Name: Dark Side of the Universe 2025
Start: 2025-07-07T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-07-11T20:45:00-04:00
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Dark Side of the Universe 2025

from Monday, 7 July 2025 (08:00) to Friday, 11 July 2025 (20:45)

Monday, 7 July 2025

08:00 Registration

08:00 - 09:00
Room: Ground floor desk

09:00 Announcement: Welcome
Welcome
09:00 - 09:30
Room: A5502
09:30 Plenary
09:30 - 10:30
Room: A5502
Contributions

09:30 Topological Freeze-out - Hitoshi Murayama (University of California Berkeley (US))

10:00 Testing heavy WIMPs at the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory - Tracy Slatyer
10:30 Morning break
Morning break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary
11:00 - 12:00
Room: A5502
Contributions

11:00 Running a Dark Matter Experiment on a Galaxy - Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton University)

11:30 Searching for New Physics with Stars, Near and Far - Aaron Vincent (Queen's University)
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:30
13:30 Parallel 1: Direct detection I
Direct detection I
13:30 - 15:10
Room: A5502
Contributions

13:30 Status and results from the XENONnT Dark Matter experiment - Ran Budnik

13:50 Shining Light on Dark Matter With LZ - Matthew Szydagis (UAlbany SUNY)

14:10 Searches for dark sector particles at Belle and Belle II - Daniel Marcantonio (U. Melbourne)

14:30 Status of CRESST - Colin James Moore (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

14:50 COSINUS – A NaI cryogenic calorimeter to resolve the long standing DAMA/LIBRA dark matter claim. - Matthew Stukel (SNOLAB)
Parallel 2: Inflation / reheating / CMB
Inflation / reheating / CMB
13:30 - 15:10
Room: B2061, except B2416 on Monday
Contributions

13:30 Interface of Particle Physics and Cosmology: Higgs Inflation Revisited - Tammi Chowdhury (University of Manitoba)

13:50 Gravitational Neutrino Reheating : A minimal framework for reheating and leptogenesis - RAJESH MONDAL (IIT Guwahati)

14:10 Reliable effective theory of warm inflation in the light of CMB data - Vahid Kamali (BASU & McGill)

14:30 False and genuine decoherence of primordial perturbations - Junsei Tokuda (McGill university)

14:50 Entanglement between pair-created universes bridged by a Euclidean wormhole - Dong-han Yeom (Pusan National University)
Parallel 3: DM models I
DM models I
13:30 - 15:10
Room: A1502, except B1007 on Monday
Contributions

13:30 Renormalisation group improvement of dynamical symmetry breaking by dark matter - Kristjan Muursepp (NICPB, Tallinn and LNF-INFN, Frascati)

13:50 Electroweak Multiplets as Dark Matter candidates: a brief review - Paolo Panci (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))

14:10 Higgs-portal vector dark matter at a low reheating temperature - Jongkuk Kim (Chung-Ang University)

14:30 Unveiling Imprints from Dark Symmetries: Signatures of Axion Portal to Scalar Dark Matter - Tommaso Sassi (University of Padua, INFN Padua)

14:50 What we believe to be known in direct Dark Matter detection physics might be incorrect - Chung-Lin SHAN
15:10 Afternoon break
Afternoon break
15:10 - 15:40
15:40 Parallel 1: DM in halos I
DM in halos I
15:40 - 17:20
Room: A5502
Contributions

15:40 Dark Stars, a possible solution to two recent astronomical puzzles - Cosmin Ilie (Colgate University)

16:00 Cold collisionless dark matter halos are consistent with observations of galaxies - Liliya Williams (University of Minnesota)

16:20 MUSE-DARK: Dark matter halo properties of intermediate-z star-forming galaxies - Bianca-Iulia Ciocan (Centre de recherche astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL))

16:40 Dark plasmas in the nonlinear regime: constraints from particle-in-cell simulations - Pierce Giffin

