11:00 Probing the Dark Energy - Jonathan Blazek

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

12:10 Primordial Black Holes and Particle Physics - Gordan Krnjaic (Fermilab)
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:15
13:00 Forum on early career development
13:00 - 14:00
Contributions

13:00 Forum on early career development - Gil Paz
14:15 Cosmology: Neutrino, BBN, DM
Neutrino, BBN, DM
14:15 - 16:00
Contributions

14:15 New prediction for the primordial deuterium abundance with Gaussian processes - Timothy Launders (Boston University)

14:30 To $\nu$ or Not to $\nu$: That is the Interaction - Subhajit Ghosh (The University of Texas at Austin)

14:45 Superradiant interactions of cosmic relics and how to look for them - Marios Galanis (Stanford University)

15:00 A win-win Coupling, Alleviating the Hubble Tension in the Neutrino Early Dark Energy Interacting Models - Dylan McCauley (Carnegie Mellon University)

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

15:30 Efficiency of primordial black hole evaporation into dark matter - Brian Zhang

15:45 Primordial Neutron Stars - Duncan Rocha (University of Chicago)
Dark Matter: DM at Colliders
DM at Colliders
14:15 - 16:00
Contributions

14:15 Searches for BSM physics using challenging and long-lived signatures with the ATLAS detector - Michael Revering (University of Cambridge (GB))

14:30 Leptonically rich confining dark sectors from dark hadronization: recasting an ATLAS four-lepton analysis - Junyi Cheng (Harvard University)

14:45 Recent highlights of dark matter searches from CMS - Murtaza Safdari (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

15:00 CMS Run-2 search for a boosted dark Higgs boson decaying into a bottom quark-antiquark pair - Erdem Yigit Ertorer (Carnegie-Mellon University (US))

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

15:30 Boosting Dark Matter with the LHC Beam: A New Forward Signature - Andrew Evans (University of California Irvine)

15:45 Search for Sub-GeV Axion-Like Particles at EBES Pilot Run - Tomoya Iizawa (University of Tokyo (JP))
Electroweak: Higgs, top
Higgs, top
14:15 - 16:00
Contributions

14:15 ATLAS results on top quark mass and properties - Frederic Derue (LPNHE-Paris CNRS/IN2P3)

14:30 ATLAS results on associated top quark production (Top+X) - Lining Mao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN))

14:45 Higgs properties (mass, width, CP) and EFT measurements from ATLAS - Alex Zeng Wang (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))

15:00 Higgs boson production and decay rate measurements with the ATLAS experiment - Mira Varma (Yale University (US))

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

15:30 Beyond the Standard Model in the Higgs sector at ATLAS - Kevin Sedlaczek (Northern Illinois University (US))

15:45 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
14:15 - 16:00
Contributions

14:15 Flavor physics at the EIC with b-jet tagging - Shaouly Bar-Shalom (Technion, Israel)

14:30 Hunting for New Physics with Tau Decays - Sohini Pal (University of Cincinnati, OH, USA)

14:45 Light ALPs and Lepton Flavor Violation in Muonic Atoms - Girish Kumar (University of South Carolina)

15:00 Matter Unification and Lepton Flavor Violation - Hridoy Debnath

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

15:30 Searches for Exotic Heavy Resonances with the ATLAS detector - Saad Mohiuddin (Oklahoma State University (US))

15:45 Quantum Tomography of Neutral Mesons in Flavor Space - Arthur Wu
New Developments in BSM Searches
14:15 - 16:00
Contributions

14:15 Improved supernova bounds on CP-even scalars: cooling and decay constraints - Anirudhan Alanthatta Madathil (University of Utah)

14:30 Higher Axions - Arthur Platschorre (Cornell University)

14:45 Composite Quarks and Leptons: Flavor Signatures of a Preon Theory - Amartya Sengupta (The University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA)

15:00 Large-Width New Physics at Colliders: A Gauge-Invariant Resummation Approach - Yin-Fa Shen (Vanderbilt University (US))

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

15:30 Hidden-Heavy Pentaquarks and Where to Find Them - Fareed Alasiri

15:45 Phenomenological MSSM interpretation of CMS Run 2 searches - Aleesha Kallil Tharayil (Carnegie-Mellon University (US))
New Developments in Theory: Session 1
Session 1
14:15 - 16:00
Contributions

14:15 A Geometric Path to Lorentz Spinors - Zachary Gunther

14:30 Randall-Sundrum Dark Matter Portal Model - Symmetries, Amplitudes and Phenomenology - Joshua Gill

