The Mitchell Conference on Collider, Dark Matter, and Neutrino Physics 2025

from Tuesday 13 May 2025 (08:00) to Friday 16 May 2025 (21:00)
Mitchell Institute, Texas A&M University (Hawking Auditorium)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
13 May 2025
14 May 2025
15 May 2025
16 May 2025
AM
08:00 --- Breakfast ---
08:45
Welcome - Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University) (until 09:00)
09:00
Tuesday Morning Session 1 - Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University) (until 10:32)
09:00 The Neutrino Slice at Muon Colliders - Zhen Liu (University of Minnesota (US)) Zhen Liu  
09:23 The Landscape of Dark Compact Object Interactions with Stars - Kuver Sinha (University of Oklahoma)  
09:46 Geometry and energy in EFT - Benoit Assi (Fermilab)  
10:09 Clash of the Titans: ultra-high energy KM3NeT event versus IceCube data - Pedro Machado (Fermilab)  
10:32 --- Coffee ---
11:00
Tuesday Morning Session 2 -Dr Deepak Sathyan (until 12:32)
11:00 Does the 220 PeV Event at KM3NeT Point to New Physics? - Vedran Brdar (Oklahoma State University (US))  
11:23 ‘Dark' Matter Effect as a Novel Solution to the KM3-230213A Puzzle - Bhupal Dev (Washington University in St. Louis)  
11:46 A Neutron Portal to Ultra High Energy Neutrinos - Matheus Hostert  
12:09 Searching for dark matter with lepton flavour violation - Dr Innes Bigaran (Fermilab and Northwestern University)  
08:00 --- Breakfast ---
09:00
Wednesday Morning Session 1 - Pedro Machado (Fermilab) (until 10:32)
09:00 The Cosmological Preference for Negative Neutrino Mass - Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University)  
09:23 A model for `neutrino' self-interaction in cosmology - Dr Subhajit Ghosh (The University of Texas at Austin)  
09:46 Gravothermal Collapse of Dark Matter Halos: Theory and Signatures - Hai-Bo Yu (University of California Riverside)  
10:09 Searching for Dark Matter and Fifth Forces Using Magnetic Levitation - Dorian Amaral (Rice University)  
10:32 --- Coffee ---
11:00
Wednesday Morning Session 2 - Mudit Rai (Texas AM University) (until 12:32)
11:00 Multiscalar Production at the LHC and Beyond - Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas)  
11:23 Photon Excess Signals from Neutrino and Dark Matter Scattering at MiniBooNE and MicroBooNE - Doojin Kim  
11:46 Spinning the search for sub-GeV dark matter at direct detection - stefania gori (UC Santa Cruz)  
12:09 Observable CMB B-modes from Cosmological Phase Transitions - Gordan Krnjaic (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) Gordan Krnjaic (Fermilab)  
08:00 --- Breakfast ---
09:00
Thursday Morning Session 1 -Prof. Joel Walker (Sam Houston State University) (until 10:09)
09:00 Tackling Sterile Neutrino Global Fits with Simulation-Based Inference - Joshua Villarreal  
09:23 DArk Messenger Searches at an Accelerator, the DAMSA-Net - Prof. Jaehoon Yu (University of Texas at Arlington (US))  
09:46 ArCS: A Magnetized Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber for Neutrino Physics and Beyond - Dr Marco Del Tutto (Fermilab)  
10:09 --- Coffee ---
10:40
Thursday Morning Session 2 - Doojin Kim (until 12:12)
10:40 Searches for scalar boson pairs with ATLAS and CMS - Federico Montereali (Universita e INFN Roma Tre (IT))  
11:03 Physics opportunities at the LHC in the coming decades - Liantao Wang  
11:26 Analysis with boosted objects at ATLAS and CMS - Marta Lanzac Berrocal (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))  
11:49 Quantum Entanglement is Quantum: ZZ Production at the LHC - dorival Gonçalves (Oklahoma State University)  
08:00 --- Breakfast ---
09:00
Friday Morning Session 1 - Andre De Gouvea (until 10:32)
09:00 Exceptional Unification - Ks Babu (Oklahoma State University) Kaladi Babu  
09:23 Searches for heavy objects with ATLAS and CMS - Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Southern Methodist University (US))  
09:46 Non-thermal Dark Matter in First-Order Phase Transitions - Peisi Huang Peisi Huang  
10:09 Searches via effective filed theory with ATLAS and CMS - Kenichi Hatakeyama (Baylor University (US))  
10:32 --- Coffee ---
11:00
Friday Morning Session 2 - William Shepherd (until 12:32)