17:00 Probing long-range dark matter-baryon interactions in compact stellar systems - Zihui Wang
Parallel 2: Gravitational and inflationary DM production
Gravitational and inflationary DM production
15:40 - 17:20
Room: B2061, except B2416 on Monday
Contributions

15:40 Production of Dark Matter during Reheating after Inflation - Keith A. Olive (University of Minnesota (US))

16:00 Cosmological gravitational particle production: Starobinsky vs Bogolyubov, uncertainties, and issues - Duarte Miguel da Silva Feiteira (University of Helsinki)

16:20 Gravitational production in the early universe - Yann MAMBRINI

16:40 Imprints of Inflaton Fragmentation on Dark Matter Production - Francisco Barreto Basave (Instituto de Física, UNAM)

17:00 Gravitational Waves from Gravitational Particle Production - Marcos Alejandro García García (Instituto de Física, UNAM)
Parallel 3: Dark energy I
Dark energy I
15:40 - 17:20
Room: A1502, except B1007 on Monday
Contributions

15:40 Could the Universe Endure a NEC Fracture? - Jerome Quintin (University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute)

16:00 Do Observations Prefer Thawing Quintessence? - Guillaume Payeur (McGill University)

16:20 Why the DESI results should not be a surprise - ROBERT Brandenberger (McGill University)

16:40 Fitting the DESI BAO Data with Dark Energy Driven by the Cohen--Kaplan--Nelson Bound - Patrick Adolf

17:00 FAT alternative dynamics to standard cosmology - Pierros Ntelis (Independent Research Affiliation, Formerly at Aix-Marseille University)
17:30 Reception

17:30 - 19:00
Room: 5th floor outside of A5502
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
09:00 Plenary
09:00 - 10:30
Room: A5502
Contributions

09:00 Dark Matter (mass) at the extremes: reigning in the mass range of range of dark matter - Evan McDonough

09:30 The Devil is in the (Axion) Details - Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (University of New Hampshire)

10:00 Narrowing down the mass range of ultra-light dark matter - Elisa Gouvea Mauricio Ferreira (Kavli IPMU)
10:30 Morning break
Morning break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary
11:00 - 12:00
Room: A5502
Contributions

11:00 Probing Dark Matter with Liquid Xenon Detectors - Laura Baudis (University of Zurich (CH))

11:30 Gravitino Dark Matter and Neutrino Masses - Seyda Ipek
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:30
13:30 Parallel 1: Direct detection II
Direct detection II
13:30 - 15:10
Room: A5502
Contributions

13:30 The SABRE South Experiment at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory - Yi Yi Zhong (The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics, Australia)

13:50 Searches for Dark Matter with the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC - Volker Andreas Austrup (The University of Manchester (GB))

14:10 Dark matter direct detection and constraints on non-relativistic effective operators - Niklas Zimmermann (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))

14:30 Refining the sensitivity of new physics searches with ancient minerals - Audrey Fung

14:50 Dark-Matter Mass from Angular Scanning - Jong-Chul Park (Chungnam National University (KR))
Parallel 2: Black holes / remnants
Black holes / remnants
13:30 - 15:10
Room: B2061, except B2416 on Monday
Contributions

13:30 Primordial black holes in the era of Roman - William DeRocco (University of Maryland, College Park)

13:50 PBH formation during reheating - Juan Carlos Hidalgo (UNAM Mexico)

14:10 Building black holes and dark compact objects before Big Bang Nucleosynthesis - Melissa Diamond

14:30 Static Planck stars as a dark matter candidate - Edward Wilson-Ewing (University of New Brunswick)

14:50 Hawking radiation from primordial black holes - Christopher Hirata (Ohio State University)
Parallel 3: Indirect detection
Indirect detection
13:30 - 15:10
Room: A1502, except B1007 on Monday
Contributions

13:30 Jovian neutrino signatures of annihilating dark matter - Sandra Robles (Fermilab)

13:50 Capture, thermalisation and annihilation of Dark Matter in Compact Objects - Giorgio Busoni (Adelaide University)