14:45 Extensions Beyond 4-Point Amplitudes in Constructive QED - Nicholas Majestic (Illinois State University)

15:00 Dispersion relation and unitarization of electroweak amplitudes from continuous spectra and higher-spin towers - Chi Shu (University of Chicago)

15:15 Advanced maths in cosmology - Pierros Ntelis (Harbin Institute of Technology)

15:30 The Geometric Scattering Algebra of Physical Space - Moab Croft (Illinois State University)

15:45 Holographic Chiral Anomalies and Axions Phenomenology - Hanieh Moradipasha (Syracuse university)
New Ideas in Baryogenesis, Inflation
14:15 - 16:00
Contributions

14:15 Axiverse Baryogenesis - Pouya Asadi (UCSC)

14:30 Gravity’s Gift: Baryons from the Big Bang - Andrew Long (Rice University)

14:45 Lingering to Inflation and the Hagedorn Phase Transition - Luis Rufino (Syracuse University)

15:00 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.)

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

15:30 Stochasticity in reheating - Leia Price (MIT)

15:45 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
14:15 - 16:00
Contributions

14:15 Searches for electroweak production of supersymmetric particles with the ATLAS detector - Evelyn Jean Thomson (University of Pennsylvania (US))

14:30 Searches for long-lived particles and unconventional signatures with CMS - Gianfranco De Castro (Cornell University (US))

14:45 Real singlet scalar benchmarks in the multi-TeV resonance regime - Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas)

15:00 Top Quark Pair Production and Decay: The 1-Higgs-Singlet Model and Pseudoscalar Decay - Vishakha Lingadahally

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

15:30 Photon‑Induced Triple Higgs Production in the Higgs Triplet Model at Muon Colliders - Terrance Figy (Wichita State University)

15:45 Exotic Higgs Decays at a Muon Collider - Yanhan Wang (Brown University)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 Astro-particle: BSM, Cosmic Rays
BSM, Cosmic Rays
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Astrophysical Consequences of an Electroweak ηw Pseudo-Scalar - Hooman Davoudiasl

16:45 Neutron Star Eclipses as Axion Laboratories - Vedran Brdar (Oklahoma State University (US))

17:00 Discovering Isolated Neutron Stars with the Vera Rubin Observatory - Shirley Li (UC Irvine)

17:15 Efficient PINN Models of Cosmic Rays - Eric Putney (Rutgers University)

17:30 Constraining Galactic Cosmic Ray Models with a Multi-Messenger Analysis of the Diffuse Emission - Alisha Roberts (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

17:45 Seeing the Invisible: Mini-CoRTEx and Real-Time 3D Visualization of Cosmic-Ray Muons - Yuvaraj Elangovan (University of Pittsburgh (US))

18:00 Naturalness in Soft SUSY Leptogenesis and Gravitino Mass Bound due to PBH - SUHAIL KHAN (Centre for Theoretical Physics,Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India)

18:15 Monopole phenomenology from the electroweak anomaly - Jiawei (Vivian) Gao (UCSB)
Cosmology: Bosonic fields
Bosonic fields
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 EFT perspective on fifth-force searches using isotope shift spectroscopy - Gil Paz

16:45 Composite Ultralight Scalars, Fifth Forces, and Atomic Clocks - Shourya Mukherjee

17:00 Cosmological constraints on Majoron Dark Matter - Swapnil Dutta

17:15 Constraining Dark First-Order Phase Transitions with CMB and Structure Formation Observations - Daven Wei Ren Ho

17:30 Computing bubble wall velocity from entropy - Isaac Wang

17:45 Effects of New Forces on Scalar Dark Matter Solitons - Alize Sucsuzer (Tufts University)

18:00 Understanding Misaligned Condensates with Yukawa Couplings - Nathan Herring (Hillsdale College)

18:15 Emergent modified gravity: Dynamical dark energy model without additional degrees of freedom - Manuel Diaz
Dark Matter: Direct Detection
Direct Detection
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Latest Results of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment - Jack Genovesi (Pennsylvania State University)

16:45 AI-Driven Material Discovery in a Pipeline to Develop DM Detectors - Carlos Blanco

17:00 Sub-GeV Dark Matter Detection with Dark Rates in Liquid Scintillators - Lillian Santos-Olmsted

17:15 Dark matter-electron scattering with RPA dielectric screening - Megan Hott (Stony Brook University)

