International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics: CosPA 2023

Asia/Hong_Kong
Henry Cheng International Conference Center, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

Henry Cheng International Conference Center, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Ming Chung Chu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK))
Description

The International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics is a series of conferences organized in Asia Pacific region annually as an activity of Asia Pacific Organization of Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (APCosPA).

COSPA 2023 is hosted by Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and sponsored by The Croucher Foundation and Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics.

    • 09:00 11:10
      Plenary 1: LT1A
      Convener: Prof. Sang Pyo Kim (Kunsan Nat. U.)
      • 09:00
        Welcome to CosPA 2023 5m
        Speaker: Prof. Sang Pyo Kim (Kunsan Nat. U.)
      • 09:05
        Welcome to CUHK 5m
        Speaker: Prof. Alan Chan (Chinese U. of HK)
      • 09:10
        Searching for the Milky Way's Extreme Particle Accelerators 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Gavin Rowell (U. of Adelaide)
      • 09:40
        IceCUBE 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Jenni Adams (U. of Canterbury)
      • 10:10
        The KAGRA Project - Status and Plans 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Takaaki Kajita (ICRR, U. of Tokyo)
      • 10:40
        TinQin: the Chinese Mission to Detect Gravitational Waves in Space 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Jun Luo (Sun Yat-Sen U.)
    • 11:10 11:30
      Coffee Break 20m
    • 11:30 12:40
      Parallel 1A: Astrophysics I LT1B
      Convener: Prof. Otto Hannuksela (Chinese U. of HK)
      • 11:30
        Late Growth of Brightest Cluster Galaxies Through ICM Cooling Induced Star Formation 20m
        Speaker: Arsen Levitskiy (U. of Hong Kong)
      • 11:50
        A Model Independent Method for Identifying Dark Matter Substructures: Violation of Geometrical Duality in Strong Gravitational Lensing 20m
        Speaker: Leo Wing Hong Fung (HKUST)
      • 12:10
        Tracing the Energetic Outflows from Galactic Nuclei: Observational Evidence for a Large-scale Bipolar Radio and X-ray-emitting Bubble-like Structure in M106 20m
        Speaker: Yuxuan Zeng (U. of Hong Kong)
    • 11:30 12:40
      Parallel 1B: Gravity I: Parallel 1B: Gravity I LT1A
      Convener: Prof. Tjonnie Li (Chinese U. of HK/)
    • 12:40 13:30
      Lunch 50m
    • 13:30 15:30
      Plenary 2: LT1A
      Convener: Prof. Bin Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong U./Yangzhou U.)
      • 13:30
        GRB-SN Association within the Binary-Driven Hypernova Model 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Remo Ruffini (U. of Rome)
      • 14:00
        Picard-Lefschetz Interpretation of Cosmic Lensing and Beyond 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Ue-Li Pen (Academia Sinica)
      • 14:30
        Hyper-Kamiokande: Physics Goals and Status of Construction 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Shigetaka Moriyama (ICRR, U. of Tokyo)
      • 15:00
        Neutrinos in Astrophysical Explosions 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Meng-Ru Wu (Academia Sinica)
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee break 30m
    • 16:00 17:00
      Parallel 2A: Dark Matter I LT1B
      Convener: Prof. Kaixuan Ni (UC San Diego)
    • 16:00 17:20
      Parallel 2B: Gravity II LT1A
      Convener: Prof. Kenny Ng (Chinese U. of HK)
    • 09:00 11:00
      Plenary 3: LT1A
      Convener: Prof. Kin-Wang Ng (Academia Sinica)
      • 09:00
        Evidence for the Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Background 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Maura McLaughlin (West Virginia U.)
      • 09:30
