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

from Monday, 13 July 2026 (08:00) to Wednesday, 15 July 2026 (18:00)
University of Southampton (Theatre 4A)

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13 Jul 2026
14 Jul 2026
15 Jul 2026
AM
08:00 Registration  
08:45 Conference opening  
09:00
Invited talks (until 10:00)
09:00 Indirect detection of dark matter - Prof. Joseph Silk (Johns Hopkins U. / Oxford U. / Paris Inst. Astrophys)  
09:30 Gravitational probes of dark matter - Justin Read (Surrey University)  
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
Invited talks (until 11:00)
10:30 Theory and Machine Learning for Indirect Detection of Dark Matter - Lina Necib (MIT)  
11:00
Contributed talks (until 12:00)
11:00 Heavy dark matter in rapidly evolving massive stars - Giorgio Busoni (Adelaide University)  
11:15 Dark photons from red dwarfs - Stefan Vogl (University of Freiburg)  
11:30 Looking for lights from the darkness: MeV-scale solar ALP signals - Yongchao Zhang  
11:45 DarkMatterLive: A Live Framework for Unifying Constraints on Dark Matter and Dark Sector Physics - Dr Brij Kishor Jashal (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)  
09:00
Invited talks (until 10:00)
09:00 Constraining Dark Matter with Gravitational-Wave Observations of Binary Neutron Stars - Bangalore Sathyaprakash (The Pennsylvania State University)  
09:30 Dark matter in the strong field regime - Katy Clough  
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
Invited talks (until 11:30)
10:30 Searching for Dark Matter in the Shadow of Stellar Uncertainty - Dr Djuna Croon (IPPP Durham)  
11:00 Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, the First Stars and Dark Matter - Prof. Malcolm Fairbairn (Physics, King's College London)  
11:30
Contributed talks (until 11:45)
11:30 Microlensing of continuous gravitational waves as probes of dark matter - Dr Sreekanth Harikumar (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw)  
11:45 --- Conference photo ---
09:00
Invited talks (until 10:00)
09:00 Multimessenger probes of Dark matter in Neutron Stars - MARÍA ÁNGELES PÉREZ GARCÍA (University of Salamanca)  
09:30 Compact Stars as Portals to Extra-Dimensional Dark Matter - Chris Kouvaris (National Tech. U. Athens)  
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
Contributed talks (until 12:00)
10:30 Probing neutrinophilic scalars in muon and double beta decay - Zhong Zhang  
10:45 2D BAO vs 3D BAO: Hints for new physics? - Ruchika Ruchika (Salamanca University)  
11:00 Mechanism of kinetic equilibrium between SIMP and radiation - AJAY Kaladharan  
11:15 Primordial Gravitational Waves as Complementary Probe of Dark Matter Indirect Detection & Axion - Anish Ghoshal (University of Sussex)  
11:30 Gravitational wave production during reheating: From the inflaton to primordial black holes - Dr Rishav Roshan (University of Southampton)  
10:30
Contributed talks 2 (until 12:00) (Ketley room)
10:30 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 Rotating Neutron Stars with Dark Matter Halos - Shafayat Shawqi (University of Alberta)  
11:00 Gravitational synchronization in bosonic dark matter admixed neutron stars - Claudio Cesar Lazarte Melgar (Universitat de València)  
11:15 Scalar-Field-Admixed Binary Neutron Star Merger Simulations - Rohan Srikanth  
11:30 EMRIs as probes of dark matter and neutron star equation of state - Theo Karydas (GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam)  
11:45 Dynamical friction on binary stars in the faintest dwarf galaxies - Mr Nicolas Esser  
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Invited talks (until 15:00)
14:00 Gravitational lensing of waves: a new window into astrophysics, dark matter & gravity - Dr Miguel Zumalacarregui (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics - Albert Einstein Institute)  
