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

from Tuesday, May 13, 2025 (8:00 AM) to Friday, May 16, 2025 (9:00 PM)
Mitchell Institute, Texas A&M University (Hawking Auditorium)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
May 13, 2025
May 14, 2025
May 15, 2025
May 16, 2025
AM
8:00 AM --- Breakfast ---
8:45 AM
Welcome - Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University) (until 9:00 AM)
9:00 AM
Tuesday Morning Session 1 - Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University) (until 10:32 AM)
9:00 AM The Neutrino Slice at Muon Colliders - Zhen Liu (University of Minnesota (US)) Zhen Liu  
9:23 AM The Landscape of Dark Compact Object Interactions with Stars - Kuver Sinha (University of Oklahoma)  
9:46 AM Geometry and energy in EFT - Benoit Assi (Fermilab)  
10:09 AM Clash of the Titans: ultra-high energy KM3NeT event versus IceCube data - Pedro Machado (Fermilab)  
10:32 AM --- Coffee ---
11:00 AM
Tuesday Morning Session 2 -Dr Deepak Sathyan (until 12:32 PM)
11:00 AM Does the 220 PeV Event at KM3NeT Point to New Physics? - Vedran Brdar (Oklahoma State University (US))  
11:23 AM ‘Dark' Matter Effect as a Novel Solution to the KM3-230213A Puzzle - Bhupal Dev (Washington University in St. Louis)  
11:46 AM A Neutron Portal to Ultra High Energy Neutrinos - Matheus Hostert  
12:09 PM Searching for dark matter with lepton flavour violation - Dr Innes Bigaran (Fermilab and Northwestern University)  
8:00 AM --- Breakfast ---
9:00 AM
Wednesday Morning Session 1 - Pedro Machado (Fermilab) (until 10:32 AM)
9:00 AM The Cosmological Preference for Negative Neutrino Mass - Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University)  
9:23 AM A model for `neutrino' self-interaction in cosmology - Dr Subhajit Ghosh (The University of Texas at Austin)  
9:46 AM Gravothermal Collapse of Dark Matter Halos: Theory and Signatures - Hai-Bo Yu (University of California Riverside)  
10:09 AM Searching for Dark Matter and Fifth Forces Using Magnetic Levitation - Dorian Amaral (Rice University)  
10:32 AM --- Coffee ---
11:00 AM
Wednesday Morning Session 2 - Mudit Rai (Texas AM University) (until 12:32 PM)
11:00 AM Multiscalar Production at the LHC and Beyond - Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas)  
11:23 AM Photon Excess Signals from Neutrino and Dark Matter Scattering at MiniBooNE and MicroBooNE - Doojin Kim  
11:46 AM Spinning the search for sub-GeV dark matter at direct detection - stefania gori (UC Santa Cruz)  
12:09 PM Observable CMB B-modes from Cosmological Phase Transitions - Gordan Krnjaic (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) Gordan Krnjaic (Fermilab)  
8:00 AM --- Breakfast ---
9:00 AM
Thursday Morning Session 1 -Prof. Joel Walker (Sam Houston State University) (until 10:09 AM)
9:00 AM Tackling Sterile Neutrino Global Fits with Simulation-Based Inference - Joshua Villarreal  
9:23 AM DArk Messenger Searches at an Accelerator, the DAMSA-Net - Prof. Jaehoon Yu (University of Texas at Arlington (US))  
9:46 AM ArCS: A Magnetized Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber for Neutrino Physics and Beyond - Dr Marco Del Tutto (Fermilab)  
10:09 AM --- Coffee ---
10:40 AM
Thursday Morning Session 2 - Doojin Kim (until 12:12 PM)
10:40 AM Searches for scalar boson pairs with ATLAS and CMS - Federico Montereali (Universita e INFN Roma Tre (IT))  
11:03 AM Physics opportunities at the LHC in the coming decades - Liantao Wang  
11:26 AM Analysis with boosted objects at ATLAS and CMS - Marta Lanzac Berrocal (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))  
11:49 AM Quantum Entanglement is Quantum: ZZ Production at the LHC - dorival Gonçalves (Oklahoma State University)  
8:00 AM --- Breakfast ---
9:00 AM
Friday Morning Session 1 - Andre De Gouvea (until 10:32 AM)
9:00 AM Exceptional Unification - Ks Babu (Oklahoma State University) Kaladi Babu  
9:23 AM Searches for heavy objects with ATLAS and CMS - Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Southern Methodist University (US))  
9:46 AM Non-thermal Dark Matter in First-Order Phase Transitions - Peisi Huang Peisi Huang  
10:09 AM Searches via effective filed theory with ATLAS and CMS - Kenichi Hatakeyama (Baylor University (US))  
10:32 AM --- Coffee ---
11:00 AM
