The 2nd Seoul Particle Theory Workshop

from Friday, 22 May 2026 (09:00) to Sunday, 31 May 2026 (15:00)
KIAS (1503)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
22 May 2026
23 May 2026
24 May 2026
25 May 2026
26 May 2026
27 May 2026
28 May 2026
29 May 2026
30 May 2026
31 May 2026
AM
11:00
Excursion (optional) (until 19:00)
10:00
Excursion (optional) (until 18:00)
10:00
Registration (until 10:30)
10:30
Morning Session (until 11:00)
10:30 Exotic physics experiments: whatโ€™s cooking in our pots - DMITRY BUDKER (Helmholtz Institute Mainz and UC Berkeley)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Morning 2 (until 12:30)
11:30 Probing heavy dark matter in red giants - Seokhoon Yun (Kyungpook National University)  
12:00 WIMP Meets ALP: Coherent Freeze-Out of Dark Matter - Bingrong Yu (Cornell University)  
10:30
Morning Session (until 11:00)
10:30 Sommerfeld Enhancement from Quantum Forces for Dark Matter - Steven Ferrante (Cornell University)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Morning 2 (until 12:30)
11:30 Infrared Freeze-In of Magnetic Dipole Dark Matter - Jae Hyeok Chang (Seoul National University)  
12:00 Soft Gravitons, Medium Consequences, Hard Truths - Sebastian Ellis (University of London (GB))  
10:30
Morning Session (until 11:00)
10:30 Lepton EDMs in the radiative lepton mass models - Yoshihiro SHIGEKAMI (Henan Normal University)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Morning 2 (until 12:30)
11:30 Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone inflation with ZN symmetric waterfall fields - Prof. Hyun Min Lee (CAU - Chung-Ang University (KR))  
12:00 Putting the Brakes on Axion Strings: Friction and Its Impact on the QCD Axion Abundance - Anson Hook (University of Maryland)  
10:30
Morning Session (until 11:00)
10:30 Can pre-inflationary axions form miniclusters? - Dr Heejoo Kim  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Morning 2 (until 12:30)
11:30 Mapping the Landscape of Large CP Violation in the C2HDM: From Near-Degeneracy to Hidden Sectors - Prof. Jeonghyeon Song (Konkuk University)  
12:00 A Quantum Origin for the Classical Axion - Nicholas Rodd  
10:30
Morning Session (until 11:00)
10:30 Minimal flavor violation and dark matter - Shohei Okawa (APCTP)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Morning 2 (until 12:30)
11:30 Gravitational Probes of Ultralight Dark Matter - Hyungjin Kim (DESY)  
12:00 How to estimate the transition rate at cosmological first order phase transition? - Masahide Yamaguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)  
10:00
Discussion: recent developments in particle physics (until 15:00)
10:00
Discussion: recent developments in particle physics (until 15:00)
PM
14:00
Excursion (optional) (until 20:00)
14:30
Afternoon 1 (until 15:30)
14:30 Composite ultralight scalar clocks and fifth forces - Abhishek Banerjee (University of Maryland)  
15:00 Superheavy Dark Matter - Prof. Seong Chan Park (Yonsei University)  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Afternoon 2 (until 17:00)
16:00 Hadronic Injection in BBN: Progress and New Bounds on Heavy QCD Axions. - Kohsaku Tobioka (Florida State University)  
16:30 Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Strings - Wei Xue (University of Florida (US))  
14:30
Afternoon 1 (until 15:30)
14:30 The bearable inhomogeneity of the baryon asymmetry - Stefan Stelzl  
15:00 The muon g-2: the showdown? - Massimo Passera (INFN Padova)  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Afternoon 2 (until 17:00)
16:00 Blackboard Discussion - Prof. Gilad Perez (Weizmann)  
16:30 Black Hole Induced Vacuum Decay - Michael Geller (Tel Aviv University)  
18:00 --- Banquet ---
14:30
Afternoon 1 (until 15:30) (8101)
14:30 Anomalies at the End of the Universe? - Jay Hubisz (Syracuse University)  
15:00 Single atom based sensor to search dark matter - Manas Mukherjee (Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapo)  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Afternoon 2 (until 17:00) (8101)
16:00 Spin-Flavor Precession of Solar neutrinos - Prof. Seodong Shin (Jeonbuk National University)  
14:30
Afternoon 1 (until 15:30)
14:30 Energy correlator: understanding QCD from positivity - Minho Son  
15:00 Gravitational Wave Constraints from the Latest Interferometer Data - Joern Kersten (University of Bergen)  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Afternoon 2 (until 17:00)
16:00 Global Structure, Non-Invertible PQ Symmetry, and the DFSZ Domain Wall Problem - Sungwoo Hong  
16:30 Superhorizon Isocurvature as a Window into Dark Matter Production - Wolfram Ratzinger (Weizmann Institute)  
14:30
Afternoon 1 (until 15:00)
14:30 Nuclear Clocks: A New Window into New & Old Physics - Fiona Kirk (Weizmann Institute of Science)  
15:00
Discussion: recent developments in particle physics (until 17:00)