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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)
University of Southampton (Theatre 4A)

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Jul 13, 2026
Jul 14, 2026
Jul 15, 2026
AM
8:00 AM Registration  
8:45 AM Conference opening  
9:00 AM
Invited talks (until 10:00 AM)
9:00 AM Indirect detection of dark matter - Prof. 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 ---
10:30 AM
Invited talks (until 11:00 AM)
10:30 AM Theory and Machine Learning for Indirect Detection of Dark Matter - Lina Necib (MIT)  
11:00 AM
Contributed talks (until 12:00 PM)
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 - Dr Brij Kishor Jashal (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)  
9:00 AM
Invited talks (until 10:00 AM)
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 ---
10:30 AM
Invited talks (until 11:30 AM)
10:30 AM Searching for Dark Matter in the Shadow of Stellar Uncertainty - Dr Djuna Croon (IPPP Durham)  
11:00 AM Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, the First Stars and Dark Matter - Prof. Malcolm Fairbairn (Physics, King's College London)  
11:30 AM
Contributed talks (until 11:45 AM)
11:30 AM Microlensing of continuous gravitational waves as probes of dark matter - Dr Sreekanth Harikumar (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw)  
11:45 AM --- Conference photo ---
9:00 AM
Invited talks (until 10:00 AM)
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 ---
10:30 AM
Contributed talks (until 12:00 PM)
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 - Dr 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 - Dr Rishav Roshan (University of Southampton)  
10:30 AM
Contributed talks 2 (until 12:00 PM) (Ketley room)
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 - Mr Nicolas Esser  
PM
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Invited talks (until 3:00 PM)
2:00 PM Gravitational lensing of waves: a new window into astrophysics, dark matter & gravity - Dr 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 ---
3:30 PM
Contributed talks (until 5:00 PM)
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 - Kazunori Kohri Asuka Ito (Kobe University)  
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)  
3:30 PM
Contributed talks 2 (until 5:00 PM) (Ketley room)
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 ---
6:30 PM
Public lecture of Prof. Joseph Silk 'Telescopes on the Moon' (until 7:50 PM)
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Discussion session: GW probes of DM (until 3:00 PM)
3:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:30 PM
Invited talks (until 4:00 PM)
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 ---
7:00 PM --- Conference dinner ---
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Invited talks (until 3:00 PM)
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 ---
3:30 PM
Contributed talks (until 4:45 PM)
3:30 PM Uncertainty Relation for Retarded Gravity - Prof. 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))  
3:30 PM
Contributed talks 2 (until 4:45 PM) (Ketley room)
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 - Dr 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 - Dr Yu-Dai Tsai (Fermilab)  
4:45 PM --- Conference closing ---