Name: Dark Matter and Stars: Multi-Messenger Probes of Dark Matter and Modified Gravity
Start: 2026-07-13T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-07-15T18:00:00+01:00
Location: University of Southampton

Dark Matter and Stars: Multi-Messenger Probes of Dark Matter and Modified Gravity

from Monday, July 13, 2026 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, July 15, 2026 (6:00 PM)

Monday, July 13, 2026

8:00 AM Registration
Registration
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

8:45 AM Conference opening
Conference opening
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Theatre 4A
9:00 AM Invited talks
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Theatre 4A
Contributions

9:00 AM Indirect detection of dark matter - Joseph Silk (Johns Hopkins U. / Oxford U. / Paris Inst. Astrophys)

9:30 AM Gravitational probes of dark matter - Justin Read (Surrey University)
10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Invited talks
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Theatre 4A
Contributions

10:30 AM Theory and Machine Learning for Indirect Detection of Dark Matter - Lina Necib (MIT)
11:00 AM Contributed talks
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Theatre 4A
Contributions

11:00 AM Heavy dark matter in rapidly evolving massive stars - Giorgio Busoni (Adelaide University)

11:15 AM Dark photons from red dwarfs - Stefan Vogl (University of Freiburg)

11:30 AM Looking for lights from the darkness: MeV-scale solar ALP signals - Yongchao Zhang

11:45 AM DarkMatterLive: A Live Framework for Unifying Constraints on Dark Matter and Dark Sector Physics - Brij Kishor Jashal (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Invited talks
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Theatre 4A
Contributions

2:00 PM Gravitational lensing of waves: a new window into astrophysics, dark matter & gravity - Miguel Zumalacarregui (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics - Albert Einstein Institute)

2:30 PM Gravitational Waves as Tracers of Large Scale Structures: Opportunities for Multi-Messenger Cosmology - Sumit Kumar (Utrecht University)
3:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Theatre 4A
3:30 PM Contributed talks
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Theatre 4A
Contributions

3:30 PM Dark matter and Fermi balls - Zachary Picker

3:45 PM Macroscopic dark matter in the era of Roman - William DeRocco (University of Maryland, College Park)

4:00 PM Probing high-frequency gravitational waves from PBH dark matter - Asuka Ito (Kobe University) Kazunori Kohri

4:15 PM Tidal Love Numbers of Black Holes Dressed by Dark Matter - Simone D'Onofrio (ICE - CSIC)

4:30 PM Unveiling Flat Galaxy Rotation Curves out to 1 Mpc in a Simulated ΛCDM Universe - Daeun Jeong (Seoul National University)

4:45 PM The degeneracies and successes of MOND and DARK MATTER in reproducing galaxy rotation curves and scaling relations - Amy Smith (University of Southampton)
Contributed talks 2
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Ketley room
Contributions

3:30 PM SN1987A constraints on Hadronically Interacting Sub-GeV Dark Matter - Zun Wang (Southeast University)

3:45 PM Orbit-Corrected Multi-Scatter Dark Matter Capture in Diverse Stellar Environments - Diogo Capelo

4:00 PM Testing bosonic dark matter through white dwarf mass measurements - Jorge Castelo Mourelle (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México- Institute of Nuclear Sciences (ICN))

4:15 PM Dark Compact Object Mimics - Zakary Fuaad Buras-Stubbs

4:30 PM Dark matter mounds from the collapse of supermassive stars: a general-relativistic analysis - Roberto Caiozzo (SISSA)

4:45 PM Supermassive BHs seeds from direct collapse of CDM-curvature peaks in ΛCDM - Marco Bruni (University of Portsmouth)
5:00 PM Poster session & welcome reception
Poster session & welcome reception
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM

6:30 PM Public lecture of Prof. Joseph Silk 'Telescopes on the Moon'

6:30 PM - 7:50 PM
Room: Lecture theatre
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
9:00 AM Invited talks
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Theatre 4A
Contributions

9:00 AM Constraining Dark Matter with Gravitational-Wave Observations of Binary Neutron Stars - Bangalore Sathyaprakash (The Pennsylvania State University)

9:30 AM Dark matter in the strong field regime - Katy Clough
10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Invited talks
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Theatre 4A
Contributions

10:30 AM Searching for Dark Matter in the Shadow of Stellar Uncertainty - Djuna Croon (IPPP Durham)

11:00 AM Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, the First Stars and Dark Matter - Malcolm Fairbairn (Physics, King's College London)
11:30 AM Contributed talks
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Theatre 4A
Contributions