14:10 DREAMS of Dark Matter Annihilation Signals - Alex Garcia (University of Virginia)

14:30 Searching for dark matter in Antarctica: the GAPS experiment. - Riccardo Munini (INFN - Universita Studi Trieste)
15:10 Afternoon break
Afternoon break
15:10 - 15:40
15:40 Parallel 1: Dark energy II
Dark energy II
15:40 - 17:20
Room: A5502
Contributions

15:40 Is dark energy dependent on cosmological curvature? - Claia Bryja (City College of San Francisco)

16:00 Observational scalings testing modified gravity - Armine Amekhyan (A. I. Alikhanyan national science laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute)" foundation)

16:20 Simple quintessence models in light of DESI-BAO observations - Varun Muralidharan

16:40 Crossing the phantom divide - James Cline (McGill University, (CA))

17:00 Apparent w<-1 and a Lower S8 from Dark Axion and Dark Baryons Interactions - Meng-Xiang Lin (University of Pennsylvania)
Parallel 2: DM models II
DM models II
15:40 - 17:20
Room: B2061, except B2416 on Monday
Contributions

15:40 Comprehensive Phenomenology of the Dirac Scotogenic Model: Novel Low-Mass Dark Matter - Sushant Yadav 2020504

16:00 Seeking Dark matter candidates in the Alternative Left Right model - Urjit Yajnik (IIT Bombay Mumbai India)

16:20 General Implications of the Froggatt-Nielsen Mechanism - Micah Mellors

16:40 Lyman-alpha constraints on atomic dark matter from N-body simulations - Linda Yuan
Parallel 3: Gravitational waves / phase transitions I
Gravitational waves / phase transitions I
15:40 - 17:20
Room: A1502, except B1007 on Monday
Contributions

15:40 From symmetries to gravitational waves - Csaba Balazs (Monash University)

16:00 Holographic phase transitions via thermally-assisted tunneling - Andrey Shkerin

16:20 Gravitational wave symphony from (light) scalar fields in the early universe - Yanou Cui (University of California, Riverside)

16:40 Phase Transition and Gravitational Wave in Strongly Coupled Dark Sectors - ZHIWEI WANG
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
09:00 Plenary
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Exceptionally, A1502
Contributions

09:00 Solid State Detectors for Low-Mass Dark Matter Searches - Miriam Diamond

09:30 Present and future of dark matter detection with skipper-CCDs - Ana Martina Botti (Fermilab)

10:00 Light dark sectors and nuclear reactors - Maxim Pospelov
10:30 Morning break
Morning break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Parallel 1: Black holes / remnants II
Black holes / remnants II
11:00 - 12:40
Room: A5502
Contributions

11:00 Reconstructing PTA measurements via early seeding of supermassive black holes - Sohan Ghodla (Colgate University)

11:20 CMB signatures of dark matter interactions beyond the power spectrum - Yacine Ali-Haimoud (New York University)

11:40 New dynamical probes of primordial black holes - Benjamin Lehmann (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

12:00 Probing Primordial Black Hole and Dark Matter Energy Injection Using the 21-cm Power Spectrum - Yitian Sun (McGill)
Parallel 2: DM mechanisms
DM mechanisms
11:00 - 12:40
Room: B2416
Contributions

11:00 Boosted dark matter from semi-annihilations in the galactic center - Takashi Toma (Kanazawa University)

11:20 Connecting the baryons to the dark matter of the Universe - Alejandro Ibarra (Technical University of Munich)

11:40 Thermal effects on dark matter particle production - Hugo Schérer (McGill University)

12:00 Boosted dark matter driven by cosmic rays and diffuse supernova neutrinos - Tushar Gupta

12:20 Ultra-relativistic freeze-out during reheating: a bridge from WIMPs to FIMPs - Stephen Henrich (University of Minnesota)
Parallel 3: Terrestrial DM searches
Terrestrial DM searches
11:00 - 12:40
Room: A1502
Contributions