17:30 Strategies for Next-Generation sub-GeV Direct Detection - Benjamin Lillard (Pennsylvania State University)

17:45 Dive deeper with SUBMARINE: SUB-Mev dArk matter diRect detectIon using bilayer grapheNE - Anuvab Sarkar

18:00 Millicharged Particle Direct Detection Using Optimized Ion Traps - Jonathan Shoemaker (Stanford University)

18:15 Cavendish Searches for Millicharged Particles - Zachary Bogorad (Fermilab)
Dark Matter: Theory
Theory
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Dark Matter during First-Order Phase Transitions - Peisi Huang

16:45 WIMPs with Enhanced Annihilation from a Feebly Interacting Unstable Partner - Chance Hoskinson (University of Utah)

17:00 Accidentally Stable Dark Matter in a Parity Solution to the Strong CP Problem - Matthew Baldwin

17:15 Reviving WIMP dark matter with temperature-dependent couplings - Debasish Borah (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)

17:30 Freeze-in Dark Matter in Neutron Stars - Samya Roychowdhury (University of Minnesota)

17:45 Singlet Doublet Model Outside of Chemical Equilibrium - Alexander Takla (University of Michigan)

18:00 Questions on Fuzzy Dark Matter - Sunhaeng Hur (Virginia Tech)

18:15 Secluded effects on scalar light dark matter - Lilianna Hariasz (Simon Fraser University)
Electroweak: Session 2
Session 2
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 The Whizard Monte Carlo and Top-Quark Physics - Wolfgang Kilian

16:45 Determination of the strong coupling constant from the recent CT25 parton distribution functions - Kirtimaan Mohan (Michigan State University)

17:00 Interplay of $\alpha_s$, $m_t$ and gluon parametrization in CT PDF extractions - Tanishq Sharma

17:15 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))

17:30 Precision Measurement of the Electroweak Mixing Angle in the Region of the Z pole - Arie Bodek (University of Rochester (US))

17:45 Fermionic Electroweak Two-Loop Corrections to Drell-Yan and Related Processes - Ernest Wallace (University of Pittsburgh)

18:00 Chasing 2HDM via electroweak corrections at e+e- colliders - Yang Ma (UCLouvain)

18:15 Hadronic CP Violation in the 2HDM - Daniil Volkov (University of Cinccinati)
Gravitational Waves
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Gravitational Waves from an A4 Neutrino Mass Model - Cameron Moffett-Smith

16:45 Uncool phase transitions from soft walls - Ameen Ismail

17:00 New Sensitivity to High Frequency Gravitational Waves from Radio Telescopes - Ethan Baker (Boston University)

17:15 Gravitational Waves from Early-Universe Turbulent sources - Murman Gurgenidze (Carnegie Mellon University)

17:30 Does NANOGrav favor massive gravity? - Chris Choi (Carnegie Mellon University)

17:45 Gravitational Waves from Long Strings and Loops - Christos Litos (University of Florida)

18:00 Testing Massive Gravity Using European Pulsar Timing Array Data - Marcus Bosca (Carnegie Mellon University)

18:15 Baryophilic gauge and Gravitational Wave Effect - Abdul Rahaman Shaikh (Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia)
Neutrino Physics: Masses, Exp. Signatures
Masses, Exp. Signatures
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Sensitivity to Neutrino Mass and Secondary Physics of the Project 8 Experiment - Chi-Ho Lam (University of Pittsburgh)

16:45 Direct Neutrino Mass Measurement with Project 8 - Ehteshamul Karim (University of Pittsburgh)

17:00 Binary Neutron Star Mergers as a Probe of Neutrino Mass - Dibya Sankar Chattopadhyay (Oklahoma State University)

17:15 Latest Results from the CUORE experiment - Vivek Sharma (University of Pittsburgh)

17:30 How long can neutrons live? - Yulun Li

17:45 Phenomenological Chiral Perturbation Theory for Neutrino Event Generators - Misa Toman

18:00 Form Factor Uncertainty Analysis for Coherent Neutrino Trident Scattering - Diego Lopez Gutierrez (Washington University in St Louis)

18:15 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, 12 May 2026

08:00 Breakfast
Breakfast
08:00 - 08:40
08:40 Plenary: Tuesday Early
Tuesday Early
08:40 - 10:30
Contributions

08:40 APS & its Journals - Joshua Sayre

08:45 Highlights of the Recent LHC Results

09:20 HL-LHC and Future Perspectives - Sarah Marie Demers (Yale University (US))