Friday Morning Session 2 - William Shepherd (until 12:32 PM)
11:00 AM Electroweak Observables in Neutrino-Electron Scattering from a Muon Storage Ring - Adrian Thompson  
11:23 AM Individual Neutrino Masses From a Supernova - Dr Peter Denton (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
11:46 AM Constraining non-standard neutrino interactions with neutral current events at long-baseline oscillation experiments - Julia Gehrlein (Colorado State University (US))  
12:09 PM T-invariance violation in neutrino oscillations and matter effects - Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University) Andre De Gouvea  
PM
12:32 PM --- Lunch ---
1:45 PM
Tuesday Afternoon Session 1 - James Dent (Sam Houston State University) James Dent (until 3:17 PM)
1:45 PM Direct and indirect signatures of portals to hidden sectors - Can Kilic  
2:08 PM Searches for Long Lived Particles at ATLAS and CMS - G Shani Nimeshika Perera (University of Massachusetts (US))  
2:31 PM Evidence for Sterile Neutrinos and BSM Physics - William Louis (LANL)  
2:54 PM Broad Physics Opportunities and Discovery Potential in the Forward Region at the LHC - Max Fieg (University of California Irvine (US))  
3:17 PM --- Coffee ---
3:40 PM
Tuesday Afternoon Session 2 - Isabelle Goldstein (Texas A&M University) (until 5:35 PM)
3:40 PM CMB Constraints on Non-Minimally Coupled Ultralight Dark Matter - Prof. Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)  
4:03 PM Structure Formation in Dark Matter with Warm White Noise - Mustafa Amin Mustafa Amin (Rice University)  
4:26 PM Observational Signatures of Cosmological Stasis - Brooks Thomas  
4:49 PM TBD - Savvas Koushiappas Savvas Koushiappas (Brown University)  
5:12 PM Evaporating Primordial Black Holes: Reformation and Isocurvature Perturbations - Dr TaeHun Kim (KIAS)  
6:30 PM --- Welcome Reception ---
12:32 PM --- Lunch ---
1:45 PM
Wednesday Afternoon Session 1 - Zhen Liu (until 3:17 PM)
1:45 PM Higgs boson properties with ATLAS and CMS - Mr Ram Krishna Sharma (Purdue University (US))  
2:08 PM Hybrid quantum-classical approach for combinatorial problems at hadron colliders - K.C. Kong  
2:31 PM Searching for Dark Sectors at Neutrino Experiments - Joshua Berger (Colorado State University)  
2:54 PM Searches for the Dark Sector in ATLAS and CMS - Qimin Jiang (University of Hong Kong (HK))  
3:17 PM --- Coffee ---
3:40 PM
Wednesday Afternoon Session 2 - Gordan Krnjaic (Fermilab) Gordan Krnjaic (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) (until 5:38 PM)
3:40 PM Upscattering Inelastic Dark Matter in the Earth - Christopher Cappiello Christopher Cappiello  
4:03 PM Dark matter signatures from the cosmic web - Nassim Bozorgnia Nassim Bozorgnia (York University, University of Alberta)  
4:26 PM Detecting boosted dark photons with gaseous detectors - Michael Graesser  
4:49 PM Terahertz-Radiometer for Axions (T-RAX) - Tao Xu (The University of Oklahoma)  
5:12 PM 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)  
6:00 PM --- Excursion ---
12:12 PM --- Lunch ---
1:45 PM
Thursday Afternoon Session 1 - Andrew Long (Rice University) (until 3:17 PM)
1:45 PM Neutrino Self-Interaction in Core-Collapse Supernovae - Anna Suliga Anna M. Suliga (UC Berkeley and U. of Wisconsin)  
2:08 PM Dirac Neutrinos and the Strong CP Problem from SU(5) × SU(5) - Anil Thapa (Colorado State University)  
2:31 PM Boosted Dark Matter from Supernova - Fazlollah Hajkarim (University of Oklahoma)  
2:54 PM Axion stars: mass functions and constraints - Jae Hyeok Chang (Fermilab and UIC)  
3:17 PM --- Coffee ---
3:40 PM
Thursday Afternoon Session 2 - Zhichao Zeng (until 5:35 PM)
3:40 PM Probing Low-scale Baryogenesis in Neutron Stars - Rouzbeh Allahverdi (University of New Mexico)  
4:03 PM Novel Astrophysical Probes of Exotic Dark Matter Candidates - Andrew Zentner (University of Pittsburgh) Andrew Zentner (University of Pittsburgh)  
4:26 PM Gamma-ray quiet millisecond pulsars and the Galactic Center Excess - Addy Evans Addy Evans  
4:49 PM Indirect Detection of Hot Dark Matter - Barmak Shams Es Haghi (University of Texas at Austin)  
5:12 PM Hunting axions with the James Webb Space Telescope - Elena Pinetti  
6:00 PM --- Conference Dinner ---
12:32 PM Closing & Farewell - Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University)