11:00 Dark matter at the high mass frontier - Joseph Bramante (Queen's University)

11:20 Atomic Dark Matter Capture in the Earth - Keegan Humphrey

11:40 Composite dark matter disassembly in the Earth - Yilda Boukhtouchen (Queen’s University)

12:00 The SuperCDMS Experiment at SNOLAB - Matthew Stukel (SNOLAB)
Thursday, 10 July 2025
09:00 Plenary
09:00 - 10:30
Room: A5502
Contributions

09:00 Results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data Release 6 - Renée Hlozek (University of Toronto)

09:30 Cracks in the Standard Cosmological Model: Anomalies, Tensions, and Hints of New Physics - Eleonora Di Valentino (University of Sheffield)

10:00 Dark Sector and the Swampland - C. Vafa
10:30 Morning break
Morning break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary
11:00 - 12:00
Room: A5502
Contributions

11:00 Dark dimension boundary or shiny bulk? - Modular invariant quintessence - Dieter Lust (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik (MPI))

11:30 UV Priors with a Dark Energy (Naturally) - Cliff Burgess (McMaster & Perimeter)
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:30
13:30 Parallel 1: Supernovae
Supernovae
13:30 - 15:10
Room: A5502
Contributions

13:30 The second Type I Supernova data release of the Zwicky Transient Facility - Philippe ROSNET (LPCA, Université Clermont Auvergne & CNRS/IN2P3)

13:50 Study of cosmic expansion anisotropy with type Ia supernovae from Zwicky Transient Facility - Chloé Barjou-Delayre (LPCA (Laboratoire de Physique Clermont Auvergne))

14:10 Heating the dark matter halo with dark radiation from supernovae - Stefan Vogl (University of Freiburg)

14:30 Measuring Dark Energy parameters with Type Ia Supernovae in LSST - Philippe Gris (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR))

14:50 Supernova Bounds on Neutrinophilic Dark Matter - Christopher Cappiello
Parallel 2: Sub-GeV and ultralight DM I
Sub-GeV and ultralight DM I
13:30 - 15:10
Room: B2061, except B2416 on Monday
Contributions

13:30 Dark Vector Splitting Functions in Proton Bremsstrahlung - Saeid Foroughi-Abari (Carleton University)

13:50 A Dark Photon window into GeV DM - Patrick Foldenauer

14:10 Ultralight Dark Matter Search with Space-Time Separated Atomic Clocks and Cavities - Benjamin Roberts

14:30 Simulating Free Streaming in Warm Wave Dark Matter - Siyang Ling (City University of Hong Kong)
Parallel 3: DM in halos II
DM in halos II
13:30 - 15:10
Room: A1502, except B1007 on Monday
Contributions

13:30 Direct Collapse Supermassive Black Holes from Ultralight Dark Matter - Hao Jiao (McGill University)

13:50 Searching For Heavy Dark Matter with LMC Modeling - Andrew Buchanan (Queen's University)

14:10 The Universality of Dark Matter Density Profiles for Milky Way Analog Galaxies - Maria Clara Cavalcante Siviero (Brazilian Center for Research in Physics)

14:30 An effective theory for violent relaxation in cold dark matter halos: origin of the universal halo profiles - Uddipan Banik (Institute for Advanced Study Princeton)
15:10 Afternoon break
Afternoon break
15:10 - 15:40
15:40 Parallel 1: Astrophysical / cosmological DM probes I
Astrophysical / cosmological DM probes I
15:40 - 17:20
Room: A5502
Contributions

15:40 Dimming Starlight with Dark Compact Objects - Leo Kim

16:00 Picolensing as a probe of compact dark matter - Sergey Sibiryakov (McMaster U. & Perimeter Inst.)