09:55 Precision Physics in the LHC Era - Federico Buccioni (University of Zurich)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary: Tuesday Late
Tuesday Late
11:00 - 12:45
Contributions

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

11:35 New Directions in Collider Physics - Zhen Liu

12:10 Quantum Information Meets Collider Physics - Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (BE))
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:00
14:00 Computing and Machine Learning
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Mini Review: Deep Learning in HEP - Sergei Gleyzer (University of Alabama (US))

14:30 Memristive tabular variational autoencoder for compression of analog data in high energy physics - Tae Min Hong (University of Pittsburgh (US))

14:45 Many Wrongs Make a Right: Leveraging Biased Simulations Towards Unbiased Parameter Inference - Sean Benevedes (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

15:00 Toward Agentic Phenomenology - Tony Menzo (University of Alabama and Fermilab)

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

15:30 Generative quantum machine learning for the hadronization process - Jinghong Yang

15:45 -
Cosmology: CMB, GW
CMB, GW
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Echoes of global cosmic strings - Antonios Kyriazis (University of Florida)

14:15 Spectator Composes Gravitational Canon - Yunjia Bao (University of Chicago)

14:30 Kinetic Isocurvature Perturbations - Dhong Yeon Cheong (University of Chicago)

14:45 Primordial Features and Their Impact on Structure Formation - Itamar Allali (Brown University)

15:00 Current and Future Constraints on the Primordial Power Spectrum - Zachary Cheslog (Stony Brook University)

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

15:30 Cosmological Signals from Finite-Lifetime Domain Wall Networks - Fengwei Yang (University of Notre Dame)

15:45 First Search for Kaluza-Klein Gravitons and Radion Using Planck Data - Alexander Cassem (Tufts University)
Dark Matter: Axions
Axions
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Berry Phase in Axion Physics and Its Applications - Shuailiang Ge (KAIST & UChicago)

14:15 WIMP Meets ALP: Coherent Freeze-Out of Dark Matter - Bingrong Yu (Cornell University)

14:30 Geo-Axion Searches in Neutrino Detectors - Anirudh Chandra Shekar (Texas A&M University)

14:45 The Challenges of Detecting Non-Classical Axions - Joseph Takach (UC Berkeley)

15:00 Axion Production and Detection Using a Dual NMR-type Experiment - Qiushi Wei (University of Florida)

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

15:30 Quantum Semiconductor Heterostructures for meV Axion Dark Matter Detection - Jaanita Mehrani

15:45 Learning Loss Functions - Bethany Suter (UC Berkeley)
Electroweak: Spin and QM
Spin and QM
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Quantum Observables and Higher-Order effects in Leptonic $h \to VV^*$ Decays - Dorival Gonçalves (Oklahoma State University)

14:15 Higher-order corrections to quantum observables in semileptonic Higgs decays - Alberto Navarro (Oklahoma State University)

14:30 Study of spin correlations in Higgs boson decays to four leptons at CMS - Nicholas Pinto (Johns Hopkins University (US))

14:45 Spin‑Density Matrices as probes of CP violation in Top–Higgs Interactions - Marcel I. Yanez

15:00 Decoherence or Recoherence in the Radiative Decay of Z boson - Harman Singh (University of Pittsburgh)

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

15:30 Quantum Tomography of Fermion Pairs in $e^+e^-$ Collisions: Longitudinal Beam Polarization Effects - Youle Su (University of Pittsburgh)

15:45 Leggett-Garg Inequality Violation with Muon g-2 Experiments - Morgan Cassidy
Neutrino Physics: Session 2
Session 2
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Neutrino/Beam-Dump Complementarity for New Physics - Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University)

14:15 Widen the Resonance: Probing a New Regime of Neutrino Self-Interactions with Cosmic Neutrinos - Bei Zhou (Fermilab)

14:30 Charged Lepton Flavor Violation at Neutrino Telescopes - Writasree Maitra (Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis)

14:45 Testing RG Evolution of Neutrino Mixing with IceCube Double Bang Events - Samiur R. Mir (Oklahoma State University)

15:00 Constraining hyperons and non-standard interactions with anti-electron neutrinos - Toni Makela (University of California, Irvine)

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

15:30 The Cosmic Neutrino Background is within Reach of Future Neutrino Telescopes - Xiaolin Qi (Virginia Tech)

15:45 Reshaping the neutrino fog - Julian Rovner (University of Cincinnati)
New Developments in Theory: Session 2
Session 2
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Pure Gauge Theories in Two Dimensions - Digvijay Roy Varier (University of California, Berkeley)