        Progress of Chinese Pulsar Timing Array (by zoom) 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Kejia Lee (Peking U.)
      • 10:00
        Promise of Persistent Multi-Messenger nano-Hz GW Astronomy 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Achamveedu Gopakumar (Tata Inst. of Fund. Res.)
      • 10:30
        Testing Gravity Using Inter-pulsar Correlation Measurements 30m
        Speaker: Dr Reggie Bernardo (Academia Sinica)
    • 11:00 11:20
      Coffee Break 20m
    • 11:20 12:40
      Parallel Session 3A: Cosmology I LT1A
      Convener: Prof. Jane Dai (U. of Hong Kong)
    • 11:20 12:40
      Parallel Session 3B: Astrophysics II Rm. 202
      Convener: Prof. Jeremy Lim (U. of Hong Kong)
      • 11:20
        Mapping the Interstellar Medium of the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Renbin Yan (Chinese U. of HK)
      • 11:40
        Evidence of Supernova Remnant W51C Accelerating Cosmic Rays to Sub-PeV Energies Unveiled by LHAASO 20m
        Speaker: Dr Zhe Li (Inst. of High Energy Phy.)
      • 12:00
        Caution: Photometric Redshift Catalogs in Lensing Fields Confronts Severe Contamination 20m
        Speaker: Dr Jiashuo Zhang (U. of Hong Kong)
      • 12:20
        A Lens Finder Map to check claimed High-z Galaxies behind SMACS J0723.3–7327 20m
        Speaker: Alex Chow (U. of Hong Kong)
    • 12:40 13:30
      Lunch 50m
    • 13:30 15:30
      Plenary 4: LT1A
      Convener: Prof. Raymond Volkas (U. of Melbourne)
      • 13:30
        Electroweakly (EW) charged WIMP 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Shigeki Matsumoto (IPMU/U. of Tokyo)
      • 14:00
        Light and Ultra-light Axion Dark Matter 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Lam Hui (Columbia U.)
      • 14:30
        Light Dark Matter Searches 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Henry Wong (Academia Sinica)
      • 15:00
        Uncovering the Microscopic Features of Axion with Low Energy Observables 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Kiwoon Choi (CTPU/IBS)
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 16:00 17:20
      Parallel Session 4A: Dark Matter II LT1A
      Convener: Prof. Shigeki Matsumoto (IPMU/U. of Tokyo)
    • 16:00 17:20
      Parallel Session 4B: Gravity III Rm. 202
      Convener: Prof. Yen-chin Ong (Yangzhou U)
    • 09:00 11:00
      Plenary 5: LT1A
      Convener: Prof. Kiwoon Choi (CTPU/IBS)
      • 09:00
        21cm Intensity Mapping: A New Window to Probe DE 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Bin Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong U./Yangzhou U.)
      • 09:30
        Primordial Black Holes and Stochastic Gravitational Waves 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Rong-Gen Cai (ITP, CAS / Ningbo Univ.)
      • 10:00
        Simulating Cosmic Structure Formation 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Naoki Yoshida (IPMU/U. of Tokyo)
      • 10:30
        CMB Constraints on New Physics 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Yvonne Wong (U. of New South Wales)
    • 11:00 11:20
      Coffee Break 20m
    • 11:20 12:40
      Parallel Session 5A: Cosmology II LT1A
      Convener: Prof. Yvonne Wong (U. of New South Wales)
    • 11:20 12:40
      Parallel Session 5B: Dark Matter III LT1B
      Convener: Prof. Henry Wong (Academia Sinica)
    • 12:40 13:30
      Lunch 50m
    • 13:30 15:00
      Plenary Session 6: LT1A
      Convener: Prof. Rong-Gen Cai (ITP, CAS / Ningbo Univ.)
      • 13:30
        The Road Towards the Ultimate WIMP Dark Matter Direct Detection 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Kaixuan Ni (UCSD)
      • 14:00
        Flavours of Dark Matter 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Raymond Volkas (U. of Melbourne)
      • 14:30
        Status of AMoRE Project 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Yeongduk Kim (CUP/IBS)
    • 15:00 15:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 15:30 16:50
      Parallel Session 6A: Cosmology III LT1A