11:30 AM Microlensing of continuous gravitational waves as probes of dark matter - Sreekanth Harikumar (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw)
11:45 AM Conference photo
Conference photo
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Theatre 4A

12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

2:00 PM Discussion session: GW probes of DM

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Theatre 4A

3:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM Invited talks
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Theatre 4A
Contributions

3:30 PM Dark matter in main sequence stars and beyond - Aaron Vincent (Queen's University)
5:00 PM Secrets of the Titanic — A Walking Tour
Secrets of the Titanic — A Walking Tour
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

7:00 PM Conference dinner
Conference dinner
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
9:00 AM Invited talks
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Theatre 4A
Contributions

9:00 AM Multimessenger probes of Dark matter in Neutron Stars - MARÍA ÁNGELES PÉREZ GARCÍA (University of Salamanca)

9:30 AM Compact Stars as Portals to Extra-Dimensional Dark Matter - Chris Kouvaris (National Tech. U. Athens)
10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Contributed talks
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Theatre 4A
Contributions

10:30 AM Probing neutrinophilic scalars in muon and double beta decay - Zhong Zhang

10:45 AM The Sound of the Universe: A Resonant Gravitational Instability Driven by Baryon-Dark Matter Relative Drift - Mohamad Shalaby (University of Waterloo)

11:00 AM 2D BAO vs 3D BAO: Hints for new physics? - Ruchika Ruchika (Salamanca University)

11:15 AM Mechanism of kinetic equilibrium between SIMP and radiation - AJAY Kaladharan

11:30 AM Primordial Gravitational Waves as Complementary Probe of Dark Matter Indirect Detection & Axion - Anish Ghoshal (University of Sussex)

11:45 AM Gravitational wave production during reheating: From the inflaton to primordial black holes - Rishav Roshan (University of Southampton)
Contributed talks 2
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Ketley room
Contributions

10:30 AM Generating ultra-compact hybrid stars with bosonic dark matter - Dr. ISHFAQ AHMAD RATHER (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goethe University, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

10:45 AM Rotating Neutron Stars with Dark Matter Halos - Shafayat Shawqi (University of Alberta)

11:00 AM Gravitational synchronization in bosonic dark matter admixed neutron stars - Claudio Cesar Lazarte Melgar (Universitat de València)

11:15 AM Scalar-Field-Admixed Binary Neutron Star Merger Simulations - Rohan Srikanth

11:30 AM EMRIs as probes of dark matter and neutron star equation of state - Theo Karydas (GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam)

11:45 AM Dynamical friction on binary stars in the faintest dwarf galaxies - Nicolas Esser
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Invited talks
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Theatre 4A
Contributions

2:00 PM Dark matter searches at colliders - Ken Mimasu (University of Southampton)

2:30 PM A diffuse flux of Galactic MeV ALPs - David Cerdeño (Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT-UAM/CSIC))
3:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM Contributed talks
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: Theatre 4A
Contributions

3:30 PM Uncertainty Relation for Retarded Gravity - Asher Yahalom (Ariel University)

3:45 PM Heavy Dark Baryons: Self-Interactions and the Dark Matter–Baryon Coincidence - Giovani Dalla Valle Garcia (The University of Melbourne)

4:00 PM Analytical sub-$poly\Lambda$CDM through cosmic observations - Pierros Ntelis (Harbin Institute of Technology and Institute of Theoretical Physics at NUU)

4:15 PM Something intangible into something invisible: dark matter searches with neutrinos - Sara Rebecca Gozzini

4:30 PM The BULLKID-DM experiment: searching for light WIMPs using monolithic arrays of detectors - Matteo Cappelli (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))
Contributed talks 2
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: Ketley room
Contributions

3:30 PM High-accuracy binary modelling in scalar-tensor theories of gravity using the self-force approach - Andrew Spiers (University College Dublin)

3:45 PM Developing Numerical Techniques to Test Scalar–Tensor Theories of Gravity - Andrius Tamosiunas (University of Oslo)

4:00 PM Compact stars in $f(R,T,L_m)$ gravity - Juan Zárate Pretel (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas)

4:15 PM Quantum fields in boson star spacetime - Qi-Xin Xie (University of Nottingham)

4:30 PM Quantum consistency meets number theory to predict dark matter spectra - Yu-Dai Tsai (Fermilab)
4:45 PM Conference closing
Conference closing
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Theatre 4A