11:00 Electroweak Observables in Neutrino-Electron Scattering from a Muon Storage Ring - Adrian Thompson  
11:23 Individual Neutrino Masses From a Supernova - Dr Peter Denton (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
11:46 Constraining non-standard neutrino interactions with neutral current events at long-baseline oscillation experiments - Julia Gehrlein (Colorado State University (US))  
12:09 T-invariance violation in neutrino oscillations and matter effects - Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University) Andre De Gouvea  
PM
12:32 --- Lunch ---
13:45
Tuesday Afternoon Session 1 - James Dent (Sam Houston State University) James Dent (until 15:17)
13:45 Direct and indirect signatures of portals to hidden sectors - Can Kilic  
14:08 Searches for Long Lived Particles at ATLAS and CMS - G Shani Nimeshika Perera (University of Massachusetts (US))  
14:31 Evidence for Sterile Neutrinos and BSM Physics - William Louis (LANL)  
14:54 Broad Physics Opportunities and Discovery Potential in the Forward Region at the LHC - Max Fieg (University of California Irvine (US))  
15:17 --- Coffee ---
15:40
Tuesday Afternoon Session 2 - Isabelle Goldstein (Texas A&M University) (until 17:35)
15:40 CMB Constraints on Non-Minimally Coupled Ultralight Dark Matter - Prof. Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)  
16:03 Structure Formation in Dark Matter with Warm White Noise - Mustafa Amin Mustafa Amin (Rice University)  
16:26 Observational Signatures of Cosmological Stasis - Brooks Thomas  
16:49 TBD - Savvas Koushiappas Savvas Koushiappas (Brown University)  
17:12 Evaporating Primordial Black Holes: Reformation and Isocurvature Perturbations - Dr TaeHun Kim (KIAS)  
18:30 --- Welcome Reception ---
12:32 --- Lunch ---
13:45
Wednesday Afternoon Session 1 - Zhen Liu (until 15:17)
13:45 Higgs boson properties with ATLAS and CMS - Mr Ram Krishna Sharma (Purdue University (US))  
14:08 Hybrid quantum-classical approach for combinatorial problems at hadron colliders - K.C. Kong  
14:31 Searching for Dark Sectors at Neutrino Experiments - Joshua Berger (Colorado State University)  
14:54 Searches for the Dark Sector in ATLAS and CMS - Qimin Jiang (University of Hong Kong (HK))  
15:17 --- Coffee ---
15:40
Wednesday Afternoon Session 2 - Gordan Krnjaic (Fermilab) Gordan Krnjaic (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) (until 17:38)
15:40 Upscattering Inelastic Dark Matter in the Earth - Christopher Cappiello Christopher Cappiello  
16:03 Dark matter signatures from the cosmic web - Nassim Bozorgnia Nassim Bozorgnia (York University, University of Alberta)  
16:26 Detecting boosted dark photons with gaseous detectors - Michael Graesser  
16:49 Terahertz-Radiometer for Axions (T-RAX) - Tao Xu (The University of Oklahoma)  
17:12 Searching for dark matter using knockout neutrons at neutrino experiments - Prof. Jong-Chul Park (Chungnam National University (KR)) Jong-Chul Park (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)  
18:00 --- Excursion ---
12:12 --- Lunch ---
13:45
Thursday Afternoon Session 1 - Andrew Long (Rice University) (until 15:17)
13:45 Neutrino Self-Interaction in Core-Collapse Supernovae - Anna Suliga Anna M. Suliga (UC Berkeley and U. of Wisconsin)  
14:08 Dirac Neutrinos and the Strong CP Problem from SU(5) × SU(5) - Anil Thapa (Colorado State University)  
14:31 Boosted Dark Matter from Supernova - Fazlollah Hajkarim (University of Oklahoma)  
14:54 Axion stars: mass functions and constraints - Jae Hyeok Chang (Fermilab and UIC)  
15:17 --- Coffee ---
15:40
Thursday Afternoon Session 2 - Zhichao Zeng (until 17:35)
15:40 Probing Low-scale Baryogenesis in Neutron Stars - Rouzbeh Allahverdi (University of New Mexico)  
16:03 Novel Astrophysical Probes of Exotic Dark Matter Candidates - Andrew Zentner (University of Pittsburgh) Andrew Zentner (University of Pittsburgh)  
16:26 Gamma-ray quiet millisecond pulsars and the Galactic Center Excess - Addy Evans Addy Evans  
16:49 Indirect Detection of Hot Dark Matter - Barmak Shams Es Haghi (University of Texas at Austin)  
17:12 Hunting axions with the James Webb Space Telescope - Elena Pinetti  
18:00 --- Conference Dinner ---
12:32 Closing & Farewell - Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University)