Light Dark World 2024

Asia/Seoul
E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor) (KAIST)

E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

KAIST

Description
We are happy to announce Light Dark World 2024, the 9th meeting of the annual Light Dark World International Forum series. It will be held in person at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon from August 12 to 15, 2024.
 
The presentation sessions will be held on August 12-14. August 15 is reserved for free discussions.
 
Light Dark World 2024 will bring together global experts from experiment and theory to discuss recent advances and develop new opportunities to study new light particles beyond the Standard Model, including light gauge boson, light scalar, light dark matter, axion, light sterile neutrinos, and dark energy fields.
 
Confirmed invited speakers include:
  • Asli M. Abdullahi (Fermilab)
  • Brian Batell (Pittsburgh)
  • Kimberly Boddy (UT Austin)
  • Francesca Chadha-Day (Durham)
  • Annika Hollnagel (Mainz)
  • Alejandro Ibarra (TU Munich)
  • Sunghoon Jung (SNU)
  • Felix Kahlhoefer (Karlsruhe)
  • Pyungwon Ko (KIAS)
  • Suchita Kulkarni (Graz)
  • Hyun Su Lee (IBS-CUP)
  • Sung Mook Lee (KAIST)
  • Wei Liu (NJUST)
  • Ian Moult (Yale)
  • David Parkinson (KASI)
  • Sokratis Trifinopoulos (MIT)
  • SungWoo Youn (IBS-CAPP)
  • Taewook Youn (Cornell)
  • Jaehoon Yu (UT Arlington)

There may be more speakers after confirmation.

Check this webpage for frequent updates.
 
Organizing Committee:
Brian Batell (Pittsburgh)
Sungwoo Hong (KAIST)
Felix Kahlhoefer (Karlsruhe)
Hye-Sung Lee (KAIST)
 

Previous Meetings of the Light Dark World International Forum

 

WIFI Information

You can use the internal Wifi on the KAIST campus.

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ID: kaist_LDW2024
PW: @@ldw2024

 

 

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Do not respond to suspicious requests for information and delete such emails immediately.

 

 

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Participants
  • Absur Khan Siam
  • Alejandro Ibarra
  • Aman Verma
  • Annika Hollnagel
  • Asli Abdullahi
  • Brian Batell
  • David Parkinson
  • Donghee Lee
  • Dongmin Seo
  • Eung Jin Chun
  • EunJun Choi
  • Felix Kahlhoefer
  • Francesca Chadha-Day
  • HYANGKYU PARK
  • Hye-Sung Lee
  • Hyun Su Lee
  • Hyungyu Kim
  • Ian Moult
  • Jae Yu
  • Jaeok Yi
  • Jiheon Lee
  • Jin Sun
  • Jongkuk Kim
  • Joon-Bin Lee
  • Kihyeon Cho
  • Kimberly Boddy
  • Kiran Adhikari
  • Kiran Adhikari
  • Kiwoon Choi
  • Krzysztof Jodlowski
  • Kuldeep Deka
  • Mitch Weaver
  • Moo Hyun Lee
  • Nils Nilsson
  • Oleksii Sokoliuk
  • Omar Sayeed Saimum
  • Pyungwon Ko
  • Raqibul Hossen
  • Rinku Maji
  • Seunghyeon Kim
  • SOHAIL AHMAD
  • Sokratis Trifinopoulos
  • Suchita Kulkarni
  • Sung Mook Lee
  • Sunghoon Jung
  • Sungwoo Hong
  • SungWoo Youn
  • Suruj Jyoti Das
  • Taehyeok Moon
  • Taewook Youn
  • Wei Liu
  • WonKyung Kim
  • Yechan Kim
  • YeolLin ChoeJo
  • Yeongduk Kim
  • Youngho Go
    • Registration E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

      E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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    • Day 1 E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

      E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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      Convener: Sungwoo Hong
      • 1
        Connecting the baryons to the dark matter of the Universe
        Speaker: Alejandro Ibarra (IFT, Madrid)
      • 2
        ALP Anarchy
        Speaker: Francesca Chadha-Day (Durham University)
    • 10:40 AM
      Coffee Break E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

      E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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    • Day 1 E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

