Name: New Physics in the Dark Universe 2026
Start: 2026-10-27T09:00:00+09:00
End: 2026-10-28T17:00:00+09:00
Location: YITP

New Physics in the Dark Universe 2026

from Tuesday, October 27, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Wednesday, October 28, 2026 (5:00 PM)

Monday, October 26, 2026
Tuesday, October 27, 2026

9:15 AM Registration

9:15 AM - 9:35 AM
Room: K206
9:35 AM Session
9:35 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: K206
Contributions

9:35 AM opening - Ryuichiro Kitano (YITP, Kyoto U.)

9:45 AM TBA - Joshua Foster (U. Wisconsin)

10:15 AM Do Cosmic String Segments Emit Gravitational Waves? - Satoshi Shirai (Kavli IPMU)
10:45 AM break
break
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: K206
11:15 AM Session
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: K206
Contributions

11:15 AM Topological defects in multi-axion systems - Kai Murai (Riken)

11:45 AM TBA - Takafumi Aoki (ICRR)
12:15 PM lunch break
lunch break
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: K206
2:00 PM Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: K206
Contributions

2:00 PM Direct Detection of WIMP Dark Matter: Recent Results and Outlook - Tianyu Zhu (Kavli IPMU)

2:30 PM Dark matter searches at the LHC and inside quantum computers - Shion Chen (Kyoto U.)
3:00 PM break
break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: K206
3:30 PM Session
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: K206
Contributions

3:30 PM Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter from GeV-scale Heavy Neutrinos - Yannis Georis (Kavli IPMU)

4:00 PM Inelastic Dark Photon Dark Matter for the LUX-ZEPLIN High-Recoil Event and the Galactic Halo Gamma-Ray Excess - Kimiko Yamashita (Ibaraki University)
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
9:30 AM Session
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: K206
Contributions

9:30 AM Analytic approximations for fermionic preheating - Daniel Stolarski (Carleton U.)

10:00 AM Primordial Neuron Stars - Gordan Krnjaic (U. Chicago/Fermilab)

10:30 AM Constraining WIMP Dark Matter with Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies - Olivia Calcerano (U. Washington)
11:00 AM break
break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: K206
11:30 AM Session
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: K206
Contributions

11:30 AM Emulator cosmology and beyond in light of hints of new physics - Takahiro Nishimichi (Kyoto Sangyo U.)

12:00 PM Roles of dark matter halos for dark matter study - Nagisa Hiroshima (Yokohama National University)
12:30 PM lunch break
lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: K206
2:00 PM Session
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: K206
Contributions

2:00 PM Quantum sensing of wave-like dark matter with ion-trap quantum computers - Ryoto Takai (SOKENDAI/KEK)

2:30 PM Photon evolution through light-particle conversion in stochastic magnetic fields: Kramers-Kronig relations and universality - Ryusuke Jinno (Kobe University)

3:00 PM Challenging String Theory at a Collider - Matthew Baumgart (Arizona State U.)