16:20 Probing dark matter annihilation through planetary airglow and internal heat flow - Marianne Moore (MIT)

16:40 Constraining Dark Acoustic Oscillations with the High-Redshift UV Luminosity Function - Jared Barron
Parallel 2: Heavy DM
Heavy DM
15:40 - 17:20
Room: B2061, except B2416 on Monday
Contributions

15:40 Decaying heavy DM with RHN portals and dark gauge symmetry: PAMELA/AMS02, IceCUBE and KM3 - Pyungwon Ko (KIAS (Korea Institute for Advanced Study))

16:00 Searching for heavy millicharged particles from the atmosphere - Han Wu (Queen's University, McDonald Institute)

16:20 New Mechanism for heavy dark matter production from cosmic phase transition and beyond - Fa Peng Huang

16:40 Heavy dark matter in the first stars - Walter Tangarife (Loyola University Chicago)

17:00 Ion Traps as Quantum Detectors for Millicharged Dark Matter: A Quantum-Mechanical Description - Yawen Xiao
Parallel 3: Axions
Axions
15:40 - 17:20
Room: A1502, except B1007 on Monday
Contributions

15:40 From supernovae to neutron stars: a systematic approach to axion production at finite density - Michael Stadlbauer

16:00 Flipped rotating axion non-minimally coupled to gravity: Baryogenesis and Dark Matter - Suruj Jyoti Das (Institute for Basic Science, CTPU)

16:20 Axions from magnetized plasma: effects of plasma dispersion - Nirmalya Brahma (McGill University)

16:40 Searching for Light Axions from the High Arctic - Jon Sievers (McGill University)
Friday, 11 July 2025
09:00 Plenary
09:00 - 10:30
Room: A5502
Contributions

09:00 Fundamental Physics with Pulsar Timing Arrays - Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)

09:30 Listening to the Dark Universe: Experimental Searches for Axion Dark Matter - Sung Woo YOUN

10:00 Fast Times at SIDM High(-resolution) - Annika Peter
10:30 Announcement: DSU 2026
DSU 2026
10:30 - 10:40
Room: A5502

10:40 Morning break
Morning break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 Parallel 1: Gravitational waves / phase transitions II
Gravitational waves / phase transitions II
11:10 - 12:50
Room: A5502
Contributions

11:10 What happens when supercooling is terminated by curvature flipping? - Tomasz Dutka (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

11:30 Mapping the Gravitational Wave Sky from Primordial Black Holes - Cassandra Moats (Fisk University)

11:50 RG Improvement of the Scalar Effective Potential in Finite Temperature Quantum Field Theory - Andrija Rasovic

12:10 Estimation of the Hubble parameter from compact object catalogues without threshold - Reiko Harada (the University of Tokyo)

12:30 Non-equilibrium features in false vacuum decay at finite temperature - Sergey Sibiryakov (McMaster U. & Perimeter Inst.)
Parallel 2: Astrophysical / cosmological DM probes II
Astrophysical / cosmological DM probes II
11:10 - 12:50
Room: B2061, except B2416 on Monday
Contributions

11:30 Growth Through Stasis: The Evolution of Matter Perturbations During a Stasis Epoch - Brooks Thomas (Lafayette College)

11:50 Detecting Dark Millicharged Particles - Saniya Heeba (McGill University)

12:10 Detecting dark radiation from dissipative dark sectors - Gonzalo Alonso Alvarez (University of Toronto)

12:30 Scalar Dark Fifth Force with Induced Mass - Tianyi Xie (McGill University)
Parallel 3: Sub-GeV and ultralight DM
Sub-GeV and ultralight DM
11:10 - 12:50
Room: A1502, except B1007 on Monday
Contributions

11:10 Spin-dependent scattering of sub-GeV dark matter in crystal targets - Pankaj Munbodh (University of California Santa Cruz)

11:30 Light scalar dark matter stabilized by Pauli blocking in fermion background - Osamu Seto (Hokkaido University)

11:50 Ultralight Dark Matter and Magnetic Fields on Cosmological Scales - Robert Brandenberger (McGill University)

12:10 Wave Interference in Self-Interacting Fuzzy Dark Matter - Christian Capanelli (McGill University)
12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 13:50

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