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PLANCK2026 and 6th EuCAPT Symposium

from Monday, 18 May 2026 (08:30) to Friday, 22 May 2026 (19:30)
CERN (500/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
18 May 2026
19 May 2026
20 May 2026
21 May 2026
22 May 2026
AM
09:00
Welcome (until 09:30)
09:30
TBA - Prateek Agrawal (University of Oxford) (until 10:00)
10:00
Physics opportunities at future colliders - Jorge de Blas (Universidad de Granada (ES)) (until 10:30)
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:15
Probing Black Holes with Scattering Amplitudes - Giulia Isabella (until 11:45)
11:45
Effective field theory meets Conformal field theory - Johan Henriksson (CERN) (until 12:15)
09:00
From Quantum Sensors to Demon Materials: New Directions for Light Dark Matter Detection - Yonit Hochberg (Hebrew University) (until 09:30)
09:30
Dark sectors, strong and feeble - Felix Kahlhoefer (until 10:00)
10:00
Nuclear, atomic, and molecular probes of the QCD theta term - Jordy de Vries (until 10:30)
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:15
Parallel Session (until 12:55) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
11:15 Baryogenesis from primordial CP violation - Dr Venus Keus (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS))  
11:35 Zero-temperature baryon number violation from the dynamics of Standard Model electroweak textures - Martina Cataldi (University of Hamburg)  
11:55 D/H vs. inhomogeneities: Constraints on Baryogenesis Scenarios - Bruno Missoni (SISSA)  
12:15 baryons from evaporating primordial black holes - Miguel Etienne A Vanvlasselaer (ICCUB)  
12:35 Light states in multi-Higgs potentials with multiple candidate vacua - Dr Miguel Ruben Nebot Gómez (U. of Valencia - IFIC)  
11:15
Parallel Session (until 12:55) (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
11:15 Quintessence from string theory - Dr David Andriot (Unite Reseaux du CNRS (FR))  
11:35 Gravitational Particle Production in Multifield Inflation - Sarunas Verner (University of Chicago)  
11:55 On the stability of gauge-field backreaction in axion inflation - Oleksandr Sobol (University of Münster)  
12:15 Warm Inflation with the Standard Model - Marco Drewes (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))  
12:35 Removing the Cosmological Bound on the Axion Scale via Confinement During Inflation - Lucy Elisabeth Komisel (Max Planck Institute for Physics, LMU Munich)  
11:15
Parallel Session (until 12:55)
11:15 Quantum Imprints on Confinement: SU(N) Yang Mills Confinement PT at finite theta - Nicklas Ramberg (SISSA Trieste)  
11:35 Does the Electron EDM Preclude Electroweak Baryogenesis? - Yuanzhen Li  
11:55 Uncertainty budgets for bubble wall velocities in cosmological phase transitions - Philipp Schicho (University of Geneva)  
12:15 Tunneling decay at fixed charge: nucleation theory - Dr GIULIO BARNI (IFT-UAM/CSIC Madrid)  
09:00
Stellar Remnants as Dark Matter Factories and Detectors - Melissa D. Diamond (until 09:30)
09:30
Indirect detection of thermal electroweak dark matter - Weishuang Linda Xu (until 10:00)
10:00
EuCAPT 5min flash talks (until 10:30)
10:00 $\phi$-Dwarfs: White Dwarfs probe Quadratically Coupled Scalars - Kai Bartnick (Technical University of Munich)  
10:05 Constraints on Dark Matter Models from Supermassive Black Hole Evolution - Juan Urrutia (KBFI)  
10:10 Resonant Dark Matter Production in Astrophysical Environments - María José Fernández Lozano  
10:15 Dark matter spikes in galactic X-ray binaries - Francesca Scarcella  
10:20 Light dark matter searches with space- and Moon-based radio telescopes - Ruben Zatini (IAC -Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)  
10:25 Modeling electronic final states in liquid xenon for light dark matter detection - Theresa Magdalena Backes  
10:30 --- Coffee breaks ---
11:15
The poltergeist mechanism - Enhancement of scalar-induced gravitational waves with early matter-dominated era - - Keisuke Inomata (until 11:45)
11:45
