The International Conference Dark Matter and Stars: Multi-Messenger Probes of Dark Matter and Modified Gravity

from Monday, July 14, 2025 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, July 16, 2025 (6:55 PM)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jul 14, 2025
Jul 15, 2025
Jul 16, 2025
AM
8:30 AM
Registration (until 9:15 AM)
9:15 AM Opening  
9:30 AM Phenomenology of Dark Matter in Neutron Stars and compact objects - Giorgio Busoni (Adelaide University)  
10:00 AM How I learned to worry about the white dwarf bomb - Melissa Diamond  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM The neutron lifetime anomaly, dark baryons, and their impact on neutron star mergers - Steven Harris (Indiana University)  
11:25 AM The Impact of Dark Matter on the Dynamics of Binary Neutron Star Mergers - Dr Violetta Sagun (University of Southampton)  
11:50 AM Neutron Stars with Dark Matter Halos - Shafayat Shawqi (University of Alberta)  
9:00 AM --- Breakfast ---
9:30 AM Immortal Stars at the Galactic Center - Isabelle John  
10:00 AM Milky Way White Dwarfs as Sub-GeV to Multi-TeV Dark Matter Detectors - Lillian Santos-Olmsted  
10:25 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM Probing Dark Matter in Red Giants - Dr Seokhoon Yun (IBS-CTPU)  
11:25 AM Impact of Different Prescriptions of Dark Matter Transport on Stellar Evolution - Diogo Manuel Ribeiro dos Santos Ferreira Capelo  
11:50 AM Dark Stars, a possible solution to two recent astronomical puzzles - Cosmin Ilie (Colgate University)  
9:00 AM --- Breakfast ---
9:30 AM Mapping out the Dark Matter in the Milky Way with Stars - Lina Necib (MIT)  
10:00 AM Testing the Robustness of Via Machinae Stellar Stream Candidates - Rafael Porto  
10:25 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM Angular-Velocity Offsets in Galactic Rotation Curves: A New Clue to Dark Matter-Baryonic Coupling - Tomer Zimmerman (Ariel University)  
11:25 AM Lyman-alpha Constraints on Atomic Dark Matter from N-body Simulations - Linda Yuan  
11:50 AM --- Lunch ---
PM
12:15 PM --- Lunch ---
2:30 PM Can local compact stars constrain Dark Matter interactions? - Sandra Robles (Fermilab)  
3:00 PM Exotic Low-Mass Black Holes: Fantastic Beasts and How to Find Them - Basudeb Dasgupta  
3:20 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM Echoes of Axion Dark Matter and Axion Stars - Yitian Sun  
4:20 PM Boosted dark matter driven by cosmic rays and diffuse supernova neutrinos - Tushar Gupta  
4:40 PM Modified Axion and Dark Photon Emission from Magnetic Dispersion - Nirmalya Brahma (McGill University)  
5:00 PM Thermal effects on dark matter particle production - Hugo Schérer (McGill University)  
5:20 PM Dark neutron star formation in a heavy mirror dark sector - Jacob Litterer (University of Porto)  
6:00 PM --- Welcome reception ---
12:15 PM --- Lunch ---
2:30 PM Probing dark matter annihilation through planetary airglow and internal heat flow - Marianne Moore (MIT)  
3:00 PM The Sun, White Dwarfs and Black Holes as WIMP detectors - Stefano Scopel (Sogang University)  
3:25 PM --- Conference photo ---
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM Probing a local dark matter halo with neutrino oscillations - Andrey Shkerin  
4:25 PM Illuminating Very Heavy Dark Matter in the Earth with Tau Neutrinos - Qinrui Liu (Queen's University)  
4:50 PM Reconstructing PTA measurements via early seeding of supermassive black holes - Sohan Ghodla (Colgate University)  
5:15 PM Picolensing as a probe of compact dark matter - Dr Sergey Sibiryakov (McMaster U. & Perimeter Inst.)  
7:00 PM --- Conference dinner ---
2:30 PM The SABRE South Experiment at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory - Yi Yi Zhong  
2:55 PM Enlightening the search for dark matter (and exotic physics) with atomic phenomena - Benjamin Roberts  
3:20 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM Cosmological gravitational particle production: Starobinsky vs Bogolyubov, uncertainties, and issues - Duarte Da Silva Feiteira  
4:25 PM Almost Minimal Dark Matter - Spencer Griffith  
4:50 PM Fitting the DESI BAO Data with Dark Energy Driven by the Cohen--Kaplan--Nelson Bound - Patrick Adolf  
5:15 PM Closing