      Convener: Prof. Naoki Yoshida (IPMU/U. of Tokyo)
      • 15:30
        Growth of Curvature Perturbations in Non-minimal Curvaton Scenario Revisited 20m
        Speaker: Chao Chen (HKUST)
      • 15:50
        On the Uniqueness of ΛCDM-like Evolution for Homogeneous and Isotropic Cosmology in General Relativity 20m
        Speaker: Daniele Gregoris (Jiangsu Univ. of Sci. & Tech)
      • 16:10
        Numerical Investigation of Two-Dimensional Fokker-Planck Equation in Inflationary Models: Importance of Slow-Roll Parameters 20m
        Speaker: Jie Jiang (Pusan Nat. U.)
      • 16:30
        Odd-parity Perturbations in the Most General Scalar-vector-tensor Theory 20m
        Speaker: Manuel González-Espinoza (Playa Ancha U.)
    • 15:30 16:50
      Parallel Session 6B: Dark Matter IV LT1B
      Convener: Prof. Yiming Zhong (City U. of HK)
      • 15:30
        Primordial Black Holes, Dark Matter, and Gravitational Waves from QCD axion and axion-like particles 20m
        Speaker: Shuailiang Ge (Peking U.)
      • 15:50
        Lyman-α Constraints on the Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter 20m
        Speaker: Priyank Parashari (Indian Inst. of Sci.)
      • 16:10
        Constraining Abundance of Primordial Blackholes in Dark Matter via Transients Comprising Lensed Star Clusters 20m
        Speaker: Sung Kei Li (U. of Hong Kong)
      • 16:30
        The Interplay of Primordial Black Holes, Dark Matter, and Axions 20m
        Speaker: Luca Visinelli (Shanghai Jiao Tong U.)
    • 16:50 18:30
      Poster Session: (Rm. 203)
    • 09:00 10:30
      Plenary Session 7: LT1A
      Convener: Prof. Sang Pyo Kim (Kunsan Nat. U.)
      • 09:00
        Direct Imaging of Supermassive Black Holes 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Paul Ho (Academia Sinica)
      • 09:30
        Black Holes, Maximum Force, and Related Conjectures in General Relativity 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Yen-Chin Ong (Yangzhou U)
      • 10:00
        Quantum Tunneling in Curved Spacetime 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Masahide Yamaguchi (CTPU/IBS)
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 11:00 12:20
      Parallel 7A: Cosmology III LT1A
      Convener: Prof. Tsang Keung Chan (Chinese U. of HK)
      • 11:00
        Have Pulsar Timing Array Methods Detected a Cosmological Phase Transition? 20m
        Speaker: Antonino Marciano (Fudan U.)
      • 11:20
        Primordial Perturbations from Ultra-slow-roll Single-field Inflation with Quantum Loop Effects 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Kin-Wang Ng (Academia Sinica)
      • 11:40
        Higgs Inflation with a Gauss-Bonnet Term in the Einstein Frame 20m
        Speaker: Gansukh Tumurtushaa (Jeju Nat. U.)
      • 12:00
        Cosmological and Astrophysical Implications of the Stochastic Ricci Flow 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Matteo Lulli (Southern U. of Sci. and Tech.)
    • 11:00 12:20
      Parallel Session 7B: Astrophysics III LT1B
      Convener: Prof. Paul Ho (Academia Sinica)
    • 12:20 13:30
      Lunch 1h 10m
    • 13:30 15:30
      Plenary Session 8: LT1A
      Convener: Prof. Bin Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong U./Yangzhou U.)
      • 13:30
        Thermodynamics of Apparent Gauss Bonnet Cosmology and Multivalued Hamiltonian Issues 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Joel Francisco Saavedra Alvear (Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Valparaíso)
      • 14:00
        Cosmological Magnetic Fields (by zoom) 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Tanmay Vachaspati (Arizona State U./CERN)
      • 14:30
        Cosmological Galaxy Simulations 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Tsang Keung Chan (Chinese U. of HK)
      • 15:00
        Schwinger Effect in Magnetized Black Holes and KN Black Holes 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Sang Pyo Kim (Kunsan Nat. U.)