Electroweak baryogenesis - Jorinde van de Vis (CERN) (until 12:15)
09:00
The Future of BSM Searches at ATLAS and CMS - Louie Dartmoor Corpe (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR)) (until 09:30)
09:30
Physics with TeV Neutrinos and Muons from the LHC - Juan Rojo Chacon (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)) (until 10:00)
10:00
Searching for the Unknown at the Electron-Ion Collider - Hooman Davoudiasl (until 10:30)
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:15
Parallel Session (until 12:55) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
11:15 Counting axions with IAXO - Carlos Miro Arenas  
11:35 Axions from the flavour deconstruction of QCD - Marta Fuentes Zamoro  
11:55 The structure of multi-axion solutions to the strong CP problem - Mario Fernandez Navarro (University of Zurich)  
12:15 Intrinsically Quantum Effects of Axion Dark Matter are Undetectable - Dhong Yeon Cheong  
12:35 Axion Detection With Coiled Optical Fibers - Tongxuan Zhang (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)  
11:15
Parallel Session (until 12:55) (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
11:15 Dark Secrets of Baryons: Illuminating Dark Matter-Baryon Interactions with JWST - Ranjini Mondol (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)  
11:35 Searching for Ultraheavy Dark Matter with Magnetic Levitation - Dorian Amaral (IFAE)  
11:55 Probing Freeze-In Dark Matter with Direct Detection - Patrick Foldenauer (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) (ES))  
12:15 Superhorizon Isocurvature as Window into Dark Matter Production - Christopher Gerlach (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)  
12:35 Direct Detection of Nuclear Atomic Dark Matter - Micah Mellors  
11:15
Parallel Session (until 12:55)
11:15 Artificial intelligence techniques for the flavor problem. - Prof. Davide Meloni (Universita degli Studi Roma Tre (IT))  
11:35 Recent $B$ physics results from Belle II - Steven Robertson (IPP / University of Alberta)  
11:55 Data-driven and model-independent analyses of current b→sℓℓ measurements - Siavash Neshatpour (IP2I Lyon/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)  
12:15 What can we learn from charged lepton flavor (non-)conservation? - Majid Ekhterachian (Scoula Normale Superiore, Pisa)  
12:35 Trimaximal Mixing Patterns Meet the First JUNO Result - Dr Di Zhang (Technical University of Munich)  
09:00
Active galactic nuclei through the prism of galaxy clusters: bounds on axion-like particles - Denys Malyshev (until 09:30)
09:30
TBA - Georges Obied (until 10:00)
10:00
New Physics at the PTA Frontier - Kai Schmitz (until 10:30)
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:15
SMEFT at next-to-leading order - Anders Eller Thomsen (University of Bern) (until 11:45)
11:45
TBA - David Shih (until 12:15)
PM
12:15
The phenomenology of non-decoupling physics - David Sutherland (until 12:45)
12:45 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
TBA - Gudrun Hiller (CERN) (until 14:30)
14:30
Exploring the flavour of EFTs at colliders - Sophie Alice Renner (University of Glasgow (GB)) (until 15:00)
15:00
Rethinking the Flavor Puzzles: New Perspectives and Opportunities - Admir Greljo (Universitaet Basel (CH)) (until 15:30)
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:20
Parallel Session (until 18:20) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
16:20 How far can the QCD axion hide? - FUENSANTA VILCHES BRAVO (Universidad de Granada)  
16:40 Supercooled audible axions - Daniel Schmitt (KIT)  
17:00 Axion cosmology with parametric resonance - Riccardo Natale (DESY)  
17:20 Cosmological Aspects of Axion-Monopole Interactions - Hengameh Bagherian (University of Chicago)  
17:40 Higher Axions - Arthur Platschorre (Cornell University)  
18:00 Towards a Post-Inflationary Composite Axion Model - Mohamed Mahdi (SISSA)  
16:20
Parallel Session (until 18:20)
16:20 Electroweak high-order effects at high energies: from theory to phenomenology - Hantian Zhang (CERN)  
16:40 Testing unitarity violation at future colliders - Kristjan Müürsepp (INFN-LNF, Frascati and NICPB, Tallinn, Estonia)  
17:00 Isolating chirality-breaking SMEFT operators with Drell-Yan angular analysis - Lorenzo Rolla  
17:20 Dispersion relations in dimension-six SMEFT at one loop - Pablo Olgoso Ruiz (University of Padova)  
17:40 Global Analysis of Linear Standard Model Extensions at HL-LHC and FCC-ee - Victor Maura Breick (King's College London)  
18:00 New Insights into Two-Loop Running in Effective Field Theories - JAVIER LÓPEZ MIRAS  
16:20
Parallel Session (until 18:20) (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
16:20 Goofy transformations and RG fixed points - Andreas Trautner  
16:40 GOOFy "symmetries" - a systematic approach - Bohdan Grzadkowski  
17:00 Negative running of gravitational positivity - JAIME FERNANDEZ TEJEDOR (Instituto de Física Teórica - CSIC/UAM)  
17:20 Charge Quantisation and Monopoles in the Standard Model - Yunji Ha (Institute of Particle Physics Phenomenology)  
17:40 Dynamical Love numbers from shell effective field theory - Davide Perrone (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
18:00 EFT and anomalies at finite temperature - Diego Saviot  
12:55 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
EuCAPT welcome (until 14:10)
14:10
Cosmological Implications of a New Determination of Primordial 4He - Keith A. Olive (University of Minnesota (US)) (until 14:40)
14:40
Overview of neutrino masses in cosmology - Willem Elbers (until 15:10)
15:10
EuCAPT discussion (until 15:30)
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:20
Tensions in Lambda CDM and The Stability of Dark Energy - Brodie Popovic (until 16:50)
16:50
Reanalysis of the DESI DR1 full-shape data - Anton Chudaykin (until 17:20)
17:20
EuCAPT 5min flash talks (until 17:50)
17:20 A cosmologist's take on Little Red Dots - Loris Del Grosso  
17:25 Non-linear evolution of primordial parity violation - Sha Azyzy (MPA)  
17:30 Hints for an AdS Universe from DESI - Ioannis Gialamas (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics)  
17:35 Properties of the neutrino clustering - Pietro Ghedini (IFIC, CSIC - UV)  
17:40 On EFT constraints from quasi-normal modes - Leonardo JULIANO (Scuola Normale Superiore, INFN)  
17:50
SCOAP4 (until 18:00)
18:00
Reception and Poster Session (until 20:00) (500/1-201 - Mezzanine)
12:15
EuCAPT 5min flash talks (until 12:45)
12:15 Cosmological gravitational particle production: Scalars and fermions - Duarte Da Silva Feiteira  
12:20 Quantum production of gravitational waves after inflation - Alina Mierna  
12:25 The phenomenology of axion relic pockets - Charalampos Nikolis  
12:30 Reviving PBHs: primordial black holes from supercooled phase transitions revisited - Piotr Toczek (University of Warsaw)  
12:35 Metastable strings at PTA: classical stability analysis - Maxime Grandjean (VUB & FWO)  
12:40 Supercooled tachyonic phase transitions - Daniel Schmitt (KIT)  
12:45 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Not-quite-primordial black holes -Dr Wenzer Qin (New York University) (until 14:30)
14:30
Neutrinos from the most energetic cosmic rays - Daniel Naredo (until 15:00)
15:00
EuCAPT 5min flash talks (until 15:30)
15:00 Injecting particles in the Early Universe: a BBN perspective. - Sara Bianco (DESY-T Hamburg)  
15:05 Colour-Flavour Locked Self-Interacting Dark Matter - Lorenzo De Ros (JGU Mainz)  
15:10 Archival radio data, leading axion constraints - Toni Bertólez-Martínez (University of Wisconsin-Madison)  
15:15 Sub-GeV Scalar Dark Matter in a Higgs-Mixed Dark Sector: From Neutrino Masses to Astrophysical Signals - Elina Merkel (University of Bologna & INFN Bologna)  
15:20 Spectra of primordial magnetic fields at the electroweak phase transition - Károly Seller (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University)  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:20
Machine Learning and AI in Gravitational Wave Science - James Alvey (University of Cambridge) (until 16:50)
16:50
First-Principles Formalism for Simulating Self-Interacting Dark Matter - Maria Ramos (until 17:20)
17:20
EuCAPT discussion (until 17:50)
19:00
Meet up at Bains des Paquis (until 21:00)
12:55 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Parallel Session (until 15:40) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
14:00 Sterile neutrino Dark Matter in the minimal Dirac Seesaw - Aditya Batra (CFTP-IST, U. Lisboa)  
14:20 Cosmological Probes of The Neutrino-DM Portal - Sebastian Trojanowski  
14:40 Successful SIDM in QCD-like theories: the role of the topological angle - Giacomo Landini  
15:00 Wallions: Dark Matter from the Boundaries of Field Space - Mathias Becker (University of Padova)  
15:20 Beyond 3→2: Towards Realistic SIMP Dark Matter - Halvor Melkild (University of Oslo)  
14:00
Parallel Session (until 15:40)
14:00 Constraints from Monopole Production on Flavour Deconstruction Models - Marko Pesut (Paul Scherrer Institute)  
14:20 One-parameter models and fermion mass relations - Salvador Centelles Chulia (IFIC (CSIC - U. Valencia))  
14:40 Can Randomness lead to non-anarchical mixing angles ? - Aadarsh Singh  
15:00 Flavour hierarchies from higher flavour spin - Alessandro Valenti (University of Basel)  
15:20 Flavor hierarchies with nonminimal irreducible representations - Graeme Crawford  
14:00
Parallel Session (until 15:40) (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
14:00 Matchotter:Automatic Dimensional Reduction with Functional Methods - Mr ADRIÁN Moreno Sánchez (Universidad de Granada)  
14:20 Hot news on the phase-structure of the SMEFT - Maria Cristina Fiore (Universidad de Granada)  
14:40 Limits of EFTs at finite temperature for strong phase transitions - Fabio Bernardo  
15:00 Hybrid Partial Dressing: Renormalization Group Improved Thermal Resummation at All Temperatures - Andrija Rasovic  
15:20 Thermoskyrmions - Luis Gil (Universidad de Granada)  
15:40 --- Coffee break ---
16:20
Parallel Session (until 17:40) (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
16:20 Where are the monopoles? Milky Way constraints and clustering maps from simulations - Marius Kongsore (New York University)  
16:40 Particle Production from Gravitational Inhomogeneities - Michele Redi (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))  
17:00 New BBN constraints on the decay of relics into SM particles - Jonas Frerick  
17:20 New tests of parity violation in the early universe - Ms Claire Aude Laure Rigouzzo (King's College London)  
16:20
Parallel Session (until 17:40)
16:20 Dark Matter in Warped Extra-dimensional scenarios - Dr Nuria Rius Dionis (IFIC, Universitat de València - CSIC)  
16:40 The Flavour Structure of Dark Matter - Xavier Ponce Diaz (University of Basel)  
17:00 Gauged Flavour for Asymmetric Dark Matter - JAVIER MARTÍNEZ LIZANA (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)  
17:20 Dark Matter from residual symmetry in non-Abelian Froggatt-Nielsen models - Simone Marciano (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular IFIC - Universitat de Valencia - CSIC)  
16:20
Parallel Session (until 17:40) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
16:20 Probing Quadratically Coupled Ultralight Dark Matter with Pulsar Timing Arrays - Xucheng Gan  
16:40 Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Reheating - Nicholas Leister  
17:00 Are the violins tuned? Dark sector phase transition explanations for the PTA signal - Dr Carlo Tasillo (IFIC)  
17:20 The slingshot effect and its implications for gravitational waves, primordial black holes and dark matter - Maximilian Bachmaier  
17:40 --- Break ---
18:10
Effective field theory for thermal phase transitions - Mikael Chala (Universidad de Granada) (until 18:40)
18:40
TBA - Sebastian Ellis (University of London (GB)) (until 19:10)
20:00 --- Dinner at R1 ---
12:15
Quantum mechanics of wave-like dark matter - Liantao Wang (until 12:45)
12:45
Closing session (until 13:00)
18:00
Concert Main Auditorium (until 19:30)