      E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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      Convener: Brian Thomas Batell
      • 3
        Axion haloscope searches
        Speaker: SungWoo Youn (Institute for Basic Science)
      • 4
        Neutrino experiments as dark sector factories: from HNLs to ALPs
        Speaker: Asli Abdullahi (IFT (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid))
    • 12:20 PM
      Lunch Break E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

      E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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    • Day 1 E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

      E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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      Convener: Francesca Chadha-Day (Durham University)
      • 5
        Gravitational wave from domain wall dominant era
        Speaker: Sung Mook Lee (Yonsei University (KR))
      • 6
        Massive Dark Photon: w/o & w/ Dark Higgs Boson
        Speaker: Pyungwon Ko (KIAS (Korea Institute for Advanced Study))
    • 3:10 PM
      Coffee Break E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

      E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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    • Day 1 E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

      E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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      Convener: Jaehoon Yu (The University of Texas at Arlington)
    • Day 1 E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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      Convener: Jaehoon Yu (The University of Texas at Arlington)
      • 8
        SO(10) Model of pseudo-Goldstone Dark Matter, Gravitational Waves from Walls Bounded by Strings and PTA data
        Speaker: Rinku Maji (Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe, Institute for Basic Science)
      • 9
        Cogenesis by a sliding pNGB with symmetry non-restoration
        Speaker: Suruj Jyoti Das (Institute for Basic Science, CTPU)
    • Day 2 E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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      Convener: Prof. Pyungwon Ko (KIAS (Korea Institute for Advanced Study))
      • 10
        NANOGrav Tests of New Physics
        Speaker: Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)
      • 11
        Gravitational Waves from N-naturalness
        Speaker: Brian Batell (University of Pittsburgh (US))
    • 10:40 AM
      Coffee Break E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

      E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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    • Day 2 E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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      Convener: Alejandro Ibarra (IFT, Madrid)
      • 12
        Observing small-scale power spectrum with gravitational waves
        Speaker: Sung Hoon Jung (Seoul National University)
      • 13
        The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI): An Overview
        Speaker: David Parkinson (University of Queensland)
    • Group Photo E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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    • 12:30 PM
      Lunch Break E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

      E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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    • Day 2 E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

      E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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      Convener: Suchita Kulkarni (University of Graz)
      • 14
        Dark Acoustic Oscillation Faces the Cosmological Tensions
        Speaker: Taewook Youn (University of Texas at Austin)
      • 15
        COSINE dark matter search (Resolving DAMA/LIBRA)
        Speaker: Hyun Su Lee (Institute for Basic Science)
    • 3:10 PM
      Coffee Break E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

      E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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    • Day 2 E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

      E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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      Convener: Prof. Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)
    • Forum Dinner TBD

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    • Day 3 E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

      E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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      Convener: David Parkinson (University of Queensland)
      • 20
        Resonant or asymmetric? The status of sub-GeV dark matter
        Speaker: Felix Karlhoefer (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)
      • 21
        Collider and cosmological implications of strongly interacting dark sectors
        Speaker: Suchita Kulkarni (University of Graz)
    • 10:40 AM
      Coffee Break E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

      E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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    • Day 3 E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

      E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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      Convener: Dr Hyun Su Lee (Institute for Basic Science)
    • 12:20 PM
      Lunch Break E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

      E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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    • Day 3 E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

      E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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      Convener: Annika Hollnagel (JGU Mainz (DE))
      • 24
        Neutrino Dipole Portal at Colliders
        Speaker: Wei Liu (Nanjing University of Science and Technology)
      • 25
        New Physics at Colliders: The present, the future, and the far future
        Speaker: Sokratis Trifinopoulos
    • 3:10 PM
      Coffee Break E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

      E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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    • Day 3 E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

      E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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      Convener: Felix Karlhoefer (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)
      • 26
        BelleII excess & Muon g-2 illuminating Light DM with Higgs Portal
        Speaker: Jongkuk Kim (Chung-Ang University)
      • 27
        Novel Extensions of Angular-Ordered Parton Shower Facilitating BSM Particle Splittings
        Speaker: Joon-Bin Lee (Seoul National University (KR))
      • 28
        Clockwork at future lepton colliders, beam dumps, and SN1987
        Speaker: Krzysztof Jodlowski
    • Closing E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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      Convener: Brian Thomas Batell
    • Excursion + Free discussion E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

      E9, Yang Seung-Taek Auditorium (2nd Floor)

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