14:30 Gravitational Waves as Tracers of Large Scale Structures: Opportunities for Multi-Messenger Cosmology - Sumit Kumar (Utrecht University)  
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30
Contributed talks (until 17:00)
15:30 Dark matter and Fermi balls - Zachary Picker  
15:45 Macroscopic dark matter in the era of Roman - William DeRocco (University of Maryland, College Park)  
16:00 Probing high-frequency gravitational waves from PBH dark matter - Kazunori Kohri Asuka Ito (Kobe University)  
16:15 Tidal Love Numbers of Black Holes Dressed by Dark Matter - Simone D'Onofrio (ICE - CSIC)  
16:30 Unveiling Flat Galaxy Rotation Curves out to 1 Mpc in a Simulated ΛCDM Universe - Daeun Jeong (Seoul National University)  
16:45 The degeneracies and successes of MOND and DARK MATTER in reproducing galaxy rotation curves and scaling relations - Amy Smith (University of Southampton)  
15:30
Contributed talks 2 (until 17:00) (Ketley room)
15:30 SN1987A constraints on Hadronically Interacting Sub-GeV Dark Matter - Zun Wang (Southeast University)  
15:45 Orbit-Corrected Multi-Scatter Dark Matter Capture in Diverse Stellar Environments - Diogo Capelo  
16:00 Testing bosonic dark matter through white dwarf mass measurements - Jorge Castelo Mourelle (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México- Institute of Nuclear Sciences (ICN))  
16:15 Dark Compact Object Mimics - Zakary Fuaad Buras-Stubbs  
16:30 Dark matter mounds from the collapse of supermassive stars: a general-relativistic analysis - Roberto Caiozzo (SISSA)  
16:45 Supermassive BHs seeds from direct collapse of CDM-curvature peaks in ΛCDM - Marco Bruni (University of Portsmouth)  
17:00 --- Poster session & welcome reception ---
18:30
Public lecture of Prof. Joseph Silk 'Telescopes on the Moon' (until 19:50)
12:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Discussion session: GW probes of DM (until 15:00)
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30
Invited talks (until 16:00)
15:30 Dark matter in main sequence stars and beyond - Aaron Vincent (Queen's University)  
17:00 --- Secrets of the Titanic — A Walking Tour ---
19:00 --- Conference dinner ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Invited talks (until 15:00)
14:00 Dark matter searches at colliders - Ken Mimasu (University of Southampton)  
14:30 A diffuse flux of Galactic MeV ALPs - David Cerdeño (Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT-UAM/CSIC))  
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30
Contributed talks (until 16:45)
15:30 Uncertainty Relation for Retarded Gravity - Prof. Asher Yahalom (Ariel University)  
15:45 Heavy Dark Baryons: Self-Interactions and the Dark Matter–Baryon Coincidence - Giovani Dalla Valle Garcia (The University of Melbourne)  
16:00 Analytical sub-$poly\Lambda$CDM through cosmic observations - Pierros Ntelis (Harbin Institute of Technology and Institute of Theoretical Physics at NUU)  
16:15 Something intangible into something invisible: dark matter searches with neutrinos - Sara Rebecca Gozzini  
16:30 The BULLKID-DM experiment: searching for light WIMPs using monolithic arrays of detectors - Matteo Cappelli (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))  
15:30
Contributed talks 2 (until 16:45) (Ketley room)
15:30 High-accuracy binary modelling in scalar-tensor theories of gravity using the self-force approach - Andrew Spiers (University College Dublin)  
15:45 Developing Numerical Techniques to Test Scalar–Tensor Theories of Gravity - Dr Andrius Tamosiunas (University of Oslo)  
16:00 Compact stars in $f(R,T,L_m)$ gravity - Juan Zárate Pretel (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas)  
16:15 Quantum fields in boson star spacetime - Qi-Xin Xie (University of Nottingham)  
16:30 Quantum consistency meets number theory to predict dark matter spectra - Dr Yu-Dai Tsai (Fermilab)  
16:45 Conference closing