Name: The Frontier of Particle Physics: Exploring Muons, Quantum Science and the Cosmos
Start: 2025-06-15T17:00:00+09:00
End: 2025-06-20T22:00:00+09:00
Location: Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics

The Frontier of Particle Physics: Exploring Muons, Quantum Science and the Cosmos

from Sunday, June 15, 2025 (5:00 PM) to Friday, June 20, 2025 (10:00 PM)

Monday, June 9, 2025
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Friday, June 13, 2025
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Monday, June 16, 2025
9:20 AM Opening remark - Ryuichiro Kitano (Theory Center, KEK)
Opening remark
- Ryuichiro Kitano (Theory Center, KEK)
9:20 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Panasonic Hall
9:30 AM High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos as Probes of New Physics - Kohta Murase (Pennsylvania State University)
High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos as Probes of New Physics
- Kohta Murase (Pennsylvania State University)
9:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: Panasonic Hall
10:10 AM Break
Break
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Panasonic Hall
10:30 AM What’s the wave packet size of neutrinos? - Shirley Li (UC Irvine)
What’s the wave packet size of neutrinos?
- Shirley Li (UC Irvine)
10:30 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Panasonic Hall
11:10 AM Break
Break
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Panasonic Hall
11:30 AM J-PARC muon experiments, current and future - Tsutomu Mibe
J-PARC muon experiments, current and future
- Tsutomu Mibe
11:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall
12:10 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall
2:00 PM Theory at Muon Colliders - Cari Cesarotti (MIT)
Theory at Muon Colliders
- Cari Cesarotti (MIT)
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall
2:40 PM Break
Break
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall
3:00 PM Progress of DarQ experiments - Tatsumi Nitta (University of Tokyo)
Progress of DarQ experiments
- Tatsumi Nitta (University of Tokyo)
3:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
9:30 AM Light Dark Matter Search with NV Centers: Electron Spin, Nuclear Spin, and Comagnetometry - So Chigusa (MIT)
Light Dark Matter Search with NV Centers: Electron Spin, Nuclear Spin, and Comagnetometry
- So Chigusa (MIT)
9:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: Panasonic Hall
10:30 AM Quantum sensing for light dark matter search - Asuka Ito (Kobe University)
Quantum sensing for light dark matter search
- Asuka Ito (Kobe University)
10:30 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Panasonic Hall
11:30 AM Consequences of entanglement suppression on light decuplet baryons - Tetsuo Hyodo (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Consequences of entanglement suppression on light decuplet baryons
- Tetsuo Hyodo (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
11:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall
12:10 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall
2:00 PM Axion Detection Experiments Meet the Majoron - Qiuyue Liang (Kavli IPMU)
Axion Detection Experiments Meet the Majoron
- Qiuyue Liang (Kavli IPMU)
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall
3:00 PM Top Yukawa at muon collider - Ya-juan Zheng
Top Yukawa at muon collider
- Ya-juan Zheng
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall
3:20 PM Testing CP properties of the Higgs boson to tau leptons with heterogeneous graphs - Ahmed Hammad (KEK)
Testing CP properties of the Higgs boson to tau leptons with heterogeneous graphs
- Ahmed Hammad (KEK)
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall
3:40 PM Dark matter cooling during early matter-domination boosts sub-earth halos - Debtosh Chowdhury (IIT Kanpur)
Dark matter cooling during early matter-domination boosts sub-earth halos
- Debtosh Chowdhury (IIT Kanpur)
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
9:30 AM Quantum Tops: Quantum Information meets High-Energy Physics - Yoav Afik (University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute)
Quantum Tops: Quantum Information meets High-Energy Physics
- Yoav Afik (University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute)
9:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: Panasonic Hall
10:30 AM Will we ever detect high frequency gravitational waves? - Raffaele D'Agnolo (CEA IPhT Saclay and ENS Paris)
Will we ever detect high frequency gravitational waves?
- Raffaele D'Agnolo (CEA IPhT Saclay and ENS Paris)
10:30 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Panasonic Hall
11:30 AM Quantum circuit for enhanced DM signal detection - Thanaporn Sichanugrist (The University of Tokyo)
Quantum circuit for enhanced DM signal detection
- Thanaporn Sichanugrist (The University of Tokyo)
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: Panasonic Hall
11:50 AM Axion DM detection using shift current - Genta Osaki (UTokyo)
Axion DM detection using shift current
- Genta Osaki (UTokyo)
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall
12:10 PM Group photo, excursion
Group photo, excursion
12:10 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall

7:00 PM Banquet
Banquet
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday, June 19, 2025
9:30 AM Sommerfeld effect and unitarity - Ryosuke Sato (Osaka University)
Sommerfeld effect and unitarity
- Ryosuke Sato (Osaka University)
9:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: Panasonic Hall
10:30 AM Nambu Goldstone theorem in cosmology? - Yuko Urakawa (KEK)
Nambu Goldstone theorem in cosmology?
- Yuko Urakawa (KEK)
10:30 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Panasonic Hall
11:30 AM Quantum computing for stochastic inflation: calculating eigenvalues of differential operators and estimating the decay rate of the perturbation distribution tail - Koichi Miyamoto (Osaka University)
Quantum computing for stochastic inflation: calculating eigenvalues of differential operators and estimating the decay rate of the perturbation distribution tail
- Koichi Miyamoto (Osaka University)
11:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall
12:10 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall
2:00 PM Exploring Physics Beyond the Standard Model via Temperature Observations of Neutron Stars - Natsumi Nagata (University of Tokyo)
Exploring Physics Beyond the Standard Model via Temperature Observations of Neutron Stars
- Natsumi Nagata (University of Tokyo)
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall
3:00 PM Search for Light BSM Particles Using an Undulator - Wen Yin (Tokyo Metropolitan U)
Search for Light BSM Particles Using an Undulator
- Wen Yin (Tokyo Metropolitan U)
3:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall
Friday, June 20, 2025
9:30 AM Transformers for Particle Physics - MIHOKO NOJIRI (KEK)
Transformers for Particle Physics
- MIHOKO NOJIRI (KEK)
9:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: Panasonic Hall
10:30 AM Understanding Galactic Dark Matter with Neural Networks - Sung Hak Lim (Institute for Basic Science)
Understanding Galactic Dark Matter with Neural Networks
- Sung Hak Lim (Institute for Basic Science)
10:30 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Panasonic Hall
11:30 AM Neutrinos and Nucleon Decays in Japan - Roger Wendell (Kyoto University)
Neutrinos and Nucleon Decays in Japan
- Roger Wendell (Kyoto University)
11:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall
12:10 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall
2:00 PM Novel neutrino self-interactions - Yue Zhang (Carleton University)
Novel neutrino self-interactions
- Yue Zhang (Carleton University)
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall
3:00 PM Sterile neutrino dark matter with lepton flavor asymmetries - Kensuke Akita (University of Tokyo)
Sterile neutrino dark matter with lepton flavor asymmetries
- Kensuke Akita (University of Tokyo)
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall
3:20 PM Exploring chirality structure in nucleon decay - Hiroki Takahashi (The University of Tokyo, Hongo)
Exploring chirality structure in nucleon decay
- Hiroki Takahashi (The University of Tokyo, Hongo)
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall
3:40 PM Closing - Kohsaku Tobioka (Florida State University, KEK)
Closing
- Kohsaku Tobioka (Florida State University, KEK)
3:40 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: Panasonic Hall

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