Astrophysical probes of dark sectors using radiowave observations

from Monday 29 September 2025 (09:00) to Friday 3 October 2025 (16:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
29 Sept 2025
30 Sept 2025
1 Oct 2025
2 Oct 2025
3 Oct 2025
AM
09:00
Registration (until 09:15)
09:15 Welcome  
09:45 Impact of satellite constellations in current and future radio wave observations - Dr Federico Di Vruno (SKAO)  
10:15 Dark Matter searches with LOFAR - Dominik Schwarz (Universität Bielefeld)  
10:45 Searching for blue in the dark - Mrs Jessie de Kruijf (University of Padova)  
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 Probing the dark sector with pulsars - Nataliya Porayko (University of Milano Bicocca)  
09:15 A brief review of Fast Radio Burst - Dr Cherry NG-GUIHENEUF (LPC2E/CNRS)  
09:45 Radio Pulsars, Transients, and the Evolving Neutron Star Landscape - Dr Emilie Parent (ICE)  
10:15 Radio Searches for Axions Near Neutron Stars - Anirudh Prabhu (Princeton University)  
10:45 ALP Distribution in Magnetically Deformed Neutron Stars - Duvier Fontanella (U. Salamanca)  
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 The Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope - Dr Jose Luis Gómez (IAA)  
09:00 --- Full day excursion to the Teide National Park ---
09:15 The Radio Synchrotron Background – Status and Prospects - Prof. Jack Singal (University of Richmond)  
09:45 The Tenerife Microwave Spectrometer (TMS): absolute spectral measurements in the 10–20GHz range - Ms Ángela Arriero (IAC) Jose Alberto Rubiño  
10:15 Testing the instability of the cosmic nu background - Pasquale Di Bari (U. Southampton)  
10:45 Search for dark sectors using radio galaxies through cosmic birefringence - Mr Fumihiro Naokawa (University of Tokyo)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Radio signatures of fundamental physics - Dr Bryce Cyr (MIT)  
09:15 Cosmology with SKAO - Dr Anna Bonaldi (SKAO)  
09:45 Non cold DM imprint on 21cm Cosmology - Laura LOPEZ HONOREZ (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)  
10:15 Not-quite-primordial black holes - Dr Wenzer Qin (NYU)  
10:45 Are low-frequency radio telescopes sensitive to light dark matter? - Mr Ruben Zatini (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)  
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 ALMA and its role in the search of dark matter - Dr Evanthia Hatziminaoglou (ESO)  
PM
12:00 Probing WISPs with neutron stars - Dr Jamie McDonald (University of Manchester)  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:15 Radio signals from solar conversion of axion and dark photon dark matter - Dr Marco Taoso (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Torino, Italy)  
14:45 Searching for axion decay in the radio band - Elisa Todarello (U, Nottingham)  
15:15 Molecular clouds as laboratories of new physics - Pedro De la Torre Luque (Institute of theoretical physics (IFT-UAM))  
15:45 --- Coffee break ---
20:00 --- Cocktail ---
12:00 Towards the measurement of spectral distortions from space - Dr Nabila Aghanim (Orsay, IAS)  
12:30 Jupiter Metallic Hydrogen as Dark Matter Refrigerator: Probing sub-GeV Dark Matter-Electron Theory target with the Jovian Airglow - Thong Nguyen (Stockholm University)  
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:15 Superradiance bounds on axions - Samuel Witte (U. Oxford)  
14:45 Reassessing graviton detectability in light of high-frequency gravitational wave searches - Dr Javier De Miguel (IAC)  
15:15 Radiotelescopes as probes of high-frequency GWs - Dr Camilo Alfredo García-Cely (IFIC)  
15:45 --- Coffee Break ---
18:30 El fondo cósmico de microondas - Jose Alberto Rubiño  
12:00 Status of the LiteBIRD mission to explore cosmic inflation - Prof. Ken Ebisawa (JAXA/ISAS)  
12:30 The GroundBIRD experiment: status and perspectives - Dr Alessandro Fasano (IAC)  
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:15 On the extra-galactic signal present in QUIJOTE intensity maps - Dr Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo (IAC)  
14:45 Dark Matter signatures in the radio domain - Elena Pinetti (CCA - Flatiron Institute)  
15:15 Searching for Dark Matter with MISTRAL at the SRT - Dr Elia Battistelli (Sapienza University of Rome)  
15:45 --- Coffee Break ---
19:30 --- Conference dinner ---
12:00 SMILE (Search for MIli-LEnses) to unravel the dark - Dr Carolina Casadio (Institute of Astrophysics - FORTH)  
12:30 Farewell  
12:35 --- Lunch ---