2026 CAU Beyond the Standard Model Focus Workshop

from Monday, February 9, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Thursday, February 12, 2026 (6:00 PM)
Chung-Ang University

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Feb 9, 2026
Feb 10, 2026
Feb 11, 2026
Feb 12, 2026
AM
9:30 AM
S1 -Prof. Hyun Min Lee (CAU - Chung-Ang University (KR)) (until 10:30 AM)
9:30 AM Neutrino signals from dark matter spikes - Alejandro Ibarra (Technical University of Munich)  
10:00 AM Boosted Dark Matter: Theory and Detection Prospects - Dr Takashi Toma (Kanazawa University)  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
S2 -Dr Jongkuk Kim (Chung-Ang University) (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Parity Violation in Spin-1 Dark Matter with EFT Descriptions - Prof. Kimiko Yamashita (Ibaraki University)  
11:30 AM Taming the dark photon production via a non-minimal coupling to gravity - Jong-Hyun Yoon  
12:00 PM Fermion reheating with a quartic inflaton potential - Adriana Menkara  
9:30 AM
S5 - Joern Kersten (University of Bergen) (until 10:30 AM)
9:30 AM Spontaneous Leptogenesis in Type I Seesaw - Eung Jin Chun (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)  
10:00 AM Quantum enhanced sensing for ultralight dark matters - Bin Xu  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
S6 -Dr Adil Jueid (Institute for Basic Science) (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Identifying high energy sources of CP violation and PQ breaking with electric dipole moments - Dr Sang Hui Im (IBS CTPU)  
11:30 AM Rare meson decays with dark matter emission - Shohei Okawa (APCTP)  
12:00 PM Dark pion scattering and vector resonance in Sp(4) gauge theory - Jong-Wan Lee (Institute for Basic Science (IBS))  
9:30 AM
S9 -Prof. Kimiko Yamashita (Ibaraki University) (until 10:30 AM)
9:30 AM From Scattering Amplitudes to Black Holes - Katsuki Aoki (YITP, Kyoto University)  
10:00 AM Black holes as a probe of BSM particles - Dr Minxi He  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
S10 - Adriana Menkara (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Modular Cosmology: Implications for Inflation - Shuntaro AOKI  
11:30 AM Constraining Inflation via FIMP dark matter using the β-function with collider implications - Sarif Khan (Goettingen University)  
12:00 PM Peccei Quinn genesis - Junho Song  
12:15 PM Higgs pole inflation in the light of ACT data - Jeonghak Han  
9:30 AM
S13 - Carlo Branchina (Università della Calabria) (until 10:30 AM)
9:30 AM Gravitational Wave Messages from Dark Sectors and Grand Unification - Joern Kersten (University of Bergen)  
10:00 AM A new mechanism of gravitational wave production - Wenyuan Ai  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
S14 - Arghyajit Datta (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Electroweak phase transition and bubble wall dynamics - Carlo Branchina (Università della Calabria)  
11:30 AM Magnetic Helicity, Higgs Winding, and Chiral Asymmetry - Kyohei Mukaida (DESY)  
12:00 PM Understanding Galactic Dark Matter with Generative Models and Physics-Informed Neural Networks - Sung Hak Lim (Rutgers University)  
PM
12:30 PM
Lunch (until 2:30 PM)
2:30 PM
S3 - Dong Woo Kang (KIAS) (until 3:30 PM)
2:30 PM Deep learning approaches to top FCNC couplings to photons at the LHC - Dr Adil Jueid (Institute for Basic Science)  
3:00 PM Chasing the two-Higgs-doublet model via electroweak corrections at e+ e− colliders - Tatsuya Banno  
3:15 PM Electric Dipole Moment of Electron induced by Electroweak Multiplet at Full Three-loop - Kiyoto Ogawa (Nagoya.Univ)  
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM
S4 -Dr Sang Hui Im (IBS CTPU) (until 5:00 PM)
4:00 PM Entanglement in Higgs Scattering and possible connection to symmetry - Ms ROJALIN PADHAN (Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar)  
4:30 PM SUSY and non-SUSY analysis of truly confining gauge theories - Shota Saito (Kavli IPMU)  
4:45 PM Dynamical friction for circular orbits in self-interacting ultralight dark matter and Fornax globular clusters - Hyeonmo Koo  
12:30 PM
Lunch and discussion (until 3:00 PM)
3:00 PM
S7 - Seongsik Kim (Chung-Ang University) (until 4:00 PM)
3:00 PM Testing neutrino mass origins with supernova neutrinos - Chui-Fan Kong  
3:30 PM Self-resonant dark matter with Z_4 gauged symmetry - Lucca Radicce Justino  
3:45 PM Stable dark matter from Pauli blocking in the degenerate fermion background with Quantum Field Theory - Junghoon Joh (SungKyunKwan University)  
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM
S8 - Shohei Okawa (APCTP) (until 5:45 PM)
4:30 PM Aspects of Sommerfeld Enhancement in the light of Halo gamma-ray excess - Yongsoo Jho  
5:00 PM Neutrino masses and mixed dark matter from doublet and singlet scalars - Seongsik Kim (Chung-Ang University)  
12:30 PM
Lunch (until 2:30 PM)
2:30 PM
S11 - Shuntaro AOKI (until 3:45 PM)
2:30 PM Belle II excess and dark matter - Dr Jongkuk Kim (Chung-Ang University)  
3:00 PM The Seesaw Route to Neutrino Asymmetry and Baryogenesis in light of EMPRESS observation - Arghyajit Datta  
3:30 PM Periodic dynamics induced by wave dark matter: From neutrino to superconductor - Yechan Kim (KAIST)  
3:45 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:15 PM
S12 -Ms ROJALIN PADHAN (Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar) (until 5:15 PM)
4:15 PM Spin Correlation and Quantum Observables at Colliders - Dong Woo Kang (KIAS)  
4:45 PM Quantum Correlations at the LHC - Alberto Navarro (Seoultech)  
6:30 PM
Banquet (until 8:30 PM)
12:30 PM
Lunch and discussion (until 2:00 PM)