14:15 Dynamics for theories with higher-order interference (a proposal) - Nabin Bhatta (Virginia Tech)

14:30 Light KK Gravitons from Extended Warped Extra Dimensions at DUNE - Ankur Verma (University of South Dakota)

14:45 Asymptotic Velocity Domination in quantized polarized Gowdy Cosmologies - Mahdi Sedighi Jafari (University of Pittsburgh)

15:00 Entanglement, Yang-Mills, and the Scattering Matrix as an SU(N)-equivariant Kernel - Rahul Muraleedharan (University of Oklahoma)

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

15:30 Massive 1→3 Splitting Functions Beyond Kinematical Limits - Grant Whitman (Brown University)

15:45 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
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Estimation of NLO-in-EFT Errors for Collider SMEFT Searches - William Shepherd

14:15 Probing Top Quark - Electron Interactions at Future Colliders - Hongkai Liu (BNL)

14:30 Probing light axion-like particles via photon conversions in the CMS tracker - Sena Durgut (Carnegie-Mellon University (US))

14:45 Probing Dimension-6 SMEFT Operators in Rare Z and Higgs Decays at the LHC and Beyond - Inci Karaaslan (University of Chicago (US))

15:00 The Geometry of SMEFT: From Field-Space Geometry to Collider Signatures - Cristofer Caballeros (University of Florida)

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

15:30 Probing Higgs-Gauge Interactions at HL-LHC and Future Lepton Colliders - Abhik Sarkar (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)

15:45 -
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 Astro-particle: Dark Matter
Dark Matter
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Heavy dark matter in rapidly evolving massive stars - Walter Tangarife (Loyola University Chicago)

16:45 Enabling Forbidden Dark Matter from a First-Order Phase Transition - Partha Kumar Paul (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad)

17:00 Gaia at the Forefront of Dissipative Dark Matter Searches: Exchanges - Jackie Lodman (Harvard University)

17:15 Ultra-Strongly Self-Interacting Dark Matter and the Origin of Little Red Dots - M. Grant Roberts (University of California, Santa Cruz)

17:30 Probing Ultralight Dark Matter via Caustic Crossings in Giant Arcs - Carlos Ramos Portalatino (University of Florida)

17:45 Dark Secrets of Baryons: Illuminating Dark Matter-Baryon Interactions with JWST - Souradeep Das (Ohio State University)

18:00 Circumstellar Medium of Supernovae as New Probes for Feebly-interacting Particles - Yu Cheng

18:15 Revisiting extremely high energy QED bremsstrahlung in matter: large modifications to the LPM effect - Joshua Bautista (University of Virginia)
Cosmology: Axions
Axions
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Axions on a Hyperbolic Ride - Sai Chaitanya Tadepalli (Dept of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington)

16:45 Probing Dark Matter Decays to Axions via Axion-Photon Conversion in Filaments - Matthew Baldwin

17:00 QCD Axion Domain Walls from Super-Cooling First Order Phase Transition - Kunfeng Lyu

17:15 Dynamical Heating from Dark Compact Objects and Axion Minihalos - Badal Bhalla (University of Oklahoma)

17:30 Putting the Brakes on Axion Strings: Friction and Its Impact on the QCD Axion Abundance - Rajrupa Mondal (University of Maryland College Park)

17:45 Constraints on Axion Dark Matter Isocurvature from CMB - Praniti Singh (Brown University (US))

18:00 Cosmological Aspects of Axion-Monopole Interactions - Hengameh Bagherian (University of Chicago)

18:15 Tackling the Axion Isocurvature Problem with Bulk Modulus Kination - Chandrika Chandrashekar (Harvard University)
Dark Matter: Astrophysics
Astrophysics
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Machine Learning Does It and Does It Better: Unearthing Primordial Dark-Matter Velocities from the Matter Power Spectrum - Brooks Thomas

16:45 X-ray femtolensing probes asteroid-mass black holes - Benjamin Lehmann (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

17:00 Structure Formation with Dark Magnetohydrodynamics - Pierce Giffin

17:15 Set the Night on FIRE: Building an Empirical Local Dark Matter Velocity Distribution - Xiuyuan Zhang

17:30 Jupiter is a Dark Matter Refrigerator: Electron Degeneracy Inhibits Evaporation - Tran Quang Thong Nguyen (Stockholm University)

17:45 Screened Forces in a QCD-Like Dark Sector on Galactic Scales - Mathilda Denison (University of Pennsylvania)

