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

from Monday 14 July 2025 (08:00) to Wednesday 16 July 2025 (18:55)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
14 Jul 2025
15 Jul 2025
16 Jul 2025
AM
08:30
Registration (until 09:15)
09:15 Opening  
09:30 Phenomenology of Dark Matter in Neutron Stars and compact objects - Giorgio Busoni (Adelaide University)  
10:00 How I learned to worry about the white dwarf bomb - Melissa Diamond  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 The neutron lifetime anomaly, dark baryons, and their impact on neutron star mergers - Steven Harris (Indiana University)  
11:25 The Impact of Dark Matter on the Dynamics of Binary Neutron Star Mergers - Dr Violetta Sagun (University of Southampton)  
11:50 Neutron Stars with Dark Matter Halos - Shafayat Shawqi (University of Alberta)  
09:00 --- Breakfast ---
09:30 Immortal Stars at the Galactic Center - Isabelle John  
10:00 Milky Way White Dwarfs as Sub-GeV to Multi-TeV Dark Matter Detectors - Lillian Santos-Olmsted  
10:25 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Probing Dark Matter in Red Giants - Dr Seokhoon Yun (IBS-CTPU)  
11:25 Impact of Different Prescriptions of Dark Matter Transport on Stellar Evolution - Diogo Manuel Ribeiro dos Santos Ferreira Capelo  
11:50 Dark Stars, a possible solution to two recent astronomical puzzles - Cosmin Ilie (Colgate University)  
09:00 --- Breakfast ---
09:30 Mapping out the Dark Matter in the Milky Way with Stars - Lina Necib (MIT)  
10:00 Testing the Robustness of Via Machinae Stellar Stream Candidates - Rafael Porto  
10:25 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Angular-Velocity Offsets in Galactic Rotation Curves: A New Clue to Dark Matter-Baryonic Coupling - Tomer Zimmerman (Ariel University)  
11:25 Lyman-alpha Constraints on Atomic Dark Matter from N-body Simulations - Linda Yuan  
11:50 --- Lunch ---
PM
12:15 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Can local compact stars constrain Dark Matter interactions? - Sandra Robles (Fermilab)  
15:00 Exotic Low-Mass Black Holes: Fantastic Beasts and How to Find Them - Basudeb Dasgupta  
15:20 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 Echoes of Axion Dark Matter and Axion Stars - Yitian Sun  
16:20 Boosted dark matter driven by cosmic rays and diffuse supernova neutrinos - Tushar Gupta  
16:40 Modified Axion and Dark Photon Emission from Magnetic Dispersion - Nirmalya Brahma (McGill University)  
17:00 Thermal effects on dark matter particle production - Hugo Schérer (McGill University)  
17:20 Dark neutron star formation in a heavy mirror dark sector - Jacob Litterer (University of Porto)  
18:00 --- Welcome reception ---
12:15 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Probing dark matter annihilation through planetary airglow and internal heat flow - Marianne Moore (MIT)  
15:00 The Sun, White Dwarfs and Black Holes as WIMP detectors - Stefano Scopel (Sogang University)  
15:25 --- Conference photo ---
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 Probing a local dark matter halo with neutrino oscillations - Andrey Shkerin  
16:25 Illuminating Very Heavy Dark Matter in the Earth with Tau Neutrinos - Qinrui Liu (Queen's University)  
16:50 Reconstructing PTA measurements via early seeding of supermassive black holes - Sohan Ghodla (Colgate University)  
17:15 Picolensing as a probe of compact dark matter - Dr Sergey Sibiryakov (McMaster U. & Perimeter Inst.)  
19:00 --- Conference dinner ---
14:30 The SABRE South Experiment at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory - Yi Yi Zhong  
14:55 Enlightening the search for dark matter (and exotic physics) with atomic phenomena - Benjamin Roberts  
15:20 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 Cosmological gravitational particle production: Starobinsky vs Bogolyubov, uncertainties, and issues - Duarte Da Silva Feiteira  
16:25 Almost Minimal Dark Matter - Spencer Griffith  
16:50 Fitting the DESI BAO Data with Dark Energy Driven by the Cohen--Kaplan--Nelson Bound - Patrick Adolf  
17:15 Closing