Light Dark World 2026

28 Jul 2026, 08:01 → 31 Jul 2026, 23:59 America/Toronto

Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Light Dark World 2026 is the eleventh meeting of the annual Light Dark World International Forum, held at the Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 

Light Dark World 2026 will gather international specialists from both experimental and theoretical backgrounds to examine recent progress and create avenues for investigating new light particles that extend beyond the Standard Model. We will cover light gauge bosons, light scalars, light dark matter, axions, light sterile neutrinos, and dark energy fields. 

Confirmed Speakers
Haipeng An (Tsinghua University)
Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute)
Josh Berger (Colorado State University)
Daniel Carney (LBNL)
Paddy Fox (Fermilab)
Akshay Ghalsasi (Harvard University)
Saniya Heeba (Carleton University)
Alejandro Ibarra (TUM)
Gordan Krnjaic (Fermilab/University of Chicago)
Gopolang Mohlabeng (Simon Fraser University)
Miha Nemevšek (Jozef Stefan Institute)
Zachary Picker (Queens University)
Katelin Schutz (McGill University)
Simon Viel (Carleton University)
Yong Xu (McGill University)
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Local Organising Committee:
Marcela Carena (Perimeter Institute & Chicago U.)
Seyda Ipek (Carleton)
David McKeen (TRIUMF & U Victoria)
David Morrissey (TRIUMF & U Victoria)
Yue Zhang (Carleton)

Steering Committee:
Brian Batell (Pittsburgh U.)
Pilar Coloma (IFT)
Felix Kahlhoefer (KIT)
Hye-Sung Lee (KAIST)
Laura Molina Bueno (IFIC)

Previous Meetings of the Light Dark World International Forum

• Light Dark World 2025, IFT UAM/CSIC, Madrid, Spain
• Light Dark World 2024, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
• Light Dark World 2023, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
• Light Dark World 2022, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea (online)
• Light Dark World 2021, PITT PACC, Pittsburgh, USA (online)
• Light Dark World 2020, Sydney-CPPC, Australia (online)
• Light Dark World 2019, Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, Austria
• Light Dark World 2018, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
• Light Dark World 2017, Pittsburgh, USA
• Light Dark World 2016, IBS Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe, Daejeon, Korea

LDW2026 Poster