18:00 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)

18:15 Searching for Ultralight Scalar Dark Matter with Clocks in Low Earth Orbit - Dawid Brzeminski
Dark Matter: Indirect Detection
Indirect Detection
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Explanation of Galactic Center GeV Excess via Cosmic Ray-Dark Matter Scattering - Debopam Goswami (Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University)

16:45 Stress-Testing the 20 GeV Excess - Eve Schoen (UC Berkeley)

17:00 Enhanced Cosmic-Ray Antinuclei Fluxes with Dark Matter Annihilation into SUEPs - Caleb Gemmell (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

17:15 X-rays from Inelastic Dark Matter Freeze-in - Riku Mizuta (TRIUMF / University of British Columbia)

17:30 Joint Spatial–Spectral Gaussian Process Modeling of the Galactic Center Excess - Sam Huang (Rutgers-New Brunswick)

17:45 AXIS Can Access Dark Matter Decays - Nimrod Shapir (The University of Chicago)

18:00 Enhancing Cosmic-Ray Antinuclei Fluxes from Dark Matter using Baryon Number - Fabrizio Vassallo (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

18:15 BBN constraints on the hadronic annihilation of sub-GeV dark matter - Afif Omar
Electroweak: Session 4
Session 4
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Electroweak PDFs for future lepton colliders - Krzysztof Mekala

16:45 Single 2HDM Higgs Production at a Muon Collider - Juhun Kwak

17:00 Electroweak Restoration: SMEFT and HEFT - Ishmam Mahbub (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)

17:15 A Busy Higgs Signal - Peiran Li (University of Minnesota)

17:30 Probing light gauge bosons using the muon (g-2) - Kushan Panchal (University of Maryland, College park)

17:45 The Smallness of Polarization Interference in Weak Boson Production at the LHC - Richard Ruiz (Institute of Nuclear Physics (IFJ) PAN)

18:00 Multiboson Measurements at CMS - Cole Erik Kampa (Northwestern University (US))

18:15 -
Flavor Physics: Recent Developments
Recent Developments
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Parity solution to the strong CP problem in Pati-Salam models - Kaladi Babu

16:45 MaRTIn and four-loop operator mixing - Joachim Brod (University of Cincinnati)

17:00 Portals to newSU(3) exotics-:he lepton-gluon and lepton-quark portals - Linda Carpenter

17:15 Searches for vector-like fermions and leptoquarks with the ATLAS detector - Tomoya Iizawa (University of Tokyo (JP))

17:30 One Sum To Rule Them All - Margarita Gavrilova (Caltech)

17:45 Production of B_c states in the Pythia parton shower. - Jake Pfaller (University of Cincinnati (US))

18:00 Protecting baryon number violating operators - Diana Sokhashvili

18:15 Exotic Hidden-Heavy Hadrons and Where to Find Them - Eric Braaten
New Physics at Future Colliders
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 SURFing to the Fundamental Limit of Jet Tagging - Ian Pang

16:45 Searches for New Resonances with CMS - Jeongeun Lee (Seoul National University (KR))

17:00 Testing the Robustness of Via Machinae Stellar Stream Candidates - Rafael Porto (Rutgers University)

17:15 Transforming Flavour Tagging with the ATLAS Detector: ML/AI tools and calibration techniques - Storm Lin (Stony Brook University (US))

17:30 A Bi-adjoint Model from the W-Gluon Portal - Katherine Schwind (The Ohio State University)

17:45 Opening the GeV Window at the LHC - Carlos Henrique de Lima (TRIUMF)

18:00 Heavy Vector Triplets at the Muon Collider - Francesca Acanfora (Umass Amherst)

18:15 Disentangling Multiple Light-Flavor Jets at Colliders - Gregorio de la Fuente Simarro (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
19:50 Banquet
Banquet
19:50 - 22:20
Wednesday, 13 May 2026

08:00 Breakfast
Breakfast
08:00 - 08:45
08:45 Plenary: Wednesday Early
Wednesday Early
08:45 - 10:30
Contributions

08:45 Highlights of Neutrino Physics - Mark Ross-Lonergan

09:20 Neutrino Physics Phenomenology - Matheus Hostert (University of Iowa)

09:55 AI & ML for Particle Physics - Konstantin Matchev (University of Alabama (US))
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary: Wednesday Late
Wednesday Late
11:00 - 12:45
Contributions

11:00 Strong CP Problem and the Physics with Axions

11:35 New Developments in Particle Theory - Matthew Reece

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