invisibles 26

from Monday, 10 August 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 14 August 2026 (22:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
10 Aug 2026
11 Aug 2026
12 Aug 2026
13 Aug 2026
14 Aug 2026
AM
08:00
Registration (until 09:00)
09:00 Welcome + Lessons learned from the experiments in Kamioka - Takaaki Kajita  
10:00 What is invisible? - Beate Heinemann (DESY and University of Freiburg (Germany))  
10:30 Practicalities - Belen Gavela Legazpi (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES))  
10:35
Coffee Break (until 11:30)
10:35 Practicalities day 1 - Belen Gavela Legazpi (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES))  
11:30 Probing the origins of neutrino mass - Alexei Smirnov  
09:00 Chasing the Invisibles: The evolving landscape of direct dark matter detection - Laura Baudis (University of Zurich (CH))  
09:30 Where Next for Indirect Dark Matter Searches? - Tracy Slatyer  
10:00 Broadening the Experimental Search for Axions - Axel Lindner (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
10:30
Coffee Break (until 11:30)
10:30 Practicalities day 2 - Belen Gavela Legazpi (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES))  
11:30 Enabling dark matter searches with pulsar experiments - Nataliya Porayko (University of Milano Bicocca)  
09:00 Does the Universe distinguish between left and right? A tantalizing hint of cosmological parity violation - Prof. Eiichiro Komatsu (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)  
09:30 The H0 World Cup - Dr Vivian Poulin (LUPM, CNRS & U. de Montpellier, France)  
10:00 What you can do with relic neutrinos ? - Yvonne Wong  
10:30
Coffee Break + Poster Session (until 11:30)
10:30 Practicalities day 3 - Belen Gavela Legazpi (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES))  
11:30
Young Scientist Forum (until 12:00)
11:30 Lower Mass Bounds from Structure Formation in the Strong Freeze-In Scenario - Vinicius Oliveira  
11:36 The Majoron Cosmological Window - Daniel Naredo Tuero  
11:42 Gravitational Wave Signatures from Hubble-Induced Phase Transitions - Giorgio Laverda  
11:48 The phenomenology of axion relic pockets - Charalampos Nikolis  
11:54 Quantum (and classical) detection of gravitational waves: scope and limitations - Paolo Bilisco (IPhT - Université Paris-Saclay)  
09:00 The Visible meets the Invisibles - Raman Sundrum  
09:30
Young Scientist Forum (until 10:00)
09:30 Impact of flavour coupling on SO(10)-inspired leptogenesis - Xubin Hu (University of Southampton)  
09:36 Connecting rare B-decays with missing energy and neutrino physics - Anna Llauradó Filella (IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay)  
09:42 Searching for Lorentz-Violating Scalars with Spectroscopy - Lucas Puetter  
09:48 Superhidden Photons from String Theory and Their Experimental Signatures - Jonathan Steiner (University of Heidelberg)  
09:54 Scalar sub-GeV Dark Matter in Rich Dark Sectors - Elina Merkel (University of Bologna & INFN Bologna)  
10:00 The Topology of the Standard Model - Invisible? - Seth Koren (University of Notre Dame)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 Darkly Charged ALPs - Aneesh Vasant Manohar (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
09:00 Invisibles at Colliders - Hitoshi Murayama (University of California Berkeley (US))  
09:30
Young Scientist Forum (until 10:00)
09:30 Multiple Higgs production with HEFT - Jose Daniel Domenech Moya (IFT - UAM)  
09:36 Probing Ultra-Light Mediators with Novel CP Asymmetries in $t\bar{t}Y_0$ Production - Esteban Ricardo Chalbaud Mogollon (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT))  
09:42 Taming forward scattering singularities in partial waves - Marta Fuentes Zamoro  
09:48 The Geometry of SMEFT: From Field-Space Geometry to Collider Signatures - Cristofer Caballeros  
09:54 V-Associated Production & Vector Boson Fusion as an LHC Signature of CP Violation - ALVARO LOZANO ONRUBIA (IFT UAM-CSIC)  
10:00 Strong CP Solution at the Boundary of the World - David Kaplan  
10:30
Coffee Break + Poster Session (until 11:30)
11:30 The metastability bound as a predictive model building paradigm - Thomas Steingasser (IFT Madrid)  
PM
12:00
Young Scientist Forum (until 12:30)
12:00 numu/antinumu separation tagging Michel electrons in atmospheric neutrino events at DUNE Far Detector - Matteo Galli (APC - CNRS)  
12:06 Non-adiabatic Mixing in the Density Matrix Formalism - Shreya Pandit (University of Southampton)  
12:12 Disentangling Charged-Current Scalar NSI from the Solar Sector at JUNO - Guilherme A. Nogueira (State University at Campinas)  
12:18 Quantum Entanglement in Collective Neutrino Oscillations - Katarina Bleau  
12:24 Insight into the Analysis of the KATRIN Neutrino Mass Data - Jan Plößner (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)  
12:30 Detecting the Invisible: Precision Neutrino Physics in the DUNE era - Bonnie Fleming (Yale University)  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:45 Three-flavour neutrino parameters: precision and ordering - Thomas Schwetz  
15:15
Young Scientist Forum (until 15:45)
15:15 Oscillation Constraints on Neutrino Masses Induced by Scalar Dark Matter - Kierthika Chathirathas  
15:21 Neutrinos from Shock Acceleration - George Parker  
15:27 Inelasticity to Probe Astrophysical Tau Neutrino Flavor Appearance in IceCube - Alex Wen  
15:33 A Feldman-Cousins Study of the T2K-NOvA Tension - Pablo Blanco Mas (IFT UAM/CSIC)  
15:39 Search for decoherence due to quantum gravity with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Tanvi Krishnan (Harvard University)  
15:45 IceCube: the First Decade of Neutrino Astronomy - Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
16:15 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00 Neutrino Cosmology Beyond the Standard Model - Miguel Escudero Abenza (CERN)  
17:30 Chasing New Physics with Neutrinos - Pilar Coloma (Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM-CSIC)  
19:00 --- Reception ---
12:00
Young Scientist Forum (until 12:30)
12:00 GeV ALP interactions with hadrons - Jorge Alda Gallo (Università di Padova/INFN)  
12:06 Domain walls induced by domain walls in a two axion system and dark matter - Junseok Lee (Tohoku University)  
12:12 Darkly Charged ALPs - Nicolas Martinez (IFT-UAM CSIC)  
12:18 The spectrum of axions from a scaling string network - José Ricardo Correia (University of Oslo)  
12:24 A spiral-based tunable plasma haloscope for probing high mass dark matter axions and dark photons - Jacob Lindahl  
12:30 Other worlds, other possibilities? - Eva Villaver  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:45 Cosmological tests of the fundamental nature of dark matter - Keir Rogers  
15:15
Young Scientist Forum (until 15:45)
15:15 Adiabatic Response in the Migdal Effect - Stefan Nellen Mondragón (HEPHY - ÖAW)  
15:21 Novel Materials for Light Dark Matter Detection - Nora Hoch  
15:27 Novel Photosensors for Liquid Xenon Dark Matter Detectors - Torben Flehmke  
15:33 Dark Matter Direct Detection Using Bilayer Graphene - Rinchen Sherpa (Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru)  
15:39 Data Acquisition in DMRadio-50L - Pamela Stark  
15:45 Searching for dark matter (much) lighter than a GeV - Ryan Plestid (CERN)  
16:15 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00 Towards a first principles scheme to simulate dark matter at astrophysical scales - Maria Ramos  
17:30 Taming the Dynamic Halo: Bounding Astrophysical Systematics in Direct Detection - Prof. Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton University)  
19:00 --- City Tour ---
19:00 Outreach Talk - Dr Eva Villaver  
12:00 Gravitational-wave probes of the maximal temperature - Mikko Sakari Laine (Universitaet Bern (CH))  
12:30 --- Bus from Puerta Real to Lunch ---
14:30 --- Eclipse (hopefully) ---
12:00 Evanescent EFT: Making the Invisible Count - Prof. Tom Melia (Kavli IPMU)  
12:30 A shortcut to amplitudes in the SMEFT from geometry - Rachel Houtz  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:45 High-Frequency Gravitational Waves – Sources and Detectors - Joachim Kopp (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))  
15:15
Young Scientist Forum (until 15:45)
15:15 Did IceCube discover Dark Matter around Blazars? - Andrea Giovanni De Marchi  
15:21 Leptogenesis with Dirac fermions: going beyond neutrinos - Maya Hager (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)  
15:27 Exploring the Migdal Effect in Low-Mass Dark Matter Searches - Pedro Zilves Maio Ventura (São Paulo University)  
15:33 Higgs Criticality and WIMP Dark Matter - Maximilian Detering  
15:39 Towards a theory of dissipative Dark Matter - Mrs Garance Lankester--Broche (Particle Physics Group, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna; Marietta Blau Institute for Particle Physics, Austrian Academy of Sciences)  
15:45 New CP-violating sources with zero EDM (and their relevance for baryogenesis) - Dr Venus Keus (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS))  
16:15 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00 Electroweak Baryogenesis - Kimmo Juhani Kainulainen (University of Jyvaskyla (FI))  
17:30 Gravitational Waves from Topological Defects - Prof. Jose Juan Blanco-Pillado (IKERBASQUE & UPV/EHU)  
18:00 Cosmological phase transitions and gravitational waves - Jorinde van de Vis (CERN)  
12:00 Probing the Flavor of New Physics - Dr Olcyr Sumensari (IJCLab)  
12:30 The Experimental Quest of Flavour - Xabier Cid Vidal (Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías)  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:45 Implications for BSM from future Higgs precision - Sophie Alice Renner (University of Glasgow (GB))  
15:15 Neutrinos and Dark Sectors at Future Colliders - Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez (Uppsala University (SE))  
15:45 Perspectives on the Future of High-Energy Collider Physics - Karl Jakobs (University of Freiburg (DE))  
16:15 --- Closing Sesion